Opal Tometi
Recognition and awards
Tometi was featured as a new civil rights leader by Essence Magazine in 2014 and by the Los Angeles Times in 2013. She was listed in the Root 100 list of African American Achievers between 25 and 45. She was listed in the Cosmopolitan Top 100 list of extraordinary women. Along with Garza and Cullors, Tometi was named to the 2013 Time (magazine) 100 Women of the Year and Politico 50 2015 Guide to Thinkers, Doers, and Visionaries. In 2016, she was, alongside her co-founders, on Fortune's list of "World's Greatest Leaders". She was awarded the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award in 2017. She is also featured in the Smithsonian's National Museum for African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). In 2018, Tometi was featured in the Guardian's list of 200 leaders who embody the work of Frederick Douglass. In 2019, along with co-authors Alicia Garza and Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Tometi received a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award for When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir.
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