Header photo (top left, clockwise): Jeannine Cook, Nicole Marquis, Jane Golden, Judy Wicks, Lara Price, Tamala Edwards
In honor of Women’s History Month, we scoured our city’s past to find dozens of inspiring, badass Philly women to celebrate for our Women’s History Month All-Stars , a series of trading card-style profiles you can read and share online.
Then we asked some amazing badass Philly women of the moment to record each woman’s biography for you, so that you can take their stories with you wherever you go. The result is an awesome compendium of the women who made, and continue to make, Philly the best it can be.
We hear from Mural Arts Philadelphia ’s Jane Golden; 76ers Chief Operating Officer Lara Price ; restaurateur and environmentalist Judy Wicks ; 6abc anchor Tamala Edwards; HipCityVeg founder and CEO Nicole Marquis ; and Jeannine Cook , owner of Harriet’s Bookshop in Fishtown and Ida’s Bookshop in Collingswood, NJ.
Listen below, and check back each week for new episodes.
JEANNINE COOK ON … Nellie Rathbone Bright, teacher, author and poet
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Marianne Moore, poet and critic
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Clara Ward, legendary gospel singer and songwriter
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TAMALA EDWARDS ON … Pearl Bailey, Tony-winning singer and actress
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Carrie Burnham Kilgore, lawyer and activist
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Margaretta Hare Morris, entomologist
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Lucretia Mott, early feminist and abolitionist
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JANE GOLDEN ON … Charlene Arcila, transgender activist
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Mary Ann M’Clintock, feminist and abolitionist
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Mary Engle Pennington, chemist and refrigeration pioneer
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The Philadelphia Ten, artists and activists
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NICOLE MARQUIS ON … Helen Octavia Dickens, physician and sexual health advocate
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Betty Holberton and the ENIAC Six, computer programmers
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Joyce Craig Lewis, firefighter
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Anandibai Joshi, first Indian-American female doctor
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LARA PRICE ON … Gloria Casarez, LGBTQ advocate and community organizer
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Hannah Callowhill Penn, Pennsylvania’s first female governor
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Ann Preston, physician and educator
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Ora Mae Washington, Philly sports great
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JUDY WICKS ON … Pearl S. Buck, writer and humanitarian
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Catherine Littlefield, Philadelphia ballet founder
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Elizabeth Willing Powel, socialite and American founding mother
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Vera Rubin, astronomer
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