These women inspire us
Who are the women that inspire you the most?
Our newsroom has been asking this question for the past year, and we've finally announced our coveted honorees for Paste BN's Women of the Year. Our journalists across the Paste BN Network have nominated women making a difference from the local to national levels of government, on screen, in science labs and in competition.
They are leaders and entrepreneurs, activists and trailblazers in our communities. They are women who make a difference every day – in every state. Paste BN’s 2024 Women of the Year honorees encompass 60 women from across the country who are using their voices and determination to push for change and equality − and even joy.
👋 Nicole Fallert here and welcome to Your Week, our newsletter exclusively for Paste BN subscribers (that's you!). This week, we highlight Paste BN's 2024 Women of the Year cohort.
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Meet the 2024 Women of the Year
They inspire us, influence us and make us laugh. They include women such as director and actress Eva Longoria, who pushes for accurate portrayals of Latinos. Nebraska’s Asheli Spivey, who works to improve the lives of Black moms. Seventeen-year-old Eva Lighthiser of Montana, who challenges her state to consider how environmental change affects future generations. And Tennessee’s Melissa Alexander, Becky Bailey Hansen, Mary Joyce and Sarah Shoop Neumann, four moms bound together after Nashville’s Covenant School shooting, who are working to make schools safer.
This Women's History Month, we now take the opportunity to celebrate the work and influence of women on the state and national levels who are passionate and powerful. And, well, maybe inspire a few readers like you along the way. Read their stories here.
Check out more from the Paste BN Women of the Year series (and meet a few of our honorees!):
- Paulina Porizkova is a model, writer and advocate for embracing aging.
- Advice to their younger selves: 10 of our Women of the Year honorees share what they've learned.
- Helping others drives our Women of the Year. See what makes them proud.
- Melissa Gilliam, the first female and Black president of Boston University, doesn’t just want to “tell anybody anything” – she wants to show them.
- Here's why Toni Townes-Whitley doesn't want you celebrate that she is one of two Black female Fortune 500 CEOs.
- We owe it to our moms: See whom our Women of the Year look to for inspiration.
Thank you
I'm so proud our newsroom endeavors every year to find women doing important work in their communities and celebrate their impact. Telling their stories makes a difference and you are a part of that change. Thank you for supporting projects like this one from Paste BN.
Best wishes,
Nicole Fallert