Third Wave Fund's Advisory Council

Third Wave Fund Advisory Council

Adjoa Sankofia Tetteh, Co-Chair (she/her) has worked at the intersection of education, advocacy, and research within the field of sexual/reproductive health, rights, and justice for over 15 years. Currently, Adjoa is a project director, senior trainer, and technical assistance specialist at CAI (not CIA), where her work centers on building individual and organizational capacity around health systems strengthening, justice-aligned approaches to improving sexual/reproductive health, and breastfeeding education and support. In addition to NYC, Adjoa’s other home will always be Chicago, where she was born and raised by her Ghanaian immigrant father and African-American mother who grew up in Jim Crow era Mississippi. Adjoa is a long-time clinic escort, only seems to enjoy music from 10+ years ago at all points in time, is a sucker for problematic procedural crime investigation shows, and loves receiving random pictures of cats and French bulldogs.

Loan Tran, Co-Chair (they/them) is a queer, bilingual writer and organizer of color based in Durham, NC. They recently served on the advisory board for the Emergent Fund, launched after the November 2016 elections to support rapid response organizing. Loan is also a member of the leadership team of The Rising Majority, a coalition invested in building an anti-racist left for radical democracy by building true unity and solidarity between Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities. In 2017, Loan was among the 12 arrestees facing felony charges in connection to the alleged toppling of the confederate monument in Durham, NC following Charlottesville. Loan is an expert in organizational development and popular education-style trainings. Currently they serve as the Co-Executive Director at the Southern Vision Alliance.

alicia sanchez gill (she/ella) is a queer, afrolatinx survivor, new(ish) mama and resource organizer who believes another world is possible—and trusts the leadership of the people most affected by harmful policies to bring this world to bear (especially those of us who are queer, trans and current/former sex workers!). By day, alicia is the Executive Director of The Emergent Fund, a movement accountable rapid response fund, where she has raised and moved almost 10 million dollars to Black, Indigenous, and people of color-led grassroots organizations using community-led participatory grantmaking. Prior to Emergent Fund, alicia spent over fifteen years in gender and reproductive justice organizations and collectives working on local and national campaigns to end interpersonal and state patriarchal violence with abolition as a north star. alicia has her roots and heart in cross movement organizing firmly grounded in Black, queer feminist theory and lived experience. No matter which orbit alicia’s organizing in, her work is to bring a survivor-centered and intersectional praxis to building collective power and transforming systems.

Annie Sullivan-Chin (she/her) is an all-around nerd who loves teaching herself and others about accounting and organizational finances. She realized she loved accounting when she started working in worker-owned co-ops over 10 years ago. As a bookkeeper, Annie can testify to how critical it is to have our finances in good shape in order to keep doing our important work and make sound business decisions. Connecting financial skill-building with collective liberation is Annie's passion and she is honored to offer A Bookkeeping Collective's bookkeeping and training services to social justice leaders and movement supporters everywhere.

Chi-Ante Singletary (she/her) is a proud scholar of color and queer black feminist. She attended Spelman College for her undergraduate degree, where her love and respect for Black women blossomed into a career focused on creating and supporting Black liberation spaces globally. Chi-Ante has worked as a southern organizer and donor strategist for many organizations including Solidaire Network, Youth Engagement Fund, Girls Inc., and Neighborhood Funders Group. Through her work, Chi-Ante has supported communities of color across the South to have access to resources and develop strategies focused on building political power, making long-term systems change, and building transformative relationships between donors and grassroots organizers. Chi-Ante is the Chief Reparations Officer for Cypress Fund and the Grove by Cypress Action Fund.

Eugenia Lee (she/her) is a proud Taiwanese American Buddhist, abortion doula, and mother to a feisty and vocal child. Currently, she works at Solidaire, leading the network's growth and donor organizing to support progressive social movements. Prior to joining Solidaire, Eugenia worked in international development, working to shift structures in favor of grassroots leadership. She has lived and worked in various parts of the world including in Nairobi, Kenya, and led projects throughout East Africa and South Asia. She holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration in Nonprofit Management from New York University’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service. She is a proud Queens native.

Isabel Sousa-Rodriguez (she/her) is a lifelong organizer with roots in Florida and Latin America. She's dedicated to building sustainable, equitable, and thriving workplaces as well as leadership pipelines within the nonprofit sector and in philanthropy. Isabel grew up undocumented and played a strategic role in the national fight to obtain Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals which has benefited more than 800,000 immigrant youth. She has served in numerous leadership roles in philanthropy, which have importantly included work with the Trans Justice Funding Project, the Grantmakers United for Trans Communities fellowship, and on the board of directors of Borealis Philanthropy.

Maliyah or JOY (they/them) is a Black Two-head Lesbian Cultural Worker, Digital Artist, and Curator. Their work centers on Black Trans* Liberation, Black Lesbian* Feminist Praxis, and the abolition of prisons/police. Their current mediums are digital and curatorial, however, they practice with zine and archival work. Their art practices are socially influenced by their beloveds, ancestors, community members, and past revolutionaries + radicals.

Nina Kossoff (they/she) is an Ohio-raised, NYC-based creative and brand strategist. Their career has spanned the music industry, advertising, and health and wellness startups, always keeping marginalized voices and well-being core to their work. Nina has built their professional experience at companies including FOLX Health, McCann, Ogilvy, Matter Unlimited, and The Barbarian Group, working with clients and partners including Trans Lifeline, the National Black Trans Advocacy Coalition, Mastercard, IKEA, Nike, State Street Global Advisors, Climateworks, and more. Outside of work, Nina runs ThemsHealth, a health and wellness resource for the nonbinary and transgender community. Nina attended the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University with a concentration in alternative forms of kinship. For fun, Nina swims, boxes, runs, and does yoga in all manner of queer community spaces. Nina and their wife live in Brooklyn with two adorable pugs.

Quita Tinsley Peterson (they/them) is a writer, organizational consultant, facilitator, and healing centered coach that specializes in sustainability and culture shift. They are now the founder and principal of iola strategies, a consulting firm that supports social justice leaders and organizations in embodying their radical truths in their strategies and work. They were politicized by the reproductive justice movement and have worked with several organizations over the past decade, like Access Reproductive Care-Southeast, ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE, and SPARK Reproductive Justice Now. They are committed to building rigor and joy into their own life and into the fabric of the work they do for liberation.

Yecelica “YJV” Valdivia (they/them) was born and raised in the Yakima Valley, occupied ancestral lands of the Yakama Nation. They moved to occupied Duwamish ancestral lands, Seattle, for college, and it’s been their political home ever since.

Much of their work has been at the intersections of personal and societal healing and transformation. They have a background in anti-racism, youth-centered political education, generative somatics and trauma-informed practices, and prevention work. They also have an affinity for tattoos, reconnecting with ancestral medicine, and dancing.