Our Team

Donna is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 30 years of experience. Her areas of practice include trauma, infertility, and perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. In addition to her private practice, Donna served as admissions and clinical director at the Motherhood Center of New York from 2017-2020, and has held supervisory roles at SUNY Stony Brook, the Jewish Board of Children and Family Services, and Safespace.

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Co-founder of DalyGonzalez, an M/WBE boutique government and community affairs firm, and a partner at the government relations firm Bolton St.Johns, Samara nurtures public-private partnerships to facilitate development projects in the cultural, workforce, and tech sectors. Previously, as director of strategic partnerships for Macro-Sea, she helped foster several iconic NYC initiatives, including the New Lab at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the restoration of the Chelsea Hotel. In addition to Let’s Talk Menopause, Samara serves on the board of directors of SBIDC and Grow NYC, member of AllinBklyn and the advisory boards of the Service-Learning Project NYC and Girls Inc of Dutchess & Ulster Counties.

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As a primetime evening news anchor, the host of the podcast Coming Up Next and menopause advocate, Tamsen Fadal has spent the past three decades as a journalist, storyteller, and women’s health advocate. While reporting is her profession (she is honored to have earned 13 Emmys for her reporting on Hurricane Sandy, the Columbia Shuttle crash, and the war in Afghanistan among others), her passion is amplifying women’s stories that often happen behind the headlines.

But it was her own experience off-camera that changed her life. Tamsen landed on the bathroom floor as the result of severe menopause symptoms. Feeling isolated, ashamed, and experiencing these very severe symptoms with her hormones all over the place, in an industry that values youth – Tamsen decided it was time to change the narrative and talk openly about the uncertainty and fear that goes along with the intersection of midlife and menopause.

Today, she is a menopause advocate for women, including in the workplace. She has taken her advocacy to social media where she releases new videos each day to talk to other women who are going through the same life change. She has garnered a passionate, loyal social media following by sharing her journey of midlife, menopause and finding meaning.  She is working on her 4^th book and first documentary.

Risa Aronson is Vice President at The Knot Worldwide, the authority on wedding planning, offering everything couples need to take their celebration from inspiration to reality—from ideas, advice and the perfect local vendors to creating and managing all guest experiences, wedding registries and invitations.  Ms. Aronson oversees the Global Media Solutions team handling client global partnerships across a variety of mediums including digital, video, social and print. She is a proven leader with a successful track record in driving revenue growth and profitability. Ms. Aronson is an executive leader with expansive management and media experience in publishing leading sales teams, marketing, and business development.

Prior to joining The Knot Worldwide, Risa spent over 20 years at Conde Nast where she worked on world class brands such as The New Yorker, Bon Appetit and W where she was responsible for growing revenue across all categories and platforms. Ms. Aronson also oversaw the Luxury Category from clients marketing objectives, business challenges, targeting capabilities all while providing opportunities across Conde Nast brands and products.

Ms. Aronson lives in New York City with her husband and their twin boys. She volunteers with a number of organizations, including Park Avenue Synagogue, Dorot, Scope and is a founding member of the 18417 Networking Group, an organization created to help mentor and grow young talent.

Julissa Ferreras-Copeland has represented District 21 on the New York City Council since 2009. She is the first woman, the first person of color, and the youngest person ever to chair the Council’s influential Committee on Finance, which oversees the city's budget process. The daughter of Dominican immigrants, Council Member Ferreras-Copeland is a leading voice on matters of immigrant and women’s rights and transparency in government. Recent accomplishments include establishing the Flushing Meadows Corona Park Alliance and helping to pass the groundbreaking menstrual equity package, the first law in the nation to guarantee access to menstrual hygiene products in schools, prisons, and shelters.

Debbie Juantorena is the vice president of analytic tools and platforms, at Pfizer Inc, where she is responsible for developing and managing analytics tools, platforms and data related products and services that help to deliver insights to improve Pfizer’s impact on health outcomes. Debbie is a member of ALLINBKLYN, a women’s giving group, and serves on the board of the Weeksville Heritage Center in Brooklyn.

Terry Kung holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Columbia College, Columbia University, and a Master of Arts in Higher Education Administration from Teachers College, Columbia University, and is working on her doctoral degree in K-12 School Administration at Seton Hall University. She is an ardent Columbia alumna and alumni leader who was the founding president of the Columbia Alumni Association of Singapore, interviewed hundreds of applicants for Columbia’s Alumni Representative Committee (ARC), and currently serves as the inaugural president of the Columbia Alumni Association of Brooklyn. She was also Columbia University’s Assistant Director of Admissions in charge of Asia, Hawaii, and California, while directing the ARC, which has thousands of alumni interviewers around the world. Ms. Kung has spent over two decades working in schools from Columbia University to Oakwood School and Immaculate Heart High School in Los Angeles, and Brooklyn Friends School in New York City. In addition, she serves/has served on numerous boards ranging from the College Board, to education tech companies, to the Counselor Advisory Board at Washington University in St. Louis.

Dr. Robin Noble, Chief Medical Advisor for Let's Talk Menopause, has been a practicing gynecologist for more than 20 years. She completed her medical training at Columbia and her OB/GYN residency at Yale. Following a fellowship in minimally invasive gynecologic surgery and an academic position at NYU, she has built a practice helping her patients through the menopausal transition. She is a certified menopause provider through the North American Menopause Society (NAMS), a co-chair of the New England Chapter of the Yale Alumni NonProfit Alliance, and a member of the board of directors of Intermed, where she currently practices.

Long-time public affairs, government relations and political operative, and an alumnus of BerlinRosen and The Podesta Group, Cathy designs and leads complex and multifaceted campaigns designed to move the needle in many of the most prominent policy debates. During her time at BerlinRosen, she ran external affairs programs to secure large-scale state offshore wind procurements, advocated successfully for the renewal of economic development tax incentives, extricated a complicated portion of Medicaid reform from the NYS Budget, cultivated bipartisan support and passage of dedicated funding for the National Park System, developed a framework to disrupt systemic racism and inequity around maternal health outcomes and secured funding for supportive housing for people experiencing homelessness. She is a proud Ulster County resident and enjoys spending time with her husband Tommy, 4-year-old daughter E and two very over-privileged cats.

Attorney, advocate, and author Jennifer Weiss-Wolf is the executive director of NYU Law’s Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network. Prior she was vice president and the inaugural women and democracy fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice. She also leads partnerships and strategy at Ms. – the feminist movement-making magazine. A passionate writer on and advocate for issues of gender and politics – and menstruation and menopause – Weiss-Wolf was dubbed the “architect of the U.S. campaign to squash the tampon tax” by Newsweek; her 2017 book Periods Gone Public: Taking a Stand for Menstrual Equity was lauded by Gloria Steinem as “the beginning of liberation for us all.” Her forthcoming book, Period. Full Stop. The Politics of Menopause will be published by NYU Press in 2025. Weiss-Wolf’s scholarship has been published by the NYU Review of Law and Social Change, Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, and William and Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice. Her writing and work have also been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, TIME, Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Bazaar, Teen Vogue, NPR, PBS, and NowThis, among others.