“When you educate a girl, you educate her entire family” – A solicitous reminder by Dr. Viola Vaughn whose determined vision soon developed into a precedent movement to advocate girls education in West Africa.

After moving to the Senegal in 2001 from Detroit, Michigan with an intention to retire, what Vaughn refers to as her true calling in life momentarily crystalized into a self-sufficient entrepreneurial and education project known as 10,000 Girls.

Mary Oliver (born September 10, 1935) is an American poet who has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

The New York Times described her as "far and away, this country's [America's] best-selling poet".

Mary Oliver was born to Edward William and Helen M. V. Oliver on September 10, 1935, in Maple Heights, Ohio, a semi-rural suburb of Cleveland.

Evelyn Hooker (September 2, 1907–November 18, 1996) was a North American psychologist most notable for her 1957 paper "The Adjustment of the Male Overt Homosexual" in which she administered psychological tests to groups of self-identified homosexuals and heterosexuals and asked experts, based on those tests alone, to select the homosexual people.

Elizabeth Murchison studies a mysterious (and contagious) cancer that threatens to wipe out Tasmanian devils.

She grew up in Tasmania, home of the aggressive, dog-sized marsupial known as the Tasmanian devil. In the mid-'90s, the devils were beset with a terrible new disease -- a contagious facial cancer, spread by biting, that killed the animals just as they reached breeding age.

Artist Jae Rhim Lee re-imagines the relationships between the body and the world.

Jae Rhim Lee is a visual artist and mushroom lover. In her early work, as a grad student at MIT, she built systems that reworked basic human processes: sleeping (check out her it-just-might-work vertical bed from 2004), urinating and eating (and the relationship between the two).