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
Staci L. Young // Board Member
Development Associate, California ChangeLawyers
Los Angeles, CA
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
Jose Meneses // Board Secretary
Assoc. in Business Litigation, Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP
Van Nuys, CA
Years on Board: 1
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.