Brianna Twofoot is the National Organizing Director at Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. In her role, she supports organizing, advocacy and electoral work at the federal level and across 50 states. She manages a team that provides organizing training, resources, and digital platforms to enable impact that advance and protects abortion access and sexual and reproductive healthcare.

Prior to Planned Parenthood, Brianna was the Vice President of Organizing and Advocacy at Leadership for Educational Equity (LEE), a non-partisan civic leadership development organization. She supported LEE members to engage in community organizing with trainings, resources and infrastructure to enable their collective impact. While at LEE, she founded and led the organization’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion department and work.

She began her career as a teacher in the Mississippi Delta. She also spent time as a state-level community organizing with the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine, and a school leader for Lighthouse Charter Schools. She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College. 

Brianna enjoys relaxing walks with her dog, Tuck, and husband Tim.

Juliana Worrell is the Chief Schools Officer K-8 for Uncommon Schools, where she oversees the instructional program for Uncommon’s 47 elementary and middle schools across NY, NJ, and MA.  Through a laser-like focus on leadership development and high-quality instruction, her schools have consistently outperformed end-of-year state exam averages, with more than half outperforming their respective states’ highest performing subgroups.

 Juliana is also deeply passionate about strengthening diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives across Uncommon, increasing the number of teachers and leaders of color, strengthening culturally responsive teaching practices, and working to advance Uncommon’s commitment to being an increasingly anti-racist organization that continues to advance social justice.

 Juliana’s international trainings are at the heart of education reform.  She is co-author of the book Great Habits, Great Readers, and her leadership as a former principal and principal manager has been featured in several books and articles for her ability to develop teachers and leaders in the areas of literacy, data analysis, curriculum planning, and classroom instruction.

 Juliana has done adjunct work for the Relay Graduate School of Education and the Summer Principals Academy program at Teachers College, Columbia University.  She is in the inaugural cohort of The Broad Academy at Yale School of Management, a 2017 Pahara fellow, board chair of The Collective: Teach for America’s Association for Alumni of Color, and a board member of Spark Schools, a network of high performing schools in Johannesburg, South Africa.  Juliana holds a B.A. in Political Science from Rutgers University and a M.A. in Education Leadership from Teachers College, Columbia University.

Kathryn (Kat) Ling (she/they) serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Moonshot edVentures, a nonprofit that surfaces and supports a diverse pipeline of leaders to launch the learning environments of tomorrow in Metro Denver.

Kat began with Moonshot in 2019 as Chief of Staff and later served as Chief Program Officer where she facilitated the Moonshot Fellowship for Cohorts 3 and 4, including a re-design of the Fellowship into a completely virtual format in the midst of the pandemic. As Chief Executive Officer, Kat leads the organization and team to actualize Moonshot’s mission and long-term strategic plan, as well as manages fundraising, external partnerships, and new initiatives. 

Previously, Kat was the Managing Director of Alumni & Lifelong Leadership Development for Teach For America - Greater Delta, where she led a team responsible for supporting a cross-state 500+ alumni network. Kat’s additional prior experiences include serving as the Manager of Teacher Leadership Development, coaching 50+ educators in southeast Arkansas, as Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusiveness, when she designed and facilitated trainings on cultural responsiveness, racial equity, and multicultural leadership for 100+ educators and a 15-person staff, and as Managing Director, Alumni & Public Partnerships, through which she managed a team responsible for district partnerships, licensure, hiring, and placement for new educators in Arkansas. Kat served as a Leadership Team Member and Board Chair of TFA’s national Asian American Pacific Islander Resource Group, was a co-founder of the Arkansas Collective and was a founding member and Board Chair for GLSEN Arkansas, a volunteer-run chapter for the national organization dedicated to safe classrooms for all students regardless of sexual orientation or gender.  

She graduated Cornell University magna cum laude with a major in English and a minor in Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies. She has a Master’s through the University of Arkansas - Clinton School of Public Service.