JoAnn Tall is an environmental activist of the Oglala Lakota tribe who has worked to ensure the people have a chance to approve major projects for energy development. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1993 for her protests against uranium mining and plans for testing nuclear weapons in the Black Hills area, near the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation where she lives.

Cori Bush is an American politician, Democrat, RN, pastor, and activist, elected to the House for the Missouri 1st District. Cori is the first African-American woman to serve in the United States House of Representatives for Missouri.

Cynt Marshall has been a dynamic force for inclusion and diversity within the Mavericks organization and over a 36-year career at AT&T. Widely recognized for her visionary leadership and ability to get things done, Marshall was touted as one of Adweek’s 30 Most Powerful Women in Sports and was selected as one of the 2019 Women of Power Legacy Award honorees by Black Enterprise.

Amanda Gorman is an American poet and activist, honored as a National Youth Poet. Her work focuses on issues of oppression, feminism, race and marginalization, as well as the African diaspora. She published the poetry book The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough in 2015. In January 2021, she became the most popular poet. young man reading at a presidential inauguration, reading his poem «The Hill We Climb» at Joe Biden’s inauguration.

Kamala Harris is the Vice President of the United States of America. She was elected vice president after a long history of public service, having been elected attorney general of San Francisco, attorney general of California and senator of the United States. Vice President Harris was born in Oakland to parents who immigrated from India and Jamaica. She graduated from Howard University and the University of California Hastings School of Law.