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Deborah Nucatola MD is Chief Medical Officer at Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawai`i, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky; Director of Family Planning at Eden Surgical Center in Agoura Hills, CA; and Senior Medical Advisor for Planned Parenthood Direct. She served as Senior Director of Medical Services for Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) from 2009-2016. Following her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dr. Nucatola completed a Fellowship in Complex Family Planning at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. In addition to her positions in Alaska, California, Hawaiʻi, Idaho, Indiana and Kentucky, Dr. Nucatola provides clinical care in Chicago, IL and enjoys educating medical students, residents, fellows, physicians and advanced practice clinicians. She has been active in Family Planning Research since 2002.

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Anne Dixon has been working accounting for 14+ years primarily in the alternative investment space in audit, tax t and third-party fund administration. She currently works as a part-time CFO for Venture Capital firms as she specializes working with emerging investment managers. Anne specifically enjoys helping historically un- or underrepresented folks continue to gain access in this space so we all collectively thrive.

Anne holds a B.A. in Economics & Accounting and a B.A. in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. During her time at UCSB, she concentrated on human sexuality and originally intended to pursue becoming a therapist in this space. However, she found she loved the juxtaposition of research and theory with logical and mathematics-based thinking and working in fast-paced, high adrenaline environments. She enjoys learning about systems while continuing to question social norms and historically accepted ways of doing things to help create meaningful ways of moving forward.

Anne served on the board of directors for Family Paths, a non-profit based in Oakland, from 2013-2017 where she served as Treasurer, Vice President and on the Audit and Finance Committees prior to moving to LA until early 2020. She is currently based in Berkeley and serves as a community member on Berkeley United School District’s “Gender Equity and Sexual Harassment” Advisory Committee as well Berkeley’s Superintendent Budget Advisory Committee.

Anne was a victim of sexual assault by a coach in high school in Illinois which is where she was born and raised. She experienced the criminal legal system from both a victim and minors’ perspective as a result. She feels lucky she can share her experiences to help others who at no fault of their own may not have a voice.

Anne is shaped by her Midwestern roots and lives by the motto her mom always taught her, “It’s nice to be important but important to be nice.” But she did grow up with the 90’s Chicago Bulls and loves to “go hard in the paint” when necessary.

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Shiwali Patel is the Director of Safe and Inclusive Schools & Senior Counsel at the National Women’s Law Center and leads the Center’s advocacy addressing gender-based harassment in schools, including sexual assault. Her work also focuses on strengthening civil rights protections for LGBTQI+ students, advocating against censorship in schools through the proliferation of book and curriculum bans, and addressing other issues of gender equity in education. Previously, she was at the U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights (OCR), where she worked on civil rights policy and legal guidance interpreting Title IX’s anti-discrimination protections, including schools' responsibilities in responding to sexual harassment, protections for transgender students, and the rights of girls of color. Before joining OCR, Shiwali was an Administrative Judge and investigator at the U.S. Department of Energy, a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia in the Sex Offense and Domestic Violence Unit, and a law clerk to the Honorable Laura A. Cordero at the Superior Court for the District of Columbia. She also served as the Board President of the Asian/Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project (DVRP). Prior to law school, Shiwali was a community educator at the District of Columbia Rape Crisis Center.

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Tina is a healthcare and startup veteran with over two decades of experience running operations. She’s held roles in academia, nonprofits and early-stage growth start-ups. She is currently Founder and COO at Accomplish Health, a telehealth obesity company whose vision is to reframe how we think about and treat obesity. Prior to that she served as Callisto’s interim CEO.

Tina worked as COO of the genomics startup Phosphorous and Director of Operations at its predecessor company Recombine. Before moving into the startup ecosystem, Tina spent several years at Planned Parenthood Federation of America where she oversaw the strategy and deployment of critical reproductive health services on a national level. In her early career she held clinical operations roles at Columbia University and Johns Hopkins.

She holds a Master of Public Health, in Epidemiology, from Columbia University.

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Rowena Chiu is a former assistant to Harvey Weinstein. In 1998, she was sexually assaulted by him at the Venice Film Festival, and was coerced into signing a non-disclosure agreement (NDA), which silenced her for over twenty years. In 2017, a New York Times journalist came to her home and doorstepped her husband of over a decade, revealing information about the assault and NDA. Rowena was featured in the subsequent NYT investigation, but she insisted on remaining anonymous. In 2019, she finally broke her story on the NBC Today Show, live in front of three million viewers. Rowena's story has featured in both the book and the movie, SHE SAID. She has given over 700 media interviews across four continents, for international news outlets such as: ABC, BBC, CBS, and NBC. She has testified at the House Of Commons, the Massachusetts State House, and the State Of The Union. She is writing a memoir, a novel, and a screenplay, in addition to working as a global #MeToo activist, advocating for the rights of those who are oppressed or voiceless, in churches, schools, universities and workplaces around the world.

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Byrd brings nearly two decades of experience in health care and grantmaking. Before joining FORE, he managed the New York State Health Foundation’s Special Projects Fund, a $3 million grantmaking program that supports innovative projects addressing public health and community health needs. Before that, Byrd served as director for community partnerships for CARE, an international humanitarian organization, where he was responsible for building strategic partnerships with policymakers as well as business and nonprofit leaders. Byrd also served as deputy director for membership affairs at the Council on Foreign Relations; as an assistant director with the Rockefeller Foundation, where he spearheaded an HIV/AIDS project in Southern Africa; and as a senior government relations advisor for a law firm, where he worked on public health policies in New York.

In 2021, he was appointed to the Community Advisory Group (CAG) of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. CAG’s goal is to present views and perspectives on key economic and financial issues affecting individuals, households, and communities within the Second Federal Reserve District. He also serves on the board of directors for the New York Funders Alliance, a statewide association of foundations and philanthropic advisors. He is also a member of the Overseas Press Club of America.

Brian holds a B.S. in human ecology and public policy from Rutgers University and an M.P.A. from New York University’s Wagner School of Public Service.

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Critic, author and award-winning journalist Maureen “Mo” Ryan is a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair, and has written for Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Salon, GQ, Vulture, The Hollywood Reporter, TV Guide, Slate and Polygon. Ryan, who was named the best TV writer in America by Complex in 2013, previously worked as the chief television critic at Variety, Huffington Post, and the Chicago Tribune. Her 2023 book, Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood, which the New Yorker called “galvanizing,” hit the New York Times and Los Angeles Times best-seller lists. The chapter on the TV drama Lost excerpted in Vanity Fair made news around the world, as have an array of her other stories on Hollywood misconduct, abuse and exploitation. Ryan, who has a Master’s degree from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, served for many years on the juries of the Peabody Awards and the AFI Awards. She lives with her family in Chicago.

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Jim is the founder of Benetech and Tech Matters, a MacArthur Fellow, a recipient of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, a Distinguished Alumnus of Caltech, and a leading social entrepreneur. Jim’s dream is to bring Silicon Valley’s technology innovations to all of humanity, not just the richest 5%. He is a former rocket engineer who also founded two successful for-profit high technology companies.

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Tracey Breeden is the CEO and founder of Disrupt the Landing. Tracey and her team consult and partner with corporations, NGOs, government agencies, and individuals to create safe spaces through the implementation of policies and programs on digital platforms and in real life for users of these platforms and the employees of the organizations DTL works with.

Tracey has over two decades of experience in technology and government/public safety sectors. Tracey brings an intersectional, equity & inclusion lens to safety operations, products, policies, and programs. A former police officer and investigator with subject matter expertise in sexual assault and domestic violence who was awarded the medal of valor during law enforcement career.

Tracey was Uber's first Head of Women's Safety and created Uber's Global Women's Safety & Gender-Based Violence Programs Team—the first global team dedicated to the safety of women and other vulnerable populations at Uber. She and her team advised on some of Uber’s most notable safety products like Safety Center, Ride Check, Emergency Button, Share My Trip and Feedback features. Tracey is known for creating Uber’s first human trafficking prevention initiative, Uber’s first bystander awareness initiative utilizing a community collaboration model in partnership with law enforcement, government officials, advocates and businesses, and Tracey spearheaded several safety and social advocacy programs including Uber’s Global Driving Change commitment and program engaging with over 200 women’s safety groups and advocacy organizations globally, resulting in several impactful internal and external partnerships and global initiatives.

Tracey Breeden was the Vice President, Head of Safety and Social Advocacy at Match Group. Tracey stood up Match Group’s first-ever dedicated Trust & Safety central program and team of nearly 30 experts to work in partnership and guide trust & safety efforts across 15+ brands including Tinder and Hinge. Tracey spearheaded the background check screening partnership with Garbo; the development of the industry’s first law enforcement portal to better aid investigations; transparency reporting development; advising on brand tech features like “Are You Sure?” (a warning for out-of-pocket messages), the ability to block contacts, and ID verification

Tracey’s vision is to build authentic, equitable, and respectful communities that are free from all forms of harm.

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Stephanie Connaughton is a marketer, and branding expert. After starting her career as a strategic consultant at Bain & Company, she spent 15 years at Gillette (later P&G) where she pioneered several Gillette’s breakthrough products including the original Venus razor. Stephanie has been involved with over 50 start-ups as an advisor and angel investor, and founded a consumer products company. She currently serves on the Board of Callisto, Garbo.io, the Women’s Foundation of Boston and is Board Chair for Courageous Parents Network. She has deep ties with several Boston institutions including: Boys and Girls Club of Boston; ICA Boston and Harvard University where she acts as an advisor to the Deans of the College, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Business School. She holds an AB from Harvard, an MBA from Wharton and is a graduate of the Harvard Business Analytics program.