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Jill Blackford has extensive experience working in philanthropy and is currently the Senior Program Manager for the Nasdaq Foundation. She has also supported responsible tech and AI at the Mozilla Foundation, informal STEM education at the Simons Foundation, economic research at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, education in southern and eastern Africa with the ELMA Philanthropies, and research on nonprofit and foundation issues at the Aspen Institute. She is also on the Board of Directors for 500 Women Scientists and on the Community Advisory Board for WFUV public radio station. She holds a Masters of International Affairs focused in Economic and Political Development from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where she also worked for Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations from Boston University. She lives in New York with her rescue dog Zeus.
Jac sm Kee is a feminist activist working at the intersection of internet technologies, social justice and collective power. Jac is located within these movements at hyper-local, networked and global levels. Amongst stuff Jac is proud of being part of, is co-founding the Take Back the Tech! collaborative global campaign on ending online gender-based violence, and stewarding the collaborative development of the Feminist Principles of the Internet, and driving gender justice as a main thematic issue at the Internet Governance Forum. Jac is currently making into reality with co-dreamers - Numun Fund–the first fund on feminist tech in the global South.
Jules Kim is a sex worker and a sex workers’ rights advocate. Jules is the Global Coordinator of the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP), since 2023. She formerly served as the Chief Executive Officer of Scarlet Alliance, the Australian Sex Workers Association – the peak national organisation that has been representing sex workers as well as sex worker organisations, collectives and projects throughout Australia since 1989. Jules has over 20 years of experience in sex work, sex worker advocacy, community development and representation. She chairs the Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers, and was the UN Program Coordinating Board NGO Delegate for the Asia Pacific for 2019-2021. She represents sex workers on several government committees and in advisory mechanisms. She has provided testimony and expert advice on parliamentary hearings and inquiries about sex work, migration, trafficking and law reform.
Joey Lee has spent 15 years helping to build partner-centered strategies for human rights and social justice across movements worldwide. As a consultant with Levain Partners, he collaborates with philanthropic funders to infuse transformative values into their grantmaking practices. Previously, he led the Open Society Foundations' New Executives Fund, supporting new leaders and organizations navigating complex leadership transitions. He also served as Asia Program Director at Fordham Law School’s Leitner Center for International Law & Justice, mobilizing diverse resources to empower public interest lawyers across Asia. Earlier in his career, Joey worked at Human Rights in China on strategic engagement of UN and other international mechanisms in support of Chinese rights defenders. Joey has a B.Comm. from Queen's University, a J.D. from Boston University, and an LL.M. from New York University.
Ignacio Saiz is an international human rights advocate and advisor on issues at the intersection of human rights and economic justice. He works as an independent consultant with CSOs, foundations and academic institutions on rights-centered strategies to tackle social and economic inequalities. As Executive Director of the Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) in New York, he helped catalyze cross-movement efforts to advance a rights-based economy and decolonize the global financial architecture. He previously served as Policy Director at Amnesty International (AI) in London, overseeing global thematic programs on economic and social rights, corporate accountability, sexual and reproductive health and rights, LGBTQI+, refugee and migrants’ rights, among others. As Deputy Director of AI’s Americas Program, he was responsible for Amnesty’s research and campaigning in Mexico and Central America. His work has challenged criminalization across a spectrum of human rights issues from abortion and queer identities to homelessness, poverty and protest.