Board of Directors
Linda Ruffer // Board Member
Political Consultant, Private Practice
Los Angeles, CA
Jason Strzelczyk // Board Member
Owner, Law Offices of Jason Strzelczyk
Counsel at Guerin Law Firm
Los Angeles, CA
Ron Burkhardt // Board Member
Managing Director at Newmark Knight Frank
Los Angeles, CA
Staci L. Young // Board Member
Development Associate at California ChangeLawyers
Los Angeles, CA
Mayanka Melville // President
Co-Founder at Numi, LLC
Los Angeles, CA
Brianne Hum // Vice President
Chase Bank
Huntington Beach, CA
Dawn Bey // Treasurer
Account Executive at Bills & Stoll, LLP
Los Angeles, CA
José Meneses // Secretary
Assoc. in Business Litigation at Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP
Van Nuys, CA
Laura Harrison
CSO/CISO, Interscope Partners
Leah Aldridge, M.F.A, PhD.
Film Professor, Loyola Marymount
co-author, POV’s In Touch With Teens curriculum
Leann Levine
Benefits Advisor, Aflac
Former District 1 Director, Toastmasters International
Lorinda Hawkins Smith
Artist and Author
Martha Gonzalez, PhD.
Assistant Professor, Intercollegiate Department of Chicana/o Latina/o Studies, Scripps/Claremont College
Chicana Artivista (artist/activist)
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
Dr. Nooshin Valizadeh, PhD.
Adjunct Professor and Community College Specialist, USC, LACCD
Pam Palmer, ESQ.
Former Partner, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP
Pia Escudero
Former 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
Dr. Sarai Crain
Deputy Director, Department of Justice
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.
Practitioner/therapist/advocate for battered women, Private Practice
Professor, 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/CEO, NakatomiPR
Elaine Tumonis, ESQ.
Deputy Attorney General (Retired), Statewide Child Abduction Coordinator, CA Attorney General's Office
Elise Weinberg
Administrator, Outpatient Services, Los Angeles General Medical Center
Ellen Ledley, LCSW
Trauma Therapist, Private Practice
Esther Lim
Special Assistant, LA County District Attorney’s Office
Jehan Agrama
Co-founder of GLAAD
Commissioner, City of Los Angeles, Human Relations Commission
Joan Crear
Deputy of Special Projects, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
Kay Buck
CEO, 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
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.
Steve LePore, Los Angeles, CA
Founder/Former Executive Director, 1in6