For #WomensHistoryMonth, we're celebrating the women in tech who inspired our dashboards. 
When we introduced Sections (now the default option), we codenamed it Project Grace after the great Admiral Grace Hopper - the creator of COBOL & author of the first computer manual. 
Technology is supposed to make the world more accessible, not reinforce inequities. Liz Henry's advocacy for people with disabilities & the open source software and hardware ecosystem show how important it is for you to have the power to adapt tech to your own needs. #womenshistorymonth
Iconic computer scientist, mathematician & U.S. Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper worked on the first all-electronic digital computer, created the first implemented compiler (coining the term), and developed COBOL demonstrating that a programming language could use English words. 
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Celebrating #WomensHistoryMonth with #MildredLoving. Her letter to Robert F. Kennedy led to the @ALCUtaking up her and her husband’s case, leading to the abolishment of anti-miscegenation laws. https://bit.ly/326ne1I #art #zerflinart #womenshistorymonth2025 #MildredLoving
Lucie Aubrac’s husband was arrested & he was sentenced to death by the Nazis. She led a dozen Resistance fighters in an ambush of the truck in which her husband was being transported & rescued him. She was 6 months pregnant at the time. She survived WW2 & died Mar 14, 2007 at the age of 94. (3/3)
In one mission, Lucie Aubrac & team rescued 5 captured resistance fighters from police custody in Lyon. (Source: Women in the Resistance, Rossiter, p. 166) After WW2, this story was the theme of Issue 49 of True Comics titled “Lucie to the Rescue.” Her cinematic life in the Resistance was made into a feature film starring Carole Bouquet in the title role. A trailer for the movie may be seen here: (2/3)
Lucie Samuel was better known as Lucie Aubrac. She was a history professor during the day & a member of the French Resistance at night. She & her husband published anti-Nazi propaganda, engaged in sabotage, & freed captured partisans from Nazi custody. Her infant son accompanied her to Resistance meetings. (1/3)
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https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/mar/16/guardianobituaries.france
Yvonne Baseden was captured by the Gestapo on June 26, 1944 & ultimately imprisoned at Ravensbrück concentration camp. She survived Ravensbrück and the war. She was awarded the MBE by Britain; the Legion of Honour; the Resistance Medal and the Croix de Guerre avec Palme by France. She died Oct 28, 2017 at the age of 95. (2/2)
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Mar 18/19, 1944: Overnight on this date in 1944, Special Operations Executive agent and wireless operator Yvonne Baseden (Field name Odette) is one of the youngest SOE women to parachute into occupied Europe. She worked in the WHEELWRIGHT and SCHOLAR circuits under the cover name Yvonne Bernier and posed as a shorthand typist & secretary. (1/2)
“Once, with hand-grenades in my shopping bag, I travelled in a train so full that I had to stand against a German NCO.”
#OnThisDay, 18 Mar 1943, Francine Agazarian arrives in Nazi-occupied France to be a courier in the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French Resistance.
For women’s history month, we are celebrating our incredible leaders whose work has immeasurably bettered our communities and our country.
Thank you Rep. Julie Johnson (TX-32) for your meaningful work!
For women’s history month, we are celebrating our incredible leaders whose work has immeasurably bettered our communities and our country.
Thank you Rep. Maggie Goodlander (NH-2) for your meaningful work!
For women’s history month, we are celebrating our incredible leaders whose work has immeasurably bettered our communities and our country. Thank you @rep... for your meaningful work!
Celebrating #WomensHistoryMonth with #FayettePinkney. Though famous for her singing in @TThreeDegrees, #FayettePinkney also created a solo album, worked as a vocal coach and toured with the Intermezzo Choir Ministry.
She also held degrees in both Psychology and Human Services. https://bit.ly/2XpSHnV #art #zerflinart #womenshistorymonth2025 #FayettePinkney
After WW2, Sara Ginaite continued to fight rampant anti-semitism. She became a professor of Political Economics at Vilnius University. She published on the history of the Holocaust in Lithuania, including “Resistance and Survival: The Jewish Community in Kaunas 1941–1944.” Her husband Misha died in 1983 & she subsequently immigrated to Canada to live with her 2 daughters. She died April 2, 2018 at the age of 94. (9/9)
At the time of liberation of the ghettos, ~90% of the Jews had already died or been killed by the Nazis. Sara Ginaite’s mother and sister were already forced to a concentration camp.
It was not until 1945 & the end of the war, when Sara found out the fate of her family. Her mother died in the concentration camp. All of her family was dead, except her sister & a young niece. (8/9)
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In 1944, the Russian Red Army advanced on Vilna & Kovno. As the Allies approached, the Nazis liquidated the ghettos of Lithuania. The partisans joined forces with the Russians & Sara & Misha took part in the liberation of Vilna & Kovno. The iconic photo of Sara with her rifle was taken by a Jewish Soviet major who was surprised to see a female, Jewish partisan standing guard in Vilna. (7/9)
Sara Ginaite & others helped Jews escape from the ghettos. Once, in order to smuggle weapons into the ghetto, she pretended to be a German nurse claiming she was there to escort 4 sick Jews who needed to be detained. Flirting with the Nazi guard she was able to distract the Germans & managed to get the armed partisans through the gate. (5/9)
The partisans in the Rudninkai Forest included ~40 fighters & included Poles, escaped Soviet POWs, Lithuanian paratroopers, & 11 Jews from the ghettos. Over time, the detachment grew to number 300 fighters with the majority Jews. (4/9)
