In honor of International Women’s Month, I thought it would be great to uplift some very amazing women in today’s world! 

Bridgett Floyd 

Bridgett Floyd is the sister of George Floyd. To honor her brother’s legacy, she launched an internship program for young Black men at the Texas A&M University-Commerce called the Be His Legacy Internship Program. She also created the George Floyd Memorial Foundation which brings global awareness to racial injustice and discrimination. 

Tamika D. Mallory

Mallory is a civil rights activist & community organizer. She served as the youngest ever Executive Director of the National Action Network and was the co-chair of the 2017 Women’s March on Washington. She was recognized in the TIME 100 that year for all her work. She is also a co-founder of Until Freedom, a social justice organization working to address systemic & racial injustice. She is an advocate of feminism, Black Lives Matter, and gun control. 

Amanda Nguyen

Nguyen is an Asian American social entrepreneur, civil rights activist, and the CEO/founder of Rise, an organization supporting victims of sexual assault and rape. She proposed and drafted the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Rights Act, the 21st bill in modern U.S. history that Congress passed unanimously. Her work is incredible and so is her activism in representing the Asian American community to fight the recent rise in hate crimes. 

Shannon Watts

Watts is the founder of Moms Demand Action, a grassroots network of moms fighting against gun violence that has successfully generated change at the local, state, and national levels. Moms Demand Action has chapters in all 50 states and is part of the Everytown for Gun Safety, the largest gun violence prevention organization in the country. 

Nupul Kiazolu

Kiazolu is an activist focused on civil rights, domestic and sexual violence, and homelessness. She was the President of the Black Lives Matter Youth Coalition and Black Lives Matter Greater New York and has also become Miss Liberia USA.

Raquel Willis

Willis is an African-American activist, editor, and award-winning writer. She founded Black Trans Circles, a project of the Transgender Law Center, which focuses on creating leadership of Black transgender women in the South and Midwest by developing healing justice spaces to work through oppression-based trauma, as well as pushing community organizing efforts to bring awareness to anti-trans murders and hate crimes. She is also currently the Director of Communications for the Ms. Foundation for Women.

Alice Wong 

Wong is a disability rights activist and writer who founded the Disability Visibility Project, an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture. She’s based in San Francisco and is also a co-partner in four big projects: DisabledWriters.com, #CripLit, #CripTheVote, and Access is Love. 

Carolina Rubio MacWright

MacWright is an artist and immigration attorney from Colombia. She is a speaker and activist fighting for immigrant and humanitarian rights. She also founded the nonprofit Touching Land, which uses hands-on arts as a tool for community-building and immigrant empowerment. 

Brittany Packnett Cunningham

Cunningham is an activist, educator, writer, and co-founder of Campaign Zero, a research platform dedicated to finding solutions for police brutality. She also was a member of Former President Obama’s 21st Century Policing Task Force and was the executive director for Teach for America in St. Louis, Missouri. 

Crystal EchoHawk

In 2016, EchoHawk, a member of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, co-founded Reclaiming Native Truth, a project battling discrimination towards Native Americans. Recently, she launched illumiNative which helped to lobby for the renaming of the former Washington Redskins, now known as the Washington Football Team. 

Liz Kleinrock

Kleinrock is a Korean American anti-bias and anti-racist educator, as well as an activist. Her social media platform (@teachandtransform) attracts over 130,000 people across the world. She creates curricular content for K-12 students about diversity, equality, and inclusion. Her TED talk, “How to Talk to Kids About Taboo Topics,” teaches how to approach certain ideas in better ways.