Maria Garay-Serratos, M.S.W., Ph.D., is CEO of Sojourner Center, one of the nation’s largest domestic violence shelters, serving nearly 9,000 women and children each year with programs to achieve a world free of domestic violence. Dr. Garay-Serratos was appointed to lead the Phoenix-based organization in 2013. Under Dr. Garay’s leadership, Sojourner Center has launched a five-year strategic plan to extend its services deeper into Arizona’s diverse communities with education and prevention efforts aimed at ending the cycle of domestic violence. Media includes: Los Angeles Times, Arizona Republic, The Huffington Post. 

Emily F. Rothman is a Professor of Community Health Sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health. She is also a visiting scientist at the Harvard Injury Control Research Center (HICRC). Dr. Rothman is a researcher and conducts studies on dating violence, sexual violence, pornography, and human trafficking. She authored a report on programs for perpetrators of intimate partner violence published by the World Health Organization and has collaborated with colleagues in violence prevention at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Media includes: New York Times magazine, the Wall Street Journal, Teen Vogue, CNN, NBC, NPR.  

Angela Esquivel is an Assistant Dean at Stanford University’s Graduate Life Office. She is also Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the As One Project, a national 501(c)(3) organization that supports friends and family of survivors of sexual assault. The As One Project is the first national non-profit to provide resources and support exclusively for friends and family members of survivors of sexual violence. Media includes: SELF Magazine, Huffington Post.

L.Y. Marlow’s story involves four generations of mothers and daughters who survived more than 60 years of domestic violence. When Marlow discovered that her 22-year-old daughter and granddaughter, a little girl named Promise, now the fifth generation, were trapped in an abusive relationship, she founded Saving Promise with the intention of saving Promise which blossomed into a vision for the nation. Media includes: MSNBC, CNN, Huffington Post Live, Fox News, NPR.

Jane Manning is a former prosecutor who now serves as Director of Advocacy of the New York City chapter of the National Organization for Women, focusing on their new initiative to combat drug-facilitated sexual assault. She began her career as a prosecutor, specializing in cases of domestic violence, child abuse, and sex crimes. In private practice, she provided pro bono representation to a coalition of battered women’s organizations. Media includes: The New York Times, WNYC News, NPR. 

Zahara Green is the Founder and Executive Director of TRANScending Barriers, a trans-led group whose mission is to empower the transgender and gender non- conforming community in Georgia through community organizing with leadership building, advocacy, and direct services. Green is the Deputy Director of Witness to Mass Incarceration, where she works to improve the PREA auditing process to eliminate sexual abuse in confinement. Media includes: Rolling Stone, Buzzfeed, INTO, AJC. 

Kristen Houser is a leading expert on sexual violence. With decades of experience in the field, Houser is a go-to source for context and expert opinion to national, regional, and international media on sexual assault issues and cases. Houser is currently a lead spokesperson for the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC), the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape and Raliance, a national partnership working to end sexual violence in one generation. She provides expert opinion, context and facts about sexual assault to media covering high-profile cases, including those of Bill Cosby and Jerry Sandusky. Media includes: New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, Forbes, CNN.

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 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: New York Times, NPR, MSNBC, CNN, Fox.

Tarah Demant is the Director of the Gender, Sexuality, and Identity Program at Amnesty International USA. She leads the organization’s work on women’s rights, LGBTI rights, the rights of Indigenous Peoples, and sexual and reproductive rights. She brings over fifteen years of experience in global gender issues and has advocated for human rights at the United Nations, the White House, State Department, Department of Defense, USAID, Capitol Hill, and with many foreign governments. She co-chairs the Coalition to End Violence Against Women Globally. Media includes: The New York Times, Al Jazeera, Time, USA Today, The Nation, CNN, BBC, PRI.

Lourdes Guadalupe Martinez is the Political Director of Mujeres Unidas y Activas, or MUA, a grassroots organization of Latina immigrant women in the San Francisco Bay Area with a double mission of promoting personal transformation and building community power for social and economic justice. MUA’s focus issue areas are Immigrant Rights; Domestic Worker Rights; and Violence Against Women. Media includes: Univision, Telemundo, NBC Bay Area, KQED News.

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. Dr. Keyser is author of No More Excuses: Dismantling Rape Culture (Twenty-First Century Books, 2019), a deep dive into the #MeToo movement, dissects the beliefs, behaviors, and cultural norms that excuse and normalize male sexual aggression and violence. Media includes: Oregon Public Broadcasting, KPOV Radio, KBOO Portland Radio. 

Rebecca Nagle is a citizen of Cherokee Nation and a two spirit (queer) woman. Nagle is a community organizer and writer currently living in Tahlequah, OK and studying the Cherokee language. As the co-founder and former co-Director of FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture and The Monument Quilt, Nagle organized national art and advocacy projects to create a culture of support for survivors. Media includes: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, NPR, NBC, CNN. 

Juhu Thukral is Vice President of Programs at the International Women's Health Coalition. She is a human rights lawyer, social impact leader, and founder of numerous ventures focused on the rights of women, girls, and LGBTQ people. She works in the global context, addressing the many dimensions of sexual health and rights, gender-based violence, and women’s leadership. Media includes: New York Times, Washington Post, ABC News, WNYC.

Charon Asetoyer (Comanche), a Native American women's health activist. She 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 includes: The New York Times, Jezebel, Colorlines, CNN, NPR. 

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. Hannah Brancato and Rebecca Nagle formed FORCE in 2010 to create a more public, difficult and honest conversation, demanding that we face the realities of sexual violence in the US. Media includes: Bitch Media, Jezebel, New York Magazine, Huffington Post. 

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 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: Health, Cosmopolitan, Teen Vogue.

Born in Puerto Rico, Ada Alvarez Conde has been working 14 years doing an international campaign of awareness of dating violence. She’s the author of the novel, Lo que no dije, which she wrote when she was 15 years old, becoming Puerto Rico youngest novelist. With this book she started giving conferences about dating violence and advocating for prevention of domestic violence. She works in the Senate of Puerto Rico as Director of the Women Commission for her multiple bill proposals and work in public policy. Media includes: Al Jazeera, Univision, CNN.