Join Us For The MWHC Gala! Monday, November 9, 2026 6pm

MWHC Gala Invite

 

Monday, November 9, 2026

Sheraton Boston
39 Dalton Street
Boston, MA 
6:00 pm

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Join us for the MWHC GALA, a fundraiser to provide ongoing support for the MWHC, to induct the inaugural class of the Massachusetts Women's Hall of Fame (MWHOF), and to unveil a preview of the MWHOF Memorial!  The MWHOF inaugural class includes both HISTORIC and LIVING women and groups, organizations, or movements (“organizations”).* 

The MWHC Gala is a fundraiser to provide ongoing support for the MWHC and to celebrate the inaugural class of the MWHOF, including a Memorial being made by the spectacular sculptor Meredith Bergmann! 

Funds raised will enable the completion of the MWHOF Memorial, and support the MWHC:  website exhibits, articles, biographies and more; programming/ events; and efforts to identify a physical site, hopefully on the Freedom Trail in Boston for a “brick and mortar” MWHC!

*For this Inaugural class in 2026, which is the 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution, the HISTORIC women/organizations are women/organizations of the Revolutionary Era, with the express purpose of amplifying what WOMEN contributed to and during the American Revolution. Future MWHOF classes will also include Historic and Living women. Living women/organizations are those who have contributed a lifetime of contributions and achievements in a variety of fields. 

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Historic Inductees to the First Class of the MA Women's Hall of Fame

Abigail Adams

First Lady, Advisor, Writer

Daughters of Liberty

Patriotic Female Resistance Association

Elizabeth Freeman

Freedom Suit Petitioner

Sarah Bradlee Fulton

Mother of the Boston Tea Party

Deborah Sampson Gannett

Patriot, Soldier, Lecturer

Jenny Slew

Successful Freedom Seeker

Lydia Taft

First Female Voter

Mercy Otis Warren

Revolutionary Poet, Playwright, Historian

Native American

Research in progress

Phillis Wheatley Peters

First African-American Author

Living Inductees to the First Class of the MA Women's Hall of Fame

Margaret Burnham

Distinguished Professor of Law Emerita

Frieda Garcia

Beloved Community Activist

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian

Margaret Marshall

Precedent-Setting Jurist

The Boston Women's Health Book Collective

Writing the Book on Women, Health, and Sexuality

Nancy Schon

Sculptor of Public Art

Helen Chin Schlichte

Pioneering Public Servant

Grace Sterling Stowell

Trailblazing LGBTQ Activist

Benaree (Bennie) Wiley

Groundbreaking Corporate and Civic Leader