Abigail Collazo serves as the Editor for Fem2pt0, a pro bono project of Turner Strategies, where she works as a Project Manager handling online communications and media outreach.  Abigail has worked on women’s issues in both the nonprofit and government sector for over 10 years, with a particular focus on global women’s rights. Abigail grew up in Westchester, New York, and has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Mount Holyoke College.  She is currently pursuing her Master of Arts degree in Global Security Studies at Johns Hopkins University, where she is writing her graduate thesis on the intersection between gender and war.  Abigail tweets from @abigailcollazo.

Maggie Arden has been working in non-profit management for the last five years. Previously she worked as a campaign fundraiser for political candidates.  Outside of work, she regularly volunteers with local organizations around the Washington, DC area and makes jewelry for Southern Yankee Design, her jewelry business. Originally from Chicago, Maggie moved South for college, where she remained for several years, before moving closer to the Mason-Dixon line, inspiring her blog, Southern Yankee Speaks, about life caught somewhere between North and South. Maggie is an alumnae of Elon University and Alpha Xi Delta.  You can find Maggie on Twitter at @Sthrnynkee.

Violet Tsagkas is a Project Coordinator at Turner Strategies. She previously studied Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Athens in Greece and she got her Master Degree from the Graduate School of Political Management, George Washington University. She completed her first internship in D.C. at the office of Gus Bilirakis (FL-9).  Prior to moving from Greece she was working at Spin Political & Corporate Communications in Athens, where she served as Account Executive and managed political communications services and issues management campaigns for a variety of clients. Contact Violet at violet@turnerstrategies.com.

Rachel Eve Stein writes for local lifestyle blogs Brokelyn and Gowanus Your Face Off.  She has worked on political campaigns and in government offices for over five years and is intensely passionate about suffrage, labor, and environmental issues. Rachel currently resides in Brooklyn but has also lived in Washington, DC, Boston, and London. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Movements in the Democratic Process at Boston University and wrote her senior thesis on the efficacy and ethnography of grassroots political campaigns. Rachel tweets from

Emmily Bristol  When Emmily became a mother last year — one of the oldest new moms on the playground — it made her work as a grassroots, pro-choice organizer and feminist blogger in Las Vegas all the more meaningful.  During her pregnancy, Emmily served as the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against a personhood initiative in Nevada – a case they won. She received her degree from the University of Oregon and spent a decade as an award-winning, newspaper journalist.  Over the past few years, Emmily has started the feminist blogs The Sin City Siren and The Tired Feminist, and she soon thereafter left the traditional journalism world behind.   Emmily also serves on the board of the Nevada Coalition Against Sexual Violence, which is deeply important to her as a survivor of sexual violence.  Emmily tweets from @TheSinCitySiren.

Guest Bloggers

Carsen Zarin was born and raised in Saint Louis, MO and recently came to D.C. as a student at the George Washington University working towards a B.A. in communications and sociology.  She serves as the communications chair for Students Against Sexual Assault (SASA). Carsen is a former intern with Turner Strategies and an ex-officio member of the Fem2.0 Executive Board.  Carsen is spending her spring semester studying abroad in Prague, Czech Republic.

Stephenie Foster has over 25 years experience in domestic and international policy advocacy, government affairs, program development and training, and law. Since 1997, Stephenie has participated in numerous international programs and projects sponsored by the United States State Department, the Vital Voices Global Partnership, the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) and others.  Stephenie  has authored two manuals for Vital Voices, Advocacy and Running for Office: A Training Manual for Women and Ending Violence Against Women and Human Trafficking: A Guide to New Strategies.  Her international work has taken her to more than 20 countries, covering every region of the world. Find Stephenie on Twitter at @stepheniefoster.

 Marcia G. Yerman began as a painter and in the 1990s, delved into curating exhibitions in an effort to bring visibility to women artists of diverse backgrounds. In 2006, while working on outreach for the Feminist Art Project, Yerman connected with the Women’s Media Center. She became part of the start-up team, consulting on women and cultural issues. This led to parallel careers in writing, activism, and new media.  Marcia co-founded cultureID in 2009, a social community with the stated mission of “creating a nexus between activism and the arts.”  Based in New York City, Marcia lives with her son and dysfunctional dachshund. You can find Marcia on Twitter at @mgyerman.