Chizu Iiyama
Chizu Kitano Iiyama (1921-2020) was an activist, social worker and educator who participated in social movements such as the Japanese American Redress Movement, integration in Chicago and the treatment of Arab Americans after 9/11.
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Mitsuye Yamada
Acclaimed poet, feminist writer, and human rights activist. Much of Yamada’s work draws on the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans.
Yolanda Alaniz
Chicana socialist working for women, LGBT, workers’ and immigrant rights
Michele Storms
Michele Storms is a leader of civil rights organizations and established racial justice in the Pacific Northwest.
Nicolle Swims
Nicolle Swims is a Black, Queer and Nonbinary musician who is the guitarist and vocalist of local Seattle gunk-pop band Black Ends
Jo Ann Hardesty
One of the first women to serve onboard Navy ships, activist and politician
Nikkita Oliver
US activist against injustice in the legal system.
Bev Barnum
She founded the group known as ‘Wall of Moms’, a group of mothers dedicated to protecting protestors from the military tactics used by federal agents and local law enforcement during peaceful protests.
Helen Cecile Beck Stafford
tafford dedicated her life’s work to securing equal rights and freedoms for minorities in Tacoma.
Ijeoma Oluo
Ijeoma Oluo is a Seattle-based feminist and antiracist writer and speaker.