200 Women Who Will Change the Way You See the World
200 Women: Updated and Abridged, copyright © Geoff Blackwell, Ruth Hobday, Kieran E. Scott and Blackwell & Ruth Limited.
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Bobbi Brown
USA | Makeup artist, entrepreneur Founded Bobbi Brown Essentials in 1991, acquired by the Estée Lauder Companies in 1995; launched the Pretty Powerful Campaign for Women & Girls in 2013; stepped down from the brand in 2016, later creative consultant at Lord & Taylor.
Tabitha St. Bernard-Jacobs
Trinidad and Tobago / USA | Fashion designer, organiser Founder of the zero-waste fashion label Tabii Just, made in New York from reclaimed fabric. National youth coordinator of the 2017 Women's March on Washington; writer and advocate on sustainable fashion.
Dana Donofree
USA | Entrepreneur Founded AnaOno in 2014, after her own breast cancer diagnosis at 27, to make lingerie designed for women who have had mastectomies and reconstruction. Took the brand to New York Fashion Week with survivors as models.
Divya Kalia
India | COO, Bikxie Began in analytics and consulting (Genpact, Royal Bank of Scotland), then consumer-finance strategy at Boston Consulting Group before co-founding the bike-taxi startup Bikxie.
Josefine Cox
Germany | Design & communications entrepreneur Co-founded Musik Bewegt, an online donation platform for musicians' social causes; runs a design consultancy.
Ai-jen Poo
USA | Exec. director, National Domestic Workers Alliance Labour organiser for domestic workers' rights; TIME 100 (2012); MacArthur Fellow (2014); author of The Age of Dignity.
Zainab Bangura
Sierra Leone | Politician, UN official Foreign Minister of Sierra Leone, then UN Under-Secretary-General and Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict from 2012 to 2017.
Hodan Isse
Somalia / USA | Economist Economist at the University at Buffalo who fled Somalia's civil war as a student. Works on women's economic rights in Somalia and the Somali diaspora.
Susan Carland
Australia | Academic, author Sociologist at Monash University, where she directs the Bachelor of Global Studies. Author of Fighting Hislam: Women, Faith and Sexism; writer and broadcaster.
Balika Das
India | Activist, artisan, Born in West Bengal, India. Sold into a Kolkata brothel as a teenager, where she was exploited for twenty-three years. In 2014 she began work as an artisan at The Loyal Workshop in Kolkata.
Vandana Shiva
India | Physicist, environmental activist Founder of Navdanya, a movement to protect seed diversity and farmers' rights in India. Trained as a physicist; Right Livelihood Award, 19
Véronique Vasseur
France | Physician, author Chief medical officer at La Santé Prison, Paris, from 1993; her 2001 book on conditions there triggered a parliamentary inquiry.
Nicole Avant
USA | Former ambassador, producer United States Ambassador to the Bahamas from 2009 to 2011. Producer of the Netflix documentary The Black Godfather; a leading voice in philanthropy.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
South Africa | Anti-apartheid activist, politician. A leader of the struggle against apartheid through the decades of Nelson Mandela's imprisonment, banned, jailed and banished to Brandfort
Sahm Venter
South Africa | Writer, editor, Journalist for 20+ years covering the anti-apartheid struggle and South Africa's transition to democracy; senior researcher at the Nelson Mandela Foundation. On the editorial team of Mandela's Conversations With Myself and co-editor of 491 Days: Prisoner Number 1323/69 (Winnie Madikizela-Mandela).
Allison Havey
USA | Writer, educator, Journalist and producer for NBC News, Associated Press, ABC News and The Biography Channel. In 2012 co-founded The RAP Project on teen sexual awareness and co-authored Sex, Likes and Social Media (2016).
Kimbra
New Zealand | Singer-songwriter, Born in Hamilton, New Zealand. Debut album Vows (2011), second album The Golden Echo (2014). Her collaboration with Gotye on "Somebody That I Used to Know" won record of the year and best pop duo/group performance at the 2012 Grammy Awards.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nigeria | Writer, Born in Enugu, Nigeria. Novels include Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun (Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, 2007) and Americanah (New York Times ten best books of 2013). MacArthur Foundation fellowship, 2008; translated into thirty languages.
Geena Rocero
Philippines / USA | Model, advocate Fashion model who came out as transgender in a 2014 TED talk and founded Gender Proud, a media and advocacy organiZation for transgender rights. Producer, writer and the first transgender Playboy Playmate.
Alexandra Paul
USA | Actor, activist, Began acting at eighteen and became internationally known as Stephanie Holden in Baywatch. Environmental and animal-rights activist, arrested several times for civil disobedience, including advocating nuclear disarmament.
Rokhaya Diallo
France | Journalist, filmmaker Co-founded Les Indivisibles to counter racism through parody; author of seven books; directed four documentaries.
Ashley Judd
USA | Actor, activist, Actor (Ruby in Paradise, Double Jeopardy, Divergent) and long-time humanitarian, as Goodwill Ambassador for UNFPA and on the boards of Population Services International and Demand Abolition. Her account of Harvey Weinstein in The New York Times in 2017 helped open the #MeToo movement.
Aminatta Forna
UK/Sierra Leone | Author Award-winning novelist and memoirist; Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; founded the Rogbonko Project in Sierra Leone.
Alfre Woodard
USA | Actor Actor with four Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe and an Academy Award nomination (Cross Creek), across more than four decades of film, television and theatre, including 12 Years a Slave, Clemency and Luke Cage. Co-founder of Artists.
Elisabeth Masé
Switzerland | Fine artist, author Basel-trained fine artist based in Basel/Berlin; author of two books; work held in Swiss, German and US collections.
Nadya Tolokonnikova
Russia | Artist, activist, Born in Norilsk, Siberia; studied philosophy at Moscow State University. Founding member of the punk-rock art collective Pussy Riot; imprisoned for two years after the 2012 anti-Putin performance at Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. Founder of MediaZona; 2014 Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought.
Maria Shriver
USA | Journalist, author Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist; founder of Shriver Media and The Shriver Report; leading Alzheimer's advocate.
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Ivy Ross
USA | Design executive Vice President of hardware design at Google, leading the design of its consumer devices. Earlier senior roles at Gap, Calvin Klein, Coach, Mattel and Disney; trained as a jeweller, with work in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian.
Linda Sarsour
USA | Activist, organiser, Racial justice and civil rights activist; former executive director of the Arab American Association of New York. Co-chaired the 2015 March2Justice (a 400-kilometre march from New York to Washington, DC) and the 2017 Women's March on Washington; co-founder of MPOWER Change.
Jody Williams
USA | Nobel Peace Laureate Founding coordinator of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 and achieved the Mine Ban Treaty the same year.
Alicia Garza
USA | Co-founder, Black Lives Matter Activist and organiser; named in Fortune's World's 50 Greatest Leaders (2016) alongside her BLM co-founders.
Deana Puccio
USA | Writer, educator, Former assistant district attorney in the Kings County (New York) sex crimes and special victims unit. Moved to London in 2001, co-founded The RAP Project in 2012 and co-authored Sex, Likes and Social Media (2016).
Anne-Sophie Mutter
Germany | Violinist, Began her international career at thirteen under Herbert von Karajan. Four-time Grammy winner with twenty-five world premieres; runs the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation supporting next-generation musicians. Great Cross of Merit; French Legion of Honour (Chevalier).
Amber Heard
USA | Actor, Born in Austin, Texas, USA. Actor known for roles in The Danish Girl, Pineapple Express, Zombieland, North Country and All the Boys Love Mandy Lane. Advocate for women's and LGBTQI rights; supporter of the ACLU, Amnesty International, The Art of Elysium and Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
Embeth Davidtz
USA | Actor, Born in Indiana, USA; master's degree from Rhodes University, South Africa. Films include Matilda, Mansfield Park, Schindler's List and Bridget Jones's Diary; television includes Californication, Mad Men and Ray Donovan.
Roxane Gay
USA | Writer Author of the essay collection Bad Feminist, the novel An Untamed State, the memoir Hunger and the story collection Difficult Women. Contributing opinion writer for The New York Times; writer of Marvel's World of Wakanda.
Imany
France | Singer-songwriter International modelling career before becoming a singer; her single 'Don't Be So Shy' topped charts in France, Germany, Poland, Austria and Russia.
Julie Taymor
USA | Director Directed and designed The Lion King on Broadway, winning two Tony Awards and becoming the first woman to win the Tony for Best Direction of a Musical; the production has been seen by more than 100 million people worldwide.
200 Women: Updated and Abridged, copyright © Geoff Blackwell, Ruth Hobday, Kieran E. Scott and Blackwell & Ruth Limited.
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