American women founders

Virginia Lee Giuffre was an American and Australian advocate for survivors of sex trafficking and one of the most prominent accusers of Jeffrey Epstein. Giuffre provided detailed allegations to media outlets about Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. She alleged that Epstein ran a trafficking ring, outsourcing girls for sexual services.

American temperance activist and suffragist (1839–1898)

American atheist activist (1919–1995)

American lawyer and feminist

American educator and civil rights leader (1875-1955)

American LGBT activist, transgender rights activist, and community worker (1951–2002)

Dolores Huerta is an American labor leader and feminist activist. After working for several years with the Community Service Organization (CSO), she co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) with fellow activists Cesar Chavez and Gilbert Padilla, which eventually merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers (UFW). Huerta joined Filipino leader Larry Itliong in the Delano grape strike in 1965, managing boycott campaigns on the east coast and negotiating with the grape companies to end the strike. Some credit her with inventing the UFW slogan "sí se puede".

American activist and writer (born 1981)

Second Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001

American blogger (born 1983)

founder of the Girl Scouts (1860–1927)

American Zionist (1860–1945)

American cultural anthropologist, activist, and feminist

American artist and activist

American nurse and activist (1867–1940)

American political activist and author

American sexologist and writer (1925-2013)

British-American animal rights advocate, author & activist

American civil rights activist (1917–1977)

American activist (1795-1852)

American psychologist

American journalist, author, and television personality

Erika Lane Kirk is an American businesswoman, nonprofit executive, and podcaster. She serves as chairwoman and CEO of Turning Point USA (TPUSA), a conservative organization co-founded and led by her late husband, Charlie Kirk, until his assassination in September 2025. She was appointed as his successor following his death.

American feminist author

American cook, cooking show host, restaurateur, author, actress, and television personality

American philanthropist and wife of Alexander Hamilton (1757–1854)

Elizabeth Ann Gilmour is an American child safety activist and commentator for ABC News. She was thrust into the national spotlight at age 14 when she was abducted from her home in Salt Lake City by Brian David Mitchell. Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee, held Smart captive for nine months and repeatedly raped and assaulted her until she was rescued by police officers on a street in Sandy, Utah.

American writer, activist, lawyer and Episcopal priest (1910-1985)

Starhawk (born Miriam Simos on June 17, 1951) is an American feminist and writer. She is known as a theorist of feminist neopaganism and ecofeminism. In 2013, she was listed in Watkins' Mind Body Spirit magazine as one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People.

Paula Michelle White-Cain is an American pastor, author, spiritual advisor, and televangelist. She has written several books and is a leader in the charismatic movement. White is also known for her roles in Donald Trump's two presidential administrations.

American sculptor (1875-1942)

American socialite (1924-2006); younger sister of John F. Kennedy

American activist and academic (born 1946)

American author, psychic and medium (1936-2013)

American Catholic sister and saint

American health care activist; daughter of George W. Bush (born 1981)

American activist (1859–1932)

American politician

American computer scientist and activist

Canadian-American evangelist and media celebrity (1890-1944)

American human rights activist

American publisher, journalist, African American civil rights leader, suffragist, and editor

American economist (1910–2009)

American feminist and writer

American activist

American writer (born 1958)

American activist and suffragette (1863–1954)

Daughter of Anton LaVey

American socialite and philanthropist (1874–1948)

Co-founder and Executive Director of the Sunrise Movement

American visual and musical artist

African-American teacher and businesswoman

American writer and activist (born 1952)

Satanist religious leader (1942–2022)

American actress (1925–2004)

Founder of Mother's Day (1864–1948)

American author and activist

Lebanese-American anti-Islam activist (1964-)

American activist, NAACP founder (1865–1951)

American atheism activist