Journalist, activist, and life-long advocate of women’s rights and cultural diplomacy

Megan Beyer, an award winning journalist and civic leader, has over twenty years of experience reporting, public speaking, producing political commentary, fundraising, and campaigning. She is the founder and Chair of “Sister Republics," a project that accelerates private market drivers to break the glass ceiling: gender certification, gender lens investing, and voluntary benchmark coalitions like The 30 Percent Club. Her media includes PBS, CNN, The Huffington Post, WTOP, WLEE, Washington Post, Alexandria Times, Le Matin (Geneva) and Der Bund (Bern).

Chief Economist

Sarah Jane Glynn is Director of Women's Economic Policy at the Center for American Progress. Glynn's work at the Center focuses on gendered economics, work-family issues, and workplace policies​. Her research addresses the economic issues facing working families today, with an emphasis on policies that help families cope with the conflicts between wage-earning and caregiving. Media: MSNBC, Fox News, U.S. News and World Report, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Atlantic and C-SPAN.

Executive Director, Women in STEM

To discuss inequality in the STEM fields, we FEATURE Tricia Berry. Berry leads efforts to connect those working to advance gender equity in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. As Collaborative Lead of the Texas Girls Collaborative Project, she leads the dissemination of STEM resources and research-based best practices to engage girls in STEM across Texas in coordination with the National Girls Collaborative Project. Her media includes Inside Higher Ed, USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, Fox 7 Austin and EdVentures.

Executive Director

Noreen Farrell is the Executive Director of Equal Rights Advocates (ERA), one of the nation’s leading women’s rights organization, where she has led landmark litigation and policy reform efforts to improve the lives of women and girls at work and school. Noreen has written extensively on women’s economic issues, including discrimination based on pregnancy, pay, and caregiver status. Her media experience includes NBC, New York Times, Times Magazine, ProPublica, the Huffington Post and Women in the World Foundation.

President and CEO

Fatima Goss Graves is Vice President for Education and Employment at the National Women’s Law Center, where she works to promote the rights of women and girls at school and in the workplace. Ms. Goss Graves advocates and litigates core legal and policy issues relating to at-risk girls in school, including those that impact pregnant and parenting students, students in a hostile school climate and students participating in athletics. Media includes: Washington Post, USA Today, NPR, CNN, CNBC and CSPAN (Washington Journal).

Co-Founder and President, Take The Lead; Author of No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, Activist

Gloria Feldt is cofounder and president of Take The Lead the new women’s leadership movement to prepare, develop, inspire, and propel women to take their fair and equal share of leadership positions across all sectors by 2025. Gloria is an acclaimed expert on women, power, and authentic leadership and an inspiring keynote speaker who motivates with heart and humor and delivers practical “Power Tools” for life and leadership. Media experience: All major national print, radio, and TV networks and cable news, web and print magazines.

Firefighter

Sarinya Srisakul has been serving NYC as a firefighter since 2005. She is the first and is still the only woman firefighter of Asian descent in the FDNY. Srisakul is President of the United Women Firefighters. As a lifelong activist, she is continuing her mission in creating social justice and gender equality through her work with the United Women Firefighters. Media includes: The New Agenda, The Village, Newsday, News 12 Brooklyn, Daily News and CBS News New York.

Executive Director

Victoria A. Budson is the founding Executive Director of the Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP) at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. WAPPP analyzes cutting-edge issues as they impact women’s roles and lives. While at the Kennedy School of Government, Budson was founding Executive Director of the Council of Women World Leaders, a group of current and former presidents and prime ministers. Media includes: Fox News Live, the Boston Globe, WGBH Boston, WSBK Boston, Talk of the Nation and The Connection on National Public Radio

President

Carol Frohlinger co-founded Negotiating Women, Inc., an advisory firm committed to helping organizations advance women into leadership positions. Carol gives talks to groups and organizations who understand that promoting and retaining talented women is a “win-win-win”— good for women, good for men and good for the bottom line. Her media includes Today, Al Jazeera and Fox and Friends.

Director

Soraya Chemaly is a feminist writer, media critic and activist whose work focuses on women’s rights and the role of gender in politics, religion and popular culture. She is a regular contributor to Salon, The Huffington Post, RHRealityCheck, Fem2.0, Role Reboot, The Feminist Wire and other online media. Extensive media experience.

CEO & President

Melanie Campbell is an expert and passionate advocate on issues impacting African Americans, women, immigrants and youth and the intersection of how politics, public policy, race, gender, class and age impacts quality life for all Americans. Ms. Campbell has a strong knowledge base in Black voter participation, civil rights, voting rights, women’s rights, election reform, youth leadership development, non-profit management and cross-cultural coalition building. Media experience: CNN Paula Zahn, Washington Journal (C-SPAN), National Public Radio, Tom Joyner Morning Show, Bev Smith Show, XM Radio and Pacifica Radio.

Reproductive Justice Activist & Writer

Renee Bracey Sherman is an award-winning reproductive justice activist and the author of Saying Abortion Aloud: Research and Recommendations for Public Abortion Storytellers and Organizations. Bracey Sherman’s work on abortion storytelling has been featured on BBC, The Guardian, EBONY, Salon, Fusion, TIME, and The Atlantic. In 2015, she was named one of Planned Parenthood’s 99 Dream Keepers. Bracey Sherman currently sits on the board of NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation.

Co-Creator

Hannah Brancato is co-founder and co-director of FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture. FORCE is a creative activist collaboration to upset the dominant culture of rape and promote a culture of consent. Brancato co-foudnded FORCE in 2010 to create a more public, difficult and honest conversation, demanding that we face the realities of sexual violence in the US. Her media includes: Huffington Post, Bitch Media, Jezebel, New York Magazine and New York Daily News.

President

Celinda Lake is one of the Democratic Party's leading political strategists, serving as tactician and senior advisor to the national party committees, dozens of Democratic incumbents and challengers at all levels of the electoral process. Lake is one of the nation's foremost experts on electing women candidates and, she is renowned for her groundbreaking research on single women voters. Media includes: CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, Fox News, NPR, Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek and Glamour.

Award-winning Entrepreneur, Speaker,Philanthropist, and Former Executive Director of the Spain US Chamber of Commerce

Bisila Bokoko is a phenomenal businesswoman internationally acclaimed for successfully taking companies from local to global. Ms. Bokoko fronted the women’s scheme and actively worked to support female entrepreneurs in their efforts to launch hard hitting businesses. Her media includes: Forbes, Bloomberg TV, Black Enterprise, Entrepreneur Magazine and Harper's Bazaar.

Historian/Author

Louise Bernikow writes and speaks about American women and social movements, especially Women’s Liberation, Second Wave Feminism and the fight for women’s voting rights. She connects the past to the present, seeing historical roots in today’s conflicts. Currently working on the connections of race, place and class in the woman suffrage movement—with an eye on the 2017 Centennial of the New York State victory and the 2020 celebration of passage of the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Media includes PBS, New York TImes and Huffington Post.

State Representative

Jillian Gilchrest is Senior Policy Analyst at the Permanent Commission on the Status of Women, Connecticut’s leading force for women’s equality. She is a feminist millenial with more than a decade of political advocacy experience. Media: The Huffington Post, WNPR, Hartford Courant, FoxCT, CT Mirror.

Director, Gender and Inclusive Development

Patricia T. Morris is an internationally known leader in women’s empowerment and development, and a gender-mainstreaming expert with a career spanning more than 20 years. Her work has taken her to Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America.

Former Executive Director | Board Member

Ruby Bright is the executive director and chief administrative officer of the Women’s Foundation for a Greater Memphis (WFGM) and works towards economic self-sufficiency for women and children. Extensive media experience.

Founder and President

Mahnaz Afkhami has been a leading advocate of women's rights for more than three decades. She is founder and President of the Women's Learning Partnership (WLP), an international organization that empowers women by developing and using culturally appropriate curricula in twenty languages to train women (currently in twenty countries) to become leaders by seeking and taking on decision making roles in politics, business, and civil society. Media: CNN, PBS, BBC, VOA, NPR and more

Author

Media entrepreneur, author, speaker, and journalist Cathy Areu has been called a "magazine maven" by NPR, one of New York City's "most influential women" by the Oxygen TV Network, a "woman of vision" by DC's WashFM, and an "infobabe" by Rush Limbaugh. Cathy is best known for founding the national Latina magazine, CATALINA, created in 2001 to break stereotypes and show a positive side of the U.S. Hispanic community. Meida: NBC, FOX, CNN, Univision, Telemundo.

CEO

Charon Asetoyer (Comanche), a Native American women's health activist is the CEO and Founder of the Native American Community Board (1985) and the Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center (1988) on the Yankton Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. The Resource Center addresses issues of reproductive justice, violence against women, and environmental justice. In addition to the Resource Center the organization has a shelter for women fleeing from sexual assault and domestic violence. Media: Native American Calling, NPR, CNN, New York Times.

Equal Justice Works Fellow

Dana Bolger is a columnist at Feministing.com and a founding co-director of Know Your IX (http://knowyourIX.org), a national survivor- and youth-led organization to end sexual and gender-based violence in school. Know Your IX fills the gap between the law on the books and survivors on the ground: the organization brings Title IX to students, educating them about their rights and empowering them to take action for safety, justice, and equity on campus; and brings students' voices, experiences, and concerns to the policymakers writing the next chapter in Title IX's history. Media includes: NPR, New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Boston Globe.

Co-Founder and former President

Nancy Duff Campbell is a founder and Co-President of the National Women's Law Center, one of the nation's pre-eminent women's rights organizations. A recognized expert on women's law and public policy issues, for over thirty-five years Campbell has participated in the development and implementation of key legislative initiatives and litigation protecting women's rights, with a particular emphasis on issues affecting low income women and their families. Extensive media experience.

President; CEO; Board Chair

Sandra Finley is President, CEO, and Board Chair of the League of Black Women, the premiere leadership organization for black women nationally. The League of Black Women has been commended for providing strategic resources to help Black women advance for their leadership ambitions, and is noted for its holistic approach and emphasis on sustainable, joyful living.

Human Rights Lawyer

Yasmeen Hassan is the Global Executive Director of Equality Now, an international human rights organization focused on women and girls’ rights. Ms. Hassan served as editor of Equality Now’s first report on sex discriminatory laws in 1999 and has appeared in numerous media outlets to address the global situation of women, including Al Jazeera, CNN, the New York Times and the Washington Post.