Joan Blades Is a co-founder and board member of MoveOn.org. which has an online membership of over 3 million. Mother’s Day 2006 she co-founded MomsRising.org with Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner to tap the power of online grassroots organizing for mothers and families in the U.S.A. She is also the co-author of The Motherhood Manifesto, a member of the Reuniting America advisory board, a software entrepreneur, nature lover, former attorney/mediator, author of Mediate Your Divorce, artist, Sunday soccer player and mother.


Lilly Ledbetter worked at a Goodyear tire plant in Alabama for more than 20 years, becoming the first woman to be promoted to supervisor. When she learned she was being paid less than her male counterparts, she turned to the courts for justice but the Supreme Court denied her claim. Today, she is a tireless advocate for fair pay.

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