As told to Photography by Today, Glamour unveils our two global Women of the Year—America Ferrera and —who are being honored by Glamour in the US, as well as Germany, Mexico and Latin America, Spain, and the UK.
The rest of our incredible class of 2023 will be announced on November 1, 2023.When I was five years old, I declared to my mother that when I grew up, I wanted to be both an actress and a human rights lawyer.
While I already knew what I was passionate about in kindergarten, it wasn’t until many years later—well into my career as an actress—that I truly understood how these two ambitions could go hand in hand: how I could use my platform to amplify the causes I care about and use the power of storytelling to impact people’s lives for the better.I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to fight injustice to incite change in this world.From a very early age, I experienced inequity.
I knew that some people had more and other people had less. Compared with those I grew up with in the San Fernando Valley, I mostly found myself on the having-less side.
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