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See volunteers in action at WNBA Changemaker Day

by Brett Phelps, Mirror Indy
July 17, 2025

<h1>See volunteers in action at WNBA Changemaker Day</h1> <p class="byline">by Brett Phelps, Mirror Indy <br />July 17, 2025</p> <br /> <figure class="wp-block-image alignfull size-full"><img src="https://mirrorindy.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/20250717_WNBA-CHANGEMAKER-DAY_BP_08-scaled.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-57025" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Former WNBA player Tamika Catchings (left) and WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert work to assemble period packages on July 17, 2025, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway as part of WNBA Changemaker Day. The event, hosted in partnership with the WNBA All-Star 2025 Host Committee, Indy Hygiene Hub and Project Period Indy, produced 25,000 hygiene packages.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img src="https://mirrorindy.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/20250717_WNBA-CHANGEMAKER-DAY_BP_05-scaled.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-57022" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Table captions Abbigail Peterson (left) and Laila Christmon volunteer to assemble period packages on July 17, 2025, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway as part of the WNBA Changemaker Day. Peterson and Christmon are recent graduates of Central State University and are HBCU Fever Fellows. </figcaption></figure> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img src="https://mirrorindy.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/20250717_WNBA-CHANGEMAKER-DAY_BP_06-scaled.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-57023" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Trenda Harris (right) cheers as her employer, Deloitte, is announced at the beginning of the WNBA Changemaker Day on July 17, 2025, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img src="https://mirrorindy.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/20250717_WNBA-CHANGEMAKER-DAY_BP_01-scaled.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-57018" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert welcomes volunteers July 17, 2025, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway as part of the WNBA Changemaker Day. </figcaption></figure> <figure class="wp-block-image alignwide size-full"><img src="https://mirrorindy.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/20250717_WNBA-CHANGEMAKER-DAY_BP_11-edited-scaled.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-57034" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Kendall Thomas shoots a period package into an overflow bin July 17, 2025, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway as part of the WNBA Changemaker Day. </figcaption></figure> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img src="https://mirrorindy.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/20250717_WNBA-CHANGEMAKER-DAY_BP_07-scaled.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-57024" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Kizmet Mills (left) and Supriya Mimani laugh while working to assemble period packages on July 17, 2025, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway as part of the WNBA Changemaker Day. </figcaption></figure> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img src="https://mirrorindy.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/20250717_WNBA-CHANGEMAKER-DAY_BP_10-scaled.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-57027" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Volunteers help assemble period packages on July 17, 2025, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway as part of the WNBA Changemaker Day.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img src="https://mirrorindy.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/20250717_WNBA-CHANGEMAKER-DAY_BP_04-scaled.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-57021" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Marissa Leggitt (left) and Joe Rivelli, a Visit Indy employee, volunteer to assemble period packages on July 17, 2025, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway as part of the WNBA Changemaker Day. </figcaption></figure> <div class="wp-block-columns alignwide"> <div class="wp-block-column"> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img src="https://mirrorindy.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/20250717_WNBA-CHANGEMAKER-DAY_BP_02-edited-scaled.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-57037" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Makenzie Query helps apply stickers to the period packages.</figcaption></figure> </p></div> <div class="wp-block-column"> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img src="https://mirrorindy.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/20250717_WNBA-CHANGEMAKER-DAY_BP_03-scaled.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-57020" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Tables filled with pads await volunteers to place them into a period package.</figcaption></figure> </p></div> </p></div> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img src="https://mirrorindy.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/20250717_WNBA-CHANGEMAKER-DAY_BP_09-scaled.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-57026" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Volunteers help assemble period packages on July 17, 2025, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway as part of the WNBA Changemaker Day. </figcaption></figure> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img src="https://mirrorindy.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/20250717_WNBA-CHANGEMAKER-DAY_BP_12-scaled.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-57029" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Mikayla Crabtree compacts a bin filled with period packages to make more space July 17, 2025, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway during the WNBA Changemaker Day. </figcaption></figure> <p><em>Brett Phelps is a community photojournalist for Mirror Indy, in partnership with CatchLight Local and Report for America. 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