115 Women Who Inspire Me: IWD Special

International Women’s Day (IWD), was celebrated just a few days ago, on March 8th. This tradition began after being proposed and unanimously supported at an International Conference of Working Women in Copenhagen, and has been celebrated annually since 1911. In honor of the 115th IWD this year, I wanted to share a list of 115 women who inspire me including family, activists, scientists, revolutionaries, and other trailblazers. These are all women I’ve either researched or interacted with, and I encourage you all to look into each of their powerful stories!

1. My mom

2. My grandma

3. My sister

4. Malala Yousafzai

5. Greta Thunberg

6. Michelle Obama

7. Emma Watson

8. Nika Shahkarami

9. Mahsa Amini

10. Amika George

11. Marie Curie

12. Leymah Gbowee

13. Ann Cotton

14. Yara Shahdi

15. Michelle Bachelet

16. Virginia Brindis de Salas

17. Luz Ibarburu

18. Beyoncé Knowles

19. Rigoberta Menchú

20. Manuela Sáenz

21. Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo

22. Violeta Chamorro

23. Domitila Barrios de Chungara

24. Berta Cáceres

25. Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo

26. Frida Kahlo

27. Juana Azurduy de Padilla

28. Gloria Steinem

29. Vanessa Nakate

30. Simone de Beauvoir

31. Audre Lorde

32. Alice Stone Blackwell

33. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

34. Eleanor Roosevelt

35. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

36. Jessie Daniel Ames

37. Alva Belmont

38. Nora Stanton Blatch Barney

39. Charlotte Perkins Gilman

40. Betty Friedan

41. Lillie Devereux Blake

42. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

43. Amelia Bloomer

44. Olympia Brown

45. Byllye Avery

46. Lucy Burns

47. Raden Adjeng Kartini

48. Kate Sheppard

49. Oku Mumeo

50. Camilla Collett

51. Maya Angelou

52. bell hooks

53. Toni Morrison

54. Ellen Key

55. Fuki Kushida

56. Mother Teresa

57. Oprah Winfrey

58. Tawakkol Karman

59. Nellie McClun

60. Serena Williams

61. Lucille Ball

62. Rosa Parks

63. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

64. Ruby Bridges

65. Amelia Earhart

66. Aretha Franklin

67. Sally Ride

68. Mae Jemison

69. Simone Biles

70. Eriko Daimo

71. Alice Paul

72. Billie Jean King

73. Ellen Ochoa

74. Princess Diana

75. Sophonisba Breckinridge

76. Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood

77. Audrey Hepburn

78. Mary Ashton Rice Livermore

79. Vigdís Finnbogadóttir

80. Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo

81. Lucretia Mott

82. Indra Nooyi

83. Ida B. Wells-Barnett

84. Fannie Lou Hamer

85. Anandi Gopal Joshi

86. Ellen Spencer Mussey

87. Sojourner Truth

88. Kamala Harris

89. Eva Perón

90. Maud Wood Park

91. Dolores Huerta

92. Ernestine Rose

93. Alice Salomon

94. May Eliza Wright Sewall

95. Jeannette Rankin

96. Gloria Anzaldúa

97. Anna Howard Shaw

98. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

99. Molly Yard

100. Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman

101. Anne Firth Murray

102. Frances Willard

103. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

104. Amanda Gorman

105. Junko Tabei

106. Hariett Tubman

107. Ella Fitzgerald

108. Emily Wilding Davison

109. Hedy Lamarr

110. Ada Lovelace

111. Victoria Woodhull

112. Meryll Streep

113. Amal Clooney

114. Rosalind Franklin

115. Angela Davis