🏃♀️ At 8 months pregnant, she stepped onto the track and changed sports forever.
✨ Meet our Future History Honoree Alysia Montaño.
A world champion, Olympic medalist, and a leading advocate for motherhood protections in athletics. 🏆
Alysia’s (alysiamontano) race challenged outdated perceptions of motherhood and became a defining moment in her career.
She has since pushed for stronger contract protections for athlete mothers and founded For All Mothers+ (forallmothersorg), a nonprofit dedicated to eliminating the motherhood penalty.
Her advocacy has helped fight pregnancy discrimination in sponsorship contracts and secure lactation accommodations for athletes at the Olympic Games. 👏
Most recently, she received the Wilma Rudolph Courage Award from the Women’s Sports Foundation, presented by the daughter she was pregnant with during that race. 🥹💞
Alysia Montaño is making Future History by challenging discriminatory practices and breaking down barriers so mothers can thrive ...
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