Facebook Spotlights Women, Organizations for International Women’s Day

With International Women’s Day coming up Sunday, Facebook published a set of 12 stories honoring women who are using the social network “in amazing ways.”

InternationalWomensDayStoriesWith International Women’s Day coming up Sunday, Facebook published a set of 12 stories honoring women who are using the social network “in amazing ways.”

The one-dozen stories spotlighted by Facebook are:

  • Annie Clark and Andrea Pino, co-founders of End Rape on Campus, Los Angeles
  • Masih Alinejad, founder of My Stealthy Freedom, New York
  • Shoana Solomon, #IAmALiberianNotAVirus activist, entrepreneur, photographer, host of online Liberia Travel & Entertainment Network series
  • Mavis Mendonca Smith, co-founder of Win Bangalore Back, analyst and executive assistant at ANZ Bank Bangalore, India
  • Kalki Subramaniam, writer, actress, activist and first transgender women to star in a major motion picture in India
  • Gioia Gottini, career coach for women, founder of Rete al Femminile networking groups for women entrepreneurs
  • Samantha Cristofforetti, Italian European Space Agency astronaut and first Italian woman in space
  • Mayumi Taniguchi, associate professor at Osaka International University, founder of All-Japan Obachan Party
  • Ruth Knaust, Caroline Beinheim, Ritah Mutheu, Cecelia Brenda, Njeri...
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