JANUARY 18: TODAY'S INSPIRING WOMEN

Elena Arizmendi Mejía 

Elena Arizmendi Mejía was a Mexican feminist who established the Neutral White Cross organization during the Mexican Revolution. She was a part of the first wave of Mexican feminism and established the "Mujeres de la raza" and the International League of Iberian and Latin American Women with G. Sofía Villa de Buentello.

AMY BARGER

Amy J. Barger is an American astronomer whose discoveries have most concerned quasars, black holes, and other far distant objects. She helped show that the activity of black holes in nearby galaxies was greater and more recent than expected. Amy was born today in 1971.