InStyle USA - February 2022

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GAL ON THE GO
Gal Gadot in a Chanel top and
swimming trunks, Tiffany & Co.

watch, and her own rings.

Photographed by
Giampaolo Sgura.

FEATURES THE START 48 STYLE VIP Serena Williams

38 LEADING WITH LADIES How 17 Dolce & Gabbana unveils a new line of 50 LIVE FROM N.Y. SNL co-stars Ego
showrunner Amy Sherman-Palladino clothing and accessories for leopard-print Nwodim and Heidi Gardner talk shop
helped redefine the TV protagonist lovers, Christian Dior debuts a flowery
fine jewelry collection, Detroit-based 52 NOW AND LATER Four versatile
77 GAL ON THE GO The Israeli actress brand Hope for Flowers offers bold and looks that will take you right into spring
and Wonder Woman star on her bright staples, plus more fashion news
unique path from the military to movies, BEAUTY
her no-bullshit attitude, and the ups BADASS WOMEN
and downs of motherhood 56 SO FRESH & SO CLEAN
20 BADASS 50 Led by Malala Yousafzai, our Vegan foodie and social media star
88 ANGELA Hollywood trailblazer Angela list celebrates the female phenoms from Tabitha Brown tests out the latest
Bassett reflects on her lasting impact every field who are changing the game cruelty-free products
and how she gets that famous glow
INSTANT STYLE 58 INSIDE-OUT APPROACH
94 ANJA When she’s not serving up looks Experts weigh in on the nutritional
for fashion houses like Saint Laurent, 41 WHAT TO WEAR, WHAT TO BUY supplements that are worth the hype
model Anja Rubik is a voice for social Silky satin ensembles, whimsical
change in her native Poland accessories, snuggly scarves, and 60 CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
highlighter hues Comedian Celeste Barber talks
102 ROSSY Best known for her cult- no-makeup makeup and changing
favorite Pedro Almodóvar films, Spanish 46 MY STYLE Legendary actress beauty standards online
actress Rossy de Palma has found Anjelica Huston shares a few of her
artistic freedom and fashion cred favorite things 62 SELENA Pop icon Selena Gomez
opens up about her mental health
106 JAMIE Jamie Lee Curtis shares the most journey and the creation of her own
badass, bare-it-all scene of her career brand, Rare Beauty

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88 102 ROSSY
ANGELA Rossy de Palma in
Angela Bassett in a Lanvin a Saint Laurent by
cape (worn as a dress) and Anthony Vaccarello
Patricia Von Musulin earrings. jacket and earrings.

Photographed by Photographed by
Anthony Maule. Pablo Sáez.

64 THAT’S FRESH Pretty polish, luxe face
oils, simplified skin care, and high-tech
hair products

STYLE IN

67 CREATIVE SPACE Gallerist
Destinee Ross-Sutton shares her cozy
and art-filled abode

70 MY ANCHOR: ROSY PICTURE
A personal painting brings out the
blush-toned items in the home of our
photo director, Lucy Fox Sinrod

71 THE PLACE: MEXICO CITY An inside
look at the adopted hometown of writer
and Chava Studio founder Olivia Villanti

74 TABLE FOR TWO: STIR IT UP
Chef Zoe Adjonyoh prepares her
famous peanut butter stew alongside
artist Satchel Lee

75 SPOTLIGHT: CHARLOTTE
RAMPLING The Benedetta star
shares her pop culture picks

COVER CREDITS ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
From left: Gal Gadot: Courrèges dress.
Tiffany & Co. earrings and watch. 8 EDITOR’S LETTER
By Far boots. Ring, her own. Valentino
coat. By Far shoes. Tiffany & Co. 10 CONTRIBUTORS
watch. Ring, her own.
Photographed for InStyle by 12 FEEDBACK
Giampaolo Sgura. Styled by
Elizabeth Stewart. Hair: Teddy 14 MY LIKES
Charles. Makeup: Sabrina Bedrani.
Manicure: Shigeko Taylor. 112 WHY I LOVE...
My VR goggles, by Tiffany Haddish
Angela Bassett: Alaïa dress.
Photographed for InStyle by Anthony 94 ANJA
Maule. Styled by Ron Hartleben. Anja Rubik in a Saint
Hair: Randy Stodghill. Makeup: Laurent by Anthony
D’Andre Michael. Manicure: Saccia. Vaccarello jacket
and earrings.

Photographed by
Paola Kudacki.

FEBRUARY 2022 InSTYLE 7

EDITOR’S LETTER his is the Badass Women
issue, but first I want to pay
From top: Brown with Off-White tribute to a man who was
founder Abloh in 2015. Model Emily always there for everyone.
Ratajkowski on the cover of I first met Virgil Abloh,
InStyle’s March 2017 issue wearing who passed away in
the T-shirt designed by Abloh. November, at Coachella
in 2015 (left). So many
fashion events (let alone

T one at a music festival) are
filled with preeners, but
Virgil was the most open and enthusiastic person—he
was truly happy to be there. There was no cynicism to
him whatsoever. All he wanted to do was create—and
how he did. When I started at InStyle the year after
we met, Virgil made a T-shirt for my first cover that
said “IN” on the front and “STYLE” on the back. It’s
not common for someone who is running the hottest
brand going, Off-White, to throw in with a new editor
in chief taking her first baby steps, but that’s what
Virgil did. In 2018 he was named the artistic director
of Louis Vuitton menswear while continuing to run
Off-White and to do a million other collaborations as
well. Sometimes we wondered how he did it all. (He
texted me once: “I’ll take a vacation when I’m bored.”)
But in the last couple of years of his remarkable young
life, it all made sense. I’ve been wearing our “IN
STYLE” T-shirt again lately, and it reminds me
of Virgil’s kindness and relentless inspiration, which
we can only learn from.
These qualities are also in the
DNA of every woman in this issue,
from our cover star, Gal Gadot,
to the epic Angela Bassett to
model turned sex ed campaigner
Anja Rubik. And our Badass 50
is one for the books—former
Facebook employee and whistle-
blower Frances Haugen, civil rights
hero Claudette Colvin, and
48 other legends, including activist
and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Malala Yousafzai, classing up the
joint after we asked whether
she’d call herself a badass: “The
way I have defined it, I would say
yes, of course.”
This made me laugh and,
yes, inspired me. And may that
inspiration be relentless.

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CONTRIBUTORS

What Is Your Most
Badass Quality?

“I’m “I am not
determined afraid of
challenges. I
to live my go for it all the
life exactly way. Nothing
as I want to is impossible.”

live it.” PAOL A KUDACKI

SATCH EL LEE Photographer,
Artist, Table for Two, p. 74
“Anja,” p. 94
“Making amazing French
crepes and learning new “I’m “Being able to
things to grow into the best free!” remain extremely
grateful for
person I can be.” TA B I T H A opportunities in
BROWN an industry that
TEDDY CHARLES one can easily
Hairstylist, “Gal On the Go,” p. 77 Social media star, get lost in.”
“So Fresh & So
10 InSTYLE FEBRUARY 2022 Clean,” p. 56 D’ANDRE MICHAEL
Makeup artist, “Angela,” p. 88

“My capacity to
connect with
people from

all walks of life
who share
a passion
for art.”

DESTINEE
ROSS-SUTTON

Gallerist, “Creative
Space,” p. 67

“My sense of
humor and ability
to cut through
bullshit.”

CELESTE BARBER
Comedian, “Challenge Accepted,” p. 60

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Fascinating interview, I loved it!!!!
[Reese Witherspoon] looks gorgeous in
the pics and I loved the insight into her work!
And yes, we should flex more!!

—@STARLIGHTSTARSO, via Twitter

The Badass Questionnaire with InStyle is so
inspiring :) Thank you for that!

—@DEGODOIAMANDA, via Twitter

Reeese!!!!!!!!!!!! You look
great! Cool cover :)

—@HMS1150

Reese Witherspoon
in a Dolce & Gabbana
bodysuit and shorts, a
Bulgari necklace (top),
and an Almasika
necklace and bracelet.
Ring, her own.

DOUBLE TROUBLE Sorry not sorry,
[Zendaya] can do
Reese Witherspoon & Tessa Thompson in no WRONG. She has
truly established one of
the same InStyle issue looking like THIS! the best teams in the
Shut up I am overwhelmed business and continues
to captivate us yet again!
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—@OFFICIAL
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shorts, a Bulgari necklace (top), an Almasika necklace MABEAUTE
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my likes Tiffany & Co.
GAL GADOT ON Tiffany Knot bangle and
WHAT KEEPS HER INSPIRED Tiffany HardWear link

Gadot in a bracelet; tiffany.com.
Valentino coat,
JEWELRY STAPLES?
Tiffany & Co.
watch, By Far “My Tiffany diamond studs,
shoes, and her and I’ve been wearing
my HardWear bracelets
own ring. nonstop. I’ve also
been stacking on my
Knot bracelet.”

ON SET FAVORITE FILMS?

Gadot—in a Louis The Princess Bride, Fight
Vuitton dress, Loewe Club, and Eternal Sunshine
sunglasses, Tiffany & of the Spotless Mind.
Co. studs, and her own
See behind-the-scenes video from our cover shoot at instyle.com/gadot
earrings and ring—
shared a laugh with

photographer
Giampaolo Sgura at
our Los Angeles shoot.

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BEAUTY ESSENTIALS? MUST-HAVE DESIGNERS? SAINT LAURENT
LOEWE
“I’m addicted to my Israeli “My new favorite is
facialist, Keren Bartov. Loewe—everything PANGAIA
I always use her SPF, GIVENCHY
serum, and eye cream.” from red carpet
looks to oversize
Keren Bartov Advanced Skin Care Triple
Active Cream 50+ SPF ($140), Serum sweaters and
sunglasses. I also
C-Active ($175), and Ultimate Smoothing Eye love Saint Laurent’s
Cream ($150); instagram.com/keren_bartov. vibe and Givenchy.
And I like a good

Jil Sander or
Pangaia sweatsuit
for everyday. I’m a

fan of any brand
that incorporates

recycling.”

SONGS ON REPEAT?

“Recently, I’ve been hooked on the ‘French
Cafe Lounge’ Spotify playlist.”

In FIRST FASHION
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at the 2017 “A Nili Lotan
Justice League cashmere
cable-knit
premiere in jumper!”
L.A.
Nili Lotan sweater, $750;
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In LOEWE In GIVENCHY at MOST-WORN SHOES?
at the 2021 the 2018 Academy
Red Notice “Flats are my go-to. My
premiere in L.A. Awards in L.A. current pair is Miu Miu—they’re

bejeweled satin slides.”

Miu Miu slides, $700; miumiu.com.

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sexpot DNA. So it comes as no surprise that the Italian brand’s
latest lineup of wildcat pieces—including everything from sculpted

bodysuits to luggage sets—hits all the right spots.

On model: Dolce & Gabbana bodysuit ($1,395), earrings ($2,250), and
watch ($7,450). From left: Dolce & Gabbana luggage ($3,445), bag ($1,375),

and satchel ($1,125). All available at dolcegabbana.com.

PHOTOGRAPHED BY VINCENZO DIMINO
STYLED BY SAM BROEKEMA

Hair: Yohey Nakatsuka FEBRUARY 2022 InSTYLE 17
for De Facto Inc.
Makeup: Deanna
Melluso for L’Atelier
NYC. Model: Franciele
for IMG Models.

THE START

Easy Does It

Errand running is about to look a lot chicer thanks
to a partnership between Michael Kors and accessories
up-and-comer Ashya on easy hands-free bags.
Featuring West African weaving techniques and
the signature MK logo, the sleek, unisex creations
are just the thing for days when you’re on the go.

Ashya x Michael Kors multi bag, $498; michaelkors.com.

Earthly Delights

Beloved by Christian Dior, the rose has been an
emblem of the late designer’s maison for decades.
Still, the bloom feels fresher than ever as the
centerpiece of fine jewelry artistic director Victoire de
Castellane’s latest debut: a dazzling array of white,
pink, and gold adornments with delicate bud motifs.

On model: Dior Fine Jewelry necklaces and ring; at Dior boutiques. Clockwise
from left: Dior Fine Jewelry ring, necklace, and earrings; at Dior boutiques.

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is sustainably made of organic cactus leather designs—including this
cotton and recycled polyester goes-with-everything satchel.
from a family-owned textile
company in Los Angeles and
produced locally in N.Y.C.

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CLOSET CLASSIC

Hope for Flowers

The brainchild of fashion industry veteran Tracy
Reese, this Detroit-based line produces its vibrant,
joyful silhouettes through responsible practices
such as sourcing organic fabrics and working
exclusively with factories that offer a living wage.

Kuzyk jacket,
$895; kuzyk.co.

From left: Hope for Jean
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the sets are an ode to cuup.com.
legendary decorator
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Timeless Modern
Acclaimed designer Mary Ping brings her thoughtful

approach to craftsmanship (think sleek, considered

silhouettes made from upcycled materials) to the

relaunch of N.Y.C. handbag brand Ro.

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Would you
call yourself
a badass?

The way I
have defined it,

I would say
yes, of course.

Activist MALALA YOUSAFZAI
leads 2022’s Badass 50

by CH A R LOT TE COLLINS , SA R A H CR ISTOBA L , JENNIFER FER R ISE ,
SY DNE Y H AY MOND, and SA M A N TH A SIMON

20 I nST YL E FEB RUA RY 2022



BADASS 50

1Malala YousafzaiYousafzaiduring
the filming of
her MasterClass
course in 2021.

The Nobel laureate is more than qualified to teach lessons on advocacy.
Lucky for us, her class on creating change is now in session.
How would you describe someone who is badass? A person which is oftentimes limited to schools. Don’t leave that
who knows their ambitions and aspirations and is confident passion for learning behind you; we should always consider
in what they believe in. They’re proud of themselves, their ourselves students. I’ve learned from my mentors and
identity, where they come from, and what they stand for. friends and from experiencing what activism is like through
Would you call yourself a badass? The way I have defined it, speaking for myself, and I was honored by the opportunity
I would say yes, of course. to share my advocacy journey.

What issues are currently at the forefront for young women? What encouraged you to speak out about your marriage and

I think about the activism of women in Afghanistan right share your thoughts on the institution? We know how
now. The Taliban is back in power, and women in the past marriage has been a patriarchal institution. Historically, it
20 years have seen a very different life—they were able to has not favored women. Even now, in communities around
enroll in schools and take jobs. Today they are protesting the world, it does not favor women. But if you find a best
for those rights because they cannot imagine living the way friend in life and that person loves you and understands
they lived under the Taliban in 1996. your concerns, you can start a journey together and help
each other through. Marriage is a social construct, so if we
With education being a cause so close to your heart, what created it, we can change it. We can make it inclusive,
did it feel like walking across the stage in a formal graduation feminist, and equal for everybody.

ceremony in November? It was a very special moment for We loved seeing you included in HBO Max’s Friends reunion!
me. Receiving my degree from Oxford is a dream come true. What are some of your favorite TV shows to binge-watch?
I stood up for education at age 11, when the Taliban was
banning girls from going to school. I remember that day Ooh, I love Ted Lasso! I also really enjoyed Sex Education. I
vividly when I could not go to school; I wanted to be in a recently watched Zoolander 2 and they mentioned my name,
classroom. Looking at my graduation pictures is a reminder which I didn’t know about, so that was quite interesting to see.
that this might not have been possible if the Taliban had Looking ahead, what are you ambitious for? I’m starting
remained in [Pakistan’s] Swat Valley, if people had not heard a production company, so I’m really excited for that. I can
our voices. I may not have been able to reach this point. produce content that brings new perspectives, especially
from young women and women of color. I’m passionate
How has your activism championing education led you to about engaging girls in conversations about equality and
climate change. It’s inspiring to see young women share
work with MasterClass? I started using MasterClass a few their stories. —CHARLOTTE COLLINS
years ago, and I think it’s not only bringing inspiring video
lessons, it’s also attempting to change how we see education,

22 I nST YL E FEB RUA RY 2022

2 Butler posing 3
in front of her
Julie Rikelman Bisa Butler
Dahomey
Rikelman considers her most gutsy Amazon portrait. “I decided to become a profes-
qualities to be integrity, courage, and sional quilter 20 years ago when
tenacity, all of which have served her well that was not considered a serious
in her role as senior litigation director for art medium, but I knew it was
the Center for Reproductive Rights. In right for me,” says Butler, whose
2020, she successfully argued before the vivid quilted portraits of African
U.S. Supreme Court to preserve access Americans depict revered
to abortion in Louisiana, but the death historical figures, contemporary
of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the icons, and everyday people.
subsequent appointment of Justice Amy Her work has been featured
Coney Barrett left the fate of Roe v. everywhere from magazines and
Wade uncertain. Rikelman once again book covers to the Art Institute
argued before the court in December of of Chicago, where her first solo
last year with Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s museum exhibition was showcased
Health Organization, concerning a in 2021. “I work my butt off to make
Mississippi abortion ban after 15 weeks sure my art represents myself and
that, if upheld, would effectively overturn my people strongly,” she says. “I
Roe v. Wade. “It’s critical for people to think that makes me a badass.”
be able to make these kinds of personal
choices about their bodies, lives, and Oksana Masters 4
health for themselves,” says Rikelman.
“As a mom, I know pregnancy has unique With only six months between the closing ceremonies of the
demands and life-altering consequences Summer 2021 Tokyo games and the opening of the Winter
for families. It’s not the type of decision 2022 Beijing games, the rower, cross-country skier, and
that the government should make for us.” 10-time Paralympic medal winner is pushing her body to the
limit to appear on the U.S. cross-country skiing team once
again. Even with four gold medals under her belt, Masters’s
journey has been far from golden. Both of her legs were
damaged in utero by radiation poisoning from the Chernobyl
nuclear reactor incident, and after being adopted from a
Ukrainian orphanage at a young age, Masters had to fight
to earn her spot on the team. “I missed out on making the
team for Beijing 2008, and one of the coaches told me I’d
never make it as an athlete,” she says. “I just think it would
be incredible to have a lights-out run this time around.”

5 6Mickey Guyton

Elizabeth Gore After years of trying to make it as a Black artist
& Carolyn Rodz in country music, Guyton broke through
with her studio debut, Remember Her
“Every woman with an entrepreneurial spirit Name. She’s used her voice to speak out
should have the opportunity to start her own on racism both on and off the album,
including calling out the use of slurs
company,” says Gore, who, alongside Rodz, in the genre and celebrating Black
co-founded Hello Alice, a free platform that beauty with songs like “Love My
helps small businesses launch and grow. When Hair.” “I spoke my truth in the
the pandemic hit, they shifted their efforts to hopes that it would bring aware-
support nearly 500,000 entrepreneurs—many ness to the things I was dealing
of whom are women, people of color, veterans, with,” she says. “There were con-
and from the LGBTQ+ community—with access cerns about backlash, and I sure got
a lot of it, but I had nothing to lose.
to vital capital, resources, and networks. Now I’ve started seeing change in
“We raised $20 million in small grants to help country music, and it’s a beautiful thing.”
entrepreneurs survive this difficult time,” adds
Rodz. “We’re proud to rally and help save so

many incredible businesses along the way.”

7Candace 8 9
Parker
Silvia Vasquez- Nikole
“I think winning an Olympic Lavado Hannah-Jones
gold medal and MVP in the
same season I was pregnant Driven by her ambition to help sexual abuse The most badass thing the Pulitzer Prize
with my daughter is pretty survivors like herself heal, the mountaineer winner has ever done? “Creating the 1619
badass,” says the Chicago has built a community for women to Project and rejecting UNC’s tenure offer,
process their experiences through instead heading to Howard University with
Sky forward/center, who adventures in nature with her nonprofit, $25 million in donations in order to start
made headlines when she Courageous Girls. “The strength of the Center for Journalism and Democracy.”
brought home a franchise- surrendering and existing in harmony is how The 2019 publication of her epic work of
first WNBA title to her native I live with my trauma, with the knowledge long-form journalism in The New York Times
that all storms eventually pass and what is ignited a national dialogue. With two books
Chicago last year. Parker left behind is beautiful,” she says. With the published in November and a 1619 docuseries
also became the first Seven Summits already crossed off her in the works at Hulu, Hannah-Jones sees
bucket list, she’s taking her career to new abundant opportunities for 1619 to take
woman on a cover of the heights with the release of her memoir, different shapes as an ongoing educational
popular video game series In the Shadow of the Mountain (out this project. “People are hungry for this informa-
month), which is slated for a film adaptation tion; they want to have a better understand-
NBA 2K and serves as an produced by and starring Selena Gomez. ing of their country and its most vexing
onscreen analyst for the problems,” she says. “The expansion across
NBA. She embraces her platforms is critical because it allows us to
position as a role model in reach more people, and to provide some of
women’s sports and hopes the missing understandings that will hopefully
to empower young girls to move us to become a more just country.”
speak their minds, often
leading by example. “I’ll say Michelle Wu
the things that other people
think but don’t want to say,” Wu made history last year becoming
she says. “It’s gotten me in the first woman and person of color to be
some trouble, but I think it
has also started conversa- elected as the mayor of Boston. In her
tions that needed to be had.” rousing victory speech, the Harvard grad
and daughter of Taiwanese immigrants laid
10 out her progressive and inclusive vision
for the future of the city, saying: “We are
Tara Houska ready to meet this moment. We are ready

As a tribal attorney, Houska is well versed to become a Boston for everyone. A
in the language that dispossesses land and Boston that doesn’t push people out, but
rights from people in favor of industrial
growth. She brought that knowledge to the welcomes all who call our city home.”
front lines while protesting the construction
of Enbridge’s Line 3 oil pipeline in Minne-
sota, which led to her being shot with rubber
bullets and arrested. “When we experience
brutality while protesting, I think about how
those brutalizing us are part of a machine
that has convinced so many that the land
defenders trying to protect nature with our
physical bodies are criminals; that water,
the lifeblood of every human on earth, is
worth contaminating for oil and mining,”
she says. “I pity those who harm us. We are
trying to protect their children’s water too.”

BADASS 50

Haugen 13
testifying before
JoAnne Bland
Congress in
At age 11, Bland followed John Lewis and
12 December2021. Hosea Williams up to the Edmund Pettus
Frances Bridge on Bloody Sunday. Nearly six
Haugen decades later, she’s preserving the legacy
of the organizers who made Selma,
Releasing data on Facebook’s mishandling of issues such Alabama, a battlefield in the fight for Black
as hate speech and political ads made Haugen a target. Americans’ right to vote through her tours
of the area. The activist plans to build
What it was like to take the step to publicize Facebook’s internal documents? upon her work by creating a Foot Soldiers
Park and Education Center on the ground
You might think I would be nervous about things like testifying, but I don’t tend where the Bloody Sunday march began.
to be. What scared me was the possibility that I wouldn’t be able to finish my “My vision is to show every visitor, and
task. That somehow Facebook would become aware of what I was doing and especially every child, that they have
shut it down, and make sure no one else succeeded. It was a race to the finish the power to make change in their
line, and the moment these documents were in Congress’s hands, I could community,” says Bland. “It is my greatest
breathe a sigh of relief. I’ve done the necessary thing. I firmly believe we can hope that this city and this site are
solve problems together, and now we as a society can help Facebook to change. treasured and honored long after all of us,
the original foot soldiers, have passed.”
You’ve been traveling internationally speaking to tech crowds and regulators.
14
From the moment the 60 Minutes piece aired, the pace has been nonstop. It’s been
incredible to speak with legislators around the world and go over the documents. Heather Hodge
The problems of Facebook and social media in general are going to be solved by & Emily Kim
many more people deeply understanding the issue and adding their voices to the
mix to solve it. If I can be a conduit in making that happen, I will do it all day long. Hodge and Kim founded their social
Who do you consider to be a badass? My mom had me at a time when it wasn’t enterprise The Pastry Project with the goal
considered an acceptable choice for a tenure-track female professor to have of erasing barriers to entry in the world of
children. She had to make extreme sacrifices and still went on to accomplish baking by providing free culinary training
huge things in her academic career. I think the fact she followed her heart in for those who might not otherwise have
her 50s to become a priest shows that real badasses aren’t defined by external the opportunity to pursue it. “Nothing is
rewards, but rather by setting the course they find fulfilling. more rewarding to us than graduating our
What does “badass” mean to you? Someone who does what they believe is students and helping place them in great
right, even when it’s unpopular. A badass doesn’t shrink from powerful people. jobs,” says Hodge. The pair didn’t always
How do you relate to the term “whistleblower”? I’m grateful that we have have a recipe for success; instead they let
whistleblower laws, which are written to protect people who come forward. their drive to uplift others become their
But I’m up against one of the largest companies in the world, and they have the guiding force. “Our mission came first, and
resources to retaliate once the press dies down. No matter what, nothing they ways to fund it came second,” says Kim.
could take from me would make me regret speaking up for the millions affected “We’ve had to be flexible, scrappy, and
in areas where Facebook is making conflict worse. —SARAH CRISTOBAL innovative with our revenue streams to
pay for training and running the business.
We didn’t know what to expect, but we
took the risk and it’s working!”

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15 Bobbi Claudette
Brown ColvinColvinatage15.

“Having been in the indus- The civil rights pioneer started her fight as a teenager in
try for over four decades, I Montgomery, Alabama. Over 60 years later, she moved
can tell you that the single to clear a Jim Crow–era conviction from her record.
best beauty product in the
world is happiness,” says I n 1955,15-year-oldColvinrefusedtogiveupherseattoawhitewomanona
the cosmetics titan. After segregated bus. She resisted the officer during her arrest, defying a rule she
selling her namesake label knew was unjust. Though her courageous act came nine months before Rosa
25 years ago and being Parks would be elevated as a leader in the Civil Rights Movement for doing
bound by a noncompete, the same thing, Colvin was not championed by prominent Black organizers
Brown launched her new at the time; they instead decided to rally behind Parks, who was considered
clean-beauty brand, Jones a more palatable figure than Colvin. “The leaders chose Mrs. Parks because
Road, the day after the she had been through nonviolence training and would be more acceptable,”
clause expired, with the says Colvin. “I didn’t hold any animosity because they did what was best for the
goal of making her new movement. It was not about one person; it was about moving our people forward.”
endeavor just as iconic Colvin’s brave deed resulted in her obtaining a criminal record, and over half a
and beloved as the last. century later, the charge of assaulting an officer during her arrest remained. She
“When I was coming up was placed on probation and never received notice that her term was complete.
in the industry, you would In October 2021 her attorney filed an expungement request, signifying that the
never publicly help a charges against her were never right. “Clearing my name doesn’t mean anything
competitor or share your to me now and doesn’t benefit me at all,” says Colvin. “But it does let my grand-
trade secrets,” she says. children and great-grandchildren know that I didn’t do anything wrong. All I
“Now there’s a wonderful did was sit down for my rights so that they could stand up for theirs.”
camaraderie among Having amassed a wealth of knowledge on advocacy from her own experiences,
female founders in the she encourages today’s activists to remember that when it comes to seeking
industry. I mentor them, justice, there is no easy way to achieve large-scale progress. “You can’t sugarcoat
but they also mentor me.” it,” says Colvin. “You have to take a stand and say, ‘This is not right.’” And if she
could share a few words of wisdom with her younger self? “I would like to tell
my 15-year-old self that it wasn’t fair what happened, and you didn’t know it
then, but your decisions would change the world.” —CHARLOTTE COLLINS

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17 18 19

Raeshem Nijhon Jane Gilbert Debbie Sledge

“There’s a history of allowing exclusionary In April 2021 Gilbert was named the The founding member of Sister Sledge
elitism to persist for the sake of the box world’s first official heat officer, tasked rose to fame alongside her siblings with
office, so I built a space where we demand with protecting the lives and livelihoods the album We Are Family in 1979 and
creative excellence, but the end does not threatened by the worsening effects of continues to celebrate her heritage today.
justify the means,” says Nijhon. In 2018 she climate change in Florida’s Miami-Dade “My grandmother Viola was a lyric soprano
created Culture House, a Black-, brown-, County. She addresses the inequities in and a protégé of civil rights activist Mary
and women-owned production company how residents experience rising McLeod Bethune,” she says. “She inspired
that develops diverse stories at the temperatures, making sure the local us with stories of the experience under
intersection of pop culture and politics. government is progressing in its prepared- her tutelage.” Now Sledge has teamed up
This year it will release projects on Netflix, ness for increased heat through public with the family’s next generation to
Disney+, Hulu, and OWN, including a outreach and investments in safer housing release the song “Free,” their first as the
docuseries about the culture of Black hair and cooler neighborhoods. “Climate rebranded group Sister Sledge ft.
called The Hair Tales, executive-produced change is the biggest challenge humanity Sledgendary. “I’m proud to see our children
by Oprah Winfrey and Tracee Ellis Ross. has had to face, but it also presents us step into this legacy grounded in the love,
with the biggest opportunity to shift how confidence, and encouragement of family.”
Tunde Oyeneyin we live, work, and play to ensure a more
equitable and sustainable tomorrow,” says 22
When the pandemic forced many of us Gilbert. “I have two teenage children. I
to work from home, a workout-from- work to protect their generation’s future.” Maggie Grout

home movement was also born, and no 21 Being adopted from a rural village in China
method was more sought after than when she was 18 months old shaped how
Liz Shuler the social entrepreneur saw the world.
Peloton. As one of the platform’s most Raised in Colorado, Grout attended
popular instructors, Oyeneyin conducts “We are building pathways and support CU Boulder’s Leeds School of Business
confidence-boosting classes that have structures to grow a bold, inclusive, and and realized the importance of a proper
transformative movement—I think that’s education. Now she’s looking to pay it
become an inspiration to people of all pretty badass,” says Shuler, the first forward with her company, Thinking Huts,
fitness levels by proving anyone can be an woman elected president of the AFL-CIO which builds schools in places like Madagas-
in the labor federation’s history. She took car using 3D technology. “3D printing can
athlete. “I didn’t make the sports teams the reins as leader of the organization’s bridge the education gap by accelerating
that I tried out for in my teenage years,” 57 unions last August, in a year marked the construction of schools in partnership
by a groundswell in union and strike with communities where innovation is
she says. “But today I feel incredibly organizing, from taxi cab drivers in rarely seen,” says Grout, who plans to
connected with my tribe, and that sense New York City to Amazon workers in expand the program to Kenya and India.
of belonging holds me accountable every Bessemer, Alabama. “At this inflection
single day.” Now partnered with Nike and point, we have unlimited potential to
releasing a book this summer, Oyeneyin reimagine and rebuild a worker-centered
democracy and economy.”
hopes to “create a more
inclusive community for

sport and invite more
women and young girls

into the space.”

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23 Eliza
Griswold
When the U.S. chaotically left
Afghanistan in August, private citizens
took up the slack. Using her vast media
network, Griswold coordinated
evacuations remotely. Here, she chats
with fellow journalist JODI KANTOR
about how she and her team got it done.

JODI KANTOR: You’re a language person, so I’m going

to ask you to sort of wrestle with this word “badass.”

What does it mean to you? Is it a word you use?

ELIZA GRISWOLD: It’s not a word that I would

use for myself. We might hit a cultural moment

when we think it’s dated in some gendered way,

but for now I think it’s the best we can do, and

sometimes that’s what we use language for. I’m

freaking honored to be considered one.

JK: You were a part of the humanitarian effort

helping those who were seeking evacuation

from Afghanistan last summer after the fall

of the government in Kabul to the Taliban.

What did you end up doing?

EG: The Taliban took over more quickly than

the U.S. had expected or was

[Getting involved] did prepared for, due to a massive
failure of intelligence and

not feel like a choice at any planning. There are people who

24 point, because every single were directly in harm’s way
resource anybody could because they were our allies.
Mimi G mobilize was necessary.” In that complete collapse,
thousands of Americans—ac-
As a young mother struggling with
homelessness, Mimi G discovered sewing —ELIZA GRISWOLD countants, college professors,
as a way to deal with her anxiety and to journalists—were flooded with
change her circumstances. In 2008 she
decided to create Mimi G Style, a sewing WhatsApp messages from people we know who needed help. We began to do
how-to channel on YouTube, and has
gathered over 300,000 subscribers. Now everything we could to organize private evacuations; nobody knew anything
she wants to bring her knowledge directly
to followers through her online school, Sew about how to run them, but my friend and colleague Dexter Filkins and I joined
It! Academy. “I was a runaway, sexually
abused as a child, a teen mom, a high school Ashley Bommer Singh and Vikram Singh, a husband-and-wife team that was
dropout, and a domestic abuse survivor
who never had examples of entrepreneurs, organizing private evacuations through a plane-charter company.
but I knew I had a greater purpose and
calling,” she says. “Sewing was my therapy.” JK: Where did you get the money?

EG: Everywhere and through myriad connections. I reached out to folks in the

media, some I knew personally and some through mutual friends, and I told

them we were raising money to fund evacuations. Within 10 minutes the women

of Hollywood were in my email offering tens of thousands of dollars for these

flights, and within days we had what we needed. .

JK: So, it’s summer, you’ve got an 8-year-old, you’re sitting with your laptop and your

phone, and you’ve got this river of panic, urgency, and (CONTINUED ON PAGE 108)

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25 Lindsey
Vonn
Lauren Ridloff
“If you tell me I can’t do some-
With her role as Makkari in Chloé Zhao’s thing, I’ll work as hard as I can
film Eternals, Ridloff became Marvel’s first for as long as it takes to prove
deaf superhero and an instant fan favorite.
“Makkari happens to be deaf, which is just you wrong,” says Vonn, the
another part of her superhero suit,” says most decorated female skier
Ridloff, who is also deaf. “The first time
I saw myself onscreen as her, I felt the of all time. “I’ve skied with a
immediate impact of perceived imperfec- broken leg and duct-taped my
tion being portrayed as a superhero trait.”
She hopes to see the entertainment hand to my pole when I had a
industry promote more deaf stories by sliced tendon in my thumb.
deaf writers that draw on the spectrum of No matter how much pain I’m in, I always find a way.” With
experiences within the community. “I want
to see more hard truths, more romance, the January release of her new memoir, Rise (inset), Vonn—
and more comedy told from the gaze of who retired in 2019 and now serves as an adviser to several
someone who has been pushed out of the venture capital funds—is reflecting on her “very turbulent”
room for so long. Imagine how fresh things
would be through a different lens!” journey. “I think that understanding my value as a person
outside of skiing was my biggest obstacle after my profes-
Nicola Coughlan sional career. It was a difficult transition, but I learned a lot of
life lessons—and I hope to inspire others by sharing them.”
The Irish actress currently stars in not
one but two buzzy Netflix shows: 28 29 Luvvie
Ajayi Jones
Bridgerton, where she plays the often Sydney Freeland
overlooked but secretly shrewd After her TED Talk, “Get Comfortable
Penelope Featherington, and The Navajo filmmaker and director is With Being Uncomfortable,” racked up
Derry Girls, as the feisty high bringing more Indigenous-led stories to over 7.5 million views online and countless
schooler Clare Devlin. Though TV platforms with her work on Peacock’s comments, the author, podcast host, and
she admits it was hard at Rutherford Falls and FX on Hulu’s Reserva- public speaker was inspired to write her
first to get her foot in the tion Dogs. “We had a lot of conversations latest book, Professional Troublemaker:
Hollywood door, the about making the TV we wanted to see The Fear-Fighter Manual, which quickly
outcome has been well growing up because we had no representa- became a New York Times best seller.
worth the wait. “A badass tion outside of the wise sage or ruthless “It’s my everlasting reminder to live boldly
woman is unapologetic savages,” says Freeland. “It’s exciting that and audaciously in spite of all the reasons
about her ambition,” people can see authentic Native represen- I might have to cower,” she says. “To be a
says Coughlan. tation and have it be so well-received. The professional troublemaker is to be a
“Ambition can be more marginalized and minority voices that badass—a disrupter for good.”
seen as a dirty can have a seat at the table in Hollywood,
word, but I have the more authentic the stories will be.”
always known
what I want and
been unafraid
to go out
and get it.”

27

30 31 32

Georgia Doralys Britto Priyanka Jain
Pritchett & Laine Bruzek
With nearly 2 million subscribers on
When the British Succession YouTube, Britto is bringing Afro-Latina “Our mission is to radically reinvent how
writer and co–executive culture to the forefront with her fun we understand and treat the female body
producer found herself beauty and lifestyle videos. She uplifts and inspire everyone to close the gender
followers by embracing all aspects of health gap for good,” says Jain, one of the
unable to describe her fears, her culture, including her hair. “From an co-founders of the health company Evvy.
her therapist encouraged early age, we are taught that our curls “There is so much we still don’t know about
are too distracting, that our braids are how to best care for women and people
her to write them down. The too unprofessional, or that our dreads with vaginas.” The idea for their at-home
result? My Mess Is a Bit of a are too dirty,” she says. “Now I know vaginal microbiome test was based on
Life, a book of essays that that is not true, but it was a journey to personal frustrations. In early meetings,
covers Pritchett’s lifelong get here. I love bringing light to a Bruzek told “every venture capitalist and
struggle with anxiety, her hairstyle that has been so stigmatized reporter in N.Y.C. about my chronic yeast
and judged over centuries. I want young infections. It’s one thing to talk about
sons’ autism diagnoses, and girls to see me and know that dreads destigmatizing vaginal health, but I’m
the sexism she’s faced in and curls are beautiful.” proud that we’ve found ways to actually
entertainment. “Being a put that into practice and encouraged
33 our community to share their stories too.”
scriptwriter is a good job for
an anxious person because Tananarive Due Maria Sharapova
you’re literally putting words
With films like Nia DaCosta’s Candyman “Winning Wimbledon as a teenager was
in other people’s mouths,” winning big at the box office and Jordan an incredible breakthrough and one that
she says. “It’s a very anony- Peele’s thrillers generating constant buzz, opened many doors in my life,” says the
mous way to express your- it’s safe to say that the demand for Black tennis superstar. Since retiring from the
self, and it’s quite cathartic horror is finally being met. But the genre’s game in 2020, Sharapova has become a
to put your darker stuff into renaissance wouldn’t be possible without major player in finance. “I always made
a character like Roman Roy.” Due, a leading scholar and author in the a point to take a seat at the table when it
Now Pritchett is voicing her field. Her UCLA class on Black horror came to business decisions during
own truth. “After a while you aesthetics is so essential that big names, my tennis career, which
including Peele, have been known to drop motivated me to get more
get tired of being resilient in. “I really feel like this movement can involved in investing,” she
and thick-skinned.” sustain because horror audiences are says. With an expansive
supportive,” she says. “They understand investment profile already,
the importance of theme and messaging Sharapova is determined to
and how powerful horror can be in pass on her knowledge.
conveying them. People are open to She is partnering with
engaging with social horror more now.” Public.com to help
student athletes,
who are now
eligible to receive
endorsements
while at school,
make smart
financial
decisions.

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Avant-garde 36

Guided by her love of learning and competing, Mako Komuro
the spelling bee champ and world-record-holding
baller is Black excellence personified. Last fall, Komuro, formerly known as
Princess Mako, abdicated her position
as part of Japan’s imperial family so that
she could marry her college sweetheart,
a lawyer named Kei Komuro. (According
to Japanese law, she was required to
forfeit her status upon marriage to a
“commoner.”) The two now reside in
N.Y.C., where Mako, who was diagnosed
with PTSD as a result of the situation, plans
to find work. “Kei is indispensable to me,”
Komuro said at a press conference before
they left Tokyo. “And for us, [marriage]
is a necessary choice as we listen to and
protect our hearts and feelings.”

Avant-garde 37
after winning the
Scripps National Akeelah Blu
Spelling Bee. Inset:
Demonstrating her “I feel the most badass when I am
performing. It is my superpower,” says the
basketball skills. Selma, Alabama, native, who touched hearts
when she appeared on the HBO reality
I n 2019 Avant-garde won the first spelling bee she entered. Two years series We’re Here, which follows three
later she would become the first African American to win the Scripps drag queens as they travel to small towns
National Spelling Bee. “People say that I am a genius or something—and to help locals on their drag journeys. She
no, I am just a normal 15-year-old girl,” she says. “You can do this; initially had reservations about appearing
there’s no special juice or something I have drunk.” Since she was on the show, knowing that the increased
5 years old, the main outlet for the polymath’s competitive spirit has visibility could make her a target. Looking
been basketball. She’s a standout on the court and holds multiple Guin- back, she has no regrets. “My contribution
ness World Records for her ball-handling skills. “I love the camaraderie matters. How I show up in the world and
and the competition,” she says. A slew of celebrities and public figures have been what I have to say when I arrive means
in touch with her since taking home the Scripps title, including her personal something,” says Blu. “My appearance on
hero, Malala Yousafzai, whose autobiography Avant-garde credits as a huge in- the show may have helped liberate a trans
spiration. With the spotlight has also come some criticism—she notes her natu- teen who doesn’t have the freedom to
ral hair as something haters like to pick at—but, seasoned competitor that she live their life as their full true self, which
is, Avant-garde is virtually unflappable. “You wouldn’t believe how many times was my experience at that age. I know that
I’ve been disparaged,” she says. “Not letting anybody push me down because my gifts will not just make space for me
of something that I am, or letting anybody stand in my way, is my most badass but will help me make space for others.”
quality.” Not one to rest on her laurels, and driven by a zeal for education fostered
through homeschooling, Avant-garde is in constant pursuit of her next lesson.
“I’m learning Spanish, learning to play the piano, and learning to be a bit less
shy; I feel like I need to work on being myself more,” she says. “That’s what I’m
looking forward to in the near future.” —CHARLOTTE COLLINS

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Below: Hall 39
directing Tessa
Thompson and Ifeoma Ozoma

Ruth Negga “I’m tenacious as all hell, and I’m positive
in Passing. that came from my upbringing in Alaska as
the daughter of Nigerian immigrants,” says
Rebecca Hall Ozoma, an advocate for transparency and
accountability in tech. Last year, she launched
The actress reflects on her creative influences and the Tech Worker Handbook, a collection
what inspired her to adapt Nella Larsen’s novel Passing of resources for those in the field who are
for her critically acclaimed directorial debut. considering whistleblowing. Ozoma’s
determination to change the industry also led
How does the descriptor “badass” apply to you? It’s actually a term I’m not that her to cosponsor California’s Silenced No
comfortable with. I feel like it’s become a kind of catchall for a pop feminism More Act, which took effect January 1. The
that celebrates many truly extraordinary things, like artistic achievement and legislation stops companies from enforcing
political courage, alongside many things I think are broadly not that good for NDAs in situations where discrimination
the world. But in its original sense, I take it to mean someone who does what is reported, giving 40 million workers the
they’re driven to do in the face of any obstacle, without regard for the judgment freedom to be vocal about issues like
of others, and I think that’s worth living up to. harassment and racism in the workplace.
Who are some women that you admire? Nina Simone, Emily Dickinson,
Lorraine Hansberry, Karen Dalton, Nella Larsen, my mother, my stepmother, 40
my sisters, my friends, and most women I’ve ever met who are just plain existing
in the world and doing what they want to be doing. Domino
Kirke-Badgley
You’ve spoken about your racial identity and how it relates to the concept of
passing. [Hall’s maternal grandfather was Black; he, as well as Hall’s biracial After the challenging birth of her first
mother, regularly “passed” as white.] Did working on the film give you any new son left her wishing she’d had additional
support, Kirke-Badgley set out to be that
perspective? I more or less had to adapt it, since reading the novel set my brain person for other parents-to-be and built
whirring. I didn’t even know what passing was when I picked up the book, and a practice as a doula. In September,
when I finished reading it, I suddenly had language for so much of what I had Kirke-Badgley, who is also a singer, and her
experienced in my own family. I started out thinking, “Wow, this is what my Brooklyn-based collective, Carriage House
grandfather did.” And then, eventually, “Wow, this is what my mother was doing Birth, published Life After Birth: Portraits
too.” I ended up at this place where I realized, “Wow, this is what I’m doing.” It’s of Love and the Beauty of Parenthood to
been a ride. —CHARLOTTE COLLINS share the raw and real birth stories of both
celebrities and everyday people. “I hope the
book reminds our readers that the art of
storytelling is the ultimate healer and that
we need each other now more than ever,”
she says. “Giving birth is a huge amount of
inner work and should not be done in silos.”

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Leyna Bloom

Bloom’s Sports Illustrated cover in July marked the first
time a transgender model graced the front of the brand’s
iconic Swimsuit Issue. To the model and actress, it repre-

sented years’ worth of efforts to bolster
trans representation in mainstream
media. “When I saw [my cover], I saw
hard work,” she says. “Not just my hard
work, the hard work of so many who
had the strength to go out in the world
and say, ‘I belong in this space.’ That
magazine represents a conversation to
invite people to think differently.”

42 Leah Thomas Allison Robinson

The founder of Intersectional Environmentalist Between March and April of 2020,
is building toward a greener, more equitable 3.5 million mothers with school-age
future by advocating for both sustainability children left the workforce. Despite the
and social justice while spotlighting communi- easing of lockdowns and a gradual return
ties that have been underrepresented in the to regular working conditions, the number
space. “I want resources and funding to go to of moms employed in the latter part of
BIPOC-led environmental justice organiza- 2021 was still below pre-pandemic
tions, activists, and research institutions so numbers. With The Mom Project,
that people of color will no longer face the Robinson is giving those who are ready to
brunt of climate injustice,” says Thomas. resume employment a chance to find
She’s aiming to set the movement on the right work through its digital marketplace,
path with her new book, The Intersectional which connects mothers with economic
Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems opportunities that match their prefer-
of Oppression to Protect People + Planet. ences. “Founding a business without
experience in running a company has
Meryland 43 battle-tested my own beliefs and
Gonzalez convictions time and time again, because I
couldn’t lean on historical
“As a boxer, it takes blood, sweat, and perspective,” she says. “In
tears to get where you want to be,” says those moments of doubt,
the 15-year-old, whose journey overcom- my commitment to our
ing a mysterious illness to return to the mission kept me going.”
ring was the focus of Team Meryland, a Her status as a newcomer
hasn’t held Robinson
documentary that made the rounds at back—the startup raised
several Oscar-qualifying film festivals last $80 million in Series C
year. As she rises through the ranks in the funding last year and
boasts supermom
boxing world, Gonzalez is giving back to Serena Williams
her Watts, California, community through as an adviser.

her (free) club for fitness and self-
defense. She’s currently eyeing a spot
on Team USA at the 2024 Olympics in
France, but she wouldn’t call competing

in them a dream of hers, per se. “A
dream is something you think you want

to do,” Gonzalez says. “This is a goal,
because with the help of my family and

supporters, I know I can do it.”

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TRENDSETTERS

Mariska
Hargitay

46 Jane Pauley“As a child, I remember reading We Were The star and executive
producer of Law & Order:
There books about important events and figures Special Victims Unit
in history,” says the broadcasting legend. “I grew up continues to fight for
to ‘be there’—appearing on TV five mornings a week sexual assault survivors.
for 13 years, and then almost as many times a week
in prime time.” This year the beloved CBS Sunday SVU hit 500 episodes this season. How
Morning host will celebrate her fifth decade since does it feel to lead TV’s longest-running
starting as a general assignment reporter in her
hometown of Indianapolis. With experience came scripted drama? I have an overwhelming
accolades—including last year’s Daytime Emmy Award feeling of gratitude, and I’m proud that the
for Outstanding Morning Show—as well as perspec- series that’s taken up the most room on the
tive. What motivates her now? “I’m ambitiously and television landscape tells the stories of
eagerly looking for what’s next,” says Pauley. “This survivors of sexual assault. We’ve always
is the story of my life: From my teens until today, I made a show that shed light into dark-
never sought opportunity. It was there waiting for ness, and so much light has flooded into
my answer. Ready or not, I said yes. I don’t know that darkness in the real world now too.
what’s next, but I expect to be surprised.”
In what ways has the conversation
From top: Pauley with U.S. Supreme I never sought surrounding sexual assault evolved?
Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; opportunity. It was there
waiting for my answer. Ready When we started the show in 1999, it was
with designer Ralph Lauren. or not, I said yes.Ó —JANE PAULEY swept under the rug. Even in 2004 when
I started the Joyful Heart Foundation,
people shut me down. It wasn’t a physical
or medical condition, so they didn’t want
to give money to or support these issues.
It’s a victory that we are talking about the
demand for a change in behavior now.

Part of Joyful Heart’s mission is to elimi-

nate the rape kit backlog. How? We’re
working to pass six pillars of reform in
all 50 states, including annual statewide
inventory of untested kits, mandatory
testing of backlogged kits and new kits,
statewide tracking systems, a victim’s right
to notification, and funding for reform.

Has your work with the foundation

impacted the show? One huge shift
in the field was understanding that a
survivor’s memory is not linear, which
changed how we interview survivors on
SVU. I’ve also learned the power of being
believed, and it’s a lesson for humanity.
Do you ever take a break? As women, we
can easily dismiss ourselves to take care
of others. Lately I’ve been practicing
saying no; there’s only so much time in
a day. My children replenish my spirit,
and when I’m alone I watch documenta-
ries. I enjoy learning people’s stories.

—SAMANTHA SIMON

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BADASS 50

Sara Wahedi 48

When an explosion yards from her home Sian Proctor
in Kabul left Wahedi with questions and
nowhere to turn for answers, she was Proctor’s radio call sign, “Leo” (short
moved to start working on Ehtesab. The app for Leonardo da Vinci) is a nod to her
crowdsources verified reports to provide status as a modern-day renaissance
residents of Afghanistan with information woman. A geologist, an artist, a science
on emergency situations like bombings and communicator, and an astronaut, she
roadblocks, contextualizing events that can became the first Black woman to pilot
be unsettling, confusing, and dangerous to a spacecraft as part of SpaceX’s
those nearby. “Ehtesab has taught me that Inspiration4 mission in September.
individuals with lived experience, especially “When people ask me if I was afraid to
those who have spent their lives in fragile lift off to space, I tell them no, I was
states, have incredible capacity in building more afraid that this moment would
innovative solutions for tomorrow,” says never come,” says Proctor. “My father
Wahedi. “Being an Afghan requires grit; we was a hidden figure who worked as a
are consistently having to prove ourselves NASA contractor during the Apollo
in every aspect, and this is exacerbated by missions. He inspired me to become
the fact that I’m also an Afghan woman. By a scientist, an explorer, and now
forcing myself to stand tall, maintaining my an astronaut. When my time finally
self-respect and belief in my abilities, I’ve arrived, I was excited and ready.”
pushed through some incredibly difficult
moments, and it has all been worth it.”

Nyakio Grieco 49

“It was a challenge turning pain to purpose,”
says Grieco, co-founder of Thirteen Lune, an
e-comm website dedicated to BIPOC-owned

beauty brands that launched after the racial
reckoning of 2020. She has now raised over
$3 million via the Fearless Fund to expand the
business and recently partnered with JCPenney
to include Thirteen Lune pop-ups in over 600

of its stores. “I have gone from making my
grandmother’s coffee scrub with my brand
Nyakio Beauty to now being a retailer in a
major department store, celebrating inclusion

for all. Growth often hurts, but living in my
purpose has truly been the greatest gift of all.”

50 Betty Reid Soskin

At 100 years old, Soskin is the oldest serving National Park
Service ranger—and a mighty witness to history. Soskin was a
prominent songwriter during the Civil Rights Movement and

a union boilermaker clerk during WWII whose perspective
helped shape Rosie the Riveter national park in Richmond,
California. She started as a ranger at age 85. “I had lived my life
and could go on preserving the history for those who came to
see me,” she says. Lately she’s been working remotely through
video sessions, but on a typical non-pandemic day, Soskin
plays a film about the park for visitors and steps in after it ends
to share priceless knowledge about the often erased contri-
butions of women and African Americans. Looking ahead, she
has no plans to retire. “Being a badass means that one is in line
with what’s new,” she says. “I do consider myself to be one.”

FIRST PERSON

Leading with Ladies

SHOWRUNNER AMY SHERMAN-PALL ADINO ON THE THOROUGHLY MODERN TV HEROINE

I neverintendedtobeawriter. From top: The they said, “Great, we’ll buy it!” And
My father was a comedian, Marvelous Mrs. that’s how Gilmore Girls was born.
and my mother was a dancer, Maisel’s Midge
so instead of going to college, Maisel and Susie It was the same with The Marvel-
I threw myself into dance Myerson, Gilmore ous Mrs. Maisel. When I met with
auditions and improv classes. Girls’ Lorelai and Amazon, I thought of my dad, who
And as I was eating Ding Dongs and had these tales of the comedy world
figuring things out, my friend Jen- Rory Gilmore,
nifer [Heath] suggested we start and Bunheads’
writing together. We wrote a couple Michelle Simms.
of spec scripts, and she brought
them to her day job teaching traffic in the 1950s. It was a germ of an idea.
school. Because it was L.A., every-
body there was working in show But I knew I wanted to bring those
business, so she forced our scripts
on these poor people who had run a stories to life. And I knew I would
red light. And, somehow, we landed
a writing job on the show Roseanne. turn my dad into a girl—sorry,
Coincidentally, I got a callback at
the same time for the musical Cats. Dad—but it was going to be a more
As I agonized about what to do, Jennifer reminded me
that this was the No. 1 sitcom in America, which 30 interesting journey for a woman
million people watched every week. It was an amazing
opportunity, so I somewhat reluctantly gave it a shot. in the ’50s to be a comic than a
Roseanne was a huge hit, but it was a tumultuous show.
All the writers were men, and they were re-staffing Jewish dude from the Bronx.
because, well, the show was called Roseanne, so they
realized they should hire somebody who Female protagonists have just
has menstruated. I didn’t love it. And
there’s nothing that ruins a well-trained always been my jam. All my leading
balletic ass faster than sitting in a writers’
room all day. It was a battlefield—you had ladies are sharp, smart, and funny,
to come in armed and be ready to take it. I
almost quit to teach ballet. But in my sec- with strong points of view. But
ond year, we wrote an episode [which got
nominated for an Emmy] where one of the they’re very different too. Lorelai
teen characters, Becky, wants to go on birth
control, so things slowly started to click. Gilmore [Lauren Graham] was
The mantra on Roseanne was “make the
small big and the big small.” I learned it’s dealing with not knowing how to let
the little things that are the most relatable, not
some over-the-top plot. And what keeps people people in. Michelle on Bunheads
coming back are characters you can really root for.
This came into play later when I pitched my own [Sutton Foster] was the classic “I
series. I had optioned a story from L.A. Magazine
about a Philippine girl who was raised in America had a chance, I fucked it up, now
with very traditional parents. I had pages of plot,
and they said, “Interesting. Anything else?” Out of here I am.” Midge Maisel [Rachel
nowhere, I said, “Well, there’s this idea of a mom
and a daughter, but they’re more like friends.” And Brosnahan] had the life she wanted;

then she discovered an ambition

that preempted everything else.

Susie Myerson [Alex Borstein] has the

filthiest mouth, yet there’s such vulnera-

bility behind it. A woman doesn’t have

to be an FBI agent with a gun in her hand

to be a badass chick on TV. To me, it’s more

about barging through life and putting

the world together on your terms.

I’m not on social media, so I don’t

typically see how people react to my

characters. But I do run into fans, and I’m

always shocked by the love. Whenever a

girl comes up and says that Rory Gilmore

[Alexis Bledel] was the reason she went to Yale,

god damn it, that gets me. It’s amazing the life

that my shows have had. If you get that once,

you’re golden. But I’ve had it three times, and I

feel so lucky. It almost takes the sting out of the

fact that I lost my youth and any semblance of

a good figure. —AS TOLD TO JENNIFER FERRISE

Sherman-Palladino is the creator of The Marvelous
Mrs. Maisel, returning Feb. 18 on Prime Video.

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