Iris Garcia
Grants Manager
Iris Garcia is currently the Grants Manager at Akonadi Foundation, which supports racial justice movement building in Oakland, CA. She previously worked at the Global Fund for Women supporting transnational feminist organizations for seven years. Her earlier professional experience includes work with New Field Foundation and International Development Exchange.
Laura Goode
Author
Laura Goode is the author of a collection of poems, Become a Name (Fathom Books, 2016), and a novel for young adults, Sister Mischief (Candlewick Press, 2011). She wrote (with director Meera Menon) and produced the feature film Farah Goes Bang; FGB premiered at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival and won the inaugural Nora Ephron Prize from Tribeca and Vogue. Her writing on intersectional feminism and media has appeared in BuzzFeed, Longreads, ELLE, Refinery29, New Republic, New York Magazine, Fusion, The Rumpus, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Believer: Logger, IndieWire, and Bright Ideas, where she is a contributing editor. She received her BA and MFA from Columbia University and lives in San Francisco.
Carolyn Ji Jong Goossen
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Nadia Khastagir
Graphic Designer
Nadia Khastagir is SFWAR Board Chair and one of the founding members of Design Action Collective in Oakland, CA. providing strategic visual communications for progressive and social movement organizations. She is also in The Ruckus Society and the Center for Story-based Strategy training networks. She is also a member of Asians 4 Black Lives
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Preeti Shekar
Communications Strategist
Preeti Shekar is currently the Communications Strategist for the Feminist Alliance for Rights (FAR), a project of the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers University. Preeti is a feminist researcher, journalist and a communications specialist. She has been a consultant with the Center for South Asia Studies at UC Berkeley, the International Development Exchange (IDEX), Grassroots Global Justice, and is a contributing editor with Reimagine Race, Poverty and the Environment, a leading journal focused on intersectional social and environmental justice analyses. Preeti has been the Director of Narika, a Bay area-based organization working to end domestic violence in the South Asian diaspora; she has worked as a language interpreter with the International Rescue Committee; and as a language support advocate with the Asian Women’s Shelter in San Francisco. Previously she worked with the Global Fund for Women on their communications team for five years, and with Urban Habitat on their fundraising and communications team. Since 2006, Preeti has also been a regular radio producer with Pacifica Radio’s Berkeley station (KPFA 94. FM) where she produces a regular program amplifying the voices and perspectives of the South Asian diaspora in the bay area.