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.

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.

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.

Gabriella Espinosa has dedicated the last 20 years as an educator, coach and advocate for women’s health, menopause and sexual wellness. She is the founder of Women’s Body Wisdom, an innovative online coaching platform designed to empower women through their menopause transition with pleasure, power and purpose. To amplify her commitment to normalizing conversations around menopause and female pleasure Gabriella hosts the podcast Pleasure in the Pause, and contributes her writing on yoga and women’s health to leading international publications and has been featured in Oprah Daily and Oprah Quarterly.

Her expertise has been pivotal in the development of menopause education programs for major leading online platforms in the UK, alongside fruitful collaborations with US-based menopause brands to enhance their marketing strategies. As a bilingual and bicultural Latina, she is committed to broadening the menopause conversation within the Latina community, actively developing educational resources to inform and empower Spanish-speaking individuals and is active in supporting female-led start-ups as an investor and has excelled in fundraising for various charities and non-profits across the arts and education sectors.

As a mother of three college-aged children, Gabriella balances her professional endeavors with her personal life, sharing her time between Austin, Texas and New York City with her husband Ted. Her journey reflects a profound dedication to enhancing women’s lives through health, education and empowerment.

Katie is a podcaster, pro-aging advocate, and the founder of The Reboot Group, a communications consultancy that helps clients and companies to tell better career and brand stories. A former journalist (CNN, NY1) and PR executive, Katie now hosts A Certain Age, a podcast that spotlights women reinventing midlife and celebrates women who are aging out loud.

Katie is a longtime champion of organizations that connect women with resources to thrive in career and life. She is on the advisory council of Flow Health, supports the work of WAKE: The Women’s Alliance for Knowledge Exchange as an advisor in Cambodia and the U.S., and is a featured expert in Mika and Ginny Brzezinski’s book “Comeback Careers.”

She began her career on Capitol Hill working for Senator Bill Bradley (D-NJ).

Katie and her husband Mike, three kids, and rambunctious pandemic puppy Lilah live on Long Island.

Chair of the Women in Medicine Initiative at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons; Clinical Assistant Professor at NYU Langone Medical Center Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Principal Investigator of Manhattan Behavioral Medicine, where she leads over a dozen women researchers in mental health and neuroscience clinical research studies.

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.

April L. McKenzie is the Vice President of Partner Marketing at Paramount Brand Studio. She leads a team which develops and executes custom sponsor opportunities for major brands, aligning marketing campaigns with Nickelodeon's events, TV shows, and movies to reach kids and families through various channels.

With over 28 years of experience in co-branded marketing and content development at companies like Hearst Magazines, The New Yorker, and Nickelodeon, April specializes in holistic campaigns for key advertisers across platforms including influencer marketing, digital video, linear content, experiential activations, and streaming. April is skilled at crafting multi-generational storytelling that resonates with audiences and drives client value and revenue growth. With her leadership, she fosters collaboration both internally and with external partners to deliver innovative marketing solutions.

Outside of her professional role, April mentors within her company and through She Runs It.  She also advocates for multiple non-profits, including The Red Door Community, some of which has consisted of raising money and awareness tied to her marathon training. After her own journey with perimenopause began, and upon researching endless amounts of conflicting information on health and well-being tied to peri/menopause, she founded a local Facebook group to facilitate discussions and share experiences, making women's health advocacy and accessible care a passion, especially regarding menopause.  Her active community group has grown exponentially over the last three years it's been live.

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.