Tarana Burke is an activist who was born on September 12, 1973, in The Bronx, New York. She is known as the founder ofcreated the #MeToo movement, which began in 2006, but gained more traction 11 years later by actress Alyssa Milano, among others. The movement was created to help women who have experienced sexual abuse or harassment. The #MeToo movement has become a global movement around the world with celebrities like Terry Crews, Alyssa Milano, and more supporting it. 
Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997, and is a Pakistani activist for female education, and a former blogger for BBC Urdu. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014. In 2009, Malala was 11 years old when she wrote her first BBC diary entry called “Diary of a Pakistani Schoolgirl” where she talks about her life as a young girl and all the miserable things that happened during that period. When Yousafzai was around 14 or -15 years old, she was shot three times and survived. Despite that, it did not stop Yousafzai from speaking about her beliefs. She was “very determined” to go to school and had “a firm belief in her right to an education.” 
Alice Augusta Ball was born in 1892 in Seattle, Washington, and studied Chemistry and Medicine. She created an oil extract called the “Ball Method” that was an effective treatment for the disease called leprosy. She was 23 years old when she developed this oil extract. Ball was the first African American that received a master’s degree from the University of Hawaii, where she conducted her studies in 1915. 
Dr. Ann Tsukamoto was born on July 6, 1952, and studied stem cell biology. In the early 1990s, Tsukamoto invented a treatment to “isolate blood stem cells” in the body that could “replace a damaged immune system in a person with blood cancer.” She was awarded in 1991, and thanks to Dr. Ann Tsukamoto’s research, she has helped and saved many lives and has advanced research to treat other types of cancer. 
Madam C.J Walker (Sarah Breedlove) was born on December 23, 1867, and was an American entrepreneur. She created homemade hair products for black women and became the first Black woman millionaire in America. Walker was experiencing hair loss when she was inspired to make hair products and invented the “Walker system.” She “used her fortune to fund scholarships for women at the Tuskegee Institute and donated large parts of her wealth to the NAACP, the Black YMCA, and other charities.” 
Kamala Devi Harris was born on October 20, 1964, and became the first black and South Asian Vice President. Harris has a long history of working with the law. I, in 2010 Harris was elected California’s Attorney General, elected District Attorney of San Francisco in 2003, and in 2017, she was sworn into the United States Senate. Harris comes from a family of immigrants and knows the struggle of families who are immigrants. 
Selena Quintanilla was born on April 16, 1971, and released many albums like “Amor Prohibido” and “Dreaming of You.” Her father was also a musician and taught her how to sing in Spanish. When Quintanilla was ten years old, she “became the lead singer in her family’s band” and would soon become a world superstar. Selena has made many famous albums but passed away early on. Quintanilla fans have a special place in their hearts for her and her music. 
Greta Thunberg was born on January 3, 2003, and is a climate and environmental activist. Thunberg has won many awards like “Right Livelihood” and was the 2019 Person of the Year for Times Magazine. Thunberg’s main focus is on saving the planet from “environmental catastrophe.” She has asked for students to do their part in helping and has asked for governments to do their part in helping save the planet, Thunberg is very active on social media.
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