Women's History Month

In celebration of Women's History Month, we want to highlight key accomplishments and contributions from our favorite female role models.

By: BTHS Zenerations Executive Board

Jennifer King: Sports

Jennifer King made history back in January of 2021 when she was named the first full-time African American female assistant position in NFL history for the Washington Football Team. She also became the first Black woman to serve as a position coach during a regular-season NFL game. Through these feats, King is making strides in sports equality and has opened the doors for women having roles in what are considered male-dominated sports.

Nina Tandon: Science

Nina Tandon is a biomedical engineer as well as the CEO and co-founder of EpiBone, the first company to grow living human bones for skeletal reconstruction using a patient’s stem cells. While running her own company, she is simultaneously a professor of Electrical Engineering at Cooper Union and a senior fellow at the Lab for Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering at Columbia University. Tandon has shown young girls that women don’t have to fit into fixed roles created by society, that they can be leaders, intellectuals, and mentors, all at once.

Nina Gualinga: Activism

Nina Gualinga is an environmental and indigenous rights activist, who has spent most of her life fighting for better protection of the Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest, and the communities who depend on it. At only the age of 18, she helped win a landmark case against oil drilling on indigenous lands in Ecuador. Throughout the years, she has encouraged others to advocate to protect the environment and local indigenous communities. In 2018, she was awarded the WWF International President’s Youth Award, given to conservationists under the age of 30, who are making significant contributions. Gualinga has amplified the voices of the indigeous community and those who aim for an environmentally sustainable economy as she continues striving to reach her goals.

Xiomara Castro: Politics

Xiomara Castro was sworn in as Honduras's first woman president at the end of January in front of a cheering crowd that included the US Vice-President, Kamala Harris. Castro's agenda generates hope for a new era for women in the country with the highest rate of femicide in Latin America and some of the region’s harshest laws with regards to reproductive rights. This small break in the patriarchy that Castro’s win represents can open even more spaces for participation in government and politics in general for women in the country.