For Women’s History Month, we should celebrate Millie Bobby Brown and how she fights against bullying with her position as the one of the youngest U.N.I.C.E.F Ambassadors and her platform on social media as a successful actress in the hit series Stranger Things. 

Brown is seventeen years old and was born in Marbella, Spain.  Her parents are Kelly and Robert Brown.  The Browns moved to Bournemouth, England at five years of age. She later moved again  to Orlando, Florida at the age of eight. She currently lives between Atlanta, Georgia and her home in England. She has a brother named Charlie, two sisters named Paige and Ava and three dogs named Ronnie, Reggie and Winnie.

Brown has been fighting against all types of bullies, especially cyberbullies. A cyberbully or cyberbullying is someone who spreads false accusations or sends hateful comments on someone behind the screen for any social media app. 

Brown herself has experienced much bullying in school and a great amount of it has been received online, so much so that she decided to delete Twitter, a social media app,  because of all threats and hurtful things that she was enduring. She has been accused of many things since her rise to fame in 2016, including accusations of being transphobic, homophobic and even racist, all things which she is not.  

“There should be no space in this world for bullying, and I’m not going to tolerate it, and neither should any of you.” – Millie Bobby Brown stated in a tweet, before deleting twitter in June of 2017. 

 “Today, I want to talk about an issue that is very personal to me, something that so often goes unnoticed but causes real suffering: bullying. I’ve been very lucky in my life. I take nothing for granted but I also know what it feels like to be vulnerable. At school, I was bullied by a group of students. I remember feeling helpless. You know, school used to be a safe place and now I was scared to go. I didn’t know who I could trust or who I could turn to,” Brown stated in one of her many speeches of awareness for U.N.I.C.E.F..

Not only has she brought awareness to bullying by speaking out and standing up for herself and others who get verbally abused online, she also tries to spread awareness for other important issues for young children/ adults in the world. These other issues include poverty and violence. 

She held an interview with three other young adult activists, with her position in U.N.I.C.E.F. In this interview she talks to Emmanual from Tanzania, Aibanu from Kazakhstan, and Gitanjali from America. Emmanuel went to several orphanages and helped each child with education and tried to make their learning ability as equal as it could get. 

Aibanu explains how she is trying to spread awareness about COVID-19, and how to prevent this disease as much as possible, by posting videos explaining the science behind it and making sure to tell everyone the importance of cleaning. 

Gitanjali talks about how cyberbullying has affected her and how speaking up doesn’t always work. In return she created a technological  service named Kindly, which detects cyberbullying or anything perceived as hurtful, it then gets automatically deleted but the user/ person receiving the comment gets notified.  

Before the fame, Brown was mainly only cast for small roles in shows such as Rachel Barnes in N.C.I.S. and young Alice in Once Upon a Time. In 2016, Brown won the role of the lead character in a Netflix hit series called Stranger Things. In 2019, Brown was casted for the role of Enola Holmes in the movie Enola Holmes as well as Madison Russell in the Godzilla: King of Monsters, and Godzilla vs. Kong coming out in 2021. 

MIllie has been standing up for bullying, of all types, her whole life. She only started to get recognized for it when she became famous, from her role in the t.v. series, Stranger Things. She now uses her fame for a good cause, spreading the facts on how many children and teenagers. She is not the only one, there are so many people famous or not, who make statements like this and make people know that words are hurtful, intentional or not.