AWARD YEAR
2017
CATEGORY
Community
GOALS
Gender Equality
KEYWORDS
women, Storytelling, Empowerment
COUNTRY
United States of America
DESIGNED BY
AOL, PBS
WEBSITE
http://www.makers.com/
Makers
The largest video collection of women's stories. Makers app empower every woman to be a storyteller
Launched in 2012, AOL's MAKERS is a storytelling platform for the trailblazing women of today and tomorrow. Today, MAKERS.com features more than 4,500 original videos and more than 400 MAKERS interviews. Our MAKERS include well-known figures such as actress Lena Dunham, media mogul Oprah Winfrey, show runner Shonda Rhimes, YouTube sensation Lilly Singh, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, tennis champion Billie Jean King, as well as groundbreaking women such as the NBA's first female referee Violet Palmer and Kathrine Switzer, the first woman to run the Boston Marathon. MAKERS launched the MAKERS Stories app in March 2016. Designed to empower individuals to be their own storyteller, MAKERS Stories allows users to record their stories or the stories of others, creating their own MAKERS videos. MAKERS has hosted two MAKERS Conferences, positioned as 36-hour action plans on women in the workforce.