These women from different time periods and backgrounds all worked to bring about change: Elizabeth Blackwell became the first female doctor in America despite facing rejection from 29 medical schools. Frances E. W. Harper was a poet, author, and activist who worked to advance women's rights and abolish slavery. Eleanor Roosevelt advocated for civil rights as First Lady and at the UN. Yoko Ono, Zsuzsanna Budapest, and Leslie Feinberg all broke barriers through their artistic or gender non-conforming lives and political activism.