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Ashley Steimer-King
​Girls Learn International

Ashley Steimer-King is the Program Director for Girls Learn International. Based in the Los Angeles Office, she oversees all program components of GLI. She has a Masters in Cultural Anthropology and previously worked with several NGOs in their United Nations offices, training middle and high school girls on international human rights learning and advocacy. 

Caeli Waldron Hogan
​Girls Learn International

Caeli Waldron Hogan is the nationwide coordinator of Girls Learn International. She leads nationwide trainings to help students and teachers from 200 chapters in 32 US states gain leadership skills, organizing strategies, and human rights advocacy. She also facilitates partnerships between US and organizations aiding girls' access...​

Carla Collins
​Santa Clara County Office of Women's Policy

Carla Collins is the Interim Director for the County of Santa Clara Office of Women’s Policy. She has trained and facilitated dialogue with communities throughout the County of Santa Clara on tolerance and prejudice reduction, civil liberties, and women's human rights. Collins has worked to raise awareness of the unique needs of women from marginalized commun...

Serge Akpalou
​Challenging Heights, Ghana

Serge Akpalou is the Partners in Development Officer for Challenging Heights, where he coordinates visits from supporters and partners and helps to create and maintain partnerships with other organisations. He came to Challenging Heights after working with International Crisis Group in Nairobi, Kenya. He received his Master’s degree from the University of Nebraska in Political Science and his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Ghana.

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Debby Rooney
​BEADS for Education, Kenya

Deborah Kling Rooney is a graduate of Penn State University with a B.A. in high school teaching. She is the co-founder of BEADS for Education, a non-profit that improves the status of Kenyan women by offering business development and primarily girls’ education.Debby first fell in love with the people of the Maasai region of Kenya during a 1991 visit; two years later, she devoted her life to empowering girls and women living...

Ellen Flamen
​Girls Learn International

Ellen Flamen has served as the Girls Learn International (GLI) Northern California Regional Coordinator since 2011. 

Olivia Nassiwa
​St. Jude Rido Junior School,
​Nyenga, Uganda

Olivia Nassiwa is a social worker at St. Jude Rido Junior School, Nyenga, Uganda and has been working towards Public Health and Community Development for the last 5 years. She has a B.A. degree in Social Sciences from Makerere University of Faculty of Social...

Georgia Platts
​Foothill College, Los Altos

Georgia Platts has a Ph.D. from UCLA in sociology, and teaches sociology and women's studies at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, California. Platts has also lectured at San Jose State University. In addition, she expresses herself through her blog, BroadBlogs; her blog posts and op-eds have been published in the San Jose Mercury News, Ms. Magazine...

​Jan Dietzgen
Amnesty International USA

Jan Dietzgen came of age during the women's movement of the sixties. She grew up during the “Virgin Era” era in upstate NY, but by the time she got her masters from Columbia in political science, the Vietnam war was tearing the country apart and she was fighting for social justice. Her first job was a major milestone in her life—she taught an all-black school in Cleveland...

​Joanne Westendorf
​Girl Scout Troop 60324

Yves Boukari Traoré
​Amnesty International Burkina Faso
Joanne Westendorf has been a Girl Scout Leader for over 20 years.  As a troop and high adventure leader, she has deeply enjoyed seeing girls grow and change as they encounter and navigate new activities from knot tying to putting up tents in strong winds to mastering the creation and sale of crafts to assembling solar-powered toy cars.  Under her mentorship...
Yves Boukari Traoré currently serves as the Director for Amnesty International Burkina Faso. He was born in Côte d’Ivoire where he lived and studied. In 1982, he traveled to Burkina Faso, his parents’ country, where he has now been living for more than 30 years. Traoré studied Modern French and African Literatures at the University of Ouag... 

​​Jolena Zabel
Kakenya Center for Excellence, Kenya

Jolena Zabel is a passionate advocate for the advancement of women and girls, currently serving as the Communications and Development Associate at Kakenya’s Dream, an international non-profit leveraging education to empower girls in rural East Africa. Before joining Kakenya’s Dream, Zabel interned at the U.S. State Department in the off...

​Julie Cordua
Thorn


Julie Cordua is the CEO of Thorn, an organization dedicated to driving technology innovation to fight child sexual exploitation.  Joining the organization in 2011, Julie helped create a new strategic direction for its work with a clear focus on exposing the role technology plays in the exploitation of children and identifying impactful ways for technology to be...​

​Julie Ramirez
​Santa Clara County Office of Women's Policy

 Julie Ramirez is a Management Analyst with the County of Santa Clara Office of Women's Policy.  Her primary policy areas include women and girls leadership and economic advancement, while also working on communication and outreach to foster support for women and girls across the County. Currently, she is focused on expanding the visibility ....

Kaitlyn Denzler
​Amnesty International USA

Kaitlyn Denzler serves as the Gender, Sexuality, and Identity Program Officer for Amnesty International USA in Washington DC. She is an avid human rights advocate working for Amnesty International USA on many campaigns on women's rights, sexual and reproductive rights, LGBT rights and  the worldwide "My Body, My Rights" women's reproductive rights campaign....

Ketzal Gomez
​Santa Clara County Office of Women's Policy

Ketzal Gomez has been working with the Office of Women's Policy since 2014.  With  strong experience in community collaboration and organizing, Ketzal provides staff support to the Commission on the Status of Women, manages the Jail Monitoring Program and leads the Girls Advisory Team to study the impact of policy, social and govern....​

Noelie Kouraogo
​Amnesty International Burkina Faso

Noëlie Kiswendsida Kouraogo currently serves as the Youth and Gender Coordinator for Amnesty International Burkina Faso (AIBF), where she acts to enable and empower youth and women to take action for human rights. Her job includes developing, delivering and leading on the national youth and gender activism strategy to maxim...

Paola Estanislao
​Santa Clara County
​District Attorney's Office

Deputy District Attorney Paola Estanislao earned her undergraduate degree at the University of California, Berkeley and law degree at Santa Clara University School of Law. Paola has been a prosecutor for over eight years, having worked in the Los Angeles and San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office before coming to Santa Clara County. At....

Richard Moses Ssuuna
​St. Jude Rido Junior School,
​Nyenga, Uganda

Richard Moses Ssuuna is a strong women and girls activist. He is the Executive Director and Founder member of St. Jude Rido Junior School, Nyenga, Uganda, taking care of OVCs (Orphans and Vulnerable Children) and disadvantaged girls. He is the Founder member of St. Anthony De Padua Community Association,Nyenga (ANDEPACA); ​whose.....

Rose Mukhar
​Justice At Last, Santa Clara County Office of Women's Policy

Rose Mukhar is a social justice and human rights attorney and she recently founded Justice At Last, a nonprofit law firm dedicated to empowering trafficked survivors in the San Francisco Bay Area. Justice At Last is modeled after Rose’s pro-bono law practice exclusively representing survivors for the last several years and it provides direct ...

Sr. Elizabeth Avalos
Catholic Network to End Human Trafficking

Sister Elizabeth Avalos is a member of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Sister Elizabeth is also an active member of the San Jose Diocesan Catholic Network to End Human Trafficking, CNEHT, where she has facilitated numerous social justice presentations locally and nationally, having given presentations in the....

Sr. Marilyn Wilson
Catholic Network to End Human Trafficking​

Sister Marilyn Wilson, a Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is an educator, spiritual director and retreat facilitator.  As an active member of the Catholic Network to End Human Trafficking—Diocese of San Jose (CNEHT) and No Traffick Ahead (NTA), she provides presentations and educational materials around the issue of  end....​

Sr. Mary Vertucci
​Emusoi Center, Tanzania

Sr. Mary Vertucci is a Maryknoll Sister missionary who has worked in Tanzania for the past 46 years, and is the founder of the Emusoi Center. She is a secondary school teacher by profession and has taught in both public and private schools in Tanzania. Sr. Vertucci was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1945, and graduated from the local Cath....  

Taraneh Roosta
Voices of Women for Change

Taraneh Roosta is a women's rights activist and community organizer. She is the  founder and president of a nonprofit women's organization, Voices Of Women For Change. This organization was founded to empower women and girls to overcome gender-based barriers through consciousness-raising and advocacy.   She organized The Silic....

Terry McCaffrey
​Amnesty International USA

Terry McCaffrey is currently an Amnesty International Area Coordinator for the South Bay. He is also the Western Region Death Penalty Abolition Coordinator. He has been a member of Amnesty International since 1978 starting out in the South Bay, San Francisco, going from Group to Area Coordinator. From 1991 to 1995 he....

TutorCorps
Foundation

Tutor Corps strives to inspire a love of learning in students of all backgrounds and abilities. To advance this goal, the Tutor Corps Foundation was established. The Foundation focuses on three areas: Tutoring Scholarships, Community Service Grants, and Teacher Awards. Tutor Corps’ founder, Jesse Roselin, recognized....​