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Growing up in what was then called South Central L.A. in a single parent home fueled Annetta Well´s desire to fight for her family and for the people in her community.
From being an undocumented student and a Dreamer, Raquel Cetz has become an activist.
Autumn Peltier is passionate about granting communites acess to clean water. It's a cause she has been fighting for since she was at least 12 years old.
Ruth Miller is a member of the Dena’ina Athabascan Alaska Native tribe who believes prioritizing Indigenous women’s voices in discussions about climate justice is crucial.
Xiye Bastida is committed to helping create a future where climate activism is a space where people feel included and their actions matter.
Women in Texas, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and everywhere in between are fighting every day to support the transformational power of empowering women and girls.
With mainstream exposure and a growing fan base, female mariachis are making significant inroads in the historically male-dominated music genre.
Working informally is challenging for birth workers and herbalists, but they are an important part of community care that is lacking within mainstream healthcare systems.
As an enslaved woman in the south, Biddy Mason was valued highly because of her knowledge in herbal medicine, but as a free woman in Los Angeles, Mason became a boundry-breaking midwife, nurse and philantropist.
Many women immigrants are often forced into informal jobs that take advantage of their precarious situation, yet their contributions often go unrecognized and their labor is exploited and undervalued.
Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein and Helen Gahagan Douglas, are only some of the strong female forces who have formed the circle of influence surrounding Rosalind Wyman, the woman responsible for bringing the Dodgers to L.A. in the 1950s.
At a time when women astronomers were few and most often relegated to working as assistants, Henrietta Swan Leavitt provided the key to solving one of the most significant celestial uncertainties of her time.