WHAT THEY HAVE DONE:
The causes and accomplishments of the Women Who Dared are as diverse as their backgrounds, yet they have each shaped their communities through their commitment to activism.
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First woman to serve on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and supporter of equal rights
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Ruth Abrams
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Researches international human rights violations and provides human rights training
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Lynn Amowitz
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Provides psychiatric therapy to abused children and developed hospital protocol and educational programs on sexual abuse
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Renee Brant
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Initiated and participated in various fundraising activities and programs for children and adults
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Elana Brownstein
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Compelled broadcast industry to improve children's television programming
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Peggy Charren
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Lobbies for increased breast cancer research budgets, input into spending of research dollars, and access to treatment for all women
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Judi Hirshfield-Bartek
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Founded Gay/Straight Alliance at New Jewish High School of Greater Boston and 'Ga'avah, a Queer Jewish Youth Group'
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Shulamit Izen
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Organized high school boycott of Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System
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Hannah Jukovsky
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Makes documentary films on social issues such as domestic violence, homophobia, and images of women in the media
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Margaret Lazarus
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Leader in Diversity Committee at Driscoll School in Brookline, MA and Professor of 'Law, Culture, and Difference' at Northeastern University School of Law
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Susan Maze-Rothstein
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Founded a film company, Earthome Productions, to promote ideas of sustainable relationships between the human community and the natural world
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Shelley Morhaim
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Former Soviet Refusenik and activist in the Jewish Women's Movement in Russia, and also worked in the US to help Soviet Jews resettle here
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Galina Nizhnikov Veremkroit
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Established health and education philanthropic organizations for the benefit of children and adults
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Marla Oros
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Conducted groundbreaking research in adolescent sexual behavior and developed pregnancy prevention programs
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Laurie Schwab Zabin
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Advocates for the preservation of open spaces, historic sites, and affordable housing
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Betsy Shure Gross
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Pioneered awareness of domestic abuse within the Jewish community and set up services to aid battered wives
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Hanna Weinberg
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Helped create the field of advocacy and treatment for victims and survivors of violence
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Janet Yassen
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Founder of Kids on the Hill, a non-profit after-school arts program for inner-city children
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Rebecca Yenawine
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Created Rapid Response to Brutality Project to deter guard-on-prisoner violence
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Rebecca Young
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