Sheila Kuehl
Kuehl was elected to the California State Assembly in 1994, becoming the first openly gay person elected to the California legislature. While running for office Kuehl found she was able to offset some negative stereotypes people had about lesbians thanks to their familiarity with her role as Zelda. She told an interviewer "When people know gay people personally, they tend to feel differently about the whole community. And all of a sudden, here's a person that they knew very well that they found out was lesbian."
Shirley Adelson Siegel
Siegel attended Barnard in the 1930s, at a time when Barnard had a quota for Jewish students. 
As an undergraduate at Barnard in the 1930s, Siegel became committed to the cause of affordable housing. Her interest in housing developed after she served as an intern with the New York Legislative Service in 1936 and was assigned to become knowledgeable about the field of housing. During her internship, Siegel encountered Charles Abrams and Langdon Post of the New York City Housing Authority. Siegel studied government at Barnard and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. After graduating from Barnard in 1937, Siegel was voted the recipient of a student-funded fellowship available to one graduating Barnard student to study abroad. Siegel attended the London School of Economics, where she continued to develop her studies of housing. Siegel entered Yale Law School in 1938 as the only woman in her class.