Building Community Power and Justice

As BIPOC communities bear the weight of discriminatory practices in the built environment, community-led organizing has demonstrated the efficacy and power that marginalized communities can achieve, collectively. BIPOC womxn organizers have led these efforts, bringing communities together to discuss the challenges they face, transforming the planning strategies and frameworks in their communities. Through these efforts, the following list of womxn organizers has established precedents for future planners to imagine just and safe spaces for all.

Julia Morgan

1872

Anne Spencer

1882

Eleanor Raymond

1887

Hattie Carthan

1900

Atlanta Neighborhood Union

1908

Mildred Redmond

1917

Junhua Lv

1920

Ethel Lawrence

1926

Dorothy Gautreaux

1927

Hui Huang

1930

Phyllis Birkby

1932

Jingqiu Zhang

1936

Jinhai Wang

1940

Anna Mae Pictou Aquash

1945

Elouise Cobell

1945

Wilma Mankiller

1945

Jane Greenwood

1955

Abra Lee

1965

Jenga Mwendo

1983

Portia Adu-Mensah

1986

Associação Amigos de Gegê dos Moradores da Gamboa de Baixo

1992

Hilda Nakabuye

1993

Mamy Tall

1993

Elaine Alec

Contemporary

Bree Newsome Bass

Contemporary

Jessie Hemphill

Contemporary

Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi

Contemporary

Leona Sparrow

Contemporary

Shadia Yousef Touqan

Contemporary