It is with deep admiration for each of these extraordinary honorees: Angel City FC, Kathleen Turner, Ms. Magazine, and Darnell Moore, that we look forward to recognizing at the Women’s Equality Day Power Up Concert and Conference on August 26, in person at the Luskin Conference Center at UCLA and available virtually wherever you are in the world!

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Here’s more about the stellar individual and organization honorees:

The Leading Company Award will go to the visionary Angel City Football Club, and be accepted by CEO Julie Uhrman. Were you obsessed with the World Cup these past few weeks? Me too! Angel City has inspired me, generally not much of a sports fan, to become avidly engaged in women’s sports’ potential to hasten the movement for gender equality, especially in leadership and pay. From their website:

“We are building a different type of organization — where mission and capital come together.

“Where you can feel our impact, on and off the field. We were born on the streets of Los Angeles and stand side by side with our community. Football is our passion and the vehicle we use to speak to our community. Our purpose is to set higher expectations, and it guides us to strive for better in everything we do.

“Angel City FC’s story starts in July 2020, when the club announced that it would take the field in 2022 as the newest team in the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL). The initial ownership group was led by actor and activist Natalie Portman, technology venture capitalist Kara Nortman, media and gaming entrepreneur Julie Uhrman, and tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist Alexis Ohanian…

“ACFC isn’t just another football club; it’s a mission-driven organization with impact built into its business structure. Under the club’s unique sponsorship model, 10% of each corporate partner’s contribution goes to a community organization. Since its inception, the club has been forming deep roots in the LA community through its outreach and impact work, which includes initiatives in education, food security, sports equity, LGBTQ+ and gender equality, and more.”

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Award Winning Actress and Activist Kathleen Turner will receive the coveted “Wear the Shirt Award, given to an individual or organization that “wears the shirt of their convictions” as an advocate for women.

Whatever your age, you will know Kathleen Turner from one or more of the stage, screen, and television characters she has played. But you might not know the extent of her activism for women, social justice, and democracy. She is a longtime advocate for women’s health care. I first met her when she was chair of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s Celebrity board. She has been outspoken about her struggle with rheumatoid arthritis and actively engaged as a board member of People for the American Way and Meals on Wheels.

She won a Golden Globe award for Best Actress for Prizzi’s Honor and Romancing the Stone and was nominated for The War of the Roses, Body Heat and Peggy Sue Got Married, for which she also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Turner received Tony Award nominations for Best Actress for her performances in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Her memoir, written in collaboration with yours truly, is Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love, and Leading Roles.

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Darnell L. Moore will receive the Alexander Barbanell Leading Man Award.

Moore is a media maker, educator, writer, and thought leader whose work on marginal identity, equity, and social justice has enabled him to be in a community with those creating impact in the U.S. and abroad over the past two decades. He is currently Vice President of Inclusion Strategy at Netflix and is the author of the 2019 Lambda Literary Award-nominated memoir, No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black & Free in America, which was listed as a 2018 NYT Notable Book and a 2018 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick.

He has served as the co-managing editor at The Feminist Wire since 2010 and an editor of The Feminist Wire Books (a series by the University of Arizona Press). He is also a writer-in-residence at the Center on African American Religion, Sexual Politics, and Social Justice at Columbia University and was a 2019 Founding Fellow at the Annenberg Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California where his focus has been on the intersections of race, gender, and LGBTQIA+ identities.

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Ms. Magazine will be honored on its 50th anniversary as the preeminent feminist publication. The award will be accepted by Executive Editor Kathy Spillar.

For any media company to survive in today’s media business climate is quite a feat, and the fact that Ms. is thriving after half a century speaks volumes about the interest in women’s stories and the social, political, and personal issues that affect us all. Ms. was — let me say ovarian rather than seminal — in setting me on my lifelong path of advocacy for gender equality.

Founded by Gloria Steinem, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, and other feminist leaders of second-wave feminism, the magazine has been owned and published by the Feminist Majority Foundation since late 2001.

Per Wikipedia: “Ms. was viewed as a voice for women by women, a voice that had been hidden from and left out of mainstream media. The magazine’s first publication as an independent issue included articles about women who had experience with abortions, promoting the removal of sexist wording from the English language, and literature focused on helping women realize they could stand up for themselves against social norms.”

It still is — a much-needed and revered voice for women today.

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GLORIA FELDT is the Cofounder and President of Take The Lead, a motivational speaker and expert women’s leadership developer for companies that want to build gender balance, and a bestselling author of five books, most recently Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take The Lead for (Everyone’s) Good. Former President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, she teaches “Women, Power, and Leadership” at Arizona State University and is a frequent media commentator. Learn more at www.gloriafeldt.com and www.taketheleadwomen.com. Tweet Gloria Feldt.