Alicia Garza founded the Black Futures Lab to make Black communities powerful in politics. In 2018, the Black Futures Lab conducted the largest survey of Black communities in over 150 years.

Alicia believes that Black communities deserve what all communities deserve -- to be powerful in every aspect of their lives. An innovator, strategist, organizer, and cheeseburger enthusiast, she is the co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter and the Black Lives Matter Global Network, an international organizing project to end state violence and oppression against Black people. The Black Lives Matter Global Network now has 40 chapters in 4 countries.

Alicia serves as the Strategy & Partnerships Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance, the nation’s premier voice for millions of domestic workers in the United States. She is also the co-founder of Supermajority, a new home for women’s activism. She shares her thoughts on the women transforming power in Marie Claire magazine every month.

Her forthcoming book, tentatively titled How to Turn a Hashtag Into a Movement will be published in 2020, and she warns you -- hashtags don’t start movements. People do.

Amber Tamblyn is an author, actress and director. She is passionate in her fight for women’s rights as an unrelenting voice in the Time’s Up and #MeToo movements.

Amber has been nominated for an Emmy, Golden Globe and Independent Spirit Award
for her work in television and film. She is the author of six books, including the most recent critically acclaimed non-fiction memoir, Era of Ignition: Coming of Age During a Time of Rage and Revolution. In a starred review by Booklist, Era of Ignition is described as, “required reading for the resistance, and nothing short of sensational.”

Amber wrote and directed the feature film, “Paint it Black,” based on the novel by Janet Fitch which is now on Netflix. She also reviews books of poetry by women for Bust Magazine and is poet in residence at Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls.

As an avid proponent of equity, Amber is a founding member of the Time’s Up movement. She is a contributing writer for the New York Times and has written several powerful op-eds regarding Time’s Up and #MeToo, including “I’m Not Ready for the Redemption of Men,” “I’m Done with Not Being Believed,” and “Redefining the Red Carpet.”

Paola Mendoza is a film director, activist, author and artist working at the leading-edge of human rights. A co-founder of The Women’s March, she served as its Artistic Director and co-authored the New York Times best seller Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard around the World. Paola’s most recent book Sanctuary will be released by Penguin in 2020.

Ms. Mendoza is also a critically acclaimed film director whose films have premiered at the most prestigious film festivals around the world. Her films have thoughtfully tackled the complex issues of poverty and immigration on women and children in the United States. She was named Glamour’s Woman of the Year in 2017 and one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film.

She is a co-founder of The Soze Agency and has been the creative director for campaigns fighting for immigration reform, criminal justice reform, incarcerated mother’s and women’s rights. She is a co-founder of The Resistance Revival Chorus, the critically acclaimed women’s chorus that believes, “Joy is an act of resistance.”

Lauren Duca is an award-winning and -losing journalist focused on building equitable public power by empowering young people — and especially young women — to insist on their right and duty to the political conversation. You may know her from her massively viral piece "Donald Trump is Gaslighting America” or a Fox News appearance opposite Tucker Carlson, during which she either emerged as a feminist hero or had a seizure on national television (it all depends on confirmation bias, really).

Since being catapulted to the public eye shortly after the 2016 election, Duca has been researching and reporting on the post-Trump youth political awakening. In September 2019, she published “How to Start a Revolution: Young People and the Future of American Politics,” which seeks to document and sustain the shift from passively navigating a broken system to actively seeking to change it.

Mónica is the daughter and granddaughter of migrant farmworkers. She is also an organizer and longtime advocate for civil and human rights, focusing most of her career on the needs and priorities of the Latinx community.

Ramírez is the founder of Justice for Migrant Women, which focuses on the rights of migrant women workers. She is also a co-founder of Alianza Nacional de Campesinas and, most recently, The Latinx House, an initiative that launched at Sundance Film Festival 2020 to bring together entertainment, policy, politics and activism to help lift up the contributions and priorities of the Latinx community. Ramírez also serves as the Gender Justice Campaigns Director for National Domestic Workers Alliance. She is widely known for having penned the “Dear Sisters” letter, published by TIME on Nov. 10, 2017, which helped spark the TIME’S UP Movement.

Ramírez is an attorney and social entrepreneur. She has been awarded numerous awards, including the Smithsonian’s 2018 Ingenuity Award for Social Progress. Ramírez is a graduate of Loyola University Chicago, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and Harvard’s Kennedy School.

Adrianne is the Co-Founder of I Will Not Be Quiet.

She is also the Founder and CEO of Rosie, a boutique storytelling agency for non-profit organizations and early stage start-ups who are doing good in the world. Her portfolio includes She Should Run, the Timeʼs Up Campaign, ParentChild+, Colugo, Air Liquide, Change.org, Generation Citizen, Get Schooled, and Everytown for Gun Safety. Adrianne is a passionate advocate for gender equality, and how we can empower each other to be the change we want to see in the world.

Prior to Rosie, Adrianne spent over a decade developing signature, multi-channel communications programs from the ground up. Her career reflects diverse experience — from promoting the MTV's social responsibility initiatives and cultivating Venmo's cult millennial following to driving community engagement around education reform in marginalized communities.

Chelsea is Co-Founder of I Will Not Be Quiet.

She is also the founder of Audacious Impact, a cause-marketing consulting firm for organizations that are making big, bold, progressive change in our democracy and world. Prior to starting Audacious Impact, she spent nearly a decade managing communications, fundraising, and community engagement initiatives at leading civic organizations including Generation Citizen, Citizens Union, Common Cause New York, and the Fund for the Public Interest Research Group. 

Chelsea’s life and work have always been driven by her desire to create a world in which all people recognize their power, their voice, and their fundamental role in creating a more equitable and just society. She received an M.S. in Nonprofit Management from The New School for Public Engagement and B.A. in Political Science and English from the University of North Florida.