[Wamvan] Meet WAM!'s new executive director!

[Joanna Chiu]

I met Jamia at some events organized by WAM!'s New York chapter, and was so
impressed by her work and the way she treats people. So happy to see that
she is going to be WAM's next executive director!

We'll share more information soon on how you can get in touch with Jamia.
In the meantime she is on Twitter @jamiaw and you can reach Jaclyn
Friedman, our current ED and the fantastic founder of WAM! at
jaclyn at womenactionmedia.org

- Joanna on behalf of WAM!Van coordinators

http://womenactionmedia.org/2014/12/15/meet-our-new-executive-director/
Meet our new Executive Director!
[image: photo by Tani Ikeda]
We have major news to share with you today: we've hired a new Executive
Director to take the reins when Founding Director Jaclyn Friedman steps
down at the end of the year. And she's FANTASTIC.

*Starting in January, Jamia Wilson will become WAM!'s next Executive
Director.* Jamia was selected from a highly competitive field of candidates
for her unique combination of stellar qualifications, proven leadership,
and passionate vision for WAM!. Jamia is the quintessential WAM!mer, from
her relentless efforts to increase gender justice across the media
landscape to her wicked sense of humor.

Wilson has been a movement builder, a media maker and a storyteller for
over a decade. *She previously served as the Executive Director of YTH
(Youth Tech Health), and has held roles as the TED Prize Storyteller, the
Vice President of Programs at The Women's Media Center, and the principal
for Planned Parenthood Federation of America's youth outreach program. And
as an added bonus, she is also a long-time WAM!mer, where she has been an
active member of WAM!NYC, our first and oldest local chapter.*

A leading next-generation voice on feminism and gender justice, Jamia's
work and words have appeared in and on outlets such as *New York Magazine*,
The Today Show, CNN, *Ms*., *The Washington Post* and more.  Recognized as
one of the "17 Faces of the Future of Feminism" by Refinery 29, Jamia is a
staff writer for Rookie Magazine, an online magazine for teenage girls, and
has contributed to several books such as *Madonna and Me: Women Writers on
the Queen of Pop*, and the 40th edition of *Our Bodies, Ourselves*.

"WAM! is many things-a media organization, a cultural catalyst, and a
grassroots movement," WAM!'s soon-to-be new ED, Jamia Wilson says.  "I'm
honored to deepen my commitment to an organization that has proven time and
again that a small devoted team can be a mighty force. Building on Jaclyn's
legacy, I can't wait to contribute my experience with solutions-driven
media making, and collaboration-fueled media activism. l look forward to
working with the WAM! community to leverage our collective power,
expertise, and network to bring women, women of color, and trans folks'
voices from the margins to the center of our public conversation."

But before we say hello to Jamia, we want to honor and thank Jaclyn for
everything she has poured into WAM! and the gender justice field.* Starting
with co-founding the first WAM! conference nearly 11 years ago, we're
beyond grateful for Jaclyn's visionary work that has brought us to this
moment.  WAM! is now a direct-action powerhouse that takes on multinational
corporations like Facebook and Clear Channel-and wins!* In the last year,
WAM! has challenged misogyny at Twitter and helped to drive national
conversations around online gender harassment, turned out crowds across the
country to give the Anita Hill documentary a huge opening weekend,
organized dozens of women's groups to fight for Net Neutrality, and
insisted that trans women be treated with dignity and respect by the news
media.

*WAM! is also fostering new leadership and building powerful
communities* through
our local chapters across North America-from Toronto to DC to LA-where
members are sharing resources, expertise and taking action together. WAM!
provides connection points for all our members-from rounding up and
publicizing the writings and perspectives of WAM!mer's on important social
issues to WAM!'s Entertainment Guide that helps to remind us we can have
our gender justice and fun at the same time.
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