Montclair Company Helped Lead Charge For New $20 Bill Feat. Harriet Tubman

Montclair, NJ – The effort to get a woman on the front of a $20 bill involved many hands, but you can thank a Montclair-based company for helping to do the lifting.

For the past year, Montclair-based Mosaic Strategies Group has helped to manage a web campaign – Women On 20s – a grassroots nonprofit that has been advocating to “put a portrait of an iconic American woman on the $20 bill.”

The campaign hit a recent high-water mark when the U.S. Treasury announced that Underground Railroad leader Harriet Tubman will eventually replace Andrew Jackson on the new $20 by 2020.

• See related article: Harriet Tubman Will Replace Andrew Jackson On $20 Bill

According to NJ.com, Mosaic helped to narrow the potential candidates of the woman who would grace the new $20 to a field of four finalists and also lent aid in the design of the bill.

“When Francesca Dulce Larson and the rest of the Mosaic team started working with Women On 20s over a year ago, we knew they were onto something historic,” Mosaic Strategies wrote on its Facebook page.

“Since then, we’ve been there every step of the way to ensure that Women on 20s continues to have their message not just reach as many people as possible but those with the influence to lobby for this historic change. [The April 20] announcement from Treasury Secretary Lew stating that Harriet Tubman will replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 dollar bill by 2020 reaffirms our belief that our clients are movers and shakers. Women on 20s founders, Barbara Ortiz Howard and Susan Ades Stone, are proof that we have to be the change we wish to see.”

• See related article: The New $20 Bill: Harriet Tubman In (Great), Repulsive President Out (Fantastic)

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Photo of the $20 bill, 2016, via Wikimedia