Person of the Year 2024

Person of the Year:  Pililani Mombe Nyoni

This Malawian woman used social media for good as opposed to cat videos or self-aggrandizement when she used WhatsApp to identify and help save more than 50 Malawian women working in slave-like conditions after they were tricked and trafficked to Oman.

Honorable Mention: Gisèle Pelicot

Drugged by her husband and pimped out to be raped on film by over 50 men over a period of years, this French woman opted to make their trial very public, “so the shame of rape should be felt by the other side.” Unable to face what they were doing to a conscious victim, in the end, all 50 men and her husband awoke to find themselves thoroughly screwed, disgraced and imprisoned.