Time Magazine unveils New Project “Firsts: Women Who Are Changing the World” with Oprah Winfrey, Ava DuVernay & More Amazing Women

We love celebrating amazing people and that’s what Time Magazine is also doing with this brand new project, Firsts: Women Who Are Changing the World.

See the full list of women featured in the project below.

For the project, several amazing women were selected for being the first to reach different milestones.

12 of the women were featured on the cover of the magazine’s latest issue and they are – Hillary Rodham Clinton, Ellen DeGeneres, Oprah Winfrey, Selena Gomez, Ava DuVernay, Sylvia Earle, Nikki Haley, Ilhan Omar, Lori Robinson, Katharine Jefferts Schori, Mo’ne Davis, and Janet Yel. Amazingly, these 12 women were photographed for the cover  by Brazilian photographer Luisa Dörr with her iPhone.

See the covers below.

First black woman to direct a film nominated for a Best Picture Oscar

First woman to own and produce her own talk show

First girl to pitch a shutout and win a game in a Little League World Series

First Somali-American Muslim person to become a legislator

First person to reach 100 million followers on Instagram

First woman to win a major party’s nomination for President

First person to star as an openly gay character on prime-time TV

First woman to be elected presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church

First Indian-American woman to be elected governor

First woman to become chief scientist of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

First woman to lead a top-tier U.S. Combat Command

First woman to chair the Federal Reserve

Talking about the project, editor-in-chief of Time Nancy Gibbs says:

Our goal with this extraordinary project…is for every woman and girl to find someone who moves them, to find someone whose presence in the highest reaches of success says to them that it is safe to climb, come on up, the view is spectacular. They were candid about their challenges, aware of their responsibilities, eager to tell the stories that will surprise and inspire. We hope everyone, at every life stage, will encounter an insight here that will open a door to new ambitions

See some more faces from the project below.

For more from the women, visit Time.com.

Photo Credit: Time.com