Board of Directors
Brianne Palmer
Vice President, Branch Manager, Union Bank
Linda Ruffer
Political Consultant, Private Practice
Jason Strzelczyk
Owner/Of Counsel, Law Offices of Jason C Strzelczyk/Guerin Law Firm
Rochelle Witharana
Chief Financial Officer, The California Wellness Foundation
Board Emeriti
Rochelle Lindsey
Cynthia Sears
Elaine Tumonis
Mike Bayless, President
Vice President, Corporate and Community Engagement, 21st Century Fox
Dawn Bey, Treasurer
Account Executive, Bills & Stoll, LLP
Ronda Haralson, Secretary
Manager, Global Title Management, Global Media Operations Comcast, Comcast NBCUniversal
Ron Burkhardt
Managing Director, Newmark Knight Frank
Mayanka Melville
Director, Capital Group
Advisory Board
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.
Marco Loera, M.F.A.
Director of Technology and Online Organizing, National Day Laborer Organizing Network
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
Vice President, Keenan Insurance Services
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.
Commercial Litigation Practice Group, Pepper Hamilton LLP
Paul Gonzales
Manager, Public Affairs, Metrolink
Rebecca Isaacs, ESQ.
Executive Director, Equality Federation
Sandra Henriquez, M.A.
Executive Director, CALCASA
Sharon Shelton
Vice-President, YWCA Greater Los Angeles
Sheila Kuehl, ESQ.
Supervisor, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
Sherisa Dahlgren
Chief Wellbeing Officer, Inherent Wellbeing
Stan Gorbunov
Compliance Specialist, Capital Group
Suzi Dunkel-Soto
Realtor, West San Gabriel Valley
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
Betsy Butler
Executive Director, The California Women’s Law Center
Billie Weiss, M.P.H.
Violence Prevention Specialist. Former Executive Director and Founder, Violence Prevention Coalition of Greater Los Angeles
Britni Soto Macintosh
Client Manager, Swell Creative Group
Christina Mauro,
Producer/Actress
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
Elena Christopoulos
Commissioner, City of Santa Monica
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
Kellie Hawkins, M.A.
COO, National Health Organization
Kent Kiesey
Branch Manager, Union Bank
National Advisory Board
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
Maile Zambuto, Honolulu, HI
Former CEO, Joyful Heart Foundation
Kibi Anderson, Sherman Oaks, CA
Strategy and Business Development Executive
Matthew Ennis, Springfield, MO
President and CEO, 1in6
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.
Debbie Lee, San Francisco, CA
Senior Vice-President at Futures Without Violence