2025 Annual Member Day & Summit

Annual Member Day & Summit

October 15-17, 2025 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge

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: 7:00 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 – 1:00 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.

Speakers

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.

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.

Mohammadreza Eyni

Mohammadreza Eyni is director, producer, and cinematographer, whose career and cinematic approach aims to bridge boundaries, elevate underrepresented voices, and connect diverse perspectives globally. He is a 2025 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Award winner for his feature documentary Cutting Through Rocks, which has become Audience favorites at Sydney, Hot Docs, Visions Du Reél international film festivals, among others. His cinematic approach in the film has been heralded as “uniquely propulsive” and “practically magical” by Variety and “precisely lensed” by Indiewire. Based on Hammer to Nail, Mohammadreza “Delivers simple moments to cinematic poetry”. He was named as one of five cinematographers to watch at Sundance. His intimate short film Our Iranian Lockdown, streaming on The Guardian, has received an IDA Awards nomination. His co-directed Netflix Original Convergence: Courage in a Crisis was nominated for the Emmy for Outstanding Current Affairs Film. Mohammadreza has been supported by Sundance Institute, IDFA Bertha Foundation, Hot Docs Cross Current Doc Fund, among others. He is a Tribeca Film Institute alumnus and graduated with an MFA in cinema from Tehran University of Fine Arts.

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.

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 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 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.

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. She has been featured in books (including as one of the titular women in Hillary and Chelsea Clinton’s The Book of Gutsy Women), films (including the award-winning documentary Knots: A Forced Marriage Story) and countless television, radio and print news stories.

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.

Shannon Watts

Shannon Watts is the founder of Moms Demand Action, the largest grassroots group fighting gun violence in the U.S. Known as the ‘summoner of women’s audacity,’ she has been named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People, a Forbes 50 over 50 Changemaker, and a Glamour Woman of the Year. Helping to redefine what’s possible when audacious women unite to drive change, she writes regularly for Substack and outlets like The Washington Post, Elle, Time, The 19th and is the author of Fired Up: How to Turn Your Spark Into a Flame and Come Alive at Any Age. She recently organized the largest Zoom gathering in history, mobilizing over 200K voters and raising over $11 million in support of the 2024 Kamala Harris campaign. She now co-hosts the Women Wednesdays for Harris call with Indivisible, empowering thousands of women weekly with practical guidance on how to take action in the 2024 election.

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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