Young Feminist Leaders Council
Maria Dorado
Maria Dorado is a first-generation born Mexican-American with a passion for Mexican history, literature, and publishing. In her spare time, she's usually researching her current obsession of the week or fangirling over her latest read. Her career goals include copyediting at a book publishing company or imprint and teaching college courses part-time.
emet ezell
emet ezell currently invests their time strengthening the muscles of accountability and creativity within the larger activist community. born and raised beneath Texas skies, emet inhabits the borderlands between the visible and the invisible. they are the proud recipient of the 2021 Gloria Anzaldúa poetry prize and their debut chapbook, “between every bird our bones,” will be published by Newfound Press in fall of 2022. emet is a community organizer, an aquarius rising, and a libra sun. they are also the co-founder of The Barnacle Goose— a radically surreal magazine published by Blima Books. when they re-incarnate, emet hopes to become a bird.
Lauren Gentry
Lauren Gentry is a Development Specialist at Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO), where she works to advance its mission of transforming philanthropy in service of nonprofits and communities. Lauren has a MS in arts administration with a certificate in fundraising from Boston University and a BA in global studies with a concentration in museum studies from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As a freelance professional, she has worked as a choreographer, dancer, grant writer, and ghost writer, which has allowed her to explore her simultaneous passions for the performing and literary arts. In her leisure time, she serves as a Board Member for the Big Muddy Dance Company and dabbles with blogging as the manager of Literary Bread, a translated literature book blog.
Michaela Goss
Michaela Goss is an editor at a technology media company based in Newton, MA. She graduated from the University of Massachusetts Lowell in 2018 with a BA in English, concentrating in journalism and with minors in digital media and American studies. She is thrilled to be part of the inaugural Young Feminist Leaders Council and hopes to further the Feminist Press’s message of creating a world where everyone can see themselves in a book. You can follow her on Twitter @Michaela_Goss.
Ozichi Okorom
Ozichi Okorom is a PhD student in Black Studies at the University of Texas-Austin. She studies Black expressive culture and literary theory and has a multimedia artistic practice. She has previously worked as a Feminist Press Apprentice and Editorial Intern for Basic Books/Seal Press. She is a huge Toni Morrison fan and needs June Jordan’s poetry to survive! You can find her rambling about television, music, books and politics on Twitter @fromanyanwu.
Azanique Rawl
Azanique Rawl is a professional multi-hat wearer who thrives in building community, both online and offline. In her down time, she can be found snuggled on the couch with her black lab, reading a thriller and enjoying red wine. Outside of the Young Feminist Leaders Council, Azanique is proud to be an ongoing advocate of She's The First, a nonprofit that funds girls' education in low-income countries. You can follow her on Instagram @lotsofsassblog.
Lanesha Reagan
Lanesha Reagan is a master's student at Oregon State University pursuing her MFA in fiction. She previously worked in tech and over the last few years worked with Tin House and the Feminist Press in their editorial and publicity departments. She is an avid reader who loves gritty, female-led narratives, but finds the long aisles of bookstores terrifying. Far too many options. You can find her musings about Taylor Swift, literary drama, and pop culture on Twitter @laneshareagan.
Kay Sohini
Kay Sohini is a comics-maker, writer, and PhD candidate in English at Stony Brook University, where she is currently drawing her doctoral dissertation as a comic. Her work on comics has been published in Graphic Mundi’s Covid Chronicles, Sequentials, Women Write About Comics, Solrad, and Inside Higher Ed, among others. She serves as Secretary on the Executive Committee of the International Comic Arts Forum (ICAF). In both her creative and academic work, she focuses on how comics can be utilized by scholars and artists alike in ethnography, public health discourse, resisting disinformation, and espousing an equitable future for all. You can read more about her work at www.kaysohini.com.
Madeline Wallace
Madeline Wallace is a literary assistant at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, an NYC transplant, and a Midwesterner at heart. She graduated from Earlham College, where she majored in English and minored in Women’s, Gender, Sexuality Studies. Passionate about championing and elevating literary and artistic voices, she founded antonym, a small digital literary arts magazine, and is a mentor with Girls Write Now. In her free time, she can be found watching Gilmore Girls (strictly seasons 1-5) for the umpteenth time. Although she’s too intimidated to make her first Tweet, you can follow her nonexistent feed @life_by_maddie.