Celebrate Women's Activism

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Sumak Helena Gualinga

Indigenous Environmental Activist

Sumak Helena Gualinga is part of a female dynasty of indigenous Amazon women environmentalists from Ecuador. More than a decade ago, her family took an oil company to court—and won—for having illegally exploited their land, destroying biodiversity, without permission from the locals....

Rhiana Gunn-Wright

Health and Social Justice Advocate

Rhiana Gunn-Wright believes that climate policy is connected to social justice. Over one million African American people live half a mile from oil or gas facility and six million live in the same county as a refinery. Wright has created a climate mobilization office where she works on climate change policy....

Miranda Wang

Anti-Plastic Environmentalist

Miranda Wang is a trailblazing environmentalist who tackles the global plastic pollution crisis. Her passion for sustainability was ignited at a young age on a school trip to a waste-management facility, where she witnessed the devastating effects of plastic pollution. She co-founded BioCollection, a company dedicated to revolutionizing plastic recycling....

Liz Christy

"Mother" of the Modern Community Garden

In 1973 Liz Christy became the moving force in the formation of the “Green Guerillas”, a non-profit group of visionaries that assisted in the creation of urban green spaces in the poorest sections of New York City, and developed a program for local nurseries and garden centers to donate plants, trees and shrubs to community garden....

Celebrate Women's Activism

Sumak Helena Gualinga

Indigenous Environmental Activist

Rhiana Gunn-Wright

Health and Social Justice Advocate

Miranda Wang

Anti-Plastic Environmentalist

Liz Christy

"Mother" of the Modern Community Garden

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