Meet our Board of Directors (2018-2020)
Manuel Abril is a prevention educator in video/art programming and community organizing at Our Family Services. He has worked as sexual violence prevention educator for 7 years with Safe Streets AZ and developed social creativity projects with Hey Baby | Art Against Sexual Violence and ACT OUT youth film program. Manuel has a Master of Arts in Performance Studies as well as a Master of Fine Art in Performance/Video/Computer Arts. He is an artist and researches the relationships between organizational performance, technical performance, cultural performativity and social presentation.
Ashley Badgley is a DC-Based advocate who works in Program Management at the American University Washington College of Law Clinical Program. Ashley received her bachelor’s degree in Journalism in 2009 from Columbia College Chicago and received her master’s degree in Women’s Studies from The George Washington University in 2012. She has spent her career working primarily with survivors of domestic and sexual violence as well as immigrant populations seeking legal assistance in the DC region. As an avid bicyclist, she works to get more women on the saddle, exploring the streets of DC. She believes in equal access and opportunity for all.
Lindsey M is a Minneapolis-based attorney who brings trained advocacy to the courtroom and wider activism throughout her community. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from St. Olaf College and a J.D. and Masters of Bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania. When she isn’t litigating complex disputes or haranguing harassers, Lindsey enjoys taking cases that allow her to address structural inequalities related to poverty, housing, and discrimination through the Federal Pro Se Litigants Program and the Volunteer Lawyers Network. She is a member of the 2014-2015 class of Leadership Twin Cities and was recently named a Rising Star by Minnesota Super Lawyers.
Maliyka Muhammad holds a Bachelor of Science in Community Health, from Hofstra University, and a Master of Arts in Community Health Education from Brooklyn College. Currently, she is pursuing a Masters in Public Health with a certification in Health Policy, from Benedictine University. 
Since her undergraduate days, the pursuit of equality for those who could not effectively advocate for themselves has been a passion of hers. Currently, she is employed for the State of New York as a Disability Analyst. She has been called on frequently to speak on health related topics. On a volunteer basis, she is the director for a local Stork’s Nest program, which is a national project between Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. and March of Dimes, which focuses on decreasing the number of premature births. She is also a member of the Junior League of Brooklyn and recently started working with their Business Etiquette Workshop; which teaches teenagers how to properly navigate the workplace. In addition to serving in her elected positions in Zeta Phi Beta and The Junior League, she also holds positions in The Greater New York Inter-Alumni Council for the UNCF, and the Hofstra University Black/Hispanic Alumni. As a woman of color, who has personally been subjected to public harassment, those experiences, coupled with her education in health science at the undergraduate and graduate level; and her extensive work in the service of public 
health makes her uniquely qualified advocate for those women who also have been subject to street harassment.
Lauren Pires is currently the Outreach and Training Program Manager at the Domestic Violence Resource Project in Washington DC, and brings several years of international gender and women’s empowerment programming to the SSH board. With a Masters degree from the London School of Economics in Gender & Policy, her professional expertise is in gender mainstreaming, training and communications. A third-culture kid, she has grown up and lived in 6 countries across 3 continents and values intersectionality in everything we do, cultural humility and most of all the chance to appreciate new places, cultures and of course the food.
Britnae Purdy works in college campus gender-based violence prevention and education. She holds a BA in International Affairs/Women’s and Gender Studies from the University of M
ary Washington and an MA in Global Affairs from George Mason University, and is is currently pursuing an MSc in Public Health through the London School of Hygiene and Public Health. Britnae has been volunteering with SSH since 2013 as blog correspondent and digital manager for International Anti-Street Harassment Week.
Lani Shotlow-Rincon works a digital marketer in the consumer, healthcare, SaaS, and non-profit industries. She holds a Bachelor’s in Communication and a Masters of Communication Management with dual emphases in Marketing Communication and Health and Social Change Communication from the University of Southern California. As part of her graduate coursework, she developed a design for Stop Street Harassment “My Name is NOT Hey Baby,” that was featured in the SAGE textbook Gender in Communication by Helen Palczewski and Victoria Pruin DeFrancisco. Recently, she worked with the Chicago Veterans Affairs Medical Center on a campaign aimed at eliminating sexual harassment at their facility.
Nancy Xiong‘s work has been mainly in the higher education setting with women and gender issues and gender-based violence. She has organized events such as Take Back the Night, Fear 2 Freedom, Self Care, Self Love events, film screenings on domestic violence/sexual assault and Anti-Street Harassment Week at George Mason University. Academically, she has taught courses such as global representations of women, introduction to women and gender studies and healthy relationships. Nancy has worked, studied and/or lived in Burma, India, Japan, Laos, Nepal, and Thailand. Outside of work, she enjoys cultivating her artistic side by sewing, making art, and crafting, traveling, connecting with the world and just be. Currently, she’s interested in trauma and healing and ways to foster well-being, self-care, and self-love in everyday life.
Meet the Board of Directors who served from 2012-19
