Jamie Norwood and her cofounder Cynthia Plotch created Stix, a vaginal and reproductive health brand that provides discreet direct-to-consumer products. Its more than 70,000 customers purchase pregnancy, ovulation, and UTI tests, as well as vitamins and supplements, through its e-commerce site. Stix has raised $7.6 million in funding since launching in 2019. Following the overturn of Roe v. Wade, Stix launched an over-the-counter emergency contraception product, Restart, and a donation bank to provide free doses to anyone who requests, which has raised nearly $300,000.

Recognized for her “quicksilver passagework” and “tender lyricism” (The Washington Post), yet not afraid to shout, swing her foot onto the piano, or don fingerless gloves if the music demands it, pianist Francesca Hurst divides her playing evenly between classical and contemporary music. 

Carlin Glynn (born February 19, 1940) is an American singer and retired actress. She is the mother of actress Mary Stuart Masterson.

A life member of The Actors Studio,Glynn made her belated but Tony-winning Broadway debut - as 1979's Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical - portraying "Mona Stangley" in the original production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, a musical comedy adapted by Glynn's husband and fellow Studio member, Peter Masterson. Glynn's award-winning performance would be reprised in the 1982 revival.[5]

Angela Gregory (October 18, 1903 – February 13, 1990) was an American sculptor and professor of art. Gregory has been called the "doyenne of Louisiana sculpture." She became one of the few women of her era to be recognized nationally in a field generally dominated by men.

Wendi Schneider (born 1955) is an American artist and photographer based in Denver, Colorado, known for her photographs of nature and wildlife that are often printed on paper vellum or kozo with hand-applied layers of gold leaf on verso. Gilded vellum and kozo photographs from her ongoing "States of Grace" series have been exhibited in more than 100 gallery and museum exhibitions nationally and abroad.

Shirley Ann Grau (July 8, 1929 – August 3, 2020) was an American writer. Born in New Orleans, she lived part of her childhood in Montgomery, Alabama. Her novels are set primarily in the Deep South and explore issues of race and gender. In 1965 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature for her novel The Keepers of the House, set in a fictional Alabama town.