“There are organizations that exist now that didn’t exist when we started and there are leaders that exist now that didn’t exist when we started, and we trained some of them. That’s the legacy that we leave behind, and certainly a legacy that Cecile stood for, which feels very present to me in this as well,” Morales Rocketto said. “As organizers like to say, you want to organize yourself out of a job. I don’t think that we solved every problem for women, but I think that we have left something that can continue to build and grow that work.”

She also recognizes how much the current cultural climate has changed — and the impact that culture has on politics. But it doesn’t mean that she thinks the nature of this work has ended.

“I would love if everyone in America felt like it was cool as shit to be a feminist — that’s what I want to happen. But even in times where it’s not sexy, we still have to organize,” Morales Rocketto said.