We've gathered an excellent team of experienced partners and professionals, mostly comprised of women of diverse backgrounds, races and nationalities, to whom this cause is so much more than just a job! Our diverse team members and partners have extensive experience working with nonprofits and launching impactful campaigns.
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WOMEN IN TECH AND GENDER BIAS
Our team’s leadership, membership composition, and collaborative partners demonstrate the holistic assembly of experts in the fields of women’s advocacy, empowerment, and research-based knowledge. This expertise is exactly what is needed to achieve immediate impact on problems associated with the public’s perception of women, and to diminish domestic violence. As such, our partnership structure is uniquely positioned to deliver program results to execute our project.
Veronika Mudra - CEO/Founder of White Ribbon
Veronika Mudra is a CEO of the White Ribbon USA, women rights advocate, public speaker. She is a former refugee from Ukraine under domestic violence protection program and received asylum in the US. Veronika has been working in nonprofit sector in executive positions for the past 5 years leading White Ribbon Campaign in a few countries. She focuses on the development of support programs for refugees under domestic violence, early gender equality education for children, affordable and supportive housing, advancing women economic empowerment and gender equality in workplaces. She is TEDxWOMEN speaker, participant of “Women. Peace. Security” and IPCC gender task group.
Alicia Alexander - UI/UX Designer
Alicia Alexander is UX/UI Designer and Front-End Developer with degree in Mass Communications. She has performed excellent project for Johns Hopkins University, Centers for Civic Impact; Wells Fargo Bank; State of Maryland, Department of Planning, North Highland Consulting and many others. Alicia conducts user researches, interviews and surveys, creates internal project management dashboards, dashboard applications, UI design for mobile apps, dashboard applications, web landing pages and email campaigns. She also accomplished the State of Maryland, Department’s of Planning first RESTful API Toolbox web application that made State Government data accessible to the public.
Arwa Awan - Full Stack Web Developer
Arwa Awan is Miscrosoft certified full Stack Web Developer with over 7 years of professional experience. She works with PHP, RESTful API, Javascript, JQuery, HTML, CSS, Angular and Elasticsearch (ELK stack); MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle databases and Apache, Ubuntu, CentOS, DigitalOcean server environments. After getting degree in Computer Science Arwa participated in numerous projects as Programmer Analyst for CenterPoint Energy, as Lead Developer for Substation Automated Login System, as Web Developer for Aerocare, as Software Engineer for Etisalat, ODS2, TeleTaleem and many others.
Miranda Fang - Strategic Communications Consultant
Miranda Fang is currently a full-time MBA Candidate at UCLA Anderson School of Management, studying social impact. Prior to business school, Miranda was a Human Capital Senior Consultant at Deloitte, guiding Fortune 100 companies through large-scale transformations and advising them on various talent strategies including diversity & inclusion. At Deloitte, Miranda led StepUpLA, a skills-based volunteering group who provided strategic consulting services to nonprofits and also helped build Deloitte’s Diversity and Inclusion consulting practice. Miranda studied policy analysis with a focus on inequities and law at Cornell University and started her career in strategic development at Teach For America - Los Angeles. She is a proud resident of Los Angeles and enjoys long-distance running and exploring national parks.
Lora Bailey Ph.D - Program Evaluation, 'Ed Causes' President
Dr. Bailey is a renowned researcher, project developer, professor, dean of education with over 18 years experience advocating for disenfranchised, minority families and children zoned for public schools. She published over 40 peer-reviewed articles, delivered over 100 peer-reviewed presentations, published 4 books. Dr. Bailey collaborated with federal and state agencies, foundations to garner funds for development of collaborative projects aimed at professionally developing children, families and teachers who are educated live and teach in at-risk school districts facing school closure. She has been awarded $7 million in grant funds to improve conditions for communities she has served.
Christina Schmotolocha - Marketing and Communications Coordinator
Christina Schmotolocha is a USC Berkeley graduate, women’s rights advocate, and Women’s March member. Christina has advanced experience in marketing, corporate communications, Public Relations, communications for human rights organizations. She also has expertise in advocacy and campaigning in a way that supports and elevates voices of social movements and vulnerable groups and communities. She has high-level of professional experience in proof-reading, writing and editing works in English, excellent research and analytical skills, and writing. Christina has a strong analysis and understanding of the international human rights framework, advocacy and campaigning activities.
Taylor M. Smith - Strategic Business Development
Taylor Smith is an attorney and business relations consultant in Los Angeles, California. In addition to her professional pursuits, Ms. Smith has a strong passion for helping others and dedicates her experience and skills to help create a better world. She is an active member of the Consumers Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, Consumer Attorneys of California and is a member of the Honorary Board of Governors for the Los Angeles Trial Lawyers' Charities. Ms. Smith was named a member of the National Trial Lawyers' Association Top 40 Under 40 Lawyer in California.
Kayla Manteiga - Social Media Design & Management
Kayla joins the White Ribbon team from Ontario, Canada. She is the owner of Soul or Flare (www.soulorflare.com) a company that helps businesses start, grow and expand in the digital space. Kayla has a passion for copywriting, editing, and social media marketing strategy and design.
“I’m thrilled to have joined the White Ribbon USA team, because working with people who are dedicated to creating positive, lasting change sets my soul on fire. Looking forward to helping this amazing company continue to make a positive impact on the world!”
Paloma Urbina - Project & Event Coordinator
Paloma Urbina is Mexican American entrepreneur, seed investor and women rights activist. From the early age Paloma has founded numerous companies in service industries and real estate. She has profound experience in managing multiply business ventures, stuff members and companies. Paloma Urbina initiated employment partner program for the White Ribbon USA and became Event and Project Coordinator. Currently Paloma is working on affordable housing project in Los Angeles.
Ivelina Choeva - CEO & Founder of Za Teb
Ivelina Choeva is founder and CEO of ZaTeb - the first mobile app for combatting domestic violence in Eastern Europe. Ms. Choeva is a model who has been the face of many fashion brands since she started her career at the age of 13. She drew upon her experience with online marketing to create and launch ZaTeb. It was designed to highlight the social evil of domestic violence and create a sustainable grassroots level technology-enabled means to combat it. ZaTeb Mobile App (www.zateb.org) was launched in 2019 in Sofia, Bulgaria, under support of many governmental officials and NGOs, including those from the United Nations. Ivelina also started a successful campaign in Eastern Europe called “ZaTeb Angels” joined by well-known celebrities, sportsmen and sportswomen, politicians and other opinion leaders who became spokespeople of ZaTeb cause related to domestic violence towards women.
Phil America - Artist & Activist
Phil America is a California-raised artist, designer and activist. He has worked and lived throughout the US, Europe, Asia and Africa, concentrating on individual moments of freedom while looking at relationships with class, gender and race. In his work he uses installation and sculptures, performance, photography, video, and fashion in searching for a better understanding and connection to his subjects while bringing about an interpersonal relationship between the viewer and himself.
In his art, America has collaborated with United Nations, International Labor Organization, World Vision, Black Lives Matter, U.S. Department of Labor, UNESCAP, Planned Parenthood, International Organization for Migration, the Australian Government, World Pride, US Embassy, Seoul, the Sacramento Kings and other agencies and organizations to create art projects around the globe.
Yuri Gorzey - Strategic Advisor and Board Member, White Ribbon USA, ImpactFactors, CEO/co-founder
Currently working on the next generation community management platform to help nonprofits impact the world. Under one platform we are putting best-practices technology and the world’s best minds to help small nonprofits bridge the gap between passion and execution in a way never available to them before. Empowering one person to have the same impact as having a team of 10 people.
Yuri was a deputy director of a large importer company, managing $50M+ division at the age of 21. His experience includes founding a software development firm providing services to some large companies in the USA since 2002, working as a business and performance improvement consultant for private equity firm, as well as founding law firm that won over 450 cases against the Ukrainian government. His company ‘Impact Factors’ is a Next generation community management platform, delivered as all-in-one or unbundled solution fundamentally changing the way organizations operate. ImpactFactors combines CRM, Website, Mobile and TV apps, Podcasts, Communications, Media, Automation, Marketing and Fundraising, all working as one system.
Nimasha Sewwandi - UI/UX Engineer, NimArtz founder
Experienced UI/UX Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the Graphics and Software industry. Skilled in Wireframing, UI/UX Designing, Frond-end Development, Project Planning, Requirement Analyzing, Handling Clients, Programming using PHP Laravel Framework, Web Designing HTML, CSS, Javascript and JQuery. Having strong software UI designing skills and development knowledge with the Bachelor's degree in IT from University of Colombo.
Adam Hoffman - Legal Advisor, Helix Compliance Founder
Headquartered in the heart of midtown Manhattan, Helix Compliance is a legal tech firm that helps turn dreams into reality. Managed by US-based attorneys - current and former General Counsels, Chief Compliance Officers, and Law Firm Practitioners - Helix provides essential documentation for non-profits, small business owners, and individuals to achieve their goals and protect their organizations. By embracing leading automation technology methods, Helix seeks to efficiently improve the quality, while reducing the cost, of fully customizable documents. If you would like to learn more about Helix and how they can help you, please do not hesitate to send a message to info@helixcompliance.com.
OUR PARTNERS
Tetyana Gorzey - Chief Tech and Marketing Solutions Developer, ImpactFactors co-founder
Tetyana Gorzey is a CEO of Impact Factors, a family operated software company that develops unique all-in-one solutions for nonprofits: mobile apps, CRM management system, web platforms, TV apps. She worked on developing of award winning application for GatewayChurch at iGivings that won the Best Media Product Award. Tetyana’s experience includes founding a software development firm providing services to some large companies in the USA since 2002. Mrs. Gorzey feels passionate about gender equality and active female leadership in the workplace, she makes sure that equality policies are in place in all projects developed by her company.
Aaron Celious, Ph.D - Director of Research and Data Strategy, Maroon Society, Inc., CEO/founder
Aaron Celious is a sociologist whose work focuses on how to introduce large-scale programs and policies. This includes understanding how to match the capabilities of the agency with the wants and needs of the consumer. Recent projects include:
- developing the 10-Year Strategy for the City of Los Angeles AIDS Coordinator's Office
- evaluating the effectiveness of the GRYD (Gang Reduction Youth Development) program for the City of Los Angeles
- outlining a strategic direction for the Southern California Association of Governments to plan for the rapidly aging population in Southern California
- identifying opportunities to expand rail service to reduce congestion and improve access to Bob Hope Airport for the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority
- facilitating the historic transition from an honors-based payment system to a mandated payment system on the Metro Rail Line via the use of electronic TAP cards vs. paper tickets for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
He is a member of the American Public Health Association and has presented his research in the areas of Genetic Research Ethics and Expanding Routine HIV Testing as a measure to reduce the proliferation of HIV.
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