Women Innovators

From national leadership in the world of academics, banking, filmmaking, technology, philanthropy, and women’s activism to governmental officials, a passionate and skilled team has come together to bring focus to the forgotten accomplishments of women innovators and use those accomplishments to inspire the next generation.

MEET TWO AMAZING WOMEN INNOVATORS

Dr. Gladys Brown West

Photos courtesy of the West family Dr. Gladys Brown West enabled the GPS with her mathematical modeling of the world. As a poor black child born to parents who owned …

Martha Matilda Harper

Photos Courtesy of Jane Plitt Martha Matilda Harper is the inventor of the international retail franchising concept and the reclining shampoo chair and cutout sink. Indentured at the young age …

Women Innovators

Dr. Gladys Brown West

Martha Matilda Harper

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