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Helen Zia

American anti-racism, women’s rights and LGBTQIA+ rights activist

For thirty years Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve has written children’s books with the intention of dispelling stereotypes and negative images of Native Americans. She has brought the richness of Native American culture and heritage to thousands of children.

Elizabeth Martínez

Chicana feminist, community organizer, activist, author and educator

Samia Baho

Samia Baho has made an outstanding contribution to addressing the various barriers to ensure appropriate services are available for African women in Victoria, Australia.

bell hooks

As a leading Black intellectual, hooks pushed the feminist movement beyond the preserve of the white and middle-class, encouraging Black and working class perspectives on gender inequality.

Chizu Iiyama

Chizu Kitano Iiyama (1921-2020) was an activist, social worker and educator who participated in social movements such as the Japanese American Redress Movement, integration in Chicago and the treatment of Arab Americans after 9/11.

Mitsuye Yamada

Acclaimed poet, feminist writer, and human rights activist. Much of Yamada’s work draws on the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans.

Yolanda Alaniz

Chicana socialist working for women, LGBT, workers’ and immigrant rights

Michele Storms

Michele Storms is a leader of civil rights organizations and established racial justice in the Pacific Northwest.

Nicolle Swims

Nicolle Swims is a Black, Queer and Nonbinary musician who is the guitarist and vocalist of local Seattle gunk-pop band Black Ends