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This woman of the week was a space scientist and physicist, and the first female Mission Operations Manager of NASA.
Dr. Angelita Castro-Kelly
This woman of the week is an American politician and activist serving since 2019 as the U.S. representative for New York's 14th congressional district.
AOC
This woman of the week was an American writer, professor, philosopher, intersectional feminist, poet and civil rights activist.
Audre Lorde
This woman of the week is a Potawatomi botanist, author, and the director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
This organization was founded in 1996 by 157 women to amplify the voices and experiences of AAPI women and girls.
The National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum (NAPAWF)
This woman is an American artistic gymnast and is the 2020 Olympic all-around gold medalist and uneven bars bronze medalist and the 2024 Olympic all-around and uneven bars bronze medalist as well as the 2019 World Championship silver medalist on the floor and bronze medalist on uneven bars.
Suni Lee
This woman is an American actress of Puerto Rican descent who is well known for her various rolls including One Day at a Time.
Rita Moreno
This woman is a rapper and songwriter from Tampa, Florida who won a Grammy for Best Rap Album, and she was nominated for Best New Artist and Best Rap Performance in 2025.
Doechii
This woman is the first Native American Cabinet secretary in US history sworn in March of 2021
Deb Haaland
This organization was founded in 1974 by a group of professional women in Washington, DC, who wanted to give voice to Mexican-American women, who they felt were excluded from the important conversations facing our communities.
MANA
This woman was an American attorney and politician from the U.S. state of Hawaii who served on the United States House of Representatives for 24 years as a member of the Democratic Party, initially from 1965 to 1977, and again from 1990 until her death in 2002.
Patsy Mink
This woman is a feminist advocate and spokesperson for Las Brujas del Mar from Veracruz, Mexico and was named as one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2020 by Time magazine.
Arrusi Unda
This woman was a prominent LGBTQ+ activist who fought for gay rights and transgender rights in New York City.
Marsha P. Johnson
This woman was the speaker at PWD last year and is a professor at UWL
Leanne Vigue
This grassroots organization was formed in the 90s in order to provide social, academic, and political support to women of Native, Latina, Asian, and African descent.
ALANA
This woman was an Indian American astronaut and aerospace engineer who was the first woman of Indian origin to fly to space.
Kalpana Chawla
This woman is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, actress, dancer, businesswoman, and occasional television host whos single "Envolver" became a social media hit and topped Spotify's global daily chart, making her the first solo Latin female artist to do so.
Anitta
This woman was an African-American civil rights and women's rights activist who focused on the issues of African-American women, including unemployment, illiteracy, and voter awareness.
Dorothy Height
This woman is known for the REDress Project, an art installation that raises awareness about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) crisis, and for her work exploring themes of memory, identity, place, and resistance.
Jaime Black
This organization was founded in 1970 by Edna Beach and 23 other African-American women to advocate on behalf of Black women and girls to promote leadership development and gender equity in the areas of health, education and economic empowerment.
The National Coalition of 100 Black Women (NCBW)
This woman is an author best known for her novels about Chinese American women and the immigrant experience, including The Joy Luck Club.
Amy Tan
This woman is an American engineer and former NASA astronaut and director and in 1993 she became the first Hispanic woman to travel to space as a mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Discovery.
Dr. Ellen Ochoa
This woman was an dancer, singer, actress, and civil rights activist and was one of the most successful African American entertainers in French history.
Josephine Baker
This woman was a Native American medical doctor and reformer and member of the Omaha tribe and is widely acknowledged as one of the first Indigenous people, and the first Indigenous woman, to earn a medical degree.
Susan La Flesche Picotte
This organization was founded in 2006 and is a tribal coalition focused on ending domestic and sexual violence against Native women, supporting sisterhood, and strengthening local advocacy and program development through culturally specific education and resource implementation in tribal communities.
Native Women's Society of the Great Plains (NWSGP)