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Younger Women's Task Force Leadership
Shannon Lynberg, National Director
Shannon Lynberg has served as the National Director of the Younger Women’s Task Force since November 2007. As a dedicated advocate for women’s issues, Shannon has worked as a hands-on volunteer, and with public health agencies to improve the lives of women. While in college, Shannon worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tailoring domestic violence prevention programs for schools and at the Dekalb County Board of Health designing cardiovascular health outreach initiatives for Latina’s in Atlanta. Shannon has served as a Survivor Advocate at the Delkalb Rape Crisis Center in Metro Atlanta and has helped local DC schools write prevention programs for high risk, elementary school girls. Prior to YWTF, Shannon worked at PR Solutions, an organization that develops strategies to help nonprofit advocacy groups educate the public. In addition to her work at YWTF, Shannon is active with the Women’s Health Task Force, the National Committee on Pay Equity, and the DC Rape Crisis Center. Shannon holds a Bachelors of Science in Psychology. Shannon was featured as one of "Tomorrow's Leaders" in the November 2008 issue of "O, The Oprah Magazine" and she has spoken at numerous confernces in regards to younger women's issues.
Alison Stein, YWTF Founder and Advisory Board Chair
Alison Stein is the Founder and Advisory Board Chair of the Younger Women’s Task Force (YWTF). Alison served as YWTF’s National Director from June 2004 until April 2006.
Born in New Haven, CT, Alison developed the concept of YWTF during her years as an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was actively involved in women’s issues on her campus, in the communities of Philadelphia, and internationally. At the age of 22, Alison officially founded YWTF through organizing a “Meet-Up” that brought 150 younger women from 42 different states to Washington, DC to define and articulate the issues that mattered most to them.
Prior to YWTF, Alison worked in the press office of Hillary Clinton's Senatorial Campaign, was a fellow at the Institute for Women's Policy Research and a Program Assistant at the National Council of Women’s Organizations. Internationally, Alison spent her junior year of college in Sawua, Ghana, where she taught English at a senior secondary school and built a library. Alison returned to Ghana in 2003 as a researcher for the Ghana Health and Education Initiative, interviewing over 300 women from about their perceptions of family planning, in preparation for the opening of a local women’s health clinic.
Alison’s work with YWTF has been featured in a variety of publications including The Village Voice, Congressional Quarterly, Washington Post, Women's E News, and The New Yorker. She has been a guest lecturer at Georgetown University, and spoken at dozens of conferences and panels across the country. Alison was nominated for the 2005 Young Woman of Achievement Award presented by the Women's Information Network.
In 2009, Alison graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. While in law school, Alison served on the boards of the Equal Justice Foundation and the International Human Rights Advocates, Penn Law’s first Human Rights Clinic. She was a Senior Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, a legal writing instructor, and Research Assistant to a professor studying issues of comparative tort law. Alison has published articles with the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism and with the Depaul University Law Review.
Alison currently lives in Philadelphia where she is clerking for the Honorable Kent A. Jordan of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. In October 2010, she will begin a clerkship with the Honorable Kimba M. Wood of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Alison is married to Tom Berenberg, a resident in the Ophthalmology department at Cornell University Medical Center.
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