Mighty Forces is
a company
A COMMUNITY
A WAVE
About
Mighty Forces believes that every woman’s voice matters.
Yes, there are a million reasons to stay quiet, but we have to speak up anyway. Some of us can’t — our physical safety or livelihoods are on the line. Which makes it that much more important for those of us who can speak up, to do so. We must intentionally create platforms that allow us to turn up the volume for women everywhere.
our story
It was election night 2016 — yes, that one — and our founder, Amanda Hirsch, was whispering to her sleeping, 4-year-old daughter, Ali, “I’m sorry.”
For years Amanda had helped nonprofit organizations tell their stories; now, suddenly, her next chapter became clear: She would dedicate herself to creating a feminist world. As she writes in her forthcoming book,
I would not let the Trumps of the world crush my daughter’s spirit or suppress her voice. I knew so many phenomenal women; Hillary Clinton was a phenomenal woman. Somewhere inside of me, it was decided: I would be part of creating a world that helped phenomenal women win. A world in which their value was so obvious, it would be considered foolish to try to stop them.
I would help create a world that was worthy of my daughter, and of all of our daughters. I would help create a world where our daughters’ spirits, not to mention their bodies and their freedoms, were safe.
The following year, Mighty Forces was born. Our mission: to fill the world with stories that told the truth about women, in order to create a world that didn’t punish us for being too big for the boxes into which we were conditioned to fit.
Our community grew, and what had been one woman’s mission became a wave propelled by many women’s voices. Today, Mighty Forces inspires, teaches, and supports women and feminist organizations to turn up the volume on their voices and stories, so that together, we can create a more feminist world.
Photo of Mighty Forces founder Amanda Hirsch’s daughter, Ali. We need to keep our daughters’ spirits, not to mention their bodies and their freedoms, safe.
about our founder
Amanda Hirsch
Amanda Hirsch is on a mission to turn up the volume on women’s voices in order to create a feminist world, something she does as a story coach, writer, speaker — and mother.
Prior to launching Mighty Forces, Amanda founded and ran Good Things Consulting, which advised mission-driven organizations on content and communications strategy in addition to providing editorial services. Clients included the George Lucas Educational Foundation, NPR, and TED.
Before that, Hirsch was the editorial director of PBS.org. As an expert on telling stories online, she has spoken at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, the National Film Board of Canada and numerous other venues, and leads workshops on the topic. She is also a writer whose work has been featured in Motherly, Catapult, Evoke.org, and other outlets, and her script, “Yes, Andrea” was a finalist in the Sundance Institute’s 2020 Episodic Lab.
Amanda graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in English and a concentration in fiction writing.
Read her article, To achieve gender equality, women need to tell our own stories, on Melinda French Gates’s Evoke.org
Anti-racism, anti-hate statement
I am anti-racist and anti-hate. I stand in solidarity with people who are BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, disabled, neurodiverse, and from all countries of origin…who follow any religion, or no religion…and who identify as any combination or intersection of these identities. I work actively to create and support a more diverse, inclusive, equitable, and representative world within the media industry and beyond. I use my platform and network to amplify diverse voices and to call out hate, bigotry, bias, and harm when I see it.
This statement will continue to evolve as I learn and unlearn. If you identify with any of the groups listed above and feel uncomfortable with the language I am using, or feel there’s more I should be saying or doing; have stories or resources you’d like me to amplify through my platform and network; or want to explore ways we might work together, please reach out.
Thank you to editor Nevin Mays, whom I met through the Women’s Media Group, for allowing me to crib heavily from a similar statement that she put on her website, which galvanized me to finally put one on mine — something I’d been meaning to do for quite some time.