“Hi! My name is Cassidy. I am currently a fifth grader and the inventor of The Baby Toon™. When I was 7 years old I entered the Honolulu District Science and Engineering Fair. I was instructed to identify a problem. When I went home, I noticed that my mom always got scared when my baby…
om/watch?v=XgUERccpveo Serena Williams is an American professional tennis player and former world No. 1 in women’s single tennis. She has won 23 grand slam tennis titles which is a first by a woman within the sport and is hailed as the greatest female tennis player, and maybe athlete, of all time. Serena was named one…
Dr. Paula Fellingham is the Founder and CEO of the Women’s Information Network (WIN), an educational and social network for women, and a global community of women. The WIN hosted the largest gathering of women in history for the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day on March 8, 2011: 377 live events in 152 countries.…
Joy-Ann Reid is an MSNBC cable television host of The Reid Out. She is a correspondent and political commentator and was host of The Reid Report and “AM Joy”, a political weekend morning talk show on MSNBC, which quickly became one of the most highly rated morning shows for the network. She co-hosts the podcast…
Samaira Mehta is the 12 year old Founder of Coderbunnyz™ and “Yes, One Billion Kids Can Code” and a Motivational Speaker. Her mission is To get everyone age 4-104 excited about coding in a really fun way! Samaira invented STEM coding board game CoderBunnyz to teach coding to kids age 4-104. She has done over…
Jill Biden is an American educator who was the second lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. She is married to Joe Biden, the president-elect of the United States, who is set to be inaugurated on January 20, 2021, at which time she will become first lady. Jill has bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral…
Sarah Fuller is an American college women’s soccer goalkeeper. She gained renown as the first woman to ever play in a college football Power 5 game when she kicked for the Vanderbilt University Commodores men’s team on November 28. The 21-year-old was recruited by Vanderbilt’s football team earlier this week after the team had to…
Dolly Parton, the queen of country music is also a philanthropist. In 2016, her Dollywood Foundation donated $1,000 per month to families impacted by wildfires in Tennessee, and those payments continued for six months. In 1995, she founded Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, a literacy program that’s donated more than 100 million children’s books. And earlier…
Juju Chang is an Emmy Award-winning co-anchor of ABC News’ “Nightline.” She also reports regularly for “Good Morning America” and “20/20.” She says, “I was born in Seoul and I grew up in a struggling immigrant family in California. I think that informs a lot of who I am to this day — who we…
National Humanities Medal
