Who We Are

President and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center Action Fund

Fatima Goss Graves

Fatima Goss Graves (she/her) is a nationally recognized leader in the fight for gender justice and an expert in law, policy, and culture change. She is President and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center, President of the National Women’s Law Center Action Fund, and a co-founder of the TIME’S UP Legal Defense Fund. Fatima has a distinguished track record working across a broad set of issues central to the lives of women and girls – including income security and COVID relief, equal pay, ending sexual harassment and violence, health and reproductive rights, education access, and workplace justice – with a particular focus on outcomes for women and girls of color. She is widely sought after for her effectiveness in the complex public policy arena at both the state and federal levels, and regularly testifies before Congress and federal agencies.

Founder of Red Wine & Blue

Katie Paris

Katie Paris, founder of Red Wine & Blue, is an Ohio suburban mom and 20-year political veteran. In 2019, Katie quit her job in national politics to found Red Wine & Blue because she saw an opportunity to mobilize suburban women. Red Wine & Blue is an empowered community of half a million diverse women working together to organize their communities against extremism, one friend at a time. They provide women with trainings, resources and a supportive community. Red Wine & Blue has year-round, on the ground organizers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Michigan and Virginia.

President and CEO of Democracy Forward

Skye Perryman

Skye L. Perryman is President and CEO of Democracy Forward, a nonpartisan, national legal organization that promotes democracy and progress through litigation, regulatory engagement, policy education, and research. Perryman took the helm at Democracy Forward a few months after January 6, 2021, in the midst of rising extremism in communities and courts across the country. She has built a visionary team of legal, policy, and communications experts to confront anti-democratic extremism head-on while also using the law to advance progress and a bold vision for the future. Under Perryman’s leadership, Democracy Forward has expanded the scope and reach of its work, emerging as a nationally recognized institution that is taking on the most significant issues affecting people, families, and communities– from defending civil rights and fair wages to seeking to expand access to reproductive health care post-Dobbs to confronting attacks on education to addressing the climate crisis and much more. Perryman often leverages the power of ordinary Americans, business, industries, and unlikely allies to create impact in this critical time. In 2024, Perryman was named one of the Most Influential People Shaping Policy by Washingtonian magazine, which noted her role as a resource for both moderates and progressives.

President of the National Domestic Workers Alliance

Ai-jen Poo

Ai-jen Poo is a next-generation labor leader, award-winning organizer, author, and a leading voice in the women’s movement. She is the President of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Director of Caring Across Generations, Co-Founder of SuperMajority and Trustee of the Ford Foundation. Ai-jen is a nationally recognized expert on elder and family care, the future of work, gender equality, immigration, narrative change, and grassroots organizing. She is the author of the celebrated book, The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America. Together with Alicia Garza, Ai-jen co-hosts the podcast, Sunstorm.

Co-Founder and Executive Director of MomsRising

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of MomsRising, a nonprofit advocacy group with over a million members across the nation working to improve economic security, stop discrimination, and build a nation where everyone can thrive. She is a frequent public speaker, radio host, and an award-winning author of several books. She has advised lawmakers at the highest levels and been published and featured in hundreds of news outlets, including: Politico, USA Today, TIME, The Guardian, CNN, MSNBC, Newsweek, New York Times, and Washington Post.

President and CEO of Reproductive Freedom for All

Mini Timmaraju

Mini Timmaraju (she/her) is the president and CEO of Reproductive Freedom for All. She is a seasoned campaigner, skilled coalition-builder, high-impact organizer, and talented organizational leader with over 20 years of experience leading federal, state, and local campaigns, as well as advocacy efforts around reproductive rights, gender justice, and racial justice.

Mini has a wealth of governmental and political experience at the state and federal level, including advising the Biden-Harris administration on diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility and serving as Women’s Vote Director on the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. Mini has also worked on reproductive rights in Texas and at the national level and worked for several members of Congress.

Founder of Moms Demand Action

Shannon Watts

Shannon Watts, widely known as the “summoner of women’s audacity,” is the founder of Moms Demand Action, the nation’s largest grassroots group fighting against gun violence. She was named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People, a Forbes 50 over 50 Changemaker, and a Glamour Woman of the Year.

The day after the Sandy Hook School mass shooting tragedy in 2012, she started a Facebook group to unite women against the gun lobby as Mothers Against Drunk Driving united mothers against the alcohol lobby in the 1980s. Under her leadership, Moms Demand Action became the nation’s largest grassroots group fighting against gun violence. The organization has a chapter in every state and over 10 million supporters, making it twice as large as the National Rifle Association. Over the past decade, Moms Demand Action volunteers passed over 500 gun safety laws; stopped the gun industry’s agenda in statehouses 90 percent of the time; elected thousands of gun sense candidates to office, including its own volunteers; and passed the first federal gun legislation in a generation.

Prior to founding Moms Demand Action, Watts – a mother of five – was a communications executive at public relations firms and Fortune 100 companies. She is an active board member of Emerge America, one of the nation’s leading organizations for recruiting and training women to run for office. Her book, Fight Like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World, was released in May of 2019. She has a significant social media platform with a regular reach of over 10 million highly engaged supporters.

Demand Justice Liaison

Managing Director of Demand Justice

Maggie Jo Buchanan

Maggie Jo Buchanan has extensive policy expertise working to advance women’s rights as well as court reform and the strength of the judiciary overall. Her experience includes work in the U.S. House and Senate, leadership positions with national advocacy organizations and think tanks—such as several years leading first the Courts and Legal Policy and then Women’s Initiative teams at the Center for American Progress before taking on current role as the managing director of Demand Justice—and work at the state level in Texas. During her career, she has helped to author and led efforts to pass several pieces of legislation at the federal and state levels. Buchanan’s research has been widely cited in the media, legal journals, and other academic publications, as well as by policymakers. She and her work have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Vox, The New Republic, NPR, PBS NewsHour, among other outlets. She received her JD from the University of Texas and her BA from the University of North Carolina.