Teresa C. Younger is an activist, advocate, renowned public-speaker, organizational strategist, and a proven leader in the philanthropic and policy sectors. Having spent over 20 years on the frontlines of some of the most critical battles for comprehensive equity and the elimination of institutionalized oppression, she now serves as the President and CEO of the Ms. Foundation for Women.

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Prior to joining the Ms. Foundation for Women, Younger served as the executive director of the Connecticut General Assembly’s Permanent Commission on the Status of Women and as executive director of the ACLU of Connecticut — the first African American and the first woman to hold that position.

Younger is a thought leader at the critical intersections of gender and race. Within the philanthropic sector she serves on initiatives to shape and change the narrative of women and girls, including Grantmakers for Girls of Color, Funders for Reproductive Equity, Philanthropy New York and Black Funders for Social Justice.

Routinely recognized as one of “50 Most Powerful Women in Philanthropy,” Teresa brings insight into organizational growth, a deep knowledge of gender justice approaches, and a cherished commitment to mentorship.

Polly Rodriguez is taking the female wellness industry by storm. As the CEO and Co-Founder of Unbound, a rebellious brand focused on making sexual health and wellness accessible to all womxn and non-binary people, Unbound is a leader in pushing for the normalization of sexuality and pleasure.

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Polly has set the bar high as a Hispanic Founder stepping foot into a male-dominated industry, with not one but two companies geared towards sexual wellness. Lidia Bonilla and Polly founded The Womxn of Sex Tech in 2015, to bring together other femme and non-binary founders within the same industry.

Jessica Fjeld focuses her legal practice on issues impacting digital media and art. She also works specifically with cases regarding intellectual property; freedom of expression, privacy, and related human rights issues; contract; and corporate law.

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Recently, she has emphasized work with AI-generated art, the overlap of existing rights and ethics frameworks on emerging technologies, and legal issues confronted by digital archives.

She is a member of the board of the Global Network Initiative, a multistakeholder organization the protects and advances user freedom of expression and privacy around the world.

Before joining the Clinic, Jessica worked in Business & Legal Affairs for WGBH Educational Foundation, where she advised the American Archive of Public Broadcasting along with numerous WGBH productions. She began her legal career as an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP focused in corporate transactions. Jessica is also a poet, the author of Redwork (BOAAT Press, 2018), and the recipient of awards from the Poetry Society of America and the 92nd Street Y/Boston Review Discovery Prize. She holds a JD from Columbia Law School, where she was a Hamilton Fellow, James Kent Scholar and Managing Editor of the Journal of Law and the Arts; an MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts; and a BA from Columbia University.

Cristina Ljungberg is a Co-founder of The Case For Her, a philanthropic investment portfolio addressing the key women’s health issues of menstruation and female sexual health.

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Cristina has a Master’s in Biotechnology from Northwestern and an MBA from Dartmouth College, and this combined expertise in business and healthcare has propelled her nearly two-decade journey in philanthropy. Before The Case for Her, Cristina spent five years on the Board of Directors for Global Grassroots and established the nonprofit foundation Giving Wings in 2010. In 2016, Cristina became a founding member of the Maverick Collective, an initiative to eliminate extreme poverty created by Population Services International (PSI) in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

In addition to her work with women’s health, Cristina is also a Partner at Influence Film—a foundation, investment firm, and online platform that supports documentary film production. She is also an active board member for the non-profit venture capital firm Acumen and AFRIpads, a manufacturer of reusable, washable sanitary pads.

Wendy Anderson is a Co-founder of The Case For Her, a philanthropic investment portfolio addressing the key women’s health issues of menstruation and female sexual health.

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A graduate of Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, Wendy spent over a decade working in the financial industry before transitioning to strategic philanthropy by founding Future Foundations where she has acted as Chair of Social Initiatives since 2009. Wendy is also an active board member of Be Girl and Women Moving Millions and is on the advisory board of Saral Designs.

Natalie was born in the lowland jungles of Eastern Bolivia, in the heart of South America. She spent the first 13 years of her professional life in business and nonprofit development, raising more than $70 million for companies like CNN International, universities, and nonprofits around the world.

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Natalie launched Pachamama Sabia, a social impact production company, after seven years of developing and advancing a global fellowship program authorized by the 14th Dalai Lama to Reimagine Leadership by cultivating 200+ mindful, compassionate, and ethical leaders in more than 45 countries around the world. Natalie has produced narrative and documentary feature and short films since 2013.

Natalie is also Co-Founder of the Hollywood Compassion Coalition, a movement of entertainment professionals inspiring social change. She advises MAPP, a mentorship and storytelling program working with Native American communities throughout the US, as well as Eyeshine, an organization dedicated to building character, confidence, and courage in the lives of visually impaired and disabled youth and adults.

Natalie graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a degree in Political Science and Film, Television and Theater.

Jackie Zupsic is the Head of Communications at Tusk Strategies where she develops and executes strategic campaigns across the country and around the globe.

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Working with start-ups and well established companies alike, Jackie has supported her clients through restructurings, crises, brand reputation campaigns, activist investor attacks, product launches, fundraising rounds and much more. While she works in a wide variety of industries, much of her work and expertise centers around blockchain, financial services, technology, healthcare and transportation.

Before joining Tusk, Jackie led a team at Hill + Knowlton Strategies in New York, focusing on crisis and financial communications for corporations, institutions, and governments. She’s successfully guided companies through IPOs, M&A deals, cyber breaches, and global launches, supporting clients in a wide variety of industries.

Prior to H+K Strategies, Jackie worked for a San Francisco based boutique consultancy, Singer Associates, where she focused on crisis communications and public affairs.

Jackie is a graduate of the University of Washington in Seattle and holds a B.A. in International Business and Marketing and minor in Spanish.

Emma is a human rights advocate and technologist with a commitment to belonging, information integrity, safety and inclusion both online & off.

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Currently on the Responsible Technology team at Omidyar Network, Emma leads a portfolio focused on youth organizing and responsible technology. She also works on private trustworthy messaging. Both areas of work are premised on the idea that we deserve a world where we can experience both safety and privacy online.

Previously, Emma focused on the exclusionary risks and role of human intermediaries in India’s Aadhaar biometric ID infrastructure at the London School of Economics. Before that, she researched the financial challenges faced by new internet users in India, Indonesia, Mexico and Brazil at Google. In 2016, Emma was a recipient of a Fulbright-Nehru Research Fellowship where she led research related to human rights, gender, and religious studies, in Maharashtra, India. Passionate about the intersection of arts and social change, she has also worked in civil society on performing arts education in Maharashtra. She holds a B.A. in religion from Oberlin College and an M.A. in international development with a focus on technology from the LSE. Emma serves on the board Cyber Collective and is a non-resident Technology Policy Fellow with UC Berkeley.

Sophia is a strategic leader in the social sector with partnerships, strategy, programs, and management experience spanning more than a decade. Her focus has been on equity and access to opportunity. From her work at Accion Opportunity Fund, Hello Alice, and Kiva collaborating with governments and corporations to make a more inclusive economy, to the small business (Negotiate with Sophia) she runs that leverages social science research to support women, Queer folk, BIPOC folk, and others to negotiate higher incomes, Sophia devotes all her energy and expertise to building a more equitable future for everyone.

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Sophia is a Licensed Social Worker who graduated Summa Cum Laude with her Master's in Social Work from the University of Chicago. She is an Ariane de Rothschild Fellow at the University of Cambridge, an Accenture Innovate for Good finalist, an #EmpowerHerAccess awardee from Women in Cloud, and a recipient of DePaul University's Women of Spirit and Action student award and the Women of Substance alumni award. Through each of her ventures, Sophia works to dismantle the systems that disenfranchise communities.

Chloe is a passionate advocate for intersectional gender justice and sexual and reproductive health and rights. She is a graduate of Stanford University where she earned a B.A. with Honors in International Relations and Human Rights and is the recipient of the Dinkelspiel Award for Distinctive Contributions to Undergraduate Education.

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Chloe’s advocacy work began when her brother passed away while she was in high school. She was informed that due to a homophobic federal policy his last wish to donate his organs was denied. This prompted her to start a petition — which has received over 13,000 signatures — to demand the repeal of the discriminatory policy. At Stanford, she founded organizations and led campaigns that resulted in the creation the Provost’s Student Advisory Board on Sexual Violence Prevention, sexual violence response education, and student-led proposals for a restorative justice program and improved support services for BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ students.

Prior to joining CIJ, she worked with the NYC Commission on Human Rights as a John Gardner Public Service Fellow where she assisted attorneys with gender-based discrimination investigations by conducting interviews, drafting complaints, and analyzing evidence and also wrote policy change requirements for New York City hospitals regarding non-consensual drug testing of low-income BIPOC mothers. She also interned with several international human rights organizations, and holds years of experience in grassroots organizing. She is originally from Wisconsin and in her free time she enjoys salsa dancing and traveling.

Mneera is a researcher-advocate at the intersection of technology and feminist justice. She is currently a Consultant Researcher at CIJ, leading a project investigating the digital censorship of sexual health. Mneera earned her BA in Computer Science from Brown University, and an MSc in the Social Science of the Internet with Distinction from the Oxford Internet Institute, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Over the past year, she has also been a volunteer consultant at a tech abuse community clinic, where she meets with survivors of tech-mediated intimate partner violence to help uncover and end the abuse they are experiencing.

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Mneera believes strongly in the importance of holistic, community-based approaches to care, and grounds her advocacy in these values. To this end, she was granted a 2021 Humanity in Action fellowship to develop a community healing, peer support initiative for survivors of sexual violence, and carried out the project as Welfare Officer of the It Happens Here campaign at Oxford. For her work and advocacy supporting survivors, she was named a 2022 Oxford Welfare Award finalist. Mneera grew up between Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, and is currently based in the UK.

Amrita is honored to support the progressive, crucial work of the Center for Intimacy Justice. Amrita currently works at NorthStar team as an Investment Advisor. Prior to NorthStar, Amrita worked for several years on the Investments Team of ImpactAssets, a $1B donor-advised fund that allows clients to make investments that are focused on social and environmental returns through their charitable assets.

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During graduate school, Amrita had the opportunity to expand her understanding of traditional finance through internships at several firms, including Elevar Equity, RSF Social Finance, and Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Amrita served on the Board of Directors of Spark from 2015 to 2018, and as Spark’s Investment Committee Chair from 2015 to 2017, distributing grants to grassroots women’s organizations. Amrita has an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management, and BA from Dartmouth College, with a focus on government.

Zach is fortunate to contribute to CIJ and advance issues with which is he deeply aligned. With a passion for startups, community building, technology, mental health and mentoring, he is eager to help CIJ grow. Zach is the CEO of refine+focus, a Boston-based marketing and innovation consultancy.

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His company enables organizations and businesses to grow through innovation-led planning, customer and patient centered strategy. refine+focus' clients include Fortune 500 companies, governments, venture-backed startups and value-driven organizations. He serves on the taskforce of Scale Up, a startup accelerator, on the board of the Minds Foundation, and Curiouser & Curiouser, an innovation salon. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Tufts University.