Airam Marcano
Survivor Healing and Support Specialist
Airam Marcano, LMSW has over 7 years of experience in the trauma field specifically working with adult survivors of child sexual abuse, sexual assault, and intimate partner violence. Airam began her career at Safe Horizon, the nation’s leading crime victim agency. During her time at Safe Horizon, she was awarded the Bertram Beck Award for her professionalism, care, and compassion to survivors. In 2013, she received her Master’s in Criminal Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and in 2018 she received her Master’s in Social Work at Hunter College Silberman School of Social Work.
Amanda Bonilla
Development Manager
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Amanda Bonilla serves as Development Manager for me too. International. After graduating from Brenau University with a BFA in Dance Performance, she began working for a community arts organization. It was there she discovered her passion for fundraising and development.
What fuels Amanda are the wonderful things made possible when a community pours into the causes they care about. To stay engaged within the nonprofit network in her hometown of Atlanta, she maintains a membership with the Greater Atlanta Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, where she serves on the Membership and I.D.E.A. (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access) committees. She is also a member of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network, where she serves as Marketing Co-Chair. Amanda is happy to be on the Board for Fly on a Wall, an arts platform that supports and creates innovative performance, where she serves on their Grants and Revenue Committee.
Someone once said, “Amanda is just a ball of GO!” She is constantly on the move and looking for the most efficient ways to improve an organization’s ability to fundraise. Amanda loves to relax by spending time traveling and camping with her dog, Couper.
Candice Crawford
Operations and Finance Director
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Candice Crawford serves as the Operations and Finance Director for me too. International. She has dedicated her career to public service working to innovate solutions for operational efficiency and revenue growth and management. She has served in leadership capacities within the organizations where she has led strategic and capacity building processes, as well as assisted with fundraising efforts that has garnered grant funding and other resources.
Candice continues to engage in community service efforts related to education, workforce, and community development by serving on boards and advisory groups such as Teach for America of Metro Atlanta, Families First, Atlanta Beltline 67, and MAFDET. Additionally, she is a member of LEAD Atlanta Class of 2019.
Candice graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Spelman College. She also earned a master’s degree in Public Administration from City University of New York-Baruch School of Public Affairs where she was a recipient the National Urban Fellows Public Service Fellowship.
Carlisa Johnson
Media & Narrative Strategist
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Carlisa Johnson is an Atlanta-based journalist and digital organizer. For nearly a decade, she has combined her love of storytelling with her passion for equity and transformative justice to amplify the narratives of those on the frontlines of movement work. Her focus lies at the intersection of race, gender, and political power, specifically highlighting experiences within the American South. Her work can be seen in The Guardian, The GroundTruth Project, MIT Technology Review, Courier Newsroom, and heard on podcasts including On the Ground with Report for America, The Kinswomen and The Manuscript.
An alumna of Agnes Scott College and Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, Carlisa was a Voting Rights Fellow for The Ground Truth Project. She covered the historic 2020 election and the ongoing efforts to preserve democracy in Georgia.
Carlisa’s dedication to movement work has led her to use her voice in more ways than one as the founder and director of the Atlanta Resistance Revival Chorus. The choir, a member of a national network of resistance choirs, uses the long-honored tradition of music and protest to combine joy and power to enact change. Carlisa and the Atlanta Resistance Revival Chorus support protests throughout Georgia by combining their voices in song to amplify a multitude of causes.
Chanelle Ferguson
Communications Associate
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Chanelle is a Jamaican-American writer, based in Bronx, NY. Since 2015, she has worked in the nonprofit sector and dedicated her career to using storytelling as a resource of healing for oppressed communities. She explores her passion for social change and racial justice within community organizing. Chanelle’s work can be seen in The Sophie Fund, The Ithacan, and Girls Write Now Anthology.
In 2021, Chanelle graduated with a Bachelor’s in Writing with a Non-Fiction concentration from Ithaca College, and was a recipient of the Helen Gurley Brown Fellowship. During her time as a student, Chanelle served as a BOLD Women’s Leadership Network Scholar, co-president of Engaging Mental Health in People of Color, Feature Writing Intern for the Sophie Fund, Communications Associate for Civic Ensemble, an intern for the Ultimate Reentry Opportunity’s (URO) Engaged Cornell University Qualitative Research Project, and Communications Intern for ‘me too. International.
Dani Ayers
Chief Executive Officer
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Dani Ayers is a movement infrastructure architect, as well as an organizational development and strategy executive. She has spent 17 years uncovering and understanding what influences organizational health and viability, specializing in ‘building the plane while flying it.’ Her focus is the multi-layered work of racial and social justice, gender equity, and education. Dani has a Bachelors in Public Relations and a Masters in African American Studies, both from Temple University, and is also a certified board development consultant. She has led inside small, grassroots organizations, as well as large multi-billion-dollar enterprises, developing internal culture and strategizing around change and growth. As the first Chief Executive Officer at me too. International, Dani oversees the various verticals of the organization; she has built ‘me too.’s foundation and infrastructure and is leading day-to-day operations. Dani currently lives in Atlanta and serves on several boards and advisory councils. She loves accessorizing and semicolons.
Denise Beek
Chief Communications Officer
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Denise Beek is a communications strategist who has worked in the nonprofit sector for over a decade. She is a Caribbean-American performance writer, improv artist, and board member of the BlackStar Film Festival. As Chief Communications Officer for ‘me too.’, she oversees external communications, engages with its stakeholders, and creates strategies to raise the visibility of the organization and center survivors. She works primarily to change the way people talk about sexual violence, this movement’s work, and survivorship. Denise’s professional trajectory is undergirded by her passion for gender equity and racial justice. Her experience is a mix of arts administration, cultural production and community engagement at organizations like the Painted Bride Art Center, the Black Lily Film & Music Festival, and the Union Square Awards. From 2013-2018, she served as Communications Director for the Leeway Foundation, a regional grantmaker that supports women, trans, and gender nonconforming artists in Greater Philadelphia.
Dr. Elena Ruíz
Principal Researcher, Gender-Based Violence
Dr. Ruíz is a research specialist on gender-based violence and structural oppression. She currently holds a faculty appointment at Michigan State University and has held visiting fellowships at Harvard University, The Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland, and is a former Woodrow Wilson fellow. A scholar-advocate with nearly two decades of experience in anti-violence research, Dr. Ruíz has worked with human trafficking task forces, defense attorneys, legislative staffers, and survivor advocacy organizations to address structural violence-based institutional practices and biases that asymmetrically impact Indigenous communities and communities of color, especially surrounding sexual violence. Her current work focuses on understanding the impact of structural impunity towards gender-based violence on survivor’s lives across the lifespan.
E Morales-Williams
Program Coordinator
E Morales-Williams (they/she) is the Program Coordinator for me too. International, where they support programming and facilitates the Survivor Leadership Training Program. Originally from East Harlem and the Bronx, E is a Black and Brown abolitionist, yogi, youth advocate, organizer, and grower/herbalist. They hold a Masters and Ph.D. in Urban Education from Temple University. Based in Philadelphia for the past 15 years, they have directed programs and courses on structural violence and healing justice for youth and families within community centers, high schools, and colleges/universities. They are a founding member of the national organization Black Youth Project 100 and co-founder of their Healing and Safety Council. They have also been a dynamic leader in establishing collectives local to Philly such as TUFF Girls and Educators for Consent Culture. As an internationalist and anti-capitalist E is committed to helping Black, Brown, and poor communities expose the root causes of sexual violence while cultivating collective liberation and joy from the inside out. They are an Aquarius sun, Virgo moon, and Leo rising (*cue Earth, Wind, and Fire, “Let’s Groove.”) and loves working barefoot in her garden with her cat, ChaChi.
KáLyn Coghill
Digital Director
KáLyn (Kay) Banks Coghill is a professor and communications professional who has worked in the industry for over a decade. They are a Black non-binary femme poet, abortion doula, community organizer, and board member for Neighborhood Access. They are also a communications and community outreach fellow for the Hip Hop Counseling Collective and Virginia Commonwealth University’s Digital Sociology Lab. As the Digital Director, they create strategic campaigns to bring awareness to survivors’ justice and efforts to end sexual violence. Their experience is rooted in social justice, digital content creation, and gender-based violence research.
They work closely with Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project, a local abortion fund and reproductive justice organization, and they are a doctoral student studying gendered-based violence in online spaces. Kay enjoys watching YouTube vlogs, writing poetry sonkus, playing with their fur babies, and listening to Beyoncé. Their big three are Libra sun, Virgo moon, and Scorpio rising so they have a big personality and love to meet new people. Working for ‘me too.’ is a dream of theirs because they want to be a part of an organization that amplifies the voices of survivors with true care and grace.
Natasha (Natty) Camille
Survivor Healing and Support Specialist
Natasha (Natty) Camille, LMSW, is a psychotherapist who works with individuals, couples, and families. They currently work at NYC Affirmative Psychotherapy, a group practice that centers queer and TGNC people of color. Natty has an extensive history of working with adolescents and young adults of color across gender and sexuality spectrums in the capacity of a clinician, an educator, and an advocate. As a clinician, they focus on identity development (particularly in the areas of gender and sexuality), racial trauma, intimacy & relationships, as well as survivors of violence.
Natty has been committed to anti-sexual violence activism and education ever since they were in high school. Some of their most notable work includes serving as a peer educator at their university’s rape crisis center, leading their chapter of Take Back the Night to be more inclusive of the stories and experiences of survivors of color, and designing & implementing an afterschool program named T.R.U.T.H. (Thinking Resistance and Uniting Through Healing) Project for young Black women and TGNC youth to address topics such as sexual violence, consent, and body autonomy through discussions, activities, and experiential healing exercises.
Nikita Mitchell
Chief Strategy Officer
Nikita Mitchell has committed herself to fighting at the intersection of racial and survivor justice through her work as an organizer, coordinator and a weaver. She understands intimately the importance of this work as a Black queer woman, mother, and survivor herself.
She currently works as the Chief Strategy Officer for me too. International, as well as, a consultant and facilitator for movement organizations, non-profit organizations and more. She previously was the National Director of the Rising Majority, a Black and POC led formation committed to structural and transformational change domestically and internationally. In addition, Nikita previously was the Director of Organizing for Black Lives Matter Global Network, and the Training Specialist for The Praxis Project.
Nikita has over 10 years of facilitation experience. She comes from the legacy of the School of Unity and Liberation, Emergent Strategy, and other lineages of the craft. It is her political commitment to create space for low-risk experimentation, ideation, curiosity, and transformation through engaging methods.
