Nomination Category
Please select the category that best fits the nominee:
- Education Excellence: Honoring women who expand access to learning and inspire progress.
- Inclusive Educators: Promote equal opportunities for marginalized or rural students.
- Mentorship Pillars: Lifelong guides nurturing generations of learners.
- Literacy Champions: Drive community literacy and adult education.
- Innovative Educators: Introduce creative methods, technology, and curricula to improve outcomes.
- Market Matriarch: Honoring market women for entrepreneurship and resilience, including fair‑trade anchors, legacy traders, supply chain organizers, and financial literacy leaders.
- Economic & Social Impact: Recognizing social entrepreneurs, frontline caregivers, and justice advocates who prioritize people and community well‑being.
- Creative & Cultural Preservation: Celebrating storytellers, artisans, public artists, and cultural performers who preserve traditions while advancing heritage.
- Earth & Community Care: Highlighting regenerative farmers, grassroots organizers, and climate guardians working for sustainable communities and environmental protection.
- Infrastructure & Innovation: Showcasing women excelling in trades, technology, manufacturing, and industrial leadership.
- Grassroots Leadership – Women organizing at the community level, market queens, cooperative leaders, and neighborhood safety advocates who mobilize without formal titles.
- Entrepreneurship & Economic Power – Founders and traders building businesses from scratch, including informal sector pioneers such as shea butter processors and craft exporters.
- Environmental Stewardship – Women leading climate adaptation, sustainable farming, fishing, and water conservation efforts, protecting ecosystems like mangroves and soils.
- Health & Caregiving Innovation – Midwives, health volunteers, herbalists, and mental health advocates innovating with limited resources to provide essential care.
- Tech & Trades Trailblazers – Women breaking barriers in male‑dominated fields such as mechanics, welding, coding, solar technology, and construction.
- Peacebuilding & Advocacy – Human rights defenders, gender‑based violence responders, and mediators in faith and civil society who strengthen community cohesion.
- Living Legacy / Lifetime Impact – Elders whose decades of quiet, impactful work have shaped families, communities, and entire sectors.