Celebrate Women's Activism

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Collecting 10,000 stories of inspiring women.

Pearl Mavis Munro

Transnational Parent

As a young woman, a newly arrived immigrant in New York and a single mother, you worked three low-paying jobs to support yourself and your family, while parenting from a distance – also known as transnational parenting (Best-Cummings, 2009). ...

Meghan Farina

Filled with Love and Humor

Meghan’s amazing sense of humor is the first thing you’ll notice about her, next to her warm smile. Although she only was given 13 years with us, in those 13 years she filled everyday with laughs and love. Even after she was diagnosed with Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG), a rare childhood brain tumor located on the brainstem, her personality was unchanged...

Ketriana Yvonne

Inspiring and Uplifting Others

After I decided to write this tribute, I was beset with feeling inadequate to the task of expressing what Ketriana has meant to so many people, including me....

Susan Zimet

Passionate Mother and Activist

In the way that you rarely fully appreciate a moment while it is happening, I didn't grasp the uniquely frenetic, sometimes exhausting, and always wonderful experience of growing up with Susan Zimet as my mother until I was, as they say, old enough to know better....

Celebrate Women's Activism

Pearl Mavis Munro

Transnational Parent

Meghan Farina

Filled with Love and Humor

Ketriana Yvonne

Inspiring and Uplifting Others

Susan Zimet

Passionate Mother and Activist

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