Meet the Paste BN Women of the Year honorees

Jaden Amos | Paste BN

Paste BN’s Women of the Year program follows the successful Women of the Century project, which highlighted achievements of trailblazing women in the 100 years since they won the right to vote.

Meet the Paste BN Women of the Year honorees

Every day across our country, Paste BN’s Women of the Year lead and inspire, promote and fight for equity, give others a place to seek help and find hope.

They are strong and resilient women who have been champions of change and courage, often quietly, but with powerful results. And often despite their own challenges.

Some of the women may be familiar names. Others may be new to you. Each has an inspiring and powerful story.

We're sharing just a few in today's newsletter. These columns were written by Suzette Hackney.

Adm. Rachel Levine’s message of courage: ‘Be true to yourself’

In any administration, the public health of Americans is a priority – a tenet that signifies prosperity and perseverance among us. But during a global pandemic, when relative calm turns to crisis seemingly overnight, community well-being instantly becomes a matter of life or death for millions of Americans.

Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, this fact continues to keep Adm. Rachel Levine up at night.

Levine is the U.S. assistant secretary for health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the head of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, where she leads a group of 6,000 uniformed public health officers.

In normal times, her job is important. During a pandemic, it's crucial.

Cheryl Horn is a strong ally for families of missing Indigenous women

Cheryl Horn routinely receives calls in the middle of the night from frightened and frantic parents. They are often sobbing. Sometimes they can't get the words out. But she knows the painful query: "My daughter is missing. What should we do?"

Horn understands their agony better than most. Her niece Selena Not Afraid, 16, went missing in December 2019, one one of many Indigenous women in Montana to disappear without a trace.

Overnight, Horn became an advocate for missing and murdered Indigenous women. While searching for her niece, she initiated social media campaigns, organized search parties, printed flyer after flyer and galvanized and educated her community and beyond about the plight of unsolved crimes involving Native people.

‘Pay it forward’: Why Roopali Desai devotes her life to giving back

Growing up, Roopali Desai thought medicine was her future, her destiny.

She wanted to help others so much, was so convinced that medical school was in the offing, that she spent non-school hours – summers, holiday breaks – volunteering at geriatric facilities.

Then she got waitlisted.

How did one of Arizona's most accomplished women rebound?

Other columns within this project

This newsletter was compiled by Jaden Amos.

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