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Workshop Presenters

Veronica Arreola
WISE Program, University of Illinois at Chicago

Natalia Averett
Feminist Majority Foundation

Margaret Baldwin, J.D.
Florida State University School of Law

Edna Harvin Battle
Federally Employed Women

Deyanira Bautista
District of Columbia Public Schools

Jessica Bearden
Feminist Majority Foundation

Renee Beeker
Chair, NOW ad hoc Committee on Family Law

Medea Benjamin
CODEPINK and Global Exchange

Lisa Bennett
NOW Communications Director

Linda Berg
NOW Political Director

Veronica Bohanan
Spoken Existence

Carol Moseley Braun
NOW National Board Member

Marie Clarke Brill
Africa Action

Martha Burk
National Council of Women’s Organizations

Josie Byzek
New Mobility Magazine

Janet Canterbury, M.D.
NOW Southeast Regional Director

Mandy Carter
Southerners On New Ground

Jean Carter-Wilson
Tennessee campaign activist

Diana Castañeda
Co-Chair WOCA Summit, Texas NOW Board Member

Stephanie Chalifoux
University of Alabama Women’s Resource Center

Stephanie Cleveland
NOW activist & feminist poet

Adele Coble
Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice

Kara Covington
Maryville (TN) Daily Times, Women’s Section

Scheherezade Daftary
National Young Feminist Task Force

Robin Davis
NOW PAC

Rosemary Dempsey
Former NOW Action Vice President

Honorable Grace Diaz
State Senator, Rhode Island

Cindy Domingo
U.S. Women and Cuba Collaboration,

National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum

Melody Drnach
Rhode Island NOW State Coordinator

Jan Erickson
NOW Government Relations Director

Rabbi Cliff Fiedler
Nashville Americans United for Separation of Church & State

Ann Fonfa
Annie Appleseed Project

Kimberly Fountain
Rock the Vote

Angelyn Frazer
Families Against Mandatory Minimums

Liz Funk
New York State Capitol District Campus

Kim Gandy
NOW President

Gail García McWilliams
NOW Great Lakes Regional Director, NOW PAC

Stephanie Goodwin
Maryland NOW Young Feminist Task Force

Tara Grandberry
A Lil’ Help

Emily Hall
Tennessee Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence

Madeline Halperin-Robinson
Legal Momentum

Erin Hanna
Vice President Rhode Island NOW and Young Feminist Task Force

Chris Henderson
Maryland Young Feminist Task Force

Mónica Hernandez
Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition

Patricia Ireland
Former NOW President

Lisalyn Jacobs
Legal Momentum

Robert Jensen, Ph.D.
University of Texas School of Journalism

Karen Johnson
NOW Executive Vice President

Linda Joplin
California NOW Title IX Athletics Program Coordinator

Diane Jordan
Knox County Commissioner, feminist activist

Mary Kinnunen
Tit 4 Tat

Sue Klein
Feminist Majority Foundation

Tia Koonse
California NOW Young Feminist Committee Vice President

Pat LaMarche
2004 Green Party Vice Presidential candidate

Meaghan Lamarre
Rode Island NOW President

Allendra Letsome
National Young Feminist Task Force

Latifa Lyles
NOW Mid-Atlantic Regional Director

Leslie Macklin
University of Kentucky Human Development Institute

Kelly Mangan
Florida NOW Young Feminist Task Force Chair

Jean Marlowe
Women’s Organization for National Prohibition Reform

Erin Matson
Young Feminist Task Force and Minnesota NOW President

Lisbeth Melendez
Freedom to Marry Coalition

Lorre Leon Mendelson
Disability Activist/Advocate/Author/Educator

Zenaida Mendez
NOW Foundation Racial Diversity Programs Director

Kris Moody
New Hampshire NOW President

Emily Nourse
Nashville YWCA Domestic Violence Center

Atima Omara-Alwala
NOW Young Feminist Task Force Co-Chair

Terry O’Neill
NOW Membership Vice President

Stephanie Ortoleva
NOW Disability Rights Ad Hoc Committee Chair, civil rights attorney

Marcia Pappas
New York State NOW President

Rosalba Polanco
Hermanas Mirabal Family Center

Suzannah Porter
New Jersey NOW President

Katherine Prown, Ph.D.
Institute for Childbirth Policy Reform

Pamela Reed
Little Phoenix Communications, attorney & civil rights advocate

Marisa Richmond
Tennessee Transgender Political Action Committee

Kathy Rodgers
Legal Momentum

Virginia “Ginny” Rogers
Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Welfare (former welfare mom)

Laura Ross
Minnesota NOW activist

Dr. Dorie Rothman
ERA Education Fund, Inc.

Lisa Russell
Governess Films

Vanessa Salinas
Northwest NOW Regional Director

Patricia Sanders
Mass. NOW activist, Equal Marriage NOW Ad-Hoc Committee

Alma Sanford
Tennessee campaign activist, attorney

Cari E. Seitstra
Law Students for Choice

Elle Shaaban-Magaña
University of Alabama Women’s Resource Center

Marjorie Signer
Virginia NOW Legislative Vice President

Deborah Small
Break the Chains

Eleanor Smeal
Feminist Majority Foundation, Former NOW President

Bertha Smith
Southeast NOW Regional Director, NOW PAC

Sandy Smith Madsen
Guerilla Women Blog

Ronnie Steinberg, Ph.D.
Vanderbilt University

Kimberly Stenerson
family-law court case survivor

Stephanie Strazisar
Young Democrats for America Women’s Caucus

Jan Strout
Northwest NOW Organizing Project Director,

U.S. Women & Cuba Collaboration

Chyng Sun, Ph.D.
New York University Media Studies

Scarlett Swerdlow
Students for Sensible Drug Policy

Jenny Thalheimer
NOW Press Secretary

Fatima P. Torres
DONAR Inc.

Linda Tosti-Lane
Washington NOW PAC

Joanne Tosti-Vasey
NOW Disability Rights Ad Hoc Committee Co-Chair

Duchy Trachtenberg
Maryland NOW President

Bobbie Walton
NOW Ad Hoc Committee on Family Law

Jessie Washington
Unitarian Universalist Church of All Souls

Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz
NOW Senior Field Organizer

Camillia Williams
Spoken Existence

Kristin VanHooreweghe
University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Toni Van Pelt
Center for Inquiry-Florida

Jennifer Vessels, Esq.
Tennessee Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence

Olga Vives
NOW Action Vice President

Angela Vo
University of Missouri Feminist Student Union


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