Experience

Gender At Work

• Civic and Social Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Associate

  • Feb 2023 - Present

• Transition Advisor

  • Nov 2022 - Feb 2023

  Engaged in leadership transition with the permanent and excellent new Executive Director of Gender at Work, madeleine kennedy-macfoy

• Interim Executive Director

  • Jan 2022 - Nov 2022



Self-employed

• Co-Founder, Voices Amplified Consulting Group

  • Apr 2020 - Present

  Voices Amplified: a feminist-inspired Network of senior women with wildly diverse backgrounds - from cutting edge technology to international development - who come together to create magic! YOU drive the Agenda. We listen....we conjure...we check in...we deliver what you actually need! Voices Amplified: a feminist-inspired Network of senior women with wildly diverse backgrounds - from cutting edge technology to international development - who come together to create magic! YOU drive the Agenda. We listen....we conjure...we check in...we deliver what you actually need!



WizWork (Wisdom at Work: the social media platform for older women and their allies worldwide)

• https://wizwork.net

• Founder

  • Dec 2021 - Present

  WizWork is a social media platform built for older women, women identified people 60+ who want to connect globally, and around issues/causes that matter to them! WizWork is a social media platform built for older women, women identified people 60+ who want to connect globally, and around issues/causes that matter to them!



capitalW

• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Advisor

  • Jun 2020 - Present

  capitalW works to support non profits run by and for women in a myriad of ways. With capitalW, I have been working on various projects involving Non Profit and charitable DATA - to strenghten the relevance and use of data in our sector, with a particular interest in supporting the work to 'Decolonize Data' capitalW works to support non profits run by and for women in a myriad of ways. With capitalW, I have been working on various projects involving Non Profit and charitable DATA - to strenghten the relevance and use of data in our sector, with a particular interest in supporting the work to 'Decolonize Data'



Grandmothers on the Move Podcast

• Founder/Host WISDOM AT WORK: Elderwomen, Older Women and Grandmothers on the Move

  • Mar 2018 - Present

  Grandmothers On The Move, the podcast that kicks old stereotypes to the curb! Come meet these creative, outrageous, authentic, adventurous, irreverent and powerful Disrupters and Influencers. Grandmothers – from the living room to the courtroom – making powerful contributions in every walk of life. In this podcast, you’ll come to know even more about our Grandmothers and older women advocates - they are galvanized, determined and are guaranteed to get you thinking! What drives them? What are they up to? What is the potential of the power of older women, and how is it changing the world?! Grandmothers are on the move...you don’t want to be left behind! Show less



Informed Opinions

• Canada
• Civic and Social Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Tribunal Coordinator: A Peoples' Tribunal: Every Woman's Right to Speak Free from Online Hate

  • Nov 2021 - Feb 2022

  For Informed Opinons - Conceptualized and Coordinated 'A Peoples' Tribunal: Every Woman's Right to Speak Free from Online Hate' See the report here: https://bit.ly/antihateTribunalreport WATCH THE TRIBUNAL HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE7O5-odcvg Informed Opinions convened this Peoples' Tribunal in recognition of the critical threat that online hate has become to the mission of amplifying the voices of women in all our diversity, and to Canada's democracy" For Informed Opinons - Conceptualized and Coordinated 'A Peoples' Tribunal: Every Woman's Right to Speak Free from Online Hate' See the report here: https://bit.ly/antihateTribunalreport WATCH THE TRIBUNAL HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE7O5-odcvg Informed Opinions convened this Peoples' Tribunal in recognition of the critical threat that online hate has become to the mission of amplifying the voices of women in all our diversity, and to Canada's democracy"



Stephen Lewis Foundation

• Canada
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder and Senior Advisor to the Board

  • Feb 2019 - Feb 2020

• Executive Director and Co-Founder

  • Mar 2003 - Feb 2019

  Ilana Landsberg-Lewis co-founded and led The Stephen Lewis Foundation – an international charity established to raise funds and deliver them directly into the hands of community-based organizations at the frontlines of the AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa, with a particular lens on grassroots activists, women, girls and LGBTIQ advocates. As the Foundation’s inaugural Executive Director, Ilana worked with superlative colleagues to build the organization into a globally respected charity, inspired and guided by the insights and expertise of community-based organization partners in sub-Saharan Africa, with a commitment to work with values rooted in feminism and anti-colonial imperatives. During her tenure, the SLF raised and disbursed over $130 million dollars, supporting 1800+ initiatives with over 300 CBOs in the 15 countries hardest hit by the pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa. The SLF initiated programmes to amplify the voices and expertise of grassroots leaders on HIV and AIDS in Africa, from the Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign (a solidarity Campaign of 10,000+ grandmothers in Canada, Australia and the U.K over the course of a decade. – which raised over $35 million of support that went directly to organizations run by and for hundreds of thousands of indomitable grandmothers leading the response to AIDS at the community level in Africa), to the LGBTIQ Africa Initiative, supporting courageous grassroots activist organizations working on HIV and securing the human rights of its members. Show less



United Nations Development Fund for Women (now U.N. Women)

• UNIFEM HQ, NY, NY

• CEDAW Advisor

  • Jan 1994 - Jan 2003

  I spent nine years at the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), working to advance women's human rights, working with outstanding colleagues at HQ and in Regional Offices. Many tremendous initiatives and opportunities to contribute to the struggle for gender equality and women's human rights, including assisting with the successful diplomatic negotiations that led to the creation of the U.N. Trust Fund to End Violence against Women, and innovating and launching UNIFEM’s work on CEDAW (the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women), becoming UNIFEM’s first global CEDAW Advisor. While at the United Nations, I co-founded the first advocacy organization for the rights of LGBTQ U.N. employees – UNGLOBE - and served as its first President, to establish UNGLOBE as an organization with official status at the U.N. Show less