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Karen Nyberg - She has a doctorate in mechanical engineering. She flew a Space Shuttle mission (STS-124) and later spent 166 days onboard the International Space Station, conducting experiments, as part of Expeditions 36/37.

Lisa Randall - Randall is currently a Professor of Physics at Harvard University. She has held professorships at MIT and Princeton. She studies theoretical particle physics and cosmology. She has written the libretto for an opera called Hypermusic Prologue. In 2007 she was selected for Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People.

Marissa Mayer-Marissa Ann Mayer is the current president and CEO of Yahoo!, a position she has held since July 2012. Previously, she was a long-time executive and key spokesperson for Google.

Professor Elizabeth Helen Blackburn- , AC, FRS, FAA, FRSN is an Australian-American biological researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, who studies the telomere, a structure at the end of chromosomes that protects the chromosome. Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the telomere. For this work, she was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Jane Goodall - Dame Jane Morris Goodall, DBE is a British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace. Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her 45-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania.

Hillary Clinton - Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is a former United States Secretary of State, U. S. Senator, and First Lady of the United States. From 2009 to 2013, she was the 67th Secretary of State, serving under President Barack Obama. She previously represented New York in the U. S. Senate (2001 to 2009).

Virginia Rometty - Virginia Marie "Ginni" Rometty is an American business executive. She is the current Chairwoman and CEO of IBM, and the first woman to head the company.