The Visibility Initiative is a global movement aimed at celebrating people whose contributions have often been overlooked. Join us!
Healing and Advocacy: How Filipino-American Nurses Transformed Healthcare Through Activism
A significant number of nurses in the U.S. are Filipino—around 4%. However, people might not know that Filipino nurses have transformed labor conditions in healthcare through activism and collective action.
Learning About the Model Minority Myth with the Densho Digital Repository
Empathy and Exploration: How SAADA Redefines the Role of Archives
Three Things We Learned by Listening to the Disability Community
Spotlight on Two Photographers Capturing Native American Culture and Challenging Erasure
Adolphus Hailstork: Bridging Classical Music with African American Narratives
Healing and Advocacy: How Filipino-American Nurses Transformed Healthcare Through Activism
These three leaders created innovative strategies to protect biodiversity
Diao Baldé Guèye: Sweat and Heart
Germaine Acogny: Gestures and Emotions
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Nominate
¿Do you know of an exceptional person whose story hasn’t been told? Nominate them and we’ll tell their story. The Visibility Initiative aims to make visible the insufficiently recognized changemakers working in communities around the world. Learn more.
Create
If you are a storyteller and want to write about the changemakers among us, this is your platform. We are seeking volunteer editors and writers. We’d love to work with you. You will be recognized with a byline and a short bio on the website. Learn more.
Collaborate
We are cultivating partnerships with archives, oral history projects, communications and media initiatives, and social change organizations. We want to recognize and help publicize the amazing work already being done to highlight changemakers! Learn more.