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Younger Women's Task Force Leadership
Shannon Lynberg, National Director
As a dedicated advocate for women’s issues, Shannon has worked as a hands-on volunteer, and with public health agencies to improve the lives of women. Prior to joining YWTF, Shannon worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tailoring domestic violence prevention programs for schools and at the Dekalb County Board of Health designing cardiovascular health outreach initiatives for women in Atlanta. In addition to her work at YWTF, Shannon is an active member of the Women’s Health Task force.
Shannon was raised in Atlanta and in 2006 she received her Bachelors of Science in Psychology with a concentration in Community Psychology.
Angela Tickle, Program Intern
Angela is a recent 2008 graduate from Auburn University majoring in Human Development and Family Studies, with a minor in Women’s Studies. Angela was active on Auburn’s campus as a representative in the women’s movement by dedicating her time to directing Auburn’s annual Women’s Leadership Conference, being a member of the Auburn Feminist Alliance, Auburn Gay Straight Alliance, and chair for the College of Human Sciences Diversity Club. Angela also spent two years as an advanced research assistant for the Alabama Cooperative Extension Program and Children’s Trust Fund Project.
Alison Stein, YWTF Founder and Advisory Board Chair
Alison Stein is the Founder and Advisory Board Chair of the Younger Women’s Task Force (YWTF). Alison served as YWTF’s National Director from June 2004 until April 2006.
Born in New Haven, CT, Alison developed the concept of YWTF during her years as an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was actively involved in women’s issues on her campus, in the communities of Philadelphia, and internationally. At the age of 22, Alison officially founded YWTF through organizing a “Meet-Up” that brought 150 younger women from 42 different states to Washington, DC to define and articulate the issues that mattered most to them.
Prior to YWTF, Alison worked in the press office of Hillary Clinton's Senatorial Campaign, was a fellow at the Institute for Women's Policy Research and a Program Assistant at the National Council of Women’s Organizations. Internationally, Alison spent her junior year of college in Sawua, Ghana, where she taught English at a senior secondary school and built a library. Alison returned to Ghana in 2003 as a researcher for the Ghana Health and Education Initiative, interviewing over 300 women from about their perceptions of family planning, in preparation for the opening of a local women’s health clinic.
Alison’s work with YWTF has been featured in a variety of publications including The Village Voice, Congressional Quarterly, Washington Post, Women's E News, and The New Yorker. She has been a guest lecturer at Georgetown University, and spoken at dozens of conferences and panels across the country. Alison was nominated for the 2005 Young Woman of Achievement Award presented by the Women's Information Network.
Alison currently lives in Philadelphia where she is a second-year law student at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Alison serves on the boards of Penn Law’s Equal Justice Foundation and International Human Rights Advocates, the law school’s first Human Rights Clinic. She is an Associate Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and a Research Assistant to a professor studying issues of comparative tort law. Alison spent her “1L” summer working at the Community Lawyering Clinic at Yale Law School, where she provided legal representation for women in a variety of family law matters, and interned in the chambers of the Honorable Judge Louis H. Pollak of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She has also worked in the Public Benefits and Welfare Department of Community Legal Services of Philadelphia. Alison recently returned from Uganda, where she was conducting field research with an International Law professor and a group of law students on issues of peace versus justice. Alison is married to Tom Berenberg, a third-year medical student at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School.
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