Staff

Jaclyn Friedman

Executive Director

Jaclyn Friedman is a writer, performer, pundit and activist, and the editor of the hit book Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape, one of Publishers’ Weekly’s Best 100 Books of 2009. She has been a guest on To The Contrary, The Brian Lehrer Show, and numerous other radio and television shows, and her commentary has appeared in outlets including The Washington Post, The American Prospect, Slate’s DoubleX, Bitch Magazine, AlterNet, Women’s eNews, Feministing.com, and Huffington Post. She is a SheSource expert and a Progressive Women’s Voices alumna, and was named one of 2009’s Top 40 Progressive Leaders Under 40 by the New Leaders Council. Friedman also holds an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College, and writes a weekly column on pop culture, sexuality and sexual violence for Amplify Your Voice, a site devoted to promoting healthy sexuality for young people.

Friedman started with New Words Bookstore in 2000 as the store’s marketing and events coordinator, and became program director of Center for New Words when the store transitioned into a nonprofit. At CNW, she co-founded the Women, Action & the Media conference with CNW Co-Director Laura Zimmerman, and has chaired or co-chaired the conference every year since. Email Jaclyn.

Kimberly Hanson

Intern

Kim Hanson is a proud feminist currently pursuing her M.A. in International Development and Social Change at Clark University in Worcester, MA. In her undergraduate years at the same university, she studied international development, government, and peace studies. She spent two summers working with urban youth in the community building department of an affordable housing non-profit in Rhode Island. During spring of 2009, she lived in Namibia where she studied with the Center for Global Education and interned at a day program for individuals with developmental disabilities. While her scholarly and job experience varies across a number of fields, she is primarily interested in tackling social welfare issues by mobilizing youth to create change in their communities. She volunteers with a youth leadership organization known as HOBY and helped found an Iraqi-American pen pal program. Kim produced RI independent film company Love Thy Job’s first feature-length film, Cost of the Living: A Zom Rom Com. When she’s not in class or on set, Kim enjoys teaching herself guitar and going out with friends. Email Kim.

Rachel Goldfarb

Intern

Rachel Goldfarb is a senior at Brandeis University, and will receive her B.A. in English and Women’s and Gender Studies this May. In the fall of 2010, she wrote a senior honors paper on access to subjectivity and female subjects in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and the 2009 adaptation Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith. In the summer of 2010, Rachel worked at NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts as a Communications Intern, where she helped to put together the 2010 Pro-Choice Voter’s Guide and ran a highly successful Facebook follower drive. Rachel is an active member of the Jewish community at Brandeis, serving as Special Projects Coordinator on the executive board of Brandeis University Conservative Jewish Organization. She is also involved in theater on campus, and has produced, built and painted sets, hung and focused lights, and performed in three 24-hour musicals and two productions of “The Vagina Monologues”. This semester, Rachel will appear on stage for the first and last time in a full-scale musical at Brandeis in the chorus of “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum”. Email Rachel.