Wanda Butts is a United States activist who leads a nonprofit organization that teaches minority children how to swim.
[1][3][4] She lost her 16-year-old son to a drowning accident in 2006, when he was rafting with friends on a lake and did not wear a life jacket.
[1][6] Butts now works for the city of Toledo, Ohio full-time, while running her nonprofit organization part-time.
[5] After her son's death, Butts founded the nonprofit organization the Josh Project in 2007 in Toledo, Ohio.
[1][4][2] The organization primarily helps minority children, as they are at a significantly higher risk of drowning in the United States.