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 CATHERINE (KATIE)  ORENSTEIN, Founder and Director of The OpEd Project, has contributed to the op-ed pages of the New York Times, Washington Post and Miami Herald.  Her commentaries on women, politics, popular culture, mythology and human rights have been nationally syndicated and appear in anthologies.   She has lectured at Harvard and appeared on ABC TV World News, Good Morning America, MSNBC, CNN and NPR All Things Considered.  A graduate of Harvard (MA) and Columbia (MA) universities, she is the author of Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality & the Evolution of a Fairy Tale, which explores stories told about women over 500 years across multiple continents, and how they shape our lives today.  It has been translated into multiple languages and is under consideration for a television series. Newsweek called it “revelatory,” The Wall Street Journal called it “beguiling,” and feminist author Naomi Wolf called it “laid back, readable brilliance.” 

Orenstein has lived and worked around the world and particularly in Haiti, where she traveled as a folklore student and journalist in the 1990s, during a time of political upheaval. As a result of that experience, she has reported extensively on Haiti; organized fact-finding delegations for journalists, scholars and lawmakers; and consulted with the United Nations human rights mission. In 1996 she worked with a team of international human rights lawyers to assist victims of military and paramilitary violence in seeking justice. She investigated tortures, rapes, political assassinations and massacres; interviewed hundreds of victims, witnesses and alleged criminals; and coordinated lawyers’ and victims’ efforts to build cases against their persecutors. She has written about some of these cases and their aftermaths in Haiti and in the United States.

Orenstein has received a Peabody-Gardner Fellowship, Tinker Grant and a Cordier Essay Prize (from Columbia University), and was a finalist for the 2004 Prize for Promise, designed “to identify young women, aged 21-35,of great promise and vision who could... become world leaders in their respective fields.”  She is a fellow with The Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership, and a fellow of the Echoing Green Foundation, which selected The OpEd Project as one of 19 of the most innovative social enterprises worldwide, out of a pool of 1500 applicants. 

	DANIELLE GRACE WARREN is Director of Operations at The OpEd Project, where she also runs the    Mentor-Editor Program.   In addition to her role at The OpEd Project, she is the treasurer of One Village Planet---a non-profit organization which focuses on sustainable development and agriculture in Haiti and Ghana--and is the founder and President of The One Village Planet-Women's Development Initiative---a non-profit dedicated to ensuring safe working conditions for women in the Tamale region of Ghana, West Africa--who are involved in the shea industry as both harvesters and processors---and empowering them to attain sustainable economic autonomy. Danielle received her MFA in Poetry from Hunter College, in New York City, where she also teaches creative writing and composition to undergraduates. She is conversant in French and Spanish.
	ALYSSA BEST, serves as The OpEd Project’s Outreach and Program Manager in the Washington, DC metro area. She is a social entrepreneur, career consultant, and writer passionate about building leadership for social change. She has conducted outreach and promoted training programs at Wider Opportunities for Women, the Center for Progressive Leadership, and the Institute for Women's Leadership at Rutgers University. She holds a Master of Arts in Women's and Gender Studies from Rutgers University. Her writing has appeared in mainstream and scholarly media, including The Huffington Post. She contributes to a group blog on career issues: LYJ--Love Your Job, Love Your Life <http://lyjnow.wordpress.com/>
	GINNA GREEN is the OpEd Project's Interim Director of West Coast Programs and Development. She is a veteran journalist, editor and op-ed writer, who also handles communications and media relations for the California office of the Center for Responsible Lending, a research and policy organization headquartered in Durham, N.C.. Prior to joining CRL, Ginna was Director of Public Relations at Full Court Press Communications in Oakland, California, where she worked on a diverse portfolio of clients primarily in the areas of the environment and education. She has also worked as an editor at AlterNet, as a strategist for the Breakthrough Institute and was a Leland-Emerson Fellow with the Congressional Hunger Center in 2000. Ginna edited, with Dr. Julianne Malveaux, the 2002 anthology The Paradox of Loyalty: An African-American Response to the War on Terrorism.
	RAVENNA KOENIG, Social Media Intern, hails from the Seattle area of Washington State. She is a sophomore at Barnard College of Columbia University and anticipates declaring a major in English. She is also interested in American and Women's studies. In high school Ravenna wrote for the school newspaper, founded and ran the creative writing club, and was editor of her school’s annual literary journal. Although unsure as of yet what her career will be (she entertains potential futures in law, journalism, teaching, or advocacy work to name a few), she is certain that it will involve writing in some essential way.
	AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX, Byline Survey Intern, is a junior at Princeton University, where she co-edits Equal Writes, Princeton's feminist blog, and co-leads Princeton's sex-positive group. She is a religion major with a certificate in the study of women and gender. Amelia enjoys vintage clothing, her (vintage) bike, as well as all the usual things: travel, tea, books, vegan pancakes, and her amazing friends and family. She is a passionate believer in the inclusive powers of activism, and strives to bring more and more people underneath the big feminist tent.