Board of Directors

Jason Strzelczyk // Board Member
Owner/Of Counsel Law Offices of Jason C. Strzelczyk/Guerin Law Firm 
Los Angeles, CA
Years on Board: 5


Ronda Haralson // Board Member
Manager, Global Title Mgmt, Global Media Operations, Comcast/NBC Universal 
Valencia, CA
Years on Board: 5


Ron Burkhardt // Board Member 
Managing Director, Newmark Knight Frank 
Los Angeles, CA
Years on Board: 6


Jose Meneses // Board Member
Assoc. in Business Litigation, Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP
Van Nuys, CA
Years on Board: 1

 

Board Emeriti

Rochelle Lindsey

Cynthia Sears

Elaine Tumonis

Mayanka Melville // Board President
Co-Founder Numi, LLC
Los Angeles, CA 
Years on Board: 3

Brianne Hum // Board Vice President
Vice President, Branch Manager USBank
Huntington Beach, CA 
Years on Board: 7

Dawn Bey // Board Treasurer 
Account Executive Bills & Stoll, LLP 
Los Angeles, CA 
Years on Board: 14

Rochelle Witharana // Board Secretary
Chief Financial Officer California Wellness Foundation 
Porter Ranche, CA
Years on Board: 8

Linda Ruffer // Board Member
Political Consultant, Private Practice 
Los Angeles, CA
Years on Board: 10

 
 
 
 
 

Laura Harrison
CSO/CISO, Interscope Partners

Leah Aldridge, M.F.A, PhD.
Film Professor at Loyola Marymount; co-author, In Touch With Teens, Peace Over Violence’s nationally recognized youth-violence prevention initiative.

Lorinda Hawkins Smith
Artist and Author

Martha Gonzalez, PhD.
Assistant Professor, Intercollegiate Department of Chicana/o Latina/o Studies at Scripps/Claremont College, Chicana Artivista (artist/activist) musician, feminist music theorist and musician, QUETZAL

 

Maya Jupiter
Musician/Activist, Founder, ARTIVIST

 

Michelle Santucci
Senior Vice President, AP Keenan

Natalie White
Certified Council Trainer, Center for Council's Social Justice Council Project

Nick Moghadassi
Owner and CEO - Universal AVIT

 

Dr. Nooshin Valizadeh, PhD.
Adjunct Professor and Community College Specialist, USC, LACCD

 

Pam Palmer, ESQ.
Partner, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP

Pia Escudero
Executive Director, Student Health & Human Services, LAUSD

 

Rebecca Isaacs, ESQ.
Executive Director, Equality Federation

Ronda Haralson
Manager, Global Title Management – Global Media Operations Comcast/NBC Universal

 

Sandra Henriquez, M.A.
CEO, VALORUS

 

Sharon Shelton
Vice-President, YWCA Greater Los Angeles 

 

Sheila Kuehl, ESQ.
Former Supervisor, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors

 

Stan Gorbunov
Compliance Specialist, Capital Group

Yasmin Dunn
Education and Outreach, Hollywood Commission

Alison Grabell, Esq.
Attorney, MarkStarLaw
 

Alyce Laviolette, M.S, M.F.T.
Long-term practitioner/therapist/advocate for battered women, Private Practice, Professor at California University, Long Beach

Antonio Villaraigosa
Former Mayor, City of Los Angeles

Avis Ridley Thomas
Co-Director, Institute for Non-Violence

Betsy Butler
Executive Director, The California Women’s Law Center

Christina Mauro
Producer/Actress

R. Christine Hershey
Founder, Hershey Cause Communications

Deborah Kagan
Mentor / Speaker / Author, Rock Your Mojo

Debra Nakatomi
President, Nakatomi & Associates

Elaine Tumonis, ESQ.
Deputy Attorney General (Retired), Statewide Child Abduction Coordinator, CA Attorney General's Office

Ellen Ledley, LCSW
Trauma Therapist, Private Practice

Jehan Agrama
Co-founder of GLAAD, Current principle at Harmony Gold, a film distribution company, Commissioner, City of Los Angeles, Human Relations Commission

Joan Crear
Deputy of Special Projects, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors

Kay Buck
COO, CAST LA, Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Human Trafficking

Kellie Hawkins, M.A.
COO, National Health Organization

Kibi Anderson, Sherman Oaks, CA
Strategy and Business Development Executive 

 
 
 
 
 

Steve LePore, Los Angeles, CA
Founder/Former Executive Director, 1in6

Jan Morris, Sarasota, FL
Vice President in Public Relations – Retired,  Verizon

 

Esta Soler, San Francisco, CA
Founder and President of Futures Without Violence

 

Susan B. Sorenson, PhD., Philadelphia, PA
Professor of Social Policy and of Health & Societies, University of Pennsylvania, School of Public Policy, Director, The Evelyn Jacobs Ortner Center on Family Violence

 

Laney M Vazquez, Bakersfield, CA
Corporate Supervising Senior Counsel, Chevron Corporation

V (formerly Eve Ensler), New York, NY
Tony-winning playwright; performer; author, The Vagina Monologues; Founder, One Billion Rising

 

Jackson Katz, PhD, Boston, MA
Founder and Director, MVP Strategies, an anti-sexist activist and expert on violence, media and masculinities.