Lupita Nyong’o is an Academy Award-winning international filmmaker and Kenyan-American actress. She was born in 1983 in Mexico City to Dorothy and Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o and moved with her family to Kenya when she was one year old…
Ruth Westheimer, better known as Dr. Ruth, is a sex therapist who has written 45 books and for decades has delivered advice on television, radio, and the web. Her fascinating and tumultuous past led to a career that has been recognized with inductions into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame, the German-American Hall of Fame, and the Radio Hall of Fame…
Angela Bassett is an American actress, director, and producer known for her powerhouse portrayals of Black female leads, notably iconic real-life women. She has brought a host of roles to the screen, including Rosa Parks, Betty Shabazz, Tina Turner, Katherine Jackson, and Coretta Scott King…
Alicia Augello Cook, known professionally as Alicia Keys, is a multiple Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter with a passion for activism. Keys loved music and singing from early childhood and discovered a passion for piano at age six…
Women We Admire is pleased to announce The Top 50 Women Leaders of Austin for 2022. This year’s awardees are serving as prominent role models across key areas including education, technology, food production, healthcare, media, and more. For decades, women of Austin have fought for change and equality in the workplace…
Women We Admire is pleased to announce The Top 50 Women Leaders of Austin for 2022. This year’s awardees are serving as prominent role models across key areas including education, technology, food production, healthcare, media, and more. For decades, women of Austin have fought for change and equality in the workplace…
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was an iconic American science fiction writer who lived from 1929 to 2018. Her prolific writing career spanned nearly six decades and produced 23 novels, 12 volumes of short stories, 11 volumes of poetry, 13 children’s books, five essay collections, and four works of translation…
Katie Porter is an attorney, law professor, and U.S. Congresswoman representing the 45th Congressional District in Orange County, California. Porter is a member of the House Oversight and Reform Committee and Vice-Chair of the Subcommittee on Government Operations…
Helen Keller was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist, and lecturer who lived from 1880 to 1968. She was an advocate for women’s suffrage and rights, labor rights, and world peace. She was also an early supporter of the NAACP and Co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)…
Ashley Judd is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress who, over the past decade, has become just as known for her devotion to humanitarian work and political activism as for her 30-year film career. A few of Judd’s most-well-known movie…
