Celebrating individuals who have made Tulane University a more inclusive and diverse academic community is at the heart of Tulane’s Trailblazers initiative, which was launched by President Michael Fitts in 2019. For the Tulane School of Social Work (TSSW), honoring such trailblazers took a unique collaboration that created a vibrant result. It all started when School of Social Work Dean Patrick Bordnick found an artist capable of telling its story. As the first African-American graduate students to earn degrees from the Tulane School of Social Work (TSSW) and among the first to graduate from Tulane, Gloria Bryant Banks ('64), Pearlie Hardin Elloie ('65), and Marilyn S. Piper ('64) serve as models for transcending tradition and breaking barriers.