This Lady is an inspiration!

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Read the whole story at@ http://womensplaza.arizona.edu/honor/view.php?id=152&print=1

Barbara Ann Atwood was born September 2, 1947, in Carlsbad, New Mexico. Her family relocated to Tucson, Arizona, in 1956. She graduated from Rincon High School in 1965 and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in Spanish from Mary Baldwin College, a small women’s college in Virginia in 1969. Barbara became a VISTA volunteer after college, working in Oklahoma City for a nonprofit cooperative for two years, and then returned to Tucson in 1971 to attend graduate school in multi-cultural education at the University of Arizona. During that period, Barbara taught English as a second language to adult immigrants for Tucson’s model cities program.

Barbara became intensely involved in the second wave of the women’s movement in the early 1970's and was a participant in establishing the original Tucson Women’s Center and the first rape crisis center in the city. Also, she and two other women founded Antigone Book Store in 1973, the first bookstore in Arizona to specialize in writings by and about women and non-sexist children’s literature. Barbara ended her formal tie to Antigone in 1978 but has kept in touch with the owners over the years and admires the creative feminist spirit that has kept the store alive.

This is someone I can look up to! And she is from here in Tucson!

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1. To put it in perspective.

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Atwood looked up to Judge Mary Anne Richey.

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2. That is interesting!

From what I have read of Judge Richey, they both look like trailblazers! Maybe that is why I like them so much.