Bitch Media Board of Directors and National Advisory Board

Board of Directors

Jodi Heintz, Board Chair

Jodi has been building communication and public education initiatives in the social purpose sector for close to 15 years. She currently serves as the Director of Public Relations at Lewis & Clark College. Before moving to Portland, Jodi worked in New York City on domestic and international gender equity and poverty issues. She also worked at a nonpartisan think tank at Rutgers University on public education strategies to encourage women to run for political office. In her spare time she enjoys volunteer work, hiking and snowshoeing in the Cascades, and sampling the amazing plethora of beers and wines the Pacific NW has to offer.

Claire Mysko, Vice Chair

Claire is an internationally recognized expert on body image, leadership, and media literacy. She is the author of a book for girls, You’re Amazing! A No-Pressure Guide to Being Your Best Self, and co-author of Does This Pregnancy Make Me Look Fat? The Essential Guide to Loving Your Body Before and After Baby. She has served as the director of the American Anorexia Bulimia Association and has held senior positions at SmartGirl and Girls Incorporated. An experienced professional skilled at inspiring audiences to take action for personal and social change, she has developed national media campaigns, acclaimed outreach programs and pioneering online communities.

Beth Hutchison, Treasurer

Beth spent the last fifteen years nurturing interdisciplinary feminist communities and teaching courses in sexuality, film and cultural policy at Rutgers University. She has also contributed to projects focused on students at risk of dropping out of school, child abuse and neglect, and drug/alcohol abuse. She is currently documenting the cultural and scientific ways that blood is gendered.

Evy Cowan, Secretary

Evy Cowan is the co-owner of She Bop, a female-friendly sex toy boutique located in Portland, Oregon. She Bop's mission is to promote healthy and safe sexuality by offering body safe, quality products and educational workshops in a fun and comfortable environment. As a graduate student and graduate teaching assistant at Oregon State University, Evy studied Women Studies and Philosophy, focusing primarily on sexuality.

Jani Iverson

Jani has spent the last 15 years experiencing the ins and outs of the non-profit world by actively engaging as a volunteer, staff member, leader and board member. For the last 3 years she has been part of the Executive Transition Services team at the Nonprofit Association of Oregon, serving as an Interim Executive Director for organizations experiencing a crisis or transition. In addition, she facilitates trainings and consults on organizational effectiveness and community collaboration for the Ford Family Foundation. Before coming to Portland 5 years ago, she spent time as a Peace Corps volunteer in Western Samoa, mentoring two national NGO’s that supported women and was a founding board member of the country’s first HIV/AIDS-specific organization. Prior to her Peace Corps experience, she held various senior leadership positions with Planned Parenthood of Central Washington, focusing on her passions of providing women’s health care to underserved populations and teen pregnancy prevention.

Allison Sneider

Allison is a independent historian whose research and writing focuses on the political and legal history of women (www.allisonsneider.com). Most recently, she is the author of Suffragists in an Imperial Age: U.S. Expansion and the Woman Question, 1870-1929 (Oxford: 2008). She was Associate Professor of History at Rice University before relocating to Portland and a one-time assistant editor of the Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Papers. Currently she is at work on a book about the legal history of divorce. She received her BA from Reed College in 1989 and her PHD from UCLA in 1999. One of her favorite things about relocating back to Portland is indulging her passion for dance as a member of the audience to Portland's many fabulous dance companies and an eager adult beginner.

Amanda Jarman

A lifelong nerd, Amanda is currently putting her love of data and penchant for trying to save the world to work as the director of advancement services at Portland State University. She has over 15 years of experience in the non-profit sector, mostly in fundraising. Her previous work and life experience includes fundraising for a domestic violence shelter, coordinating volunteers at a food co-op, and organizing community-based feminist art/activism events. Amanda is a frequent speaker on topics related to fundraising analytics and data management, and writes the blog Fundraising Nerd. She also serves on the board of Willamette Valley Development Officers as analytics co-chair. A passionate feminist, Amanda started reading Bitch when she picked up the second issue at a zine store many years ago. Amanda is also an avid gardener and cat lady.

Diana Wiener Rosengard

Diana is Houston-born PDX transplant and a legal services professional with over eight years experience in advocacy and education for survivors of intimate violence. She holds a B.A. in History and Gender Studies from Lewis & Clark College and her J.D. from The Northwest School of Law at Lewis & Clark College. In previous lives, she has been a waitress, maid, copy clerk, graphic designer, campaign spokesperson/field operative, and higher education administrator. She currently works in the insurance industry when she is not running her feminist perfume blog Feminine Things, going to shows, traveling to small town festivals around the Olympic Peninsula, and reading YA books. She is proud to be the feminist her father always warned her about and is hard at work on her first novel.

Grayson Dempsey

Grayson Dempsey has spent over thirteen years working in the reproductive justice movement, specializing in healthcare training, message development, and organizational strategy. She is the founder of Backline, a nonprofit organization that promotes connection, conversation and support around all aspects of pregnancy, parenting, abortion, and adoption, and served as the organization’s president from 2003-2009. She has served as a contributor to works such as “Mom, Dad, I’m Pregnant”: Promoting Healthy Teen/Parent Communication; The Reproductive Justice Briefing Book: A Primer on Reproductive Justice and Social Change; and Pastoral Counseling for Reproductive Loss: A Seminar for Pro-Choice Clergy of All Faiths. She is the author of the Abortion Diaries Discussion Guide and co-author of Providing Abortion Care: A Professional Toolkit for Nurse-Midwives, Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants. In 2004, she was named one of the Top 30 Under 30 Activists for Reproductive Freedom by Choice USA, and in recent years has served as a consultant to organizations such as the Abortion Care Network, Ipas, the Abortion Access Project, Oregon Health & Science University, Spence-Chapin Adoption Services, the Center for Health Training, Open Adoption & Family Services, and Pro Kan Do. Ms. Dempsey currently works as a Childbirth Educator at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and sits on the Board of Directors for The Mother PAC as well as the Advisory Boards of Backline and Nursing Students for Choice.

Arianne Cohen

Arianne Cohen loves Bitch! She is a writer and speaker, best known as the curator of The Sex Diaries Project, which collects 7-day anonymous diaries of people's private lives for book, TV and museum projects, and analyzes how people are actually living their private lives. Her most recent book is The Sex Diaries Project: What We're Saying About What We're Doing. She attended Harvard University, and graduated magna cum laude with a degree in women's studies. Her writing appears regularly in publications including the Guardian, Elle, the New York Times, and many others. She is 6'2", which motivated her to write The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life From On High. She lives in New York and Portland, OR, and is obsessed with media, strategizing far-fetched business plans, and Peeps.