TOP 10 WOMEN WHISTLEBLOWERS
These courageous women whistleblowers went up against powerful people and institutions to expose corruption and the abuse of power. We selected them because of the far-reaching and positive impact they …
Whistleblower Heidi Weber Fights for Education and Advocacy
Heidi Weber challenged a for-profit school in a groundbreaking case that’s been described as David vs Goliath. The former dean turned whistleblower has been through a nightmarish experience, but has …
Fighting to fight: the women of the U.S. Forest Service continue a decades old battle against toxic masculinity
On the heels of the deadliest wildfire in California history and a #MeToo movement that continues to blaze through California and the nation, there is another battle that has been …
Karen Silkwood, Nuclear Power Activist
Karen Silkwood significantly changed the lives of workers in the nuclear power industry, but lost her life in the process. As one of the first women whistleblowers, she’s legendary. Born …
Body Cameras Don’t Lie: The Prosecutor Who Caught the Crooked Cop
Christina Pumphrey was just doing her job when others weren’t doing theirs. Because of her, a corrupt cop in Jackson County, Florida, is no longer arresting innocent people and is …
Marsha Coleman-Adebayo: Persistent Resistance in the 21st Century
Green tongues, bleeding from every orifice, impotence, even deaths: These were some of the complaints South African miners working for an American company made in the mid-90s. When Dr. Marsha …
Retired Colonel Cynthia Chavez, American Whistleblower
Forced to retire or be fired were the choices given Colonel Cynthia Chavez. What did she do wrong? In the summer of June 2014, she did her due diligence and …
Navajo Look for Solution to Their Tale of Two Cities
Horseherder, second from left, with grandmother and daughters. Credit: Sonia Narang/PRI. Dickens said, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” There are few truer or …
Fired CIA contractor’s road to reinvention
It’s been 12 years since Christine Axsmith was fired from her job as a BAE software contractor for the CIA, but she remembers every detail of that day as if …
Reality Winner: Why Her Arrest Is No Joke
Her name is sadly ironic. Reality Winner, a 26-year-old former Air Force linguist, made the news when she leaked a report on Russian election hacking. Her prize? A sentence of …