Celebrate Women's Activism

Help build NYC's permanent catalog listing women activists from across the globe. Share a story that inspires you.

Collecting 20000 stories of inspiring women.

Esmeralda Santiago

Stories of Women Who Move Us

The retelling of her memories has made her an inspiration to women in search of their identity and for Latina/o readers who struggle to assimilate into American culture without giving up their traditions and language....

Julia De Burgos García

Stories of Women Who Move Us

Burgos-García was the Secretary of State for the female wing of the Puerto Rican Nationalist organization, known as "Daughters of Freedom". The Daughters of Freedom worked towards freeing Puerto Rico from the binds of the USA and including women in Puerto Rico's independence movement....

La India

Stories of Women Who Move Us

La India siempre causa gran revuelo en sus presentaciones poniendo en evidencia que si te apasiona lo que haces puedes brillar tanto como lo desees....

Nydia Valazquex

Stories of Women Who Move Us

As a fighter for the working class and poor, Congresswoman Velázquez combines sensibility and compassion, as she works to encourage economic development, protect community health and the environment, combat crime and worker abuses, and secure access to affordable housing, and quality education for all....

Celebrate Women's Activism

Esmeralda Santiago

Stories of Women Who Move Us

Julia De Burgos García

Stories of Women Who Move Us

La India

Stories of Women Who Move Us

Nydia Valazquex

Stories of Women Who Move Us

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Catherine Cookson

Ellen Nye Chart

Mary Jane Clarke

Jayne Torvill

Mary Hare

Margaret Bondfield

Kamala Harris

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