Lo’eau LaBonta Is Leveling Up — And She’s Taking All Of Us With Her

  • 📰 HuffPostCanada
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 54 sec. here
  • 5 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 35%
  • Publisher: 53%

Kansas News

Women's Soccer,Women's Voices,Sports

Rajul Punjabi (you can call her Raj) is director of Voices at HuffPost. A New York-based journalist and educator, her focus is the intersection of identity and wellness. Before she came to HuffPost, she served as senior editor at Mic.com and senior health editor at VICE.

Voices · Voices · Voices · Voices · Voices · Voices · Voices · Voices · Voices · Voices · Voices · Voices · Voices · Voices · Voices · Voices · Voices · Voices · Voices · Voices · Voices · Voices · Voices · Voices · Voices · Voices · Voices · Voices · Voices · Voices · Voices ·female pilots flying over us in fighter jets.

LaBonta, now 30 and in her 10th year of playing professionally, has been an unwavering advocate for equal pay in the National Women’s Soccer League.. She’s also an athleisure queen and well known in these streets for her vibrant, viral post-goal celebrations that earned her the nickname LaBonta is now seeing the game quite literally change in front of her eyes, playing at a stadium built with women athletes in mind. And now, when she negotiates, she enters the room informed and ready to raise the bar for the next woman. “Some people like to save information for themselves because they don’t want people to get better deals than they do but I don’t care,” she says. “Everybody knows, I will always share information. I will share information that will help anyone.

As Americans head to the polls in 2024, the very future of our country is at stake. At HuffPost, we believe that a free press is critical to creating well-informed voters. That's why our journalism is free for everyone, even though other newsrooms retreat behind expensive paywalls.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.
We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 61. in HEALTH

Health Health Latest News, Health Health Headlines