mobilizing youth for social change
Our Advisory Board
Meet the minds shaping our vision. From seasoned professionals to grassroots advocates, our advisory board brings a wealth of experience and insights to the table.
Caroline Fredrickson
Distinguished Visiting Professor from Practice at Georgetown Law and Senior Fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice, former President of the American Constitution Society, Member of the President’s Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, Leader of the Progressive Team for the National Constitution Center’s Constitution Drafting Project, Senior Congressional Fellow at the Stennis Center, former Director of the ACLU’s Washington Legislative Office, frequent guest on television and radio and regularly contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other news outlets. Author of “La Cour Supreme, Le Pouvoir Supreme,” “Under The Bus: How Working Women Are Being Run Over,” “The Democracy Fix: How to Win the Fight for Fair Rules, Fair Courts, and Fair Elections,” and “The AOC Way.”
Linda Keene Solomon
Founder and CEO of STEMbiotic Communities, CEO of Wellspring Solutions, Former Deloitte Senior Consulting Partner, Speaker at U.S. Department of State’s Tri-Lateral Japan-South Korea-U.S. Women’s Leadership Forum and the HBCU nationwide Call to Action Summit on Health Integration, Innovation, and Racial Justice. Former elected Director and Officer of the Homeland Security and Business Defense Council’s Board and Committee Chair of the American Red Cross National Capital Region Board. Recipient of Women in Technology’s Leadership and Harlem YMCA Black Achiever’s Awards.
Tanesha Williams
Counsel and Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the Democratic National Committee. Former racial justice and voting rights attorney and digital campaign manager for the Prepared to Voting and Voting Rights Defender projects at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Former Public Interest Fellow at Georgetown Law, Director of Organizing and Community Building for Families Against Mandatory Minimums, Clerk for the Poverty & Race Research Action Council, Student Attorney with the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, Holley Law Fellow with the National LGBTQ Task Force, and Manager for Teach For America as a Corps.
Joni Swedlund
Joni Swedlund is the Founder and Owner of the Inner Rock Group. She is known as an expert in leadership, resiliency, and transformations. She has over 27 years of global business and management consulting experience including 18 years as a Deloitte Consulting partner serving financial services clients. Joni creates a safe growth environment to learn leadership capabilities and is unafraid to get vulnerable and share her personal stories. Over the course of her career, Joni developed a variety of training programs to successfully meet her clients needs and objectives. Joni is also the author of the upcoming business books Lead from Inside Out and BD for Nerds.
Anoushka Chander
Anoushka Chander is a senior at Harvard College from Washington, DC studying Social Studies and African American Studies with a focus on women's rights, racial justice, and the law. At Harvard, she runs the Future Leaders in Public Service Conference for public service-minded high school students, invites political speakers to the Institute of Politics as a member of the JFK Jr. Forum Committee, and is the lead singer in the all-junior pop/rock band Charles Revival. Anoushka works as an Assistant Producer and intern at Ms. Studios at Ms. Magazine, where she has produced a podcast on the child welfare system. She has published articles in Ms. and in the Harvard Undergraduate Law Review. Anoushka interned on Capitol Hill for Congressman Jamie Raskin and served low-income mothers seeking public benefits as an intern with the Georgetown Health Justice Alliance. She is a trained lobbyist for voting rights, gun violence prevention, and racial justice. Anoushka plans to become a lawyer dedicated to protecting mothers of color through the law.