Avery’s family home survived the Eaton Fire. But most of her friends’ homes did not. Many of Avery’s friends had to evacuate in the middle of the night. They had only the clothes on their back: pajamas. “I was thinking about how my clothes, makeup, and shoes—everything—is my identity and it’s my sense of self,” she says. “It’s the same thing for all of my friends.”

Avery knew her friends would be given necessities, such as food and water. She decided to collect items that would help girls “get their confidence back.”

On January 10, Avery and her stepdad designed a logo. They started an Instagram account. The next day, Avery posted about the project. The page took off. Trucks with donations arrived at the place where her family has gone to escape the smoke. People showed up, ready to work. Clothing brands reached out.

“I couldn’t even think about how big this would be,” Avery says. “I’m grabbing donations, organizing items. My phone is just completely blowing up.”

“It all came in so fast,” says Avery’s stepdad, Matt Chait. “But once these girls start coming . . . it’s going to go really fast.”

Amanda Nguyen, an astronaut and activist, said that many women in STEM experience gender-based violence.

“In my situation, I was dreaming of going to be an astronaut, and then I was assaulted,” said Nguyen, who was a 2022 TIME Woman of the Year. “When I found out that my evidence could be destroyed, I had to make a choice between my justice or my dreams of being an astronaut. At those crossroads, I put down my telescope, picked up a pen, and rewrote the law.”

Nguyen—who started the nonprofit Rise, which supports survivors of sexual assault—helped write the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Rights Act, which reformed how sexual assault evidence-collection kits are handled and was signed into law by then-President Barack Obama in 2016. Now, she’s also about to be the first Vietnamese woman to go to space. And she’s planning on bringing something important with her.