Of the pioneers who turned

Sheila Ramsay Lochhead was a hostess, prison visitor and writer. In 1924 her widowed father, Ramsay MacDonald, became Britain's Prime Minister. Her sister Ishbel MacDonald, became his political hostess and then Sheila took on the role. Sheila later became a prison visitor, leading the National Association of Official Prison Visitors for three years.

Monika Kehoe was a pioneering American educator, who focused on training teachers of English as a second language, as well as on women's studies, and aging in the LGBT community. Born in Dayton, Ohio, and raised as Catholic, she attended parochial schools in Fort Wayne, Indiana, received a bachelor's degree at Mary Manse College and went on to earn a doctorate at Ohio State University in 1935. She taught English literature and applied linguistics in the United States, Korea, Japan, Australia, Ethiopia, Canada, and Guam. One of the pioneers who turned learning English as a second language into an academic endeavor, she taught English to Korean and Japanese civil servants who worked with American and Allied administrators after World War II and during the Korean War. She also created the first curricula for instructors teaching English as a second language in Canada in the 1960s.

Jean-Baptiste Libouban was a French syndicalist. He was a member of the Community of the Ark, of which he was the highest-ranking member from 1990 to 2005 and started the movement for activism against genetic engineering.