BBC 100 Women 2016: Who is on the list?
The BBC has chosen its list of inspirational
and influential women for 2016. They will bring you groundbreaking moments of
defiance, new takes on fairy tales, stories of octogenarian cheerleading, and
take you inside the world of e-gaming.
Others will be exploring black feminism or
taking part in our first ever live festival. You will hear from some of the
world's biggest names but also from women you may never have heard of, but who
all have astonishing stories to tell.
Alicia Keys
Country of Birth: US
Job: Singer-songwriter
Age: 35
Biog: Singer-songwriter and actress who has won 15 Grammys, sold over
30 million records worldwide, and is regularly listed as one of the greatest
R&B performers of all time.
Everything you
want to be you already are, you're simply on the path to discovering that.
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Aline Mukovi Neema
Country of Birth: DR Congo
Job: Student/activist
Age: 27
Biog: Member of a movement of young people in Eastern Congo agitating
for political change.
Despite the risks
that I face in the current political system, I'm trying to push for change.
Amna Suleiman
Country of Birth: Gaza
Job: Teacher/bike protester
Age: 33
Biog: Cycled with friends from Gaza's southern tip to Gaza City in
protest of the regional taboo against female cyclists.
Riding a bike makes you feel like you are flying.
Amy Roko
Country of Birth: Saudi Arabia
Job: Comedian
Age: 24
Biog: A social media star of the Gulf, she posts funny videos on Vine
and Instagram - an extremely rare move for a niqabi woman.
Best advice I ever had was 'Do what you love.'
Asel Sadyrova
Country of Birth: Kyrgyzstan
Job: Archer
Age: 41
Biog: Took up traditional archery four years ago when her husband died
and discovered enough skill to compete.
I used to think: 'I am a woman, I am a mother - I
should be soft.' But now I feel strong and decisive.
Ashwaq Moharram
Country of Birth: Yemen
Job: Doctor
Age: 41
Biog: Her family fled Yemen due to the fighting but she has stayed to
help, using her car as a mobile clinic.
I keep thinking: 'What if it were my children?'
Babs Forman
Country of Birth: UK
Job: Make-up artist
Age: 30s
Biog: Skin camouflage practitioner who uses specialist make-up to hide
skin conditions and scars.
I hate the idea that people might not be leading
the life they want to because they're feeling self-conscious about their skin.
Becci Wain
Country of Birth: UK
Job: Healthcare assistant
Age: 22
Biog: Former self-harmer who is working with a skin camouflage
practitioner so that she can regain her confidence.
People look at my scars and think I'm weak. They
show I'm a strong person - that I had problems but I've worked through them.
Carmen Aristegui
Country of Birth: Mexico
Job: Journalist
Age: 52
Biog: One of the most influential Mexican journalists in history who
has put some of the most powerful people in her country on the spot.
Fear is a human ingredient you have to respect.
But you have to fight for it not to paralyse you.
Carolina de Oliveira
Country of Birth: Syria
Job: Actor/mental health campaigner
Age: 40
Biog: Actor who turned mental health activist after being diagnosed as
bipolar.
Make your surreal real. Speak your mind. Follow
your instinct. Empty your inner pain. Fill that void again with love.
Cat Hulbert
Country of Birth: US
Job: Professional gambler
Age: 64
Biog: Broke gambling's glass ceiling, first mastering blackjack, then
becoming one of the world's top poker players.
Derive your well-being from your execution, not
from the results.
Chan Yuen-ting
Country of Birth: Hong Kong
Job: Football manager
Age: 28
Biog: The first female football manager in the world to lead a men's
team to a domestic top-flight league title.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Chanira Bajracharya
Country of Birth: Nepal
Job: Business student/Former 'living goddess'
Age: 21
Biog: Creating a support network to help Nepal's former 'living
goddesses' (certain young girls who are revered by the population until their
period comes) transition into ordinary life.
For a girl to become a goddess she needs to have
a lot of perfections, a pure heart, and soul - as that's where the goddess
resides.
Churan Zheng
Country of Birth: China
Job: Events organiser/feminist campaigner
Age: 27
Biog: Works for Pride Planning, organising women's rights campaigns,
and wants all women to be offered menstrual leave.
Nature cannot make women free from period pain -
but isn't there something our society can do for women?
Cindy Meston
Country of Birth: Canada
Job: Professor of clinical psychology
Age: 55
Biog: Director of the Sexual Psychophysiology Laboratory at the
University of Texas, Austin.
Many people still believe sex cannot be studied
in a lab and such research is not worthy of funding - I disagree.
Conchi Reyes Rios
Country of Birth: Spain
Job: Bullfighter
Age: 25
Biog: One of only four female matadors out of 820 bullfighters working
in Spain today.
I believe in the equality of women and men.
Everyone has to fight for whatever it is that they want to do in life.
Corinne Maier
Country of Birth: France
Job: Writer/psychoanalyst
Age: 52
Biog: Author of 20 books of several genres, including critiques of
work, children and French society.
A world that cannot be changed is not worth
fighting for. But it is worth laughing at.
Dalia Sabri
Country of Birth: Jordan
Job: Music teacher
Age: 31
Biog: Almost blind as a result of a medical mistake when she was a
child, she is working towards setting up an orchestra for blind children.
Music became my special language. It's my way to
communicate with the world I don't see.
Denise Ho
Country of Birth: Hong Kong
Job: Singer/pro-democracy campaigner
Age: 39
Biog: Pop icon and respected outspoken pro-democracy campaigner, whose
outspokenness has earned her the adoration of fans and has angered China's
communist rulers.
Do not say you have no choice. Everyone has a
choice.
Doaa el-Adl
Country of Birth: Egypt
Job: Cartoonist
Age: 37
Biog: One of the pioneers in a field that has long been dominated by
men, she believes art can be the best medium to break taboos.
Arab women face a choice between being a hostage
of wars and conflicts, and resisting.
Dwi Handa
Country of Birth: Indonesia
Job: Instagram star
Age: 23
Biog: Member of a new group of 'Hipster Hijabis', who, through their
Instagram accounts, have become Islamic fashion influencers invited to sit in
the front row of fashion shows and paid to wear new designs.
We need to be able to express who we are and be
able to look at ourselves in the mirror and see something that's interesting
and alive.
Egge Kande
Country of Birth: Senegal
Job: Community leader
Age: 55
Biog: Mother of six children and eight grand-children, who
collaborates closely with teachers to advise young girls about issues related
to girls' education, child marriage and teen pregnancy.
Now I can stand on the top of the roof and say
what I think, without trembling, and without crying.
Ellinah Ntombi Wamukoya
Country of Birth: Swaziland
Job: Bishop
Age: 65
Biog: The first woman to be elected bishop in the Anglican Church of
Southern Africa as the diocesan bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Swaziland.
I am going to try to represent the mother
attribute of God.
Erin McKenney
Country of Birth: US
Job: Student
Age: 18
Biog: Creator of a science programme for young women, giving them
hands-on experience and inspiration from female scientists around the world.
Teaching a girl that her voice deserves to be
heard is the most valuable lesson she can ever be taught.
Erin Sweeny
Country of Birth: Australia
Job: Psychologist
Age: 49
Biog: Has spent more than 20 years treating sex offenders, both in
prisons and in private practice.
I believe that at some level every person is
redeemable.
Evelyn Miralles
Country of Birth: Venezuela
Job: Computer engineer
Age: 49
Biog: Leads a Nasa team developing the VR programme for the Mars
Mission.
I don't think being a woman and being Hispanic
puts me at a disadvantage. It is more of a constant challenge.
Funke-Bucknor Obruthe
Country of Birth: Nigeria
Job: Wedding planner
Age: 40
Biog: Plans every detail for glitzy and celebrity weddings in Nigeria
and elsewhere, ranging from 500 to 2000 people.
What inspires me is the need to see those around
me succeed, pulling the next human being up, and not accepting failure as an
option.
Gcina Mhlope
Country of Birth: South Africa
Job: Author/poet/playwright
Age: 58
Biog: Influenced by her grandmother's tales when she was a child, her
work has been produced across the world.
I am immensely grateful to be bathing in the
timeless river of ancestral stories.
Gouri Chindarkar
Country of Birth: India
Job: Computer engineering student
Age: 20
Biog: One of the first children in India to experience a unique
learning experience now known as 'School in the Cloud.'
Knowledge makes you more confident.
Heather Rabbatts
Country of Birth: Jamaica
Job: Lawyer/businesswoman
Age: 60
Biog: Non-executive member of the boards of Grosvenor Estates GBI, The
Royal Opera House and the Football Association, as well as a number of charity
organisations.
Good leadership is about doing less and being
more.
Heloise Letissier
Country of Birth: France
Job: Singer-songwriter
Age: 28
Biog: Known by her stage name 'Christine and the Queens', she embraces
gender fluidity and describes herself as pansexual.
For me, feminism and humanism are all about ways
of owning your body and finding a way to exist without being oppressed.
Ieshia Evans
Country of Birth: US
Job: Nurse
Age: 28
Biog: New York nurse whose image of calm, dignified defiance during
the Baton Rouge protests became an icon of the Black Lives Matter movement.
For how long were we not even considered people
in the constitution, were we considered property?
sabella Springmuhl Tejada
Country of Birth: Guatemala
Job: Fashion designer
Age: 20
Biog: First fashion designer with Down's Syndrome to take part in
London Fashion Week.
My family always told me I was like anybody else
- I just had an extra chromosome. Sometimes it took me longer to learn, but I
did it.
Iskra Lawrence
Country of Birth: UK
Job: Model
Age: 26
Biog: Plus size model who stars in unretouched photo campaigns and
tours US universities to speak about body positivism.
There is only one of you in the world, so stop
comparing yourself to others and start celebrating what makes you special.
Jamilah Lemieux
Country of Birth: US
Job: Columnist and editor
Age: 32
Biog: Award-winning writer and vice-president of News and Men's
Programming for Interactive One, a leading online destination for millennial
and African-American audiences.
I don't think of myself as an influencer or a
thought leader, but just somebody with opinions who can turn a phrase.
Jane Elliott
Country of Birth: US
Job: Educator/activist/author
Age: 83
Biog: Internationally known educator, activist and feminist who
created the 'Blue eyes-Brown eyes' exercise to teach children about racism.
To sit back and do nothing is to co-operate with
the oppressor.
Janet Ni Shuilleabhain
Country of Birth: Ireland
Job: Activist
Age: 41
Biog: Founder member of the Abortion Rights Campaign, working towards
free, safe and legal abortion in Ireland.
Women shouldn't have to sacrifice their privacy,
but it took women in France, Germany, US, to change the law. So I had to start
talking.
Jeanette Winterson
Country of Birth: UK
Job: Author
Age: 57
Biog: Award-winning novelist of dozens of novels exploring gender, imagination
and sexual identity.
It's great for girls to see you can live life in
your own way without having to marry the prince.
Judi Aubel
Country of Birth: US
Job: Social entrepreneur
Age: 69
Biog: Works with communities in numerous countries, mostly in Africa,
to develop programmes to help stop culture being a barrier to change.
Grandmothers are an abundant and underutilised
resource for improving the lives of women and children.
June Eric-Udorie
Country of Birth: Ireland
Job: Writer/blogger
Age: 18
Biog: Writes on issues such as FGM, child marriage, and violence
against women.
Every little feminist act comes together and that
contributes to the wider movement.
Karima Baloch
Country of Birth: Pakistan
Job: Political activist
Age: 31
Biog: Campaigns for independence for Balochistan from Pakistan.
A national liberation movement without the
participation of women is incomplete.
Kartika Jahja
Country of Birth: Indonesia
Job: Singer/activist
Age: 36
Biog: Singer-songwriter who fights for gender equality with her songs.
Inequality is like pollution. We don't realise we
inhale it every day, but it enters our bodies.
Katherine Johnson
Country of Birth: US
Job: Former space scientist
Age: 98
Biog: Former 'human computer' and research mathematician at Nasa,
where she calculated the trajectories for the US' first space flights and the
first moon landing.
If you want to know, ask a question. There's no
such thing as a dumb question. It's dumb if you don't ask it.
Kathy Murray
Country of Birth: US
Job: Relationship coach
Age: 56
Biog: Relationship coach and co-author of 'Surrendered Wives Empowered
Women'.
I relinquished control of my husband's life,
choices and decisions, and instead I focused on my own happiness.
Khadijia Ismailova
Country of Birth: Azerbaijan
Job: Journalist
Age: 40
Biog: Jailed last year for her investigations into high-level
corruption, she continues to work and to speak out.
Don't let the fear of being sent to jail stop you
from fighting for what you believe in.
Lhakpa Sherpa
Country of Birth: Nepal
Job: Mountaineer
Age: 43
Biog: In 2000 she became the first Nepalese woman to climb and descend
Everest successfully, and has now climbed it seven times.
A sherpa's life is challenged by the mountain,
sometimes the mountain wins and sometimes the people win.
Liliane Landor
Country of Birth: Lebanon
Job: Journalist
Age: 60
Biog: Worked for the BBC for 26 years, latterly as head of languages
at the World Service, where she helped put different voices, faces and accents
on BBC News.
Interpreting the world from a global perspective
means there is no 'we' and no 'us.' Only shifting constellations of
perspectives.
Liv Little
Country of Birth: UK
Job: Magazine editor
Age: 22
Biog: Editor-in-chief at gal-dem, an online magazine written by women
of colour. She writes about intersectionality, asylum and women's rights.
There are so many women of colour doing great
things that we don't yet know about.
Lois Strong
Country of Birth: US
Job: Cheerleader
Age: 80
Biog: Former college maths professor who has for the last 16 years
been cheerleading at Sun City Arizona retirement community.
Ageing is for wine and cheese. It doesn't mean
anything to me.
Lubna Tahtamouni
Country of Birth: Jordan
Job: Biology professor
Age: 40
Biog: Campaigns for women to choose a career in maths, physics and
science.
Smart women are often labelled as unattractive,
not feminine enough, or even masculine.
Lucy Finch
Country of Birth: Malawi
Job: Palliative care nurse
Age: 73
Biog: Founder of Malawi's first and only hospice.
Palliative care is not about adding days to life,
but adding life to the days that remain.
Mallika Srinivasan
Country of Birth: India
Job: CEO of farm equipment company
Age: 57
Biog: Known as the 'Tractor Queen' of India, she has grown her family
company into the third largest tractor manufacturer in the world.
What is important for all women is that you have
to be - in content, presentation, character - one notch clearly above the men.
Mao Kobayashi
Country of Birth: Japan
Job: Newsreader
Age: 34
Biog: Fighting stage 4 breast cancer which has spread to her bones and
lungs, she decided to break her silence over the disease and write a blog to
help others.
My illness isn't what defines my life. My life
has been rich and colourful.
Mariana Costa
Country of Birth: Peru
Job: Businesswoman
Age: 30
Biog: Founder of Laboratoria, which teaches coding and web development
to young women from disadvantaged backgrounds.
I am truly convinced that we can all be part of
building the type of country and region we want to live in.
Marne Levine
Country of Birth: US
Job: COO of Instagram
Age: 46
Biog: Before joining Instagram, her previous roles included
vice-president of global public policy for Facebook, and working for Bill
Clinton and the Obama administration.
'What would you do if you weren't afraid?' If you
put fear aside, think about how much more you will be able to accomplish.
Marta Sanchez Soler
Country of Birth: Mexico
Job: Sociologist/activist
Age: 75
Biog: President of the Mesoamerican Migrant Movement, every year she
leads a caravan of mothers looking for their children who have disappeared en
route to the US.
Every person that we find is a family that stops
suffering.
Marta Vieira da Silva
Country of Birth: Brazil
Job: Footballer
Age: 30
Biog: Regarded by many as the best female football player of all time.
We should let kids choose whatever they want to
do. We need to stop this idea of 'this sport is for men and this sport is for
women.'
'Mary'
Country of Birth: Kenya
Job: Full-time mother
Age: 22
Biog: Survivor of abduction and repeated rape by al-Shabab militants.
I kept praying to my God and then one day this
woman sneaked me out of the camp.
Mary Akrami
Country of Birth: Afghanistan
Job: Women's shelter director
Age: 40
Biog: Set up Afghanistan's first refuge for abused women and has taken
a leading role in the national debate around domestic violence.
These women are seen by society as victims, but I
wanted to show that they aren't. They have power, they have capacity.
Megan Beveridge
Country of Birth: Scotland
Job: Army piper
Age: 21
Biog: First Regular Army female piper to play Lone Piper at the Royal
Edinburgh Military Tattoo.
Strive to be what you want to be and not what
others want you to be.
Mercedes Doretti
Country of Birth: Argentina
Job: Forensic anthropologist
Age: 57
Biog: One of the founders of a forensic team which investigates the
disappearances in Argentina in the 1970s and 80s.
Never underestimate the value of doing what you
want in life. Sometimes it might be hard but I am definitely convinced that it's
worth it.
Morena Herrera
Country of Birth: El Salvador
Job: Philosopher/human rights activist
Age: 56
Biog: A former guerrilla fighter, she now heads a leading NGO
supporting women who have been jailed for having abortions.
No cause is so important that women's rights
should be postponed.
Nadia Khiari
Country of Birth: Tunisia
Job: Cartoonist
Age: 43
Biog: Creator of cartoon character 'Willis from Tunis', a cat whose
adventures reflect news in Tunisia.
Do not forget that you are free.
Nadiya Hussain
Country of Birth: UK
Job: Baker
Age: 31
Biog: Baker, author and television presenter who rose to fame after
winning the sixth series of BBC's The Great British Bake Off in 2015.
I'm never gonna put boundaries on myself ever
again. I'm never gonna say I can't do it. I'm never gonna say 'maybe'.
Naema Ahmed
Country of Birth: Pakistan
Job: E-commerce start-up manager
Age: 25
Biog: Her desire to have a job, drive a car and choose the direction
of her life is seen as a major act of defiance in her conservative Pakistani
family.
I've never known a woman in my family to work.
That's fine if you want that sort of thing - but I don't. I want a different
life for myself.
Nagira Sabashova
Country of Birth: Kyrgyzstan
Job: Wrestler
Age: 26
Biog: Heavyweight belt wrestler and three-times Kyrgyzstan judo
champion.
When I'm competing I feel like an athlete. I
forget that I am a woman.
Natalia Ponce de Leon
Country of Birth: Colombia
Job: Human rights activist
Age: 35
Biog: Victim of an acid attack who has become a national icon - her
efforts have led to the approval of a law penalising such attacks, which
carries her name.
Revenge is not a way to heal
Nay el-Rahi
Country of Birth: Lebanon
Job: Journalist/website founder
Age: 30
Biog: Co-founder of HarassTracker.org, a website which tracks
harassment in Lebanon.
The point is to refuse that harassment be
silenced or put on the backburner.
Neha Singh
Country of Birth: India
Job: Actor/Writer
Age: 34
Biog: Founded a movement to encourage women to walk the streets in
Mumbai to defy harassment.
I want to be as free as any man in the country.
Why should we settle for anything less?
Omotade Alalade
Country of Birth: Nigeria
Job: Infertility foundation creator
Age: 30
Biog: Founder of the BeiBei Haven Foundation, which helps those who
struggle with infertility, and is growing globally.
Support and knowledge go a long way in helping
women deal with infertility and baby loss.
Ou Xiaobai
Country of Birth: China
Job: Relocation manager/app founder
Age: 32
Biog: Founder of iHomo app, which matches gay men and women who want
to marry each other in order to fool their friends and family that they are
heterosexual.
My girlfriend and I want to help society
understand us better, but being loud and aggressive might not be the best
strategy.
Pashtun Rahmat
Country of Birth: Afghanistan
Job: Police officer
Age: 36
Biog: Works as a police officer in Afghanistan in extremely
challenging conditions.
I love my job. I tell all other women to not
waste your time. Get up and defend your rights.
Paula Hawkins
Country of Birth: Zimbabwe
Job: Novelist
Age: 44
Biog: Worked as financial journalist and rom com author before writing
the best-selling thriller The Girl on the Train last year.
Women in their 20s and 30s are confronted by hard
choices which most men are not.
Prathiba Parmar
Country of Birth: Kenya
Job: Film maker
Age: 61
Biog: Writer, director and producer of non-fiction and narrative films
about women.
If one door closes, kick open another one. Never
take no for an answer.
Rachida Dati
Country of Birth: France
Job: Politician
Age: 51
Biog: An outspoken politician who, since her appointment as Justice
Minister (2007-2009), blazed a trail for Muslim women and minorities in France.
I have built my life on the razor's edge.
Rakefet Russak-Aminoach
Country of Birth: Israel
Job: Bank CEO
Age: 50
Biog: Youngest female CEO to ever head an Israeli bank and committed
to increasing participation of women across the finance industry.
It's not about gender - the road is hard for
everyone. Believe in yourself and you will get there.
Rebecca Walker
Country of Birth: US
Job: Writer
Age: 47
Biog: Bestselling author, and co-founder of Third Wave Foundation, an
organisation supporting the activism of young women and transgender youth.
When it comes down to it, life is about showing
up for the people you love, again and again, until you can't show up anymore.
Reham el-Hour
Country of Birth: Morocco
Job: Cartoonist
Age: 39
Biog: Her work as a cartoonist started as a childhood hobby, but
winning an award from UNESCO in 2000 spurred her to embark on a career in
newspapers.
Stereotypes about women's roles are slowly fading
away. Art and caricature can be powerful tools for that.
Renee Rabinowitz
Country of Birth: Belgium
Job: Retired professor/lawyer
Age: 82
Biog: Suing Israeli national airline El Al for gender discrimination
after it asked her to move seats at the request of a male ultra-Orthodox
passenger last year.
Humiliating women can in no way qualify as a
religious act. It is simply not acceptable.
Saalumarada Thimmakka
Country of Birth: India
Job: Environmentalist
Age: 105
Biog: Has planted more than 8,000 trees in 80 years, a project which
first started in response to social ridicule at not being able to have
children.
Everyone from children to the elderly should
plant and grow trees - it will be beneficial for all of us.
Seyhan Arman
Country of Birth: Turkey
Job: Trans activist/actor
Age: 36
Biog: Writes on LGBT issues and theatre, and performs as a DJ and
entertainer as Mademoiselle Coco.
I didn't
choose the river I fell in, but the branches I hold onto are my own choice, and
that makes me happy.
Sherin Khankan
Country of Birth: Denmark
Job: Imam
Age: 42
Biog: Earlier this year opened Denmark's first women-led mosque, in a
bid to challenge 'patriarchal structures'.
We have normalised patriarchal structures in our
religious institutions. And we would like to challenge that.
Shirin Gerami
Country of Birth: Iran
Job: Triathlete
Age: 27
Biog: Iran's first ever female 'Ironwoman' triathlete, she competes in
hijab, and has developed her own range of sportswear to inspire other Iranian
women to get involved in sport too.
What you wear does not define who you are and
what you can and can't do. It's just a piece of fabric.
Shriti Vadera
Country of Birth: Uganda
Job: Banker
Age: 54
Biog: One of the most influential economists in the UK, sitting as
chairperson of Santander UK and helping the country's banking sector to pick
its way through the challenges resulting from Brexit.
For me, the important thing has always been a
focus on getting the job done.
Sian Williams
Country of Birth: Wales
Job: Rugby player
Age: 26
Biog: Wales' first full-time female professional rugby player.
Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.
Simone Biles
Country of Birth: US
Job: Gymnast
Age: 19
Biog: Took the Rio Olympics by storm, winning four gold medals with a
gymnastics performance that has dubbed her the 'greatest gymnast of all time'.
You make your own luck. You make it in training.
Stephanie Harvey
Country of Birth: Canada
Job: E-Gamer
Age: 30
Biog: One of the world's most successful female video gamers in the
billion-dollar industry of e-sports.
It's so much stronger to be inspired by someone
you can relate to. Whenever I see another woman succeed, I think 'I can do it!'
Stephanie Yim Bell
Country of Birth: US
Job: Wrestler
Age: 27
Biog: College graduate specialising in IT security and a professional
wrestler for TNA Impact Wrestling. She is a survivor of domestic violence.
Everything I've done was just so that I can be
looked at as an equal, and to be respected as an equal.
Sunny Leone
Country of Birth: Canada
Job: Actor
Age: 35
Biog: Former porn star who entered
mainstream acting in 2013 and has appeared in several Bollywood films.
It's your right as a women to follow your dreams and it's
your responsibility to make them come true.
Traci Houpapa
Country of Birth: New Zealand
Job: Company director
Age: 50
Biog: Award-winning company director
with an unwavering commitment to advancing the interests of indigenous women in
New Zealand.
We need a strategy and policy that improves the wealth and
wellbeing of our families, our communities and our countries.
Um-Yehia
Country of Birth: Syria
Job: Nurse
Age: 41
Biog: Accountant who retrained as a
nurse to help victims in the Syrian city of Aleppo.
Being a nurse in a war zone is one of the best ways to help.
Viktoria Modesta
Country of Birth: Latvia
Job: Bionic pop artist
Age: 29
Biog: Multimedia pop artist whose left
leg is amputated below the knee - she wears different prostheses depending on
the performance.
I am determined to create another reality and to show that
nothing is permanent and identity-creating.
Winnie Harlow
Country of Birth: Canada
Job: Model
Age: 22
Biog: One of the world's most high
profile and recognisable models, and the first to succeed in the fashion
industry with the skin condition vitiligo.
Being a woman doesn't define me. Being a black woman doesn't
define me. So why should having vitiligo define me?
Yasmine Mustafa
Country of Birth: Kuwait
Job: Entrepreneur
Age: 34
Biog: CEO of ROAR for Good, which makes
self-defence wearable technology.
I'm driven by the desire to leverage technology for social
good.
Yuliya Stepanova
Country of Birth: Russia
Job: Athlete
Age: 30
Biog: Gathered undercover evidence of
systemic state-sponsored doping in Russia and now lives in secret.
I decided I no longer wanted to be part of the system and I
told the truth.
Zoleka Mandela
Country of Birth: South Africa
Job: Writer/campaigner
Age: 36
Biog: Granddaughter of Nelson and
Winnie Mandela, whose life has been very tough - she has lost two children,
survived sexual abuse, struggled with addiction and is currently receiving
treatment for breast cancer.
I think when you are emotionally broken and destroyed you
look for validation in other things.
Zulaikha Patel
Country of Birth: South Africa
Job: Schoolgirl
Age: 13
Biog: The young South African girl who
became a symbol of the fight against the policy in a high school that forced
black girls to straighten their hair
Asking me to change my hair is like asking me to erase my
blackness.
Tess Asplund
Country of Birth: Colombia
Job: Care worker/protester
Age: 42
Biog: Opposed far-right groups marching
through a town near Stockholm, not by shouting from the sides like most people,
but through direct action, standing in front of 300 fascists as they approached.
I just did it. I didn't think about it... When I saw the
picture after I thought 'Oh my god, did I do that?!'
Thuli Madonsela
Country of Birth: South Africa
Job: Advocate
Age: 54
Biog: South Africa's Public Protector
2009-2016, she is credited with combating maladministration and corruption in
the exercise of state power and control over public resources.
As long as there is injustice somewhere there can't be
sustainable peace anywhere.
Maria Zakharova
Country of Birth: Russia
Job: Foreign Ministry spokeswoman
Age: 40
Biog: Spokeswoman for Russia's Foreign
Ministry, she is the first woman in the history of the department to hold the
post, and has made waves with her combative and colourful style.
Saddle up slowly and ride fast - that's exactly the Russian
way of doing things! Don't give into pressure, but melt with love.```
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