Survivor Genius

Sheerine Alemzadeh is the co-founder and co-director of Healing to Action, a pioneering grassroots organization whose mission is to end gender-based violence by building the leadership and collective power of survivors. She has worked at the intersection of gender-based violence and social inequality issues for two decades as an attorney, professor, writer, community educator, activist, grassroots organizer, and nonprofit leader. Alemzadeh has been quoted in The Washington Post, The Guardian, Vox, The Chicago Sun-Times, and Teen Vogue and has been interviewed on public radio stations throughout the country. She lives in Chicago.