Maya Harris led the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California as Executive Director on her way to becoming a well-known civil rights advocate. She is a lawyer, writer, and public policy advocate, and also served as one of the Senior Policy Advisors for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign…
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…
Yara Shahidi is an American actress, producer, and activist, best known on screen as Zoey Johnson on the sitcom “Black-ish.” The role earned her an NAACP Image Award and a Gracie Award for Female in a Breakthrough Role…
Few people have garnered as much criticism from both feminists and the patriarchy as Camille Paglia. In fact, whether she should be called a feminist at all has been the debate of scholars for generations now, and undoubtedly the central question of many post-graduate theses…
Explosions, tanks, and soldiers chasing each other through a labyrinth of shelled-out buildings are what usually flash across the screen in reports of war. The news focuses on city names, points on a map, and alliances formed through conflict, but rarely are everyday workers shown continuing to make their living as the landscape changes around them…
Straddling the borders of medicine, environmentalism, and art, Rebecca Gomperts seeks to start a conversation around reproductive rights in countries where women’s health issues are often overlooked. Born in Suriname to Dutch parents, Gomperts moved with her family back to the Netherlands when she was still a child…
Sylvia Plath, whose one novel and two collections of poetry were received far better posthumously than when she was still alive, was a prolific and determined writer often overshadowed by her husband and her own gnawing sense of impending doom…
Despite being born a slave in the early 1800s, Harriet Tubman earned her freedom, led hundreds of others to freedom, and acted as a spy for the Union Army in her lifetime. Tubman impacted the lives of many by continuously risking her own to end the institution of slavery…
“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world. Education is the only solution.” By the age of 15, Malala Yousafzai had achieved more than most adults might dare to in a lifetime—on a global scale…
