People

Ileana Jiménez | Brooklyn, NY

Ileana Jiménez is an educator and activist for inclusive curriculum and diversity programming. She was selected as part of the 2009 Progressive Women’s Voices media training of the prestigious Women’s Media Center and was named one of the “40 Women of Stonewall" by the Stonewall Foundation. Ileana has led workshops on inclusive curriculum at the annual NAIS People of Color Conference, the NYSAIS diversity conference, and independent schools in the Northeast. Ileana chairs the planning committee for the 2010 Women of Color Conference at Smith College, where she is a frequent speaker. She founded the New York Independent Schools LGBT Educator Network in 2006 and serves as a judge for the Lambda Literary Awards, one of the nation’s premier LGBT book awards. Currently a teacher at the Little Red School House & Elisabeth Irwin High School (LREI) in New York City, Ileana offers courses on feminism, Latina/o literature, LGBT literature and film, and memoir writing. She holds a MA in English Literature from Middlebury College and a BA in English Literature from Smith College.

Alice Y. Hom | Los Angeles, CA

Alice Y. Hom is Alice is the California Partnerships Program Manager for the National Gender and Equity Campaign, a demonstration project for Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy. As a community builder, educator and writer, she brings over 17 years of experience in organizing and teaching on the intersections of race, gender and sexuality while also linking academic issues to community based activism. From 2001-2006, she served as the Founding Director of the Intercultural Community Center at Occidental College where she worked on diversity and social justice issues. Alice also serves on the board of Visual Communications, an Asian American media arts organization. She co-edited an award-winning anthology titled Q & A: Queer in Asian America. Alice received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University, a Masters Degree in Asian American Studies from University of California, Los Angeles, and is completing her dissertation on organizing and community building by lesbians of color from the 1970s to the 1990s in a Ph.D. History Program at Claremont Graduate University.

Surina Khan | Long Beach, CA

Surina Khan is Vice President of Programs for the Women’s Foundation of California, the only statewide public foundation investing in women and girls to create a more just and equitable society. It is recognized for working across issues to bridge disparate social justice movements. Previously, Surina worked as the executive director of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission and as a research analyst with Political Research Associates, a think tank and research center that studies, analyzes and publishes on the political Right. Among her many community involvements, Surina currently serves on the Board of Directors for both Political Research Associates and the Funders Network for Population, Reproductive Health and Rights. She is also a steering committee member of the Los Angeles chapter of Asian American Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy; and sits on the National Advisory Council of the Lesbian Health & Research Center, University of California, San Francisco.

Alexander L. Lee | Berkeley, CA

Alexander L. Lee currently serves as the Associate Director for Public Interest/Public Sector Programs at UC Berkeley School of Law. Prior to this position, Alexander founded and directed the Transgender, Gender Variant & Intersex Justice Project, a legal services and policy organization working to end the abuse of transgender people in prison in California and beyond. In this position, he worked closely with leading LGBT legal organizations, as well as racial and economic justice organizations, members of the California legislature and correctional agencies. He has also worked as a staff attorney at Justice Now, helping prisoners fight the termination of their parental rights and win competent health care for life-threatening conditions. He is also a founding member of the Transforming Justice Conference and Coalition, and a former member of the groundbreaking transgender police-accountability community organization TransAction (1999-2003). Alexander is a former Soros Justice Advocacy Fellow and holds a law degree from UC Berkeley School of Law.

Daniel Jae-Won Lee | San Francisco, CA

Daniel Jae-Won Lee is the Executive Director of the Levi Strauss Foundation. He joined Levi Strauss in 2003 as Community Affairs Manager for the Asia Pacific Division in Singapore, where he managed corporate social responsibility programs employee volunteerism and Foundation grantmaking in three global giving areas - HIV/AIDS, worker rights and asset building. Subsequently, he relocated to San Francisco and assumed the role of Director of Global Grantmaking Programs. Daniel has extensive experience with international non-governmental organizations in the fields of human rights, HIV/AIDS and social justice. He served as Senior Program Officer for Asia and Pacific at the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) and on the founding board of the Massachusetts Asian AIDS Prevention Project. He is the Vice President of Funders Concerned about AIDS (FCAA), co-chair of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP), and a member of the Asia-Oceania Advisory Council of the Global Fund for Women. He received an AB magna cum laude in Religion and History from Princeton University and a Master of Divinity from Harvard University. Daniel is a previous member of the International Grants Panel at Astraea.

Cynthia Rothschild | Brooklyn, NY

Cynthia Rothschild is currently consulting in areas related to the United Nations, HIV & AIDS, women human rights defenders and sexual rights. A human rights and sexual rights activist for over 20 years, she is the author of Written Out: How Sexuality is Used to Attack Women's Organizing; the co-author of Strengthening Resistance: Confronting Violence Against Women and HIV/AIDS and Amnesty International’s Crimes of Hate, Conspiracy of Silence: Torture and Ill-Treatment Based on Sexual Identity. A trainer and former member of Amnesty International USA's Board of Directors, she is now on the Advisory Board of Human Rights Watch’s LGBT Program. She has worked at the United Nations Development Fund for Women, and with a number of NGOs, including the Center for Women’s Global Leadership, in areas related to sexuality, women’s human rights, reproductive rights and HIV & AIDS. Her UN advocacy includes a focus on “gender architecture”, the UN Human Rights Council, the UN Commission on the Status of Women and various projects related to HIV & AIDS and rights of young people.