Ellen Kort was Wisconsin’s first poet laureate.

Lorraine Hansberry's first Broadway play, A Raisin in the Sun, changed how Black people's lives were shown in American theater.

Margaret H’Doubler, “founder of American college dance,” created a dance major — the first in the U.S. — at the University of Wisconsin in 1926.

Ruth Gruber was a journalist and humanitarian known for her work documenting the lives of refugees.

In 1921, author and playwright Zona Gale became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, for the play MISS LULU BETT.

Angna Enters was a renowned dancer, who produced over 200 mime compositions.

Dickey Chapelle was the first female American war correspondent to parachute with American troops and the first killed covering combat.

Joyce Carlson was a Disney artist known for her work on the film LADY AND THE TRAMP and on the "It's a Small World" theme park attraction.

Lynda Barry, associate professor of interdisciplinary creativity at the UW-Madison, is a celebrated cartoonist, author, speaker, and instructor.