Zendaya, MaliaObama and AmandlaStenberg all made TIME's "30 Most Influential Teens of 2015" list.
To determine who made the list, TIME considered their "accolades across numerous fields, global impact through social media and ability to drive news." Here's why these three ladies were selected:
On Zendaya, 19: "The former Disney Channel star (full name: Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman) has emerged as a champion of body positivity, schooling E!’s Giuliana Rancic earlier this year for mocking Zendaya’s dreadlocks at the Oscars and sharing unretouched versions of a magazine photoshoot with her 14.1 million Instagram followers. Recently, Mattel debuted a custom Barbie modeled after Zendaya’s Oscars look, meant to honor 'moment of confidence that was so positively received.' "
On Malia Obama, 17: "A full-fledged cultural icon, whose fashion choices and college visits (most recently, to Brown University) routinely make headlines. Earlier this year, for example, a leaked photo appeared to show Obama sporting a T-shirt with the logo for Brooklyn hip-hop collective Pro Era, driving record traffic to co-founder Joey Bada$’s Wikipedia page. Obama was spotted on the set of HBO’s Girls over the summer as part of an internship for creator Lena Dunham."
On Amandla Stenberg, 17: "The actress is best known as Rue from The Hunger Games series—a role that earned her an NAACP Image Award nomination and a Teen Choice Award—but she doesn’t just take part in pop culture, she actively critiques it. Stenberg is unafraid to call out celebrities she thinks are appropriating culture: in July she criticized Kylie Jenner—also on this list—for showing off her cornrows on Instagram but failing to use her 'position of power to help black Americans.' "
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