Monifa Bandele

Monifa oversees TIME’S UP’s day-to-day operations and ensures that the organization is set up to deliver on our global strategic goals over the short and long term. In addition, she sits on the policy table leadership team for the Movement for Black Lives and the steering committee for Communities United for Police Reform. Bandele brings more than a decade of advocacy and policy experience, such as launching two historic and successful legal cases against police misconduct in New York City and working to pass landmark police reform legislation in New York. Prior to TIME’S UP, Monifa served as senior vice president and chief equity and partnerships officer at MomsRising, co-leading a national on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people working to achieve economic security and justice for moms, women, and families. She also worked at the Brennan Center for Justice as national field director for the Right to Vote Campaign, leading a successful coalition that restored the right to vote to more than 250,000 formerly incarcerated people in five states.