Sarah Deer is a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma and a Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas, where she has a dual appointment in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Department and the School of Public Affairs and Administration. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of Federal Indian law and feminism, with a focus on violence against Native women. Her 2015 book, The Beginning and End of Rape, has received several awards, including the best first book award from the Native American Indigenous Studies Association. She also serves as the Chief Justice for the Prairie Island Indian Community Court of Appeals and has testified in 4 Congressional hearings. Media includes: Democracy Now, The New York Times, The Washington Post, MSNBC, NPR.

Andrea L. Pino-Silva is a public scholar on issues of global gender-based violence, media framing of violence, portrayals of gender and sexuality and Latinx identity, and narratives of survivorhood. She is co-author of “We Believe You: Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out,” and Co-Founder of the national survivor advocacy organization End Rape on Campus, where she worked for over five years to support students in learning their rights under Title IX, and in changing their campus sexual assault and harassment policies. Her work and personal journey is prominently featured in the film The Hunting Ground, which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, and she appeared alongside Lady Gaga and 50 other survivors at the 2016 Academy Awards. Andrea is currently doing doctoral studies in American Studies at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, pursuing research on the framing of gender-based violence survivor movements and global community led solutions to violence. Media includes: The New Republic, Vogue, New York Magazine, MSNBC.

Taylr Ucker-Lauderman is Chief Officer of Communications & Engagement at the Ohio Alliance to End Sexual Violence, where she works to use the media as a platform for supporting and uplifting survivors in Ohio and beyond. Taylr believes that we must all use the tools at our disposal in order to address systems of oppression and the violence they cause in our world, and she does this by amplifying the voices of survivors and of professionals in her field. Taylr is also an adjunct instructor at Wright State University, where she facilitates Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies courses including Intro to WGS, Feminist Theory, and Feminist Activism. Spreading this knowledge to students and empowering them to continue this feminist work is a major piece of her life. Extensive media experience.

Antonieta Rico is Women, Peace, and Security Advisor at Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI). Previously, she was the Director of Communications and Policy at the Service Women's Action Network (SWAN), where she led their public affairs efforts. She served in the U.S. Army from October 2001 to September 2008, working as a military journalist and public affairs NCO. She has served in Iraq and embedded with various Army and infantry units during day-to-day missions and combat operations. She has been published in various outlets including USA TODAY and most recently wrote in TIME about the military's sexual assault epidemic and #MeToo. She also speaks on different panels and forums on the challenges women veterans and military women face. Media includes: Task & Purpose, National Geographic, La Opinión.

Elizabeth L. Jeglic Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, and co-director of the Sex Offender Research Lab. She is an internationally renowned expert on criminal justice reform, sexual violence prevention, child abuse prevention, sexual offenders and sex offender legislation as well as suicide and suicide prevention. Jeglic is the co-editor of New Frontiers in Offender Treatment: The Translation of Evidence-Based Practices to Correctional Settings. She also co-edited the book Sexual Violence: Evidence Based Policy and Prevention and is the co-author of the book Protecting Your Child from Sexual Abuse: What you Need to Know to Keep your Kids Safe. Media includes: The New York Times, The Huffington Post, The Guardian.

Wagatwe Wanjuki is a feminist activist, speaker, writer, and digital strategist best known for her work as a national campus anti-violence advocate. Since launching a campaign for a better sexual assault policy at Tufts University in 2009, she's continued to work for a world free of gender-based violence. In July 2016, she co-founded a new anti-rape organization — Survivors Eradicating Rape Culture. Its inaugural campaign, #JustSaySorry, received international media attention with one video covering the campaign racking up over 7 million views in one week. Media includes: PolicyMic, Feministing, ESSENCE Magazine, CNN, MSNBC.

Jennifer Pierce-Weeks, RN, is Chief Executive Officer for the International Association of Forensic Nurses, where she implemented the adult/adolescent online SANE training and learning management system. She comes with 30 years nursing experience, with a focus on forensic nursing since 1995. She presents nationally on a variety of forensic nursing-related topics, including sexual assault and abuse, intimate partner violence, strangulation, child maltreatment and program sustainability. Media includes: Cosmopolitan, Teen Vogue, Health, CNN.

Deborah Tuerkheimer is a Professor of Law at Northwestern University's Pritzker School of Law. She teaches and writes in the areas of criminal law, evidence, and feminist legal theory. She is the author of Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers and Flawed Convictions: “Shaken Baby Syndrome” and the Inertia of Injustice. She is also a co-author of the casebook Feminist Jurisprudence: Cases and Materials and the author of numerous articles on sexual violence and domestic violence. After clerking for Alaska Supreme Court Justice Jay Rabinowitz, she served for five years as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney's Office, where she specialized in domestic violence prosecution. Media includes: The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Economist, The Guardian, CBS, CNN.

Fatima Goss Graves, is the President and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center. Ms. Goss Graves has served in numerous roles at the National Women’s Law Center for more than a decade and has a distinguished track record working across a broad set of issues central to women’s lives—including income security, health and reproductive rights, education access, and workplace justice. Goss Graves is currently overseeing the Center’s administration of the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, which connects those who experience sexual misconduct including assault, harassment, abuse and related retaliation in the workplace or in trying to advance their careers with legal and public relations assistance. Media includes: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Associated Press, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle, CNN, MSNBC, PBS, NPR.

Justine Andronici has devoted her career to advocating for women's rights, victims rights and social justice. Andronici is a trainer, consultant, advocate, attorney, educator, and expert in the arenas of sexual assault, domestic violence, and women's rights and workplace discrimination. She has extensive experience in women's rights and victims rights. Her civil practice areas have included sexual assault, child sexual abuse, domestic violence, and civil rights civil law, including Title IX, Title IV, Section 1983 cases. Andronici represented multiple survivors in the Jerry Sandusky/Penn State University sexual abuse cases. Justine now serves as a consultant and expert trainer for other legal system professionals, advocates and non-profit organizations. Media includes: Ms. Magazine, MSNBC, CNN, NPR.

Rochelle Keyhan is the Chief Executive Officer of Collective Liberty and the 2018 Thomson Reuters Foundation Stop Slavery Hero. Rochelle offers 10 years of experience in government and nonprofit organizations as an advocate for vulnerable populations, leveraging in-depth experience in gender-based violence issues, including domestic violence, sexual violence, and human trafficking. As CEO at Collective Liberty, she develops and executes the organization's strategic direction and collaborations focused on disrupting specific types of human trafficking, including recruiting and maintaining robust collaborative networks of law enforcement, agency stakeholders, and service providers. Media includes: The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Chicago Tribune, Associated Press New York Magazine, NBC, CBS, ABC, NPR.

As the co-founder and co-director of Healing to Action, Karla Altmayer, Esq. advances a multidisciplinary, community-driven model to transform individuals, neighborhoods, and broader communities, to break the silence of gender-based violence. Altmayer also co-founded the Coalition Against Workplace Sexual Violence (CAWSV), a collaboration among sexual assault advocates, attorneys, and labor organizers in Chicago, and co-authored its popular education curriculum and legal guide. Media includes: Univision, Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, La Raza, Chicagoist, WBEZ.

Dr. Amber J. Keyser has a PhD from the University of Georgia and is the author of fifteen books for tweens and teens. She has significant expertise in sex-positive and consent-focused sex education, rape culture and the #MeToo movement, and the commodification of the female body in history, fashion, and media. She is the author of No More Excuses: Dismantling Rape Culture (Twenty-First Century Books, 2019), a deep dive into the #MeToo movement, which dissects the beliefs, behaviors, and cultural norms that excuse and normalize male sexual aggression and violence. Extensive media experience.

Carrie N. Baker is a Professor in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. She is an expert on women's rights law and policy, specializing in sexual harassment, sex trafficking, and reproductive rights and justice. Baker's primary areas of research are women's legal history, gender and public policy, and feminist activism. Her first book, The Women's Movement Against Sexual Harassment (Cambridge University Press, 2008), won the National Women's Studies Association 2008 Sara A. Whaley book prize. This book examines how a diverse grassroots social movement created public policy on sexual harassment in the 1970s and 1980s. Baker’s second book, Fighting the US Youth Sex Trade: Gender, Race and Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2018), tells the story of activism against youth involvement in the sex trade in the United States between 1970 and 2015. Media includes: Ms. Magazine, New Hampshire Gazette, NPR.

Jaclyn Friedman is a writer, educator and activist, and creator of four books Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape (one of Publishers’ Weekly’s Top 100 Books of 2009), What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl’s Shame-Free Guide to Sex & Safety, Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All, and her latest, Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World. Friedman’s work popularized the “yes means yes” standard of sexual consent that has been implemented on many U.S. campuses and made law in numerous states and countries. In her book, Unscrewed, she calls on the movement for women’s sexual liberation to move past individualistic “empowerment” messages (for which she coined the term “fauxpowerment”) to focus on collectively transforming the systems and institutions invested in keeping women servile. Media includes: The Washington Post, The Today Show, Huffington Post, Salon, CNN, BBC.

Dr. Carolyn M. West is Professor of Clinical Psychology in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences and affiliate Professor in the Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. She is a nationally recognized Black feminist scholar who investigates gender-based violence in the lives of African American women, with a focus on domestic violence, sexual assault, and sexual harassment. Dr. West has authored more than 70 academic publications and is editor/contributor of "Violence in the Lives of Black Women: Battered, Black, and Blue" and writer/producer of “Let Me Tell Ya’ll ‘Bout Black Chicks: Images of Black Women in Pornography.” She has taught courses on Sex Crimes and Sexual Violence, Family Violence, and the Psychology of Black Women for more than 30 years. Extensive media experience.

Dr. Megha Ramaswamy, Professor of Population Health at KU Medical Center, is a recognized thought leader in the field of criminal justice and women’s health. As a sexual health researcher and academic, her work has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health and her research portfolio is over $9 million. For the last 15 years she has studied how the intersection of urban living, race, class, and gender structure health and social risk for women and men involved in the criminal justice system. Megha's work has led to the development of behavioral and systems-level interventions that address the intersection of trauma, sexual health, and cancer prevention. Media includes: Rewire, The Medical Care Blog.

Yana Spencer is a journalist, women's rights activist and the founder of Tamu Bakery - a non-profit empowering survivors of gender-based violence. Through Tamu Bakery, Yana has run empowerment workshops with hundreds of women in over 15 countries where it is dangerous to be female. She has been privileged to work with such inspirational women as Maasai girls in Kenya affected by FGM and forced marriage; Kosovan widows - survivors of rape as a weapon of war, victims of incest in Sri Lanka and sex-trafficked girls in Vietnam and Nepal. Yana charts her journey of discovery of women's lives on her Cake Hour blog and is a sought-after speaker and trainer on the issues of women's empowerment and gender-based violence, talking at universities and special events in many countries including Sri Lanka, Japan, Oman and Saudi Arabia. Media includes: Cosmopolitan, Ordinary Women Podcast, Matador Network.

Jane Manning is a former sex crimes prosecutor, a victim rights advocate, and a leading expert in criminal justice and violence against women. As Director of the Women’s Equal Justice Project, she helps survivors of sexual assault navigate the criminal justice system. She served as president of the NYC chapter of NOW, where she helped lead successful campaigns to repeal New York’s statute of limitations on rape and to criminalize strangulation attacks. She trains first-year prosecutors annually on interviewing crime victims. At the Women’s Equal Justice Project, she is working to improve the justice system’s response to sexual assault, including the violent and under-prosecuted crime of drug-facilitated sexual assault. Media includes: New York Daily News, Buzzfeed, San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Times, Elite Daily, NPR.

Lisalyn R. Jacobs is the CEO of Just Solutions: Bringing in justice to counteract injustice, and the former V.P. of Government Relations for Legal Momentum (formerly NOW Legal Defense & Education Fund). She has testified before congressional committees at both the state and federal levels. She has also fought for and secured needed protections for poor women and survivors of violence in a number of key federal laws including two reauthorizations of the Violence Against Women Act (2005 and 2013), the 2006 reauthorization of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, and the 2009 amendments to the Stimulus law. Media includes: The New York Times, The Huffington Post, NPR, MSNBC, CNN, Fox.

Jessica (“Jessi”) Gold, MD, MS, is an Assistant Professor and the Director of Wellness, Engagement, and Outreach in the Department of Psychiatry at Washington University in Saint Louis School of Medicine. Dr. Gold’s areas of interest are in college mental health, women’s mental health and gender equity, physician wellness, medical education, and the between popular media, stigma, and psychiatry. She has written about Judge Aquilina’s handling of the Larry Nassar case and its importance for survivors, educating about how to prepare for psychotherapy, and first person accounts of sexual harassment in healthcare for the InStyle launch of TIME’S UP Healthcare. Media includes: InStyle, Self Magazine, Glamour, Time, Huffington Post.

Madeline Garcia Bigelow is the Associate Director and Director of the Domestic Violence Project at the Urban Justice Center, an advocacy and direct legal service organization dedicated to serving New York City’s most vulnerable residents. She founded the Project in 2003, assembling a team of attorneys, social workers, and advocates who work cohesively to address the issues confronted by victims of domestic violence in both a legal and non-legal context. Media includes: New York Daily News, Telemundo, Chronicle of Philanthropy.

María E. Garay-Serratos is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Pánfila Domestic Violence HOPE Foundation, one of the world’s first non-profit organization dedicated to creating awareness and solutions for the silent epidemic of domestic violence-related traumatic brain injury (DV-TBI). She is also the Protagonist, Associate Producer, and DV Expert for This Hits Home, a powerful documentary by Scotia Entertainment that introduces the world to fearless survivors, grassroots workers acting to end domestic violence and leading neurologists. Garay-Serratos’ career is a product of extensive academic training, hands-on experience with at-risk children and domestic violence victims, and a heroic struggle to overcome domestic violence in her family. Media includes: Huffington Post, LA Times, The Arizona Republic, Frontdoor News.

Kamila A. Alexander is an Associate Professor and Director of the Threads Research Lab (threadsresearchlab.org) at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. She is a nationally recognized expert in intimate partner violence, HIV prevention, LGBTQIA+ health, as well as reproductive health among cisgender Black women. Dr. Alexander is an advanced practice public health nurse and former Director of Nursing at federally qualified health centers where her specialty clinical practice focused on implementing programs to promote well-being for women living with HIV and adolescent sexual and reproductive health. She uses health equity and social justice lenses, including intersectionality to examine the complexities of intimate human relationships using sex-positive approaches. Media includes: USA Today, The Washington Post, CNN.

Grace Catan is a Filipina American advocate for survivors of sexual violence. She is the creator of The Tell Someone Project, which aims to help survivors reach out to the people around them through safe structured conversations. Grace is also a Community Organizer at She Is The Universe, a global movement for girls' empowerment and intersectional feminist non-profit organization. She has been featured in The LA Progressive, Woke Magazine, The Women's Media Center, and more.

Kirthi Jayakumar is a feminist researcher working in the areas of women, peace, and security, transitional justice, and feminist foreign policy. She founded and runs The Gender Security Project, one of the few WPS centres in the global south, which works at the cusp of gender, security, peace, and conflict through research, reportage, and documentation. Kirthi also set up the CRSV Observatory, which works to document conflict-related, systemic, and mass sexual violence across time and space. She currently serves as an advisor to the Women7 (W7) under the German Presidency of the G7. Kirthi coded an app for survivors of gender-based violence called Saahas, which works as a web and mobile app. She formerly founded and ran the Red Elephant Foundation, a civilian peacebuilding initiative that works for gender equality through storytelling, advocacy and digital interventions. Media includes: The Guardian, TIME, The Hindu, TransConflict.