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Younger Women's Task Force Leadership
Shannon Lynberg, Immediate Past Director and Current Volunteer Coordinator
Shannon Lynberg is a dedicated advocate for women’s issues and women’s empowerment, both domestically and internationally. For the last five years, Shannon has worked with nonprofits and public health agencies on women’s empowerment, women’s health, and ending gender-based violence.
Shannon served as the Program Director of the Younger Women’s Task Force from November 2007 until January 2010. Currently, Shannon works as the Program Manager for Empowered Women International, an organization that empowers local immigrant, low income, and refugee women to become self sufficient, generate income, and ingrate into the community through entrepreneurship and the arts.
While in college, Shannon was awarded the Tonya Fellowship by Sewanee, the University of the South in order to work the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where she worked to tailor sexual assault prevention programs for college and university campuses. She also worked with Dekalb County Board of Health designing cardiovascular health outreach initiatives for Latina’s in Atlanta.
As someone passionate about ending all forms of gender-based violence, Shannon has volunteered as an advocate for sexual assault survivors at the DeKalb County Rape Crisis Center (in Atlanta) and the DC Rape Crisis Center, spent time researching femicide in Guatemala, co-founded Holla Back DC!, and is the co-author of the 2010 report Understanding Sexual Violence at a Large, Urban University. Shannon holds a Bachelors of Science in Psychology. Shannon was featured as one of “Tomorrow’s Leaders” in the November 2008 issue of “O, The Oprah Magazine” and nominated for the “Young Woman of Achievement” award by WIN in 2009. She has spoken at numerous conferences across the U.S. about women’s issues, women’s empowerment, and gender-based violence. Shannon can be reached at shannonL@ywtf.org.
Alison Stein, YWTF Founder
Alison Stein is the Founder 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. 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.
Prior to founding YWTF, Alison was a fellow at the Institute for Women's Policy Research and a Program Assistant at the National Council of Women’s Organizations. Alison has worked on women's issues internationally in Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda.
In 2009, Alison graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. While in law school, Alison served on the boards of the Equal Justice Foundation and the International Human Rights Advocates. She was a Senior Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, a legal writing instructor, and Research Assistant to a professor studying issues of comparative tort law. Alison has published articles with the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism and with the Depaul University Law Review.
After law school graduation, Alison served a law clerk to the Honorable Kent A. Jordan of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She is currently serving as a law clerk to the Honorable Kimba M. Wood of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Alison lives in New York City and is married to Tom Berenberg, a resident in the Ophthalmology department at Cornell University Medical Center
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After law school graduation, Alison served a law clerk to the Honorable Kent A. Jordan of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and to the Honorable Kimba M. Wood of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Alison currently lives in New York and works as a Litigation Associate at Jenner & Block LLP.
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