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2010 Changemaker: The Reentry Clinic

"We're here to stabilize and support people in the choices they make. ... be supportive but also hold people accountable."

2010 Changemaker: Hnub Tshiab

"People must first become personal agents of change in order to create social change."

2010 Changemakers: 29th Street Petal Pushers

"Girls are always thinking about their fantasies but the business plan can help them think forward and stay on track."

2010 Changemaker: Ellen Kennedy

"Genocides happen for very complicated reasons, but also for a very simple reason: because we let them."

2010 Changemaker: Marie Garza

"I speak for those who can't speak. I want people to remember that [the victims had] lived. They had a life."

2010 Changemaker: Silvia Pérez Sánchez

Organizer in Powderhorn neighborhood creates community for Latina…

2009 Changemaker: Marlene Jezierski

‘Beyond the Mirror’ Marlene Jezierski gives away…

2009 Changemaker: Elizabeth Erickson and Patricia Olson, Women’s Art Institute

"That's what's feminist about this particular way of teaching. People are engaged in a very rigorous, intellectual, critical thinking mode, and at the same time they are bringing their personal experiences to it and trying to figure out how that impacts their life."

2009 Changemaker: Bukola Oriola

"There is help out there and all they need to do is to make a phone call to be free from slavery and torture."

2009 Changemaker: Audrey Thayer and the Native Women Together Sewing Project

"You just don't do a work of art in a frame of hateful feelings. When you touch the thread, material, there's a flowing of good feelings, and you pass that on."

2009 Changemaker: Kristine Holmgren and the Dead Feminists Society

" We are making a difference by opening up conversations about equality, fairness and expectations of how women are treated and how we treat others."

2008 Changemaker: Margaret Anderson Kelliher

"We [women] tend to look at prevention as one of the most important lenses to see policy through."