Founders

• Robin Morgan
• Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)

President:  Robin Morgan

An award-winning poet, novelist, political theorist, activist, and editor, Robin Morgan has published 21 books, including three classic anthologies–Sisterhood Is Powerful (1970), Sisterhood Is Global (l984; 2nd edition 1996), and Sisterhood Is Forever (2003)—plus her award-winning The Anatomy of Freedom (1994), and best-selling The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism (1989, 2nd edition 2001). Recent books include Saturday’s Child: A Memoir (2000), an historical novel, The Burning Time (2006), and the nonfiction Fighting Words: A Toolkit for Combating the Religious Right (2006). In 1990, as Editor-in-Chief, she relaunched Ms. Magazine as an ad-free,  international bimonthly, resigning in 1994 to become Global Consulting Editor. She has traveled widely–as organizer, lecturer, and journalist–including twice spending months in Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, West Bank, and Gaza, reporting on women. A founder and leader of contemporary US feminism, she has also been a leader in the global women’s movement for 25 years.

Executive Director: Tamera Gugelmeyer

An international feminist activist and writer on online activism, women and war, and young feminist politics, Tamera concentrates on transforming women’s organizations into successful, sustainable non-profits. She has consulted on fundraising, new media, marketing, and communications strategies for such national women’s organizations as The Women’s Media Center, Women’s Environment and Development Organization, and the National Council for Research on Women. Experienced in both for-profit and non-profit, Tamera worked on corporate marketing and communications at Cisco Systems, strategic fundraising at Southern Methodist University, and targeted marketing and communications campaigns at the Dallas Women’s Foundation. She co-founded the first interdisciplinary graduate women’s organization at the University of Denver, completing her MA in International Studies with a focus on women’s political participation in the Middle East, where she lived and taught.

International Board of Advisors

Maha Abu-Dayyeh (Palestine)
Marjorie Agosin (Chile)
Peggy Antrobus (Caribbean)
Amna Badri (Sudan)
Alida Brill (US)
Helen Caldicott (Australia)
Thais Corral (Brazil)
Donna Deitch (US)
Nawal El Saadawi (Egypt)
Jodie Evans (US)
Jane Fonda (US)
Beverly Guy Sheftall (US)
Pregs Govender (South Africa)
Terry Greenblatt (Israel)
Vanessa Griffin (Fiji)
Ruchira Gupta (India)
Joy Harjo (The Mvskoke [Creek] Nation)
Susan Hawthorne (Australia)
Florence Howe (US)
Jila Kazerounian (Iran)
Michele Landsberg (Canada)
Ilana Landsberg-Lewis (Canada)
Ariel Levy (US)
Maria Nadotti (Italy)
Judy Norsigian (US)
Molara Ogundipe (Nigeria)
Achola Pala Okeyo (Kenya)
Margarita Papandreou (Greece)
Hilkka Pietilä (Finland)
Alix Ritchie (US)
Isel Rivero (Cuba/Spain)
Ninotchka Rosca (The Philippines)
Anna Leah Sarabia (The Philippines)
Bonnie Schaefer (US)
Alice Schwarzer (Germany)
Amanda Sebestyen (UK)
Sonal Shukla (India)
Ailbhe Smyth (Ireland)
Durga Sob (Nepal)
Gloria Steinem (US)
Maria Suarez Toro (Costa Rica)
Titi Sumbung (Indonesia)
Jessica Valenti (US)
Irene Vilar (Puerto Rico)
Helen Zia (US)