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Our Future is Collective

Annual Member Day & Summit

Brooklyn, NY

About the Event

Women Moving Millions’ Annual Member Day and Summit 2025 will take place October 15-17, as we return to Brooklyn, New York.

The Women Moving Millions Annual Summit is an invitation-only event for our members and select guests. Our 2025 Annual Summit will bring together experts, thought leaders, and changemakers to reimagine a future that is equitable for all, examine the role of feminist philanthropy and investing in supporting systems change, and co-create solutions for collective impact.

Member Day: October 15, 2025 (for WMM members only)
Member Day: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Member Dinner: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Summit Day 1: October 16, 2025
Program: 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Community Dinner: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Summit Day 2: October 17, 2025
Program: 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM

To get a sense of our Summit programming and speakers, we encourage you to visit previous Annual Summit pages here. If you are interested in learning more about our Annual Member Day and/or Summit, please reach out to Amanda Griffin, Director of Community Engagement.

Agenda

Summit Day 1

Brooklyn, NY

Registration, Breakfast & Opt In Breakout Session

8:00am

Morning Session

9am - 12:30pm

Welcome to Our Collective Future

Sarah Haacke Byrd, Chief Executive Officer, Women Moving Millions

Building a Collective Future for Women & Girls Worldwide

Moderator: Amb. Melanne Verveer, Executive Director, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace & Security

Sarah Costa, Executive Director, Women’s Refugee Commission

Alyse Nelson, President & CEO, Vital Voices Global Partnership

Amb. Geeta Rao Gupta, Former Ambassador-at-Large for the Secretary’s Office of Global Women’s Issues, U.S. Dept. of State; Co-Founder, Arch Collaborative

Fired Up For Our Collective Future

Shannon Watts, Founder, Mom’s Demand Action & Author of Fired Up

Investing in the Future of Women’s Wellbeing

Katy Brodsky Falco, Founder & Executive Director, Foundation for Women’s Health

Colleen Foster, General Partner, Amboy Street Ventures

Priyanka Jain, Member, WMM; Co-Founder & CEO, Evvy

Breakout Sessions

Lunch

Afternoon Session

1:15pm - 3:30pm

Exploring the Power of Film to Achieve Justice

Moderator: Jenni Wolfson, CEO, Chicken & Egg Films

Sara Khaki, Filmmaker, Cutting Through Rocks

Nisha Pahuja, Filmmaker, To Kill a Tiger

Monika Parekh, Board Member, WMM; President of P-Squared Philanthropies

Building a Global Movement to End Childhood Sexual Violence

Moderator: Elizabeth Carlock Phillips, Member, WMM; Executive Director, Phillips Foundation

Daniela Ligiero, Chief Executive Officer & President, Together for Girls

Soma Sara, Chief Executive Officer, Everyone’s Invited

S. Mona Sinha, Former Board Chair, WMM; Global Executive Director, Equality Now

Breakout Sessions

Cocktail Reception

6:15pm

Community Dinner: Our Future is Collective Impact - The WMM Catalyst Award Presentation

7:15pm

Award Recipient: Mary Robinson, Co-Founder, Project Dandelion; Former President of Ireland

Moderator: Pat Mitchell, Co-founder of Project Dandelion & Co-Founder Editorial Director of TEDWomen

Summit Day 2

Brooklyn, NY

Breakfast

8:00am

Morning Session

9:00am - 12:00pm

Welcome Back

Stacey Keare, Board Chair, WMM; Founder, Girls Rights Project

Special Keynote

The Imperative of Ending Child Marriage in the U.S.

Moderator: Errin Haines, Editor-At-Large, The 19th*

Dr. Chelsea Clinton, Vice Chair, The Clinton Foundation 

Fraidy Reiss, Founder/Executive Director, Unchained At Last

Our Future is Now: Resourcing the Movement for Girls’ Rights

Moderator: Sarah Hendriks, Director for Policy, Programme, & Intergovernmental Division, UNWOMEN

Shabana Basij-Rasikh, Co-Founder & President, School of Leadership, Afghanistan (SOLA)

Dr. Monique Couvson, President, G4GC

Celina de Sola, Co-Founder & President, Glasswing International

Lunch

Afternoon Session

1:30pm - 3:30pm

Breakout Sessions

Closing Reception

Speakers

Dimple Abichandani

Dimple Abichandani

Dimple Abichandani is a nationally recognized philanthropic leader, lawyer, advisor and author of A New Era of Philanthropy: Ten Practices to Transform Wealth Into a More Just and Sustainable Future, a book that reimagines how philanthropy can meet this moment. For two decades, she has worked to reshape philanthropy’s purpose and practice while leading innovative funding institutions. As Executive Director of the General Service Foundation (2015–2022), she aligned the foundation’s grantmaking, investments, and governance with justice values. She was the founding director of the Rise Together Fund, a donor collaborative at the Proteus Fund, and previously led the Center for Social Justice at UC Berkeley School of Law. A National Center for Family Philanthropy Fellow, Dimple’s leadership has been recognized with a Scrivener Award for Creative Grantmaking. She serves on the Board of Directors of Solidaire Network and has served on the boards/steering committees of the Trust-Based Philanthropy Project, Northern California Grantmakers, and Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees. 

Laila Alodaat

Laila Alodaat

Laila Alodaat is a feminist leader and lawyer with two decades of experience advancing social justice through movement building, strategic litigation, and international advocacy. She currently serves as Executive Director of Prospera – International Network of Women’s and Feminist Funds, where she leads a global community of women and feminist funds committed to transforming resourcing practices and strengthening collective power. Previously, Laila was Deputy Secretary General of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), where she engaged in advocacy on issues related to militarisation, conflict-related human rights violations and feminist movement resourcing in the Global South. Her previous litigation work focused on human rights, international accountability and state extraterritorial commitment. Laila also serves on several boards and advisory groups, including the Resilience Fund for Women in Global Value Chains, the Feminist Review Trust, and Lawyers for Justice in Libya. 

Madeleine Ballard

Dr. Madeleine Ballard

Dr. Madeleine Ballard serves as CEO of Community Health Impact Coalition, a global movement making professional community health workers the norm by changing guidelines, funding and policy. Her work alongside the Coalition was awarded the Roux Prize in 2024 and the Skoll Award for Social Innovation in 2025, and has been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, Foreign Policy, and Lancet Global Health. Through research, advocacy, and organizing with community health workers, she’s driven policy changes that ensure quality care for millions—including those who provide it. Dr. Ballard earned her PhD from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. She is the recipient of the Harvard Women’s Leadership Award, and co-founded of the Anti-Racism Task Force at the Arnhold Institute for Global Health of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where she is on faculty.

Shabana Basij-Rasikh

Shabana Basij-Rasikh

Shabana Basij-Rasikh is the co-founder and president of the School of Leadership, Afghanistan (SOLA). SOLA is the first and only boarding school for Afghan girls, operating in Kabul from 2016 through 2021 and the Taliban’s return to power. In August 2021, Shabana led the evacuation of her entire school community from Afghanistan to Rwanda, where SOLA reestablished its operations and its students resumed their studies; in 2024, SOLA expanded into the digital realm with the launch of SOLAx, a WhatsApp-based online academy with more than 20,000 learners. Shabana is a 2011 magna cum laude graduate of Middlebury College and holds a Master in Public Policy from Oxford University. In 2023, she received the Rolex National Geographic Explorer of the Year award from the National Geographic Society.

Tobi Becerra

Tobi Becerra

Tobi Becerra is a vice president of Philanthropic Strategies for Fidelity Charitable®, an independent 501(c)(3) public charity that has helped donors support more than 433,000 nonprofit organizations with more than $100 billion in grants.1 The mission of Fidelity Charitable® is to grow the American tradition of philanthropy by providing programs that make charitable giving accessible, simple, and effective. In her role as a Philanthropic Strategist, Tobi helped ideate and launch Fidelity Charitable Perspectives, a program designed exclusively to support the country’s most generous philanthropists. She is responsible for the ongoing execution of Perspectives, providing donors, advisors, and family offices with guidance, insight, and solutions to meet their philanthropic goals. With 20 years in the nonprofit sector, her array of experiences helps inform donors about how they can maximize their charitable giving and how the philanthropic sector can spur greater social change.

Ronda Carnegie

Ronda Carnegie

Ronda Carnegie is a movement builder at the intersection of gender equity, climate justice, and storytelling. As Executive Director and Co-Founder of Project Dandelion – a global campaign mobilizing women and allies to amplify bold, collective solutions to the climate crisis – Ronda is helping shape a hopeful future rooted in community, equity, and action. She also co-founded Connected Women Leaders, a network of global changemakers working to elevate feminist leadership on the world’s biggest challenges. Prior to launching Project Dandelion, Ronda helped transform some of the most influential media brands of our time, from The New Yorker to TED. As a member of TED’s original executive team, she was instrumental in scaling TED from a single annual conference into a global media platform. She founded both the TED Institute, unlocking ideas within institutions, and TEDWomen, spotlighting women’s voices worldwide. Ronda currently serves on the board of GOOD/Upworthy and on the advisory boards of Giide and the Omega Institute.

Christina Chang

Christina Chang

Christina serves as Executive Director of the Reproductive Freedom Alliance, bringing decades of experience in public health in public service and as an advocate. Prior to joining the Alliance, Christina served as Chief Program Officer at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. After the overturning of Roe v Wade, she spearheaded the launch of the nation’s first municipally funded Abortion Access Hub, a confidential call center connecting people seeking abortion services to NYC providers, and the provision of medication abortion through its sexual health clinics. Christina previously served as Deputy CEO at Vital Strategies where she launched a global initiative to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality. Before that, she served as Chief External Affairs Officer at Planned Parenthood of NYC and led efforts to pass legislation to protect and expand access to abortion and contraception, paid family leave, and a $15 minimum wage. Earlier in her career, she served in leadership roles at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene including as Chief of Staff and as Deputy Commissioner for Policy and External Affairs. She holds a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School and a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University.

Chelsea Clinton

Dr. Chelsea Clinton

Chelsea Clinton is an advocate, storyteller, investor, mentor, teacher, and most importantly, mom to her three kids. As Vice Chair of the Clinton Foundation, Chelsea works alongside the Foundation’s leadership and partners to improve global health and wellness, increase opportunity for girls and women, create economic opportunity and growth, and inspire emerging leaders across the United States and around the world. A longtime public health advocate, Chelsea also serves as vice chair of the Clinton Health Access Initiative and uses her platform to increase awareness around critical issues such as vaccine hesitancy and health equity. In addition to her Foundation work, Chelsea is the co-founder of Metrodora Ventures and has written several books for young adults and readers including the #1 New York Times bestselling She Persisted. Chelsea holds a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford, a Master of Public Health from Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health, and both a Master of Philosophy and a Doctorate in international relations from Oxford University.

Monique Couvson

Monique Couvson

Monique Couvson, Ed.D. (formerly Monique W. Morris) is an award-winning author, social justice scholar, and philanthropy executive with nearly four decades of experience in the areas of education, civil rights, juvenile and criminal justice. Dr. Couvson is the President and CEO of G4GC, a premier philanthropic intermediary focused on resourcing movements and organizations that center the wisdom and wellbeing of girls and gender-expansive youth of color. Under her leadership, G4GC has developed four signature funds, including: the Black Girl Freedom Fund, which as part of the #1Billion4BlackGirls campaign, seeks to mobilize $1 billion in investments centering Black girls over the next 10 years; the New Songs Rising Initiative for Indigenous Girls in partnership with the Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples; the Holding A Sister Initiative for Trans Girls of Color with the Black Trans Fund; and G4GC’s general grantmaking fund, Love is Healing. Since June 2020, G4GC has granted more than $26 million to more than 400 organizations located across all 50 states, Washington, DC, Guam, and Puerto Rico, as well as launched a Future Economy Fund to foster robust investments in entrepreneurial efforts that align with the priorities of girls and gender-expansive youth of color.

Sadé Dozan

Sadé Dozan

Sadé Dozan is the Vice President of Advancement at Borealis Philanthropy, where she leads efforts to mobilize transformative resources for grassroots movements at the heart of building a more just and inclusive democracy. She views philanthropy as a vehicle for community-led change—where investments not only meet urgent needs but also amplify narrative power and long-term infrastructure for liberation. With two decades in nonprofit leadership, Sadé has designed and scaled initiatives across housing, care, disability justice, education, health equity, and criminal justice reform. She has steered cross-sector initiatives, cultivated partnerships, and built equity-centered strategies that strengthen movements and philanthropic ecosystems. Her leadership style is deeply intersectional and abundance-minded, grounded in the belief that sustainable growth is foundational for lasting change. Beyond her role at Borealis, Sadé is a trusted advisor and board member to key movement and philanthropic organizations. She is also the founder of Melanate., an equity incubation project designed to shift philanthropic ecosystems and reimagine fundraising as a practice rooted in equity and care. A Brooklyn native, Sadé holds a B.A. from Pace University and a Master’s in Public Administration from Metropolitan College of New York. She is a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE), Certified Crisis Counselor, and Highland Leader.

Katy Brodsky Falco

Katy Brodsky Falco

Katy Brodsky Falco is the Founder and Executive Director of the Foundation for Women’s Health. She comes to this work through an equity lens, having worked in criminal justice reform for 20 years. After surviving both HELLP syndrome and breast cancer, Katy was horrified to learn about the long history of inequities in rigorous research of women’s health. Seeing how clearly the public sector failed to close the gender equity gap in health for decades across both democratic and republican administrations, she created the Foundation for Women’s Health as a private sector solution to not only equalize research funding for diseases across gender, but also across disease. Katy has built and managed non-profit research organizations for leading academic institutions for the past decade. She was the Executive Director of NYU School of Law’s Criminal Justice Lab, and prior to this, she was Executive Director of Crime Lab New York, a criminal justice research organization based at University of Chicago. She was also Executive Director of Reentry Services at the NYC Department of Corrections and a staff attorney at Legal Aid Society in the Criminal Defense Division. Katy attended Harvard University for her BA and NYU School of Law for her JD.

Colleen Foster

Colleen Foster

Colleen Foster is a seasoned executive and former partner at Goldman Sachs, with a 30-year track record of building businesses, driving transformation, and delivering strategic value across industries. She is currently a General Partner of Amboy Street Ventures, an early-stage venture firm investing in women’s and sexual health solutions for all genders. At Amboy Street, she leads strategic partnerships with limited partners, founders, and investors, and oversees portfolio strategy, value creation, and brand positioning. A thought leader in emerging health markets, Colleen co-authored the firm’s “Ghost Market” report—an analysis of the $360 billion care gap in women’s and sexual health—which was featured in *Fortune* and *Forbes*.  Recently, Forbes recognized Colleen’s accomplishments on their 2025 Forbes 50 Over 50 list. Previously, Colleen spent over two decades at Goldman Sachs as the partner who led the $1B+ global commodities business across energy, power, and metals, advising institutional investors and Fortune 500 CEOs on risk management and capital strategy. Colleen’s board experience includes serving as Treasurer of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Chair of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, where she helped modernize financial operations. She currently serves on the boards of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and StoryCorps, where she plays a key role on the finance and investment committees, guiding long-term sustainability and strategic stewardship. Ms. Foster holds an M.S. from Illinois Institute of Technology and a B.A. from the University of Michigan.

Fatima Goss Graves

Fatima Goss Graves

Fatima Goss Graves is a nationally recognized leader in the fight for gender justice and an expert in law, policy, and culture change. She is President and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center, President of the National Women’s Law Center Action Fund, and a co-founder of the TIME’S UP Legal Defense Fund. Ms. Goss Graves has a distinguished track record working across a broad set of issues central to the lives of women and girls – including income security, child care, equal pay, ending sexual harassment and violence, health and reproductive rights, education access, and workplace justice – with a particular focus on outcomes for women and girls of color. She is widely sought after for her effectiveness in the complex public policy arena at both the state and federal levels and regularly testifies before Congress and federal agencies. Ms. Goss Graves has received numerous awards and recognitions for her leadership and currently serves as a member of several boards – in both advisory and governance capacities – including Indivisible and Equal Justice Works. She has appeared as a legal and social commentator on international, network and cable news programs, and has been published and quoted in numerous outlets. She is a graduate of UCLA and Yale Law School, and resides with her family in Washington, D.C.

Neela Ghoshal

Neela Ghoshal (any pronouns) is Outright’s Senior Director of Law, Policy, and Research, based in Washington, D.C. They oversee the Global Research and Advocacy and Global Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex programs at Outright. Neela authored Outright’s report on LGBTQ Lives in Conflict and Crisis and frequently speaks and writes about issues including repressive legislation, gender liberation, inclusive democracy, and peace, security, and accountability. Neela is also an adjunct professor at the Elliot School of International Affairs at George Washington University. Before joining Outright in 2021, Neela lived and worked in East Africa for 11 years and was Associate LGBT Rights Director at Human Rights Watch. They were recognized as one of The Advocate’s Champions of Pride in 2022 for their work using research and advocacy to advance global LGBTIQ movement goals.

Ambassador Geeta Rao Gupta

Ambassador Geeta Rao Gupta is co-founder of the Arch Collaborative, a newly-established strategic initiative to bridge critical analysis, conversations, and collective action to confront today’s challenges to women’s rights and gender equality in the United States and globally. From 2023 to 2025, Ambassador Rao Gupta held the position of Ambassador-at-Large for the Secretary’s Office of Global Women’s Issues at the U.S. Department of State, a Senate-confirmed position. She previously served as a Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation  and Senior Advisor to Co-impact, a global collaborative philanthropy. From 2012 to 2016, Ambassador Rao Gupta served as Deputy Executive Director, Programmes at UNICEF and prior to that as a Senior Fellow at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Earlier, Gupta served as President of the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) for more than a decade. Ambassador Rao Gupta has also chaired and served on numerous boards and been the recipient of numerous awards, including InterAction’s Julia Taft Award for Outstanding Leadership and Harvard University’s Anne Roe Award. Ambassador Rao Gupta holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from Bangalore University and an M.Phil. and M.A. from the University of Delhi in India. 

Mandy Gutmann

Mandy Gutmann serves as the Vice President of Communications and External Affairs for the Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL) where she leads communications, social responsibility and government affairs efforts.

Prior to the PWHL, Gutmann ran her own communications consulting firm working with the PWHL as well as NY/NJ Gotham FC, Fund for NYC Public Schools and Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center.

Previously, Gutmann was Executive Vice President of Communications and Community Relations at BSE Global properties, including Barclays Center, the Brooklyn Nets and their NBA G League team, the Long Island Nets, and their NBA 2K League affiliate, NetsGC. In this capacity, she oversaw all aspects of corporate communications and implemented new strategies to engage both internal and external stakeholders.

During her BSE tenure from 2012 through 2022, Gutmann played a pivotal role in launching the Brooklyn Nets brand after the team’s move from New Jersey, the grand opening of Barclays Center, the reopening of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Long Island, and the reopening of the iconic music venue, Webster Hall.

Gutmann began her career at the Women’s Sports Foundation before joining the New York Knicks. She subsequently held various public relations positions at Madison Square Garden and MSG Network. 

Errin Haines

Errin Haines

Errin Haines is a founding mother and editor-at-large for The 19th, the nation’s first nonprofit newsroom at the intersection of gender, politics, policy and power. The goal is to empower the audiences they serve with the information, resources and community they need to be equal participants in our democracy. She’s also a regular MSNBC contributor. An award-winning political journalist focused on issues of race, gender and politics, Errin was previously the Associated Press’ National Writer on Race and Ethnicity. She has also worked at The Washington Post, The Orlando Sentinel and The Los Angeles Times.

Yamani Hernandez

Yamani Hernandez

Yamani Hernandez (she/they) is a visionary and transformative leader from the Midwest, committed to the balance of rigor and compassion. She has been working in non profits since 16 and has 30 years of experience in the social sector at neighborhood, city, state, and national levels and is overjoyed to bring her leadership learnings to Groundswell Fund which has funded nearly $200M to grassroots organizing for reproductive and gender justice led by women and gender expansive people of color. Prior to Groundswell she served as a partner at The Management Center, coaching some of the most critical leaders of our time. Prior to that she was the first Black executive director of the National Network of Abortion Funds, the membership, technical assistance, and advocacy organization for 100 grassroots organizations funding abortion and building cultural and political power.

Priyanka Jain

Priyanka Jain

Priyanka is the co-founder & CEO of Evvy, a precision women’s health startup discovering overlooked biomarkers, starting with the vaginal microbiome. Evvy serves over 50,000 patients and has built the world’s largest dataset on the vaginal microbiome — powering groundbreaking research across infertility, preterm birth, gynecological cancers, and more. Priyanka serves on advisory boards for the XPRIZE Foundation and the United Nations Foundation’s Girl Up campaign. She received her B.S. from Stanford University and has been recognized as Forbes 30 under 30, Inc’s Top Female Founders, and Goldman Sachs’ Most Exceptional Entrepreneurs.

Sara Khaki

Sara Khaki

Sara Khaki is a documentary director, producer, and editor dedicated to telling stories that promote gender equity. She is a Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Award winner, World Cinema: Documentary and Visions Du Reél Audience Award winner for her feature documentary Cutting Through Rocks, which follows the first elected councilwoman of a rural Iranian village. The film has been called “a deftly shaped work of cinematic nonfiction” by Indiewire and “one of those profound vérité documentaries that are only possible through the patience and perseverance of the filmmakers” by POV Magazine. Her short film Our Iranian Lockdown is now streaming on The Guardian and received an IDA Awards nomination. Sara’s co-directed Netflix Original Convergence: Courage in a Crisis was nominated for the Emmy for Outstanding Current Affairs Film. Sara graduated from the University of Maryland Baltimore with her BFA in cinematic arts and from the School of Visual Arts with an MFA in Social Documentary Filmmaking. A grantee of the Sundance Film Institute, Chicken & Egg Films, and Firelight Media, Sara’s work continues to amplify change on gender equity through cinema Vérité form.

Happy Mwende Kinyili

Happy Mwende Kinyili

Happy Mwende Kinyili is a global movement strategist, organiser, and storyteller working to build futures grounded in social and environmental justice. With over two decades of experience spanning grassroots organising and global philanthropy, they are a pivotal voice in feminist resourcing and participatory grantmaking. Based in Nairobi and rooted in the Global South, Happy brings lived experience and visionary leadership to their role as Co-Executive Director of Mama Cash. Their joy is defiant, their hope grounded, and their commitment to justice unwavering. Across every space they enter, Happy’s message is clear: every contribution counts toward shared freedom.

EunSook Lee

EunSook Lee

EunSook has been with the AAPI Civic Engagement Fund since its establishment in 2013. Previously, she was the Senior Deputy for former U.S. Rep. Karen Bass; former executive director of National Korean American Service and Education Consortium which advocated for Korean American and immigrant communities on immigration reform and expanding democratic participation; and former executive director of Korean American Women in Need focused on providing direct services and advocacy against gender-based violence. She is also the founding president of the National Immigration Forum Action Fund and former member of the City of LA’s Board of Neighborhood Commission and California Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs. EunSook was born in Korea and immigrated to Canada at a young age. She began her career in alternative community radio first as volunteer news programmer at CKUT radio before becoming the News Director and later Station Manager of CKLN radio. Writings of her experiences in grassroots organizing have been published in books such as “The Political Awakening of Korean Americans” in Koreans in a Windy City (2005), “Women Immigrants” in the Encyclopedia of Asian American Issues Today (2010), and a chapter co-written with Hahrie Han titled “Engaging Korean Americans in Civic Activism” in A Companion to Korean American Studies (2019) as well op-eds in outlets such as the New York Times, Ms. Magazine, and the Hill.

Hali Lee

Hali Lee

In 2025, Hali Lee was named to the inaugural Time100 Philanthropy in recognition of her work building collective giving. In 2021, she was named to Forbes’ 50 Over 50: Impact in recognition of her work as a founder of the Donors of Color Network, the first-ever national network of wealthy folks of color, Philanthropy Together, a national collective giving support organization, and the Asian Women Giving Circle. Today, she leads a boutique consulting practice, Radiant Strategies, whose clients include Fidelity Charitable, the Bill Gates Foundation, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Hali is a frequent public speaker, who in the last year has made appearances at more than thirty conferences and events. Her work has been covered by the Washington Post, New York Times, and Good Housekeeping, who called her “The Mindful Giver” and one of “10 Women Over 50 Who Prove It’s Never Too Late to Change the World.” She lives in Brooklyn with her family, a big love of a dog, and rooftop honey bees.

Daniela Ligiero

Daniela Ligiero

Dr. Daniela Ligiero is the CEO and President of Together for Girls (TfG), a global partnership working toward a world where children and adolescents are safe and thriving, free from sexual violence. TfG uses a comprehensive, interconnected approach built on four core initiatives: Violence Against Children and Youth Surveys, which provides vital data to drive national action; the Safe Futures Solutions Hub, which shares evidence-based solutions; the Out of the Shadows Index, which tracks country progress and accountability; and the Brave Movement, which mobilizes survivors and allies to demand political action. Previously, Dr. Ligiero served as Vice President of Girls and Women’s Strategy at the UN Foundation and held senior roles at the U.S. Department of State, where she helped develop the first U.S. global strategy to end gender-based violence and co-designed the PEPFAR DREAMS program. She also held leadership roles at UNICEF, the U.S. Senate, and directly with survivors of sexual violence. A survivor herself, she has shared her story publicly for almost two decades. She holds a doctorate in counseling psychology, is fluent in four languages, and lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with her husband and two daughters. She enjoys scuba diving, furniture making, and meditation.

Rebecca Miller

Rebecca Miller

Rebecca Miller is vice president of Donor Effectiveness for the Private Donor Group at Fidelity Charitable®, an independent 501(c)(3) public charity that has helped donors support more than 433,000 nonprofit organizations with more than $100 billion in grants.1 The mission of Fidelity Charitable® is to grow the American tradition of philanthropy by providing programs that make charitable giving accessible, simple, and effective.Rebecca joined Fidelity Charitable in 2020. She partners with Fidelity Charitable’s most generous donors and provides guidance and solutions to meet their philanthropic goals. She uses her knowledge of grantmaking to learn from and center communities, partner with nonprofit organizations, and help donors have the greatest impact with their Fidelity Charitable donor-advised fund.

Pat Mitchell

Pat Mitchell

Throughout her career as a journalist, producer and pioneering media executive, Pat Mitchell broke new ground for women, elevating women’s stories and ideas, with more than 35 Emmy and Peabody awards, and a lifetime achievement award from the Women’s Media Center. Her Emmy-award-winning TV series, “Woman to Woman,” was the first national talk show produced and hosted by a woman in America. She continues that mission as the co-founder of Connected Women Leaders, a cohort of global leaders committed to collective problem solving and focused on Project Dandelion, a women-led climate justice campaign to sustain a habitable planet. Mitchell is also the editorial director, co-founder, curator, and host of TEDWomen. She serves on many nonprofit boards, including The Skoll Foundation, Participant Media, Woodruff Arts Center, and CARE’s global advisory board. She is a founding member of the Sundance Institute, V-Day. She was honored with a congressional appointment to The American Museum of Women’s History Advisory Council. In her memoir, “Becoming a Dangerous Woman: Embracing Risk to Change the World”, Mitchell shares her journey as a frontline advocate for equality and social justice, defining ‘dangerous’ as a commitment to speak up for those unrepresented, to speak out against abuse and injustice, and to show up for others. Pat Mitchell’s life and work models how to share power and the difference each of us can make in shaping a fairer, more equitable and sustainable world.

Alyse Nelson

Alyse Nelson is president and CEO of Vital Voices Global Partnership. A cofounder of Vital Voices, Alyse has worked for the organization for more than 27 years, serving as vice president and senior director of programs before assuming her current role in 2009. Under her leadership, Vital Voices has directly served over 47,000 women leaders across 188 countries.

Previously, Alyse served as deputy director of the State Department’s Vital Voices Global Democracy Initiative and worked with the President’s Interagency Council on Women at the White House.

Alyse is a regular speaker on leadership and global women’s issues. She has spoken before the United Nations General Assembly, the Clinton Global Initiative, Fortune Most Powerful Women, Oxford Student Union, Forbes 30/50 and Women in the World, among others. She has conducted leadership training with women at the Central Intelligence Agency, DFID, the UK Development Agency, Fortune 1000 companies and at numerous conferences. 

Alyse is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and served as an official Observer for the World Bank’s We-fi Initiative for Women Entrepreneurs. She serves on advisory boards of Chime for Change and Global Citizen. Fortune Magazine named Alyse one of the 55 Most Influential Women on Twitter and she was featured as one of Newsweek’s 150 Women Shaking the World. 

Alyse was also honored in 2015 with a Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award and in 2018 Apolitical named her one of the most influential people in global gender policy.  She is a recipient of the 2022 David Rockefeller Bridging Leadership Award.

Alyse is the author of the best-selling book Vital Voices: The Power of Women Leading Change Around the World and the editor of Vital Voices: 100 Women Using Their Power to Empower. She has been featured in various international and national media.  

She holds a BA from Emerson College and an MA from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

Nisha Pahuja

Nisha Pahuja

Nisha Pahuja is an Oscar®, Peabody, Grierson and Emmy-nominated filmmaker based in Toronto. Her latest film, To Kill a Tiger, had its world premiere at TIFF where it won the Amplify Voices Award for Best Canadian Feature Film. Since then, it’s garnered 29 awards including the Best Documentary Feature, Palm Springs International Film Festival, three Canadian Screen awards and the DGC Allan King Award for Best Documentary Feature, 2023. The film grew out of a long career of addressing various human rights issues, notably violence against women in India. In 2015, she won the Amnesty International media award for Canadian journalism after making a short film about the Delhi bus gang rape for Global News. Pahuja’s other past credits include the multi-award-winning The World Before Her (2012 Best Documentary Feature, Jury Award Winner, Tribeca Film Festival; Best Canadian Documentary, Hot Docs; TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten; Best Documentary nominee, Canadian Screen Awards, the series Diamond Road (2008 Gemini Award for Best Documentary Series) and Bollywood Bound (2002 Gemini Award nominee). In 2024, Pahuja was invited to be a Member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Fraidy Reiss

Fraidy Reiss

Fraidy Reiss is a survivor turned activist. She was 19 when she was forced to marry a stranger who turned out to be violent – and subjected to a virginity examination before the wedding. She lost all sexual and reproductive rights within her abusive marriage, forced to have unprotected marital sex and forced to have two children without her consent. When she finally managed to escape her abusive forced marriage, her family shunned her.

Fraidy rebuilt her life and founded Unchained At Last, the only organization dedicated to ending forced and child marriage in the United States through direct services and systems change. Fraidy’s research and writing on forced and child marriage have been published extensively, including in the New York Times, Washington Post and Journal of Adolescent Health and by Oxford Press, making her one of the foremost experts on these abuses in the U.S.

Through Unchained, Fraidy has helped more than 1,100 survivors escape forced marriage and rebuild their life, and she now leads a growing national movement to end child marriage in every U.S. state and at the federal level. Legislation she helped to write and promote has been passed into law in 16 U.S. states – and counting.

 

Mary Robinson

Mary Robinson

Mary Robinson is a co-founder of Project Dandelion, which is a women-led global campaign for climate justice, Adjunct Professor for Climate Justice at Trinity College Dublin, and a member of The Elders. She served as President of Ireland from 1990-1997 and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997-2002. She is a member of the Club of Madrid and the recipient of numerous honours and awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom from the President of the United States Barack Obama. Between 2013 and 2016, Mary served as the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy in three roles; first for the Great Lakes region of Africa, then on Climate Change leading up to the Paris Agreement and in 2016 as his Special Envoy on El Niño and Climate. Her Foundation, the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice, established in 2010, came to a planned end in April 2019. A former President of the International Commission of Jurists and former chair of the Council of Women World Leaders she was President and founder of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative from 2002-2010 and served as Honorary President of Oxfam International from 2002-2012. She was Chancellor of the University of Dublin from 1998 to 2019. 

Soma Sara

Soma Sara

Soma Sara is a multi-award-winning activist, author, and CEO of the charity ‘Everyone’s Invited’. In June 2020, Soma began sharing her experiences of rape culture on Instagram. In light of the overwhelming response from those who resonated with her story, Soma founded Everyone’s Invited (EI). EI exploded onto the national stage back in March 2021, receiving thousands of testimonies and sparking a national movement and conversation about rape culture. The publication of the testimonies triggered a national overhaul in policies, practices, and RSE in schools across the U.K. EI is a U.K. charity dedicated to exposing and eradicating rape culture. EI provides a safe space for survivors to share their stories, giving them a sense of catharsis, empowerment and a feeling of community and hope. The charity educates young people to empower school communities to foster healthy relationships, sexual well-being, and to tackle rape culture, advocates for survivors, amplifying their voices to foster positive change and engages with government, institutions, and key stakeholders. Soma published her first book under the same name, ‘Everyone’s Invited’, a collection of essays that grapple with the modern sexual landscape and the causes of a culture that enables sexual harassment, abuse and violence to prevail. 

Tuti Scott

Tuti Scott

Tuti B. Scott is a gender avenger, class jumper, and servant leader. Tuti coaches leaders, writes and speaks on women’s sports, values-aligned money moves, and facilitates workshops to activate women’s financial power. She works with Invest for Better, The Beam Network, Freedom School for Philanthropy, Omega Women’s Leadership Center, and curates the Women&Money community. Tuti was a certified fundraiser for 13 years, a strategist for multiple coalitions and networks, an interim CEO twice, and is a lifelong learner and forever point guard. She has been involved in the embodied fierceness that is women’s basketball since it was first televised in 1975. She authored two guides: Money, Gender and Power; Giving with a Gender Lens and Moving Money for Impact; Investing with a Gender Lens.  Tuti’s latest project is the February 2026 Investing in Women’s Sports Symposium that her firm, Changemaker Strategies, is producing alongside How Women Invest.

Celina de Sola

Celina de Sola is a Salvadoran social entrepreneur and the co-founder and President of Glasswing International, a nonprofit working across 12 countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, and New York City. Glasswing unlocks the potential of children and youth through programs in education, economic opportunity, and mental health. With more than 25 years of experience in international development and social impact, Celina began her career as a case manager and later worked as a humanitarian aid professional in countries affected by conflict and natural disasters, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, Chad, Liberia, and post-tsunami Indonesia. She is an Ashoka and Obama Foundation Fellow, a Skoll Foundation Awardee, a Schwab Social Entrepreneur, Tällberg Global Leader, and a recipient of The Audacious Project. In 2022, she delivered a TED Talk on mental health and violence prevention and was recently named to the TIME100 in Philanthropy 2025. Celina serves on thr Boards of Kokoro and the InterAmerican Foundation, and holds master’s degrees in social work and public health from the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard. She lives with her husband, son, and two dogs; is passionate about nature and wildlife; and dances to at least one song daily.

Kathy Spillar

Kathy Spillar

Kathy Spillar is Executive Director of Feminist Majority Foundation, a national organization working for women’s equality, empowerment and non-violence; one of the founders, she has been a driving force in executing the organizations’ diverse programs securing women’s rights both domestically and globally since its inception in 1987. She is also the Executive Editor of Ms., which the Feminist Majority Foundation acquired in 2001, and the editor and contributor to 50 Years of Ms: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine that Ignited a Revolution.

Sarah Stripp

Sarah Stripp

Sarah Stripp is the Director of Socioeconomic Well-being at Springboard to Opportunities, where she leads the organization’s cash-based initiatives and socioeconomic policy priorities. With more than a decade of experience in the nonprofit sector, she provides strategic vision and expertise to the development and implementation of radically resident-driven programs and services that support families in reaching their goals. Since joining Springboard in 2016, Sarah has played a key role in launching and scaling initiatives, such as The Magnolia Mother’s Trust – a first-of-its-kind guaranteed income program for Black mothers in the U.S.– and Springboard’s Emergency Cash Disbursement programs. Her efforts have also advanced Springboard’s work in policy advocacy and narrative change, especially around the reform of safety net benefit and the ensuring the voices of families with lived experience are central to shaping public policy. A graduate of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Fellowship and the Aspen Institute’s Workforce Leadership Academy, Sarah is dedicated to centering community voices and building diverse coalitions to drive bold, systemic change.

Vivian Topping

Vivian Topping

Vivian Topping works with state-based LGBTQ+ organizations to craft smart, effective legislative and electoral campaigns that build political power and allow supporters to take action in their communities. Most recently Vivian was the Field Director for the historic, winning Yes on 3 campaign in Massachusetts, Vivian previously led electoral and legislative advocacy programs in Michigan, Florida, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Texas, and Illinois. Their work in Massachusetts was a groundbreaking success, building the leadership of transgender people, having more than 100,000 conversations with voters, and ultimately winning the first statewide referendum on transgender rights in the nation. Building from this experience, Vivian is one of the primary architects of the Trans Organizing & Narrative Shift (TONS) project, a multiyear project that seeks to build durable change for transgender and non-binary people through data-backed messaging tools and organizing strategies.

Melanne Verveer

In 2009, President Obama nominated Melanne Verveer to be the first U.S. Ambassador for Global Women’s Issues. In that capacity, she worked with the Secretary of State to coordinate foreign policy issues relating to the political, economic and social advancement of women, including the creation of the U.S. National Action Plan on Women, Peace & Security. She is currently the Founder & Executive Director of the Georgetown University Institute for Women, Peace & Security. She also served as the Special Representative on Gender Equality for the OSCE from 2015-2021. Earlier she was the co-founder and CEO of the Vital Voices Global Partnership, a global NGO investing in emerging women leaders. During the Clinton Administration, she was appointed Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to First Lady Hillary Clinton. Ambassador Verveer is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on several boards, including the Atlantic Council, G7 Gender Advisory Council, and UN Women Director’s Advisory. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including US Secretary of State’s Award for Distinguished Service and honorary Orders from Ukraine and Japan. She holds BS and MS degrees from Georgetown University and is an honorary fellow at Cambridge University, Clare Hall College. She is the co-author of Fast Forward.

Erin Vilardi

Erin Vilardi is the Founder and CEO of Vote Run Lead (VRLA) and Vote Run Lead Action (VRLA), independent nonpartisan sister organizations working to create a reflective democracy where women hold more than 51% of public office. Her work has recruited and trained tens of thousands of women and gender-expansive people run for office as part of its mission to increase their representation and political power, especially in key state legislatures. As an expert on women’s leadership, democracy, and social change, Erin has two decades of experience scaling positive impact for women in the public and private sectors, including partnering with Fortune 100 companies, global girls’ initiatives, and the U.S. Department of State. She serves on advisory boards for Future Forward Women, the Brennan Center for Justice, and RepresentWomen and is a Keseb Global Democracy Fellow. Erin has appeared at the Skoll World Forum and Personal Democracy Forum. She has been interviewed on CNN, NPR, CSPAN, BBC, PBS, and more. Her work and writing has appeared in Oprah Magazine, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Vanity Fair, Marie Claire, New York Magazine, and others, and she is the co-author of the Athena Core10©, an innovative set of leadership competencies for 21st century women leaders. She is an Executive Producer of “Ann Richards’ Texas,” a documentary about the pioneering governor. Erin lives in the historic Harlem neighborhood of New York City with her husband and children.

Shannon Watts

Shannon Watts

Known as the “summoner of women’s audacity,” Shannon Watts organizes and mobilizes women to create political, electoral and cultural change. She was named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People, a Forbes 50 over 50 Changemaker, a Glamour Woman of the Year, a WORTH Magazine Worth 100 and a 2025 Parents Next Gen Award winner. She’s the founder of Moms Demand Action, the largest grassroots group fighting gun violence in the U.S. During the 2024 election, she organized the largest Zoom gathering in history, mobilizing over 200,000 voters and raising over $11 million in support of the Kamala Harris campaign, and co-hosted the weekly Women Wednesdays for Harris calls with Indivisible. Her most recent book, Fired Up: How to Turn Your Spark Into a Flame and Come Alive at Any Age, was an instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller and led to the creation of Firestarter University and Bonfire communities, online and in-person gatherings to help women tap into their political, professional and personal power.

Jennifer Weiss-Wolf

Jennifer Weiss-Wolf

Attorney and author Jennifer Weiss-Wolf leads partnerships and strategy at Ms., the feminist movement-making magazine. She has simultaneously served in leadership roles at NYU Law, including as executive director of the Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Center and vice president and inaugural women and democracy fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice. A prolific writer on and advocate for issues of gender and politics, Jennifer was dubbed the “architect of the U.S. campaign to squash the tampon tax” by Newsweek. She has presented at the White House and before Congress, as well as in state legislatures and major city governmental bodies; she works closely with domestic and global leaders, advocates, and innovators in pursuing policy reforms. Her debut book Periods Gone Public: Taking a Stand for Menstrual Equity (Skyhorse, 2017) was lauded by Gloria Steinem as “the beginning of liberation for us all.” She is a contributor to and editor of 50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution (Knopf, 2023). She authored the 2025 Citizen’s Guide To Menopause Advocacy, featuring a foreword from advocate and journalist Maria Shriver; she is now writing a book inspired by the Citizen’s Guide to be published by Hachette US (Sheldon Press) in 2026. Jennifer’s scholarship has been published by the NYU Review of Law and Social Change and Columbia Journal of Gender and Law. Her writing and work have been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, TIME, Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Bazaar, Oprah Daily, NPR, PBS, and MSNBC.com, among others. She is also a regular contributor at the Substack, The Contrarian.

Jenni Wolfson

Jenni Wolfson

Jenni Wolfson is a fierce human rights advocate and a trailblazer in the art of storytelling for social change. As the CEO of Chicken & Egg Films, her strategic vision has evolved the organization into a powerhouse of support for women and gender-expansive documentary filmmakers. A member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and BAFTA, an Aspen Ideas Fellow, and a Dial Fellow of Emerson Collective, Jenni has been honored with the Women’s Media Center Lifetime Achievement Award and DOC NYC’s Leading Light Award.

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