Janet Dewart Bell is a social justice advocate, activist, executive coach, and motivational speaker, with a doctorate in Leadership and Change from Antioch University. She is the author of Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement. She has been a key strategist and senior executive at a number of national organizations including PolicyLink, the National Urban League, and National Public Radio (NPR). Media includes: The ED Show, NPR.

Rebecca Adamson is a Cherokee economist, leader, activist, and ground-breaking indigenous woman. She is the founder and former president of First Peoples Worldwide, the first US-based global Indigenous Peoples NGO. She holds a distinct perspective on how indigenous people’s values and economic systems can transform the business models of today. Adamson was the first Native American to serve on the board of Calvert Investment Funds, one of the largest socially responsible investment management companies in the United States. Media incldues: Bloomberg, Forbes.

Kirsten Swinth is Professor of History and American Studies at Fordham University in New York and has a Ph.D. from Yale University. She specializes in the history of women, work, and family as well as the history of feminism and the women’s movement. She comments on issues of work-life balance; care work and emotional labor; labor in the U.S.; and women in the workforce. She recently published a book on the 1960s and 70s U.S. women's movement and written on the politics of work and family in the 1980s. She is currently writing a book on the history of the modern U.S. "working family." Media includes: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, CNN, NPR.

Treva B. Lindsey is a Black feminist cultural critic, historian, and commentator. She is the author of the Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2017 Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington D.C.. She is also a professor at The Ohio State University. Many of her pieces focus on representations and experiences of Black women, although her work on race, gender, sexuality, culture and politics encompasses the far-reaching and often untold effects of current events and pop culture moments. Media includes: Al Jazeera, Complex, Vox, The Root, Huffington Post, Popsugar, Teen Vogue, Grazia UK, The Grio and Cosmopolitan, BET.

Bettina Hager is the DC Director and COO of the ERA Coalition and Fund for Women's Equality. The ERA Coalition and Fund for Women's Equality are sister organizations working together to educate, advocate and organize to ensure constitutional equality in the United States. She previously served as the co-Chair of the Equal Rights Amendment Task Force of the National Council of Women's Organizations and has been helping lead the movement for constitutional equality since 2012. Media includes: Vice, The Hill, CNN.

Antonieta Rico is a fellow at Women in International Security. 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 worked as Deputy News Editor at Army Times and Navy Times reporting on the Coast Guard, training cycles, gender integration and military quality of life issues. Media includes: TIME, Task & Purpose, USA Today, National Geographic.

Yasmeen Hassan is the Global Executive Director of Equality Now, an international human rights organization focused on women and girls’ rights. She is a native of Pakistan and has been involved in women’s rights since very early in her career, authoring the first study of domestic violence in Pakistan, which ultimately became the country’s submission to the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. Media includes: Al Jazeera, The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN.

Joan Bradley Wages’ passion and determination to make the National Women’s History Museum a reality is a personal campaign that has consumed her life for nearly 20 years. Now President Emerita, she served as President and CEO of NWHM for over 10 years. Throughout her career, she focused on women’s issues on Capitol Hill which culminated when she served as a founding board member of the National Women’s History Museum working to raise money and pass legislation to move the Suffrage Statue depicting founders of the U.S. suffrage movement from the Capitol Crypt upstairs into the Rotunda where it now stands. Media includes: Voice of America, Radio One, GREX Radio, WVLY, PBS, NPR.

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. She is the author of nine books, including Among Women and the founder of two Women’s Studies programs and has been in print from the debut of MS. Media includes: Huffington Post, New York Times, Women's E-News Columnist, PBS.

Siri Chilazi is a Research Fellow at the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School. Her life’s work is to advance gender equality in the workplace through research and research translation. She operates at the intersection of academia and practice, both conducting research on how organizations can become more diverse, equitable, and inclusive, and bringing those research insights to practitioners through speaking, training, workshops, and media appearances. Media includes: Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, BBC, Fast Company, Forbes.

K Sujata is the President and CEO of Chicago Foundation for Women, a grantmaking organization focused on basic rights and equal opportunities for women and girls in the greater Chicago area. Under her leadership, the foundation has experienced double-digit growth. She has been the Director of Programs at the Eleanor Foundation (now part of Chicago Foundation for Women) where she was instrumental in developing and implementing the foundation’s unique program aimed at the economic self-sufficiency of low income working women. Sujata started her career in nonprofits as the Executive Director of Apna Ghar (Our Home), a domestic violence agency serving immigrant battered women and their children. Media includes: Chicago Tribune, Chicago Public Media, Crain's Chicago Business.

Laurie Adams is the Chief Executive Officer of Women for Women International (WfWI), a leading global organization that works with women survivors of war in Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kosovo, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Nigeria, Rwanda, and South Sudan offering support, tools, and access to life-changing skills to move women and communities from crisis and poverty to stability and economic self-sufficiency. Media includes: ABC, CBS, NBC, BBC.

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, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Associated Press, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle, CNN, MSNBC, PBS, NPR.

Brenda Choresi Carter directs The Reflective Democracy Campaign, an initiative of the Women Donors Network, the Campaign conducts groundbreaking research that shines a light on the exclusion of women and people of color from political leadership, and catalyzes activism and scholarship aimed at achieving a democracy where everyone has a seat at the table. Carter also worked with UNITE HERE where she helped to lead a nationwide effort to empower a workforce constituted overwhelmingly by immigrants, people of color, and women. In a previous position she worked at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Brenda led an investigation into one of the largest sexual harassment cases in the agency’s history. Media includes: The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, Huffington Post, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The New Yorker, Slate, Time, NPR, MSNBC.

Karin Wang is the Executive Director of UCLA School of Law's David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy. In that role, she heads the nation’s leading academic program focused on training the next generation of lawyers working in nonprofit, advocacy, and government sectors. Previously, she was the Vice-President of Programs & Communications for Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles, the nation’s largest legal organization for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. For more than 20 years, Wang has advocated for civil rights and immigrant rights, covering issues such as race discrimination and defamation, language rights, immigration and immigrant integration, and LGBT equality. Media includes: The New York Times, The Atlantic, Huffington Post, Orange County Register, NBC News.

Carol Jenkins is the Co-President and CEO of The ERA Coalition and the Fund for Women’s Equality, sister organizations dedicated to the passage and enactment of the Equal Rights Amendment. She is also a writer, media analyst, commentator, and speaker on media issues, as well as an Emmy-award winning journalist and documentary producer. She served as the founding president of the Women’s Media Center, before focussing on the health of women and girls in the U.S. and in developing countries, while serving on the board of The African Medical Research Foundation (AMREF) the largest health organization on the African continent. Media includes: Christian Science Monitor, Huffington Post.

Aimee Allison is the Founder of She the People, the national network elevating the political voice and power of women of color. By bringing together the most promising women of color candidates, strategists, and movement leaders, Ms. Allison is one of the primary architects for the electoral successes in 2018 that made it the “year of women of color in politics.” In September 2018, she convened the first summit to focus on women of color in politics to show that social justice can, in fact, become the law of the land. In conjunction with her leadership of She the People, Allison is President of Democracy in Color, dedicated to empowering the multiracial progressive electorate through media, public conversations, research, and analysis. Media includes: The New York Times, The Hill, ESSENCE Magazine.

Carmen Perez is something of a Renaissance woman in modern-day activism. She has dedicated 20 years to advocating for many of today's important civil rights issues, including mass incarceration, gender equity, violence prevention, racial healing and community policing. As the Executive Director of The Gathering for Justice, a nonprofit founded by legendary artist and activist Harry Belafonte, Carmen has crossed the globe promoting peace through civil and human rights, building alternatives to incarceration and violence, and providing commentary and guidance for state and federal policy creation. Media includes: The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate Magazine, Reuters, Refinery29, Glamour, Teen Vogue.

Elyse Shaw is a Study Director at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Elyse directs IWPR’s projects on the Status of Women in the United States, women’s political participation, and those related to women and girls of color, which examines the intersectional nature of race and gender on women’s lives. Elyse also works extensively on workforce development and job training initiatives and contributes to IWPR’s research on global women’s issues, including providing technical assistance to the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization on the establishment of a gender policy institute in Palestine. Media includes: The Washington Post, Public Radio International.

Saralyn Mark MD, American Medical Women's Association Covid lead, is an endocrinologist, geriatrician, and world-renowned women's health specialist is the founder, president, and CEO of SolaMed Solutions, LLC, a precision innovations consulting firm. In this capacity, she has served as a medical and scientific policy advisor, providing strategic direction for organizations and federal agencies such as the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Strategic Investment Fund, academia, industry, and non-governmental and professional society organizations. She is also the founder and president of the iGIANT®, a nonprofit dedicated to accelerating the translation of research into gender/sex-specific design elements across all sectors. Media includes: The Independent, MSNBC, Fox.

Kristina Leath-Malin, MA, MFA first published work was a look at the evolution of women in French Horror Cinema -"Objectification Repackaged: the Women of 21st Century French Horror." She continued her feminist scholarship by bringing it home to the states with a personal look at Black Women in American Horror Cinema - "My Final Girl". This work has culminated in a short documentary film, web series, internet database, and soon to be published book. Her work has a continued focus on the feminine narrative in all its aspects from race to sexual orientations to culture and ageism in an attempt to challenge the patriarchal history of the cinematic narrative. Media includes: Focus Features, Channel One News, Zeitgeist Films, ION television, Brooklyn Free Speech Bric.

Dr. Amber J. Keyser 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. 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. Related titles, also written through the lens of intersectional feminism, include UNDERNEATH IT ALL: A HISTORY OF WOMEN'S UNDERWEAR (2018) and TYING THE KNOT: A WORLD HISTORY OF MARRIAGE (2018). Media includes: Oregon Public Broadcasting, KPOV Bend Community Radio, KBOO Portland Community Radio, Central Oregon Daily TV, Portland Monthly.

Lara S. Kaufmann is Director of Public Policy for Girls Inc., where she leads the organization’s work to advance girls’ rights and opportunities and empower girls to advocate for social change. Lara directs #GirlsToo, the Girls Inc. national public awareness and advocacy campaign to prevent and address sexual harassment and sexual violence among youth. Media includes: Al Jazeera, The Nation, Huffinton Post, Politico, Vice, CNN.

Janus Adams is a host and Co-Executive producer of public radio’s The Janus Adams Show, pioneer of issue-oriented African-American and women’s programming, she has hosted her own radio and television shows for fifteen years. Her 19-hour International Women’s Day marathon broadcasts brought her to NPR. Janus is a dynamic speaker and passionate storyteller, she is known for her unique views on current events through the lens of history. She was engaged by history since childhood, a northern school desegregation pioneer at 8, she was one of the four children selected to break New York’s “de facto” public school segregation in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education. Media includes: ABC, Airamerica, BET, CBS, CNN, FOX, Hearst News, NBC, NPR, Newsday, USA today.

Page Gardner is the founder and president of the Voter Participation Center (VPC). VPC has developed new ways to enfranchise and empower the historically under-represented groups that now comprise the Rising American Electorate (RAE), including unmarried women, African Americans, Hispanics and other people of color, and millennials. Since its founding, VPC has helped more than 2.5 million Americans register to vote. Gardner co-founded the VPC in 2003, with the goal of increasing unmarried women’s participation in the political process. Media includes: CNN, MSNBC, NBC, PBS, NPR.

Dr. Kimberly C. Ellis's work on American Studies, History, Women's Studies, Theater and Popular Culture can be found in The Paradox of Loyalty: An African American Response to the War on Terror by Third World Press. She is also a Social Media Director for Issues and electoral campaigns, a Trainer for Democracy for America's "War for Women," the Co-host of the live panel turned web series, "Ask a Sista: Black Women Muse on Politics, Policy, Pop Culture and Scholarship." Since May 2018, Ellis has been Playwright-in Residence at Camargo Foundation in France. Media includes: BBC_WHYS, NPR, KDKA, WKQV News Radio, Voices of Russia Radio, The League of Young Voters.

Amy Simon, Cultural Herstorian, is the founder and creator of SHE’S HISTORY! Amy writes and blogs about women who make and made history. Simon appears weekly on the Nicole Sandler Show Radioornot.com with her Fabulous Female Facts and is a guest commentator for American Woman In Fact And Fiction. She performed as Bella Abzug at The Manhattan Borough President's Office, celebrating the Anniversary of the Herstoric 1977 Houston Women's Conference. SImon is always interested in hearing and presenting what women have to say. Media includes: Pacifica Radio, XETV-San Diego, Premiere Radio, CBS Radio, KPBS-San Diego.

Charlene A. Carruthers is a Black, queer feminist community organizer and writer with over 15 years of experience in racial justice, feminist and youth leadership development movement work. As the founding national director of BYP100 (Black Youth Project 100), she has worked alongside hundreds of young Black activists to build a national base of activist member-led organization of Black 18-35 year olds dedicated to creating justice and freedom for all Black people. Media includes: The New York Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Reader, The Nation, Ebony, MSNBC, CNN, BBC.

Dr. Musimbi Kanyoro was President and CEO of the Global Fund for Women for nine years. The Global Fund for Women is a public foundation which seeds, strengthens, links and supports the capacity building of women’s rights organizations in every part of the world. Their grants help expand the choices available to women and ensure that women’s voices are heard at local, national and international levels. Media includes: The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, CNN, BBC.

Kelly Dittmar is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University–Camden and Scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics at the Eagleton Institute of Politics. She is the author of Navigating Gendered Terrain: Stereotypes and Strategy in Political Campaigns (Temple University Press, 2015), as well as multiple book chapters on gender and American politics. Dittmar’s research focuses on gender and American political institutions, including Congress, with a particular focus on how gender informs campaigns and the impact of gender diversity among elites in policy and political decisions, priorities, and processes. Media includes: Huffington Post, The Washington Post, MSNBC, NPR.

Lyric Thompson is the Director of Policy and Advocacy at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW). In this capacity, she leads the institution’s formulation of evidence-based policy recommendations and oversees ICRW’s advocacy efforts with the U.S. Government and internationally. She is an adjunct professor at the George Washington University, where she teaches a graduate level course on women’s rights advocacy. Media includes: The New York Times, The Hill, Al Jazeera, Voice of America, Foreign Policy.