Honoring Women Who Shape Our Communities

Women’s History Month is often associated with names we learn in textbooks — trailblazers, leaders, inventors, artists, and community changemakers. Their stories matter because each of them expanded possibilities and challenged systems that once excluded them.

While Women’s History Month shines an important spotlight, Eye Discover believes the stories of women shaping our communities should be explored year-round. Through our programs, we highlight women who lead with creativity, build through STEM, preserve culture, challenge social and political structures, and create opportunity.

Students explore the lives of women artists, scientists, engineers, and community advocates who changed systems and opened doors. Our curriculum dives deeper into each person’s history, passion, craft, and obstacles, exploring how their work challenged systems and shaped opportunities for future generations.

Artwork by Valerie for Eye Discover's Liberation Project.

Through this exploration, students engage with music, poetry, and visual art. They listen to selected songs by Lauryn Hill to understand how her music addresses social injustice and systemic oppression. They read poems by Maya Angelou and Audre Lorde to explore how poetry confronts oppression. They study artworks by Frida Kahlo and Faith Ringgold to see how women have addressed inequality, race, gender, and identity through art.

Students begin to see how creativity and innovation have long been tools for resilience and progress. They learn that art preserves stories, science expands access, and leadership often begins at the community level.

After learning about these influential women, students are invited to reflect and respond through their own creative work. Some create mixed media projects or artworks that celebrate strength, independence, and leadership. Others write about the women in their own families — mothers, grandmothers, and mentors — whose influence may never appear in textbooks but is no less powerful.

By learning about the historic women who opened doors before them, students begin to see leadership differently. And when they see women in their own community leading every day, they begin to see themselves as the leaders who come next.

Join us in cultivating the next generation of leaders!