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Welcome to the 2018 edition of Rad Women of Philadelphia! This book was created by our third grade class at Greene Street Friends School in Philadelphia. We have been studying rad women* and now we want to make a book about rad women who are working and living in our own city. To make this book, first we wrote letters to our rad women partners. Then we made videos to send to one another. We started collecting information from the letters and videos. Lastly, we wrote our pages. Some of us wrote them on the computer and some made them by hand. We also traced pictures of our rad women partners, wrote their names, and made backgrounds in Art class. Rad means awesome and we call these women rad because they’re awesome and rad. Rad is short for radical, which comes from the latin word that means, “from the root,” so rad also describes a person who is uprooting injustice in their community, which a lot of these women are doing in different ways. Rad can also mean doing something for the first time and doing it before everyone else. We think this project is important because it shows that women can be rad, strong, and powerful. Thanks for reading! Love,
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*primarily from the book Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers and Visionaries who Shaped our History and Our Future!, written by Kate Schatz and illustrated by Miriam Klein Stahl
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Table of Contents Charlyn Griffith ...................................................................6 created by Rex Helstrom
Gabriela Sanchez ................................................................ 8 created by Chris O’Connell
Jackie Soro …..................................................................... 10 created by Andrew Grannum
Julia Terry ......................................................................... 12 created by Taylor Davenport
Karina Puente ................................................................... 14 created by Indie DuTot
Kirtrina Baxter ................................................................. 16 created by Lolo Joseph
Lina Martinez ................................................................... 18 created by Adam Attanasio
Lucia Thomé ...................................................................... 20 created by Anna Weisberg and Marie Huard
Marisa Williamson ............................................................ 22 created by Penelope Glass
Meg Lemieur ..................................................................... 24 created by Amit Greene
Nicole Sugarman ............................................................... 26 created by Sylvie Harris
Sheila Quintana ................................................................ 28 created by Leela Gupta
Sulaiha Olatunji ................................................................ 30 created by Tessa Shovlin
Trapeta B. Mayson ............................................................ 32 created by Jordin Mouzon
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Meet the Authors!
Adam goes to Greene Street Friends School. He is in third grade. He lives in Center City. Adam is a trooper because he can recover from any injury. Just ask him.
Amit is a 3A student at GSFS. He lives in Philadelphia with his mom, dad, and cat. In his free time, he likes to read, play video games, and draw. A cool thing about him is he can build circuits and he knows how to program.
Andrew goes to Greene Street Friends School. Andrew was born in 2009 on April 17th. He loves working with other people. He loves math games and math. Andrew has two brothers. Andrew loves doing projects like rad women.
Chris is a 3rd grader who goes to GSFS and his hobbies are reading, acting, doing art projects and playing video games. Another thing he likes to do is hang out with friends.
Indie is a third grade student at Greene Street Friends School. She lives on Chippewa Road with two brothers, one sister and her mama and papa. She also has two turtles, 10 fish, and a bunny. Her dog died recently. In her free time she loves to draw, read, be outside and design stuff. She wants to be an artist and architect.
Jordin is a third grade student at Greene Street Friends School. She lives in West Philly with her six housemates and a cat. In her free time, she likes to bake, play soccer, play outside and play games. The raddest thing about her is that she loves challenges and being a fast learner and loves to learn new things. What is fun about her is that she is funny and active.
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Leela is a third grader at Greene Street Friends School. She lives in Philly with her Mom, Dad, and brother. She likes to run, bike, read, and draw floor plans for imaginary buildings. When she grows up, she wants to be an architect.
Angelo is a third grade student at Greene Street Friends School. He lives in a house with his two brothers and one sister. His hobbies are soccer, Fortnite, and surf boarding in the summer.
Penelope is in 3rd grade and goes to GSFS. She lives on West School House Lane with her brother, mom, dad, and cat. She loves making art and says she will run a marathon with her mom someday.
Rex is a student that goes to Greene Street Friends School. He lives in Chestnut Hill. He loves to read and be outside. He also likes playing with his friends at school. He’s rad because he includes everybody and lets everybody play with him.
Sylvie goes to school at Greene Street Friends. She lives on Edge Hill Road in Abington. Her favorite things to do are play with her guinea pigs, read, and play outside with friends and family.
Taylor is a student at Greene Street Friends School in third grade. She lives in East Falls with her mom and sister, while her dad works in Florida. In her free time, she loves to be outside in nature and play with her sister and her friends. The raddest thing about her is that she is very creative. She can take anything and make it extraordinary. She is also very funny.
Tessa is a third grader at Greene Street Friends School. She lives in East Falls with her parents and her sisters and two cats. She loves to play soccer and go outside and play games. The raddest thing about her is that she does what she wants.
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Special thanks: To the rad women of 2018 for opening themselves up to our class and teaching us about the powerful work they are doing in our city. To the rad women of 2017 for introducing us to new people to be a part of this project. To art teachers Marie and Maria for their support creating the art for this book. And to the women who have inspired us and to those who have yet to be included in a book, but who are making history everyday.
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