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 is is a communications strategist and management consultant with a multimedia background, as well as experience in policy advocacy, strategic planning, fund development, media training, and education. Extensive media experience. 

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. Ms. 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 includes: Bloomberg, Forbes.

Jessica Neuwirth is co-Founder and co-President of the ERA Coalition/Fund for Women’s Equality, and author of Equal Means Equal, Why the Time for the ERA is Now. She is one of the founders and Honorary President of Equality Now. From 1985 to 1990, she worked for Amnesty International and subsequently for Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, specializing in sovereign debt restructuring. Extensive media experience.

Antonieta Rico is the Director of Communications and Policy at the Service Women's Action Network (SWAN), where she leads 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. In addition to her work at SWAN, she is a Program Associate at Women in International Security where she works for the Combat Integration Initiative supporting the successful integration of women into combat arms units. Media includes: TIME, Task & Purpose, USA Today, National Geographic. 

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: C-span, NPR, PBS, Comcast, Voice of America, Radio One, GREX Radio, WVLY.  

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, CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post.

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, PBS, New York Times, Women's E-News Columnist. 

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. During her tenure at Oxfam, Adams created high-level partnerships with government leaders and multinational corporations and, under her leadership, Oxfam doubled its financial commitment to women’s rights. Also at Oxfam, she led the creation of an innovation partnership to support young feminists called Roots Lab. 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. Ms. 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, AP, 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 were 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, NBC News, Orange County Register. 

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, Ms. 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. 

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.  

Julene Allen is a military veteran, and former insurance professional turned women's rights activist, journalist, author and is the Executive Director of Women For Action. She founded the multi-media non-profit which elevates the work of under-recognized women trailblazers through interviews. Allen is also a LEAN IN regional leader and serve as director of the global network, LEAN IN | Women of Color which aids in the advancement and retention of women of color in leadership and high-ranking positions. The program provides bridge building resources for communities and organizations. Other initiatives she spearheads are the the petition to Elevate August 26th, Women’s Equality Day to a Federal Holiday on Change.org, the Native American Women’s Equal Pay Day Awareness Project and the Latinas Equal Pay Day Commemoration Project. Media experience: Chicago Parent, Lean In Women of Color.

Beverly Wettenstein is a New York City-based journalist, and a women’s historian. She is the founder of the first annual “2006 Women and Major Magazines Cover Stories Monitor” in which she reviewed every issue of Business Week, Forbes, Fortune, Newsweek and Time in 2006. She is also the founder of the “Women in History and Making History Today – 365-Days-A-Year Database.” The message in her writing and speeches is “Celebrate Women Every Day!” She is the author of “A WOMAN’S BOOK OF DAYS,” the daily chronicle of “Female Firsts,” Fun Facts, and hundreds of popular and unknown women’s achievements. Media includes: CNN, PBS, and WNYC-TV.

Carmen Rios, the digital editor of Ms. Magazine, has a decade of successful work in the feminist movement—as a writer, editor, and digital activist. She was previously the Feminism Editor, Social Media Co-Director, and Community Director at Autostraddle; a blogger and activist with the SPARK Movement; a contributor at Everyday Feminism. She has also crafted and implemented successful digital media strategies at organizations like Hollaback!, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, and the Feminist Majority Foundation. A nationally-recognized thought leader, Carmen frequently appears in media and at events to speak on feminist issues. Media includes: DIVA Magazine, Bossy Show, Bitch Magazine, The New York Times, the Guardian, NPR, CBS Early Show, Time, Good Morning America. 

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 10 years of experience in racial justice, feminist and youth leadership development movement work. Charlene is a member of a historic delegation of young activists in Palestine in 2015 to build solidarity between Black and Palestinian liberation movements. Her inspirations include a range of Black women, including Ella Baker, Cathy Cohen, and Barbara Ransby. Media Experience: NPR, MSNBC, World BBC News, and WGN TV.