Join us on Tuesday, April 28, 2026 for Ms. Foundation’s annual Women of Vision Awards at Ziegfeld Ballroom in Manhattan, where we’ll honor trailblazing grantee partners and inspiring feminist leaders who exemplify the core mission, vision, and values of the Ms. Foundation, and are driving change across politics, media, and more to advance equity and justice for all.
After 13 years of transformational leadership, this event will also mark Teresa C. Younger’s last as president and CEO, and the theme, “Celebrating Community: Go. Be. Do.” is a powerful, parting call to action, an invitation to move with purpose, to embody our shared values, and to be encouraged and strengthened by community as we dream and march forward to realize our vision of a just and safe world in which the worth and dignity of every person are valued.
This year’s Woman of Vision Award honorees include:
- Activist, advocate, and author Tarana Burke, Founder & Chief Vision Officer of me too. International, for her 25 years of survivor-centered leadership in the movement to end sexual violence.
- Grantee partner, Fatima Goss Graves, President & CEO of the National Women’s Law Center, a national advocacy organization advancing gender justice through litigation, policy, and cultural change.
- Grantee Partner, Pua Case, Lead Coordinator and Project Director for Mauna Kea Education and Awareness, a Native Hawaiian–led organization dedicated to protecting Mauna Kea and preserving Indigenous culture through education and advocacy.
This year’s Marie C. Wilson Award honoree is:
- Blair Imani, an author, historian, and the creator of Smarter in Seconds, whose work as a scholar and storyteller makes complex social justice conversations accessible to students, readers, and online audiences, and affirms the power of education as a tool for collective liberation
The Women of Vision Awards is Ms. Foundation’s largest annual fundraising event and past honorees include Lynda Carter, Culture House, LaTosha Brown, Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex, Bozoma Saint John, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Amanda Nguyen, dream hampton, Ava DuVernay, journalist and editor Elaine Welteroth, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
For more than 50 years, Ms. Foundation has invested more than $100 million to build women’s progress and power across the country. Our strategic framework to intentionally and inclusively centers women, girls, and gender-expansive people of color–is a bold, unapologetic, and joyous approach to building power and advancing democracy through grantmaking, capacity building, policy and advocacy, leadership development, strategic communications, and political organizing.
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