2023 Award Recipient
AnabelleLombard
Project Generation Ratify
Project Generation Ratify
Anabelle and four of her friends co-founded Generation Ratify as a 100 percent youth-led movement to educate and activate youth around constitutional gender equality in the United States. Generation Ratify harnesses the energy and commitment of youth of all genders to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and pass other legislation that promotes and protects gender equality.
Anabelle serves as the organization’s creative director, using their skills and experience as a visual artist and an actor, along with creative tactics like ’zines, banners, webinars, workshops, art-based protests, and performances, to turn art into activism. Since its founding in 2019, the movement has grown to 12,000+ grassroots activists from all 50 states, with more than 50 local and state chapters across the country working to fight for gender equality in their communities.
Through education, advocacy, civic participation, and empowerment, Generation Ratify harnesses the energy and commitment of youth of all genders to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and pass other legislation that promotes and protects gender equality. The organization centers the generation currently impacted the most by gender inequality and is working to make the ratification of the ERA an intersectional issue. As a native Virginian, Anabelle is working to lift the unconstitutional time limit on state ratification decisions and allow her home state to become officialized as the last needed state to ratify the ERA.
