--- title: Exclusive: Little Girl Who Wrote Obama Is 'Excited' About Woman on $10 description: The girl who asked Obama to put women on bills is thrilled about the Treasury putting a woman on the $10 canonical: https://time.com/3927609/women-on-currency-girl-obama-letter/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-18T23:34:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:42:31.105Z og:title: Exclusive: Girl Who Asked Obama to Put Women on Bills 'Really Excited' About a Woman on the $10 og:description: She doesn't care that it's not the $20 og:url: https://time.com/3927609/women-on-currency-girl-obama-letter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7bc4bdb6e8a5b680/6988554ef887dccbdae9102a/img_4869.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3264 og:image:height: 1836 og:image:alt: IMG_4869 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Exclusive: Girl Who Asked Obama to Put Women on Bills 'Really Excited' About a Woman on the $10 twitter:description: She doesn't care that it's not the $20 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7bc4bdb6e8a5b680/6988554ef887dccbdae9102a/img_4869.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Exclusive: Girl Who Asked Obama to Put Women on Bills 'Really Excited' About a Woman on the $10 > Sponsored content. 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It is a free newsletter available at time.com/newsletters.  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Jun 18, 2015 11:34 PM UTC  Image courtesy of Kim B., Sofia's mother  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Jun 18, 2015 11:34 PM UTC No one is perhaps more excited about the Treasury’s announcement Wednesday that a woman will be featured on the $10 bill than a 10-year-old named Sofia. The fourth grader in Massachusetts [wrote a letter to President Obama](http://time.com/3765227/woman-us-currency-obama-letter/) last year asking why there weren’t any women on American bills. In the year since, a grassroots campaign called Women on 20s [started](http://www.womenon20s.org/candidates) a massive online petition to get a woman on the $20 bill instead of Andrew Jackson. In May, Women on 20s announced more than 600,000 people had voted in their poll, and that Harriet Tubman emerged as the winner. On May 12, leaders delivered petitions demanding she appear on the $20 to the White House Council on Women and Girls and to the office of U.S. Treasurer Rosie Rios. Some have [argued](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2015/06/18/save-alexander-hamilton-dump-andrew-jackson/) they’d rather see a woman featured on the $20 bill instead of Jackson, saving Alexander Hamilton’s likeness on the $10 note, but the Treasury made clear in the [announcement](https://thenew10.treasury.gov/faqs) that no decision to fully remove him had been made: “There are many options for continuing to honor Hamilton. While one option is producing two bills, we are exploring a variety of possibilities.” Regardless, Sofia says she’s thrilled. “I’m really excited that they’re going to truly get a woman on currency,” the junior ambassador for Women on 20s tells TIME. “I don’t care that it’s not the $20, I just want a woman on currency.” Earlier this year, Sofia and her family visited the Treasury to learn more about how money is printed. While there, she left a note for Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, asking him to consider putting a woman on paper bills:  Courtesy of Kim B., Sofia's mother Rios personally called Sofia on Wednesday to tell her the Treasury would move to introduce a bill featuring a woman in 2020, a century after women were guaranteed the right to vote. Sofia says she hopes that woman is Anne Hutchinson, the Puritan freedom fighter who inspired her to write Obama in the first place. She’d also be happy to see Rosa Parks on the $10 bill, since she was the person who she voted for out of the four finalists in the Women on 20s poll. Her role in the movement has caused quite a stir in her fourth-grade classroom. “Whenever there’s a report or something about me, I always show it to all my classmates and share it, because my teachers let me,” she says. “They say it’s really cool and really awesome.” It has also taught her the importance of speaking up. “I really think that if anyone has an idea that they think would be important or something they think needs to change, then they should do something about it,” she says. “They can do a lot of things, even if they’re kids.” _Read next:_ [_What Happened When the U.S. Decided to Put a Woman on Currency in 1978_](http://time.com/3925559/susan-b-anthony-women-currency/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3927609/women-on-currency-girl-obama-letter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3927609/women-on-currency-girl-obama-letter/"},"headline":"Exclusive: Girl Who Asked Obama to Put Women on Bills 'Really Excited' About a Woman on the $10","datePublished":"2015-06-18T23:34:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:42:31.105Z","description":"She doesn't care that it's not the $20","url":"https://time.com/3927609/women-on-currency-girl-obama-letter/","keywords":["Living","feminism","politics","Obama","alexander hamilton"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7bc4bdb6e8a5b680/6988554ef887dccbdae9102a/img_4869.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7bc4bdb6e8a5b680/6988554ef887dccbdae9102a/img_4869.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"IMG_4869","caption":"","creditText":"Image courtesy of Kim B., Sofia's mother","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3927609/women-on-currency-girl-obama-letter/","name":"Exclusive: Girl Who Asked Obama to Put Women on Bills 'Really Excited' About a Woman on the $10"}}]}] ```