Our Advisory Board
The Foundation’s Board of Advisors is responsible for the credible operation of the Public Non-Profit Foundation. The Board of Advisors consist of athletes, innovative sports executives, advocates for women in leadership and scientists. The Board of Advisors creates fiscal and social impact policy and oversees the roadmap of the Foundation’s goals and objectives.
Stef Strack
Founder & CEO
Current: Founder & CEO VOICEINSPORT Foundation, Founder & CEO of VOICEINSPORT, Board Member, Consultant. Advocate. Division 1 Athlete - Soccer.
Stef is an Innovative Executive, Entrepreneur, Advisor and Advocate. She brings over 18 years of experience at the intersection of Sport, Lifestyle & Technology with a track record of building and scaling businesses from $0 to $3.5B. She started her career at Nike Italy in 2004 and successfully ascended to Vice President & General Manager of Nike’s game changing Direct to Consumer initiative on Speed to Market, called Express Lane. Stef’s passion to create new disruptive business models and build high performing teams led her to a new role as CEO and Board Member of the fashion house Rag & Bone based in NYC. Her extensive background across product creation, merchandising, sales, strategy, general management and supply chain is why today she is successfully building a new company from the ground up focused on her 3 passions, sport, women in leadership and equality. Stef is the Founder & CEO of VOICEINSPORT a global digital platform bringing more visibility to girls & women in sport and elevating their voices.
Genevieve Roth
Secretary
Current: Founder & CEO - Invisible Hand, Harvard Fellow. High School Skier and Soccer Player.
Genevieve is a thought leader with 15+ years of social impact experience working on behalf of progressive social and political change. Her expertise lies at the intersection of social justice, media and women and girl’s empowerment, and she has personally convened the foremost luminaries on these topics in partnership with The Women's March on Washington, The White House and Let Girls Learn, the Caterpillar Foundation, the United Nations Global Goals project, and others. Previous to founding Invisible Hand, Genevieve was the Director of Creative Engagement for Hillary for America. Between 2011 to 2016, Genevieve served as the Executive Director of Special Projects at Glamour. There, she was responsible for programming the Magazine’s signature event, the Women of the Year Awards—a celebration of the world’s most remarkable female achievers, previously honoring such pioneers as First Lady Michelle Obama, Malala Yousafzai, etc. In 2014, she co-founded and served as Director of The Girl Project, Glamour's global philanthropic initiative that aims to unleash the vast economic and social power of girls. She is currently a Joan Shorenstein Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, where she is pioneering research on the impact of culture on social change.
Nicole Middaugh, ScD, MS
Treasurer
Current: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Clinical Research Manager, Corrona LLC. Division 3 Athlete - Swimming.
Nicole is a multifaceted epidemiologist, skilled in the principles, applications, and techniques of applied public health and epidemiologic research. Nicole has over 10 years of experience in public health, working as an epidemiologist with federal, state, tribal, local, private, and non-profit, organizations. Nicole received her doctorate in epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health with an emphasis in nutrition, obesity, and environmental health. Nicole’s graduate research focused on dietary intake and weight change in women. In 2015-2017 Nicole was a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer. There she performed communicable disease surveillance and outbreak investigations and used data driven interventions to address current public health issues. Nicole currently works as a Clinical Research Manager managing a wide portfolio of complex autoimmune disease research projects across multiple pharmaceutical teams to examine efficacy and safety of interventional therapies in the real world.
Our Leadership TEAM
The Foundation’s Leadership Team represents current and former women athletes that have lived the experience of being an athlete at the youth, collegiate and olympic level. Our goal is to create a diverse leadership team that is committed to taking ACTION in the women’s sports space.
LAUREN ESRIG
DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT
Current: Director, Board Member VOICEINSPORT Foundation; Senior Manager of Business Development & Strategy, Ritual. Division 1 Athlete - Water Polo.
Lauren is a multi-faceted builder and leader, strategist and growth-driver. As Director of Development at the VOICEINSPORT Foundation, Lauren is responsible for leading strategy and launch of the Foundation's work across pillars. She also manages business strategy & new ventures at Ritual, leading new channel launches, internal expansion, and strategic partnerships (Angel City FC, etc.). She began her career at BlackRock, the $10+ trillion financial manager, where she consulted some of the world's largest & most influential institutions. There, fueled by her passion for equity for women in sport, Lauren launched the first-of-its-kind Play to WIN initiative, gaining funding to provide hundreds of female employees with free golf lessons to foster empowerment and career advancement through golf. Lauren brings experience working with the President & Board of Directors of Girls on the Run Los Angeles. Lauren is currently an elite triathlete, having competed at the 70.3 Ironman World Championships, and is a former D1 athlete member of the National-Championship-winning USC Women’s Water Polo team.
Jill Moffatt
Director of Research & Policy
Current: Director of Research & Policy, VOICEINSPORT Foundation;
Team Canada Rowing
Jill is an Olympic athlete and freelance journalist, who believes in the personal and professional development that sport provides girls & women. As Director of Research & Policy, Jill is responsible for keeping her pulse on the newest and upcoming sport science research as it relates to girls & women. By understanding the landscape of current research, Jill works to identify gaps and create opportunities for new ground-breaking research. Jill completed her undergraduate and graduate degree at Western University in Canada. She holds a Master’s in Health Information Science, where she investigated how a women’s non-profit organization impacted social and health policy change through their use of narratives. She also works as a freelance journalist who reports on equity in sport, recently completing a Fellowship in Global Journalism at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. Jill is currently training with Rowing Canada to compete at her second Olympics at the Paris Games in 2024.
SYDNEY MOORE
VIS ADVOCATE PROGRAM LEAD
Current: Division 1 Volleyball Player at Cornell. VIS Advocate Leader at VOICEINSPORT Foundation and VIS League Mentor at VOICEINSPORT.
Sydney is a junior Division 1 volleyball student-athlete at Cornell University. As the VIS Advocate Program Lead, Sydney oversees the formation and success of VIS Chapters at high schools and universities across the country, develops opportunities for VIS Advocates to use their voice, and works closely with our partners. By forging close relationships with fellow women athletes, Sydney seeks solutions for the challenges women athletes face and develops strategies to help those athletes make lasting change. Since 2020, Sydney has aided the VIS mission of keeping girls in sport through mentorship as a member of the VIS League. She also lead the Advocacy Team in Washington D.C. during the announcement of the Fair Play Act of 2022, and represents the Advocacy Program at various events including Capitol Hill Days, Women Win Week presented by Champs Sports, and Madness, INC. a virtual summit on inequities in college athletics presented by Senators Murphy, Blumenthal, Booker, and Representative Trahan. In July of 2022, Sydney was awarded the Billie Jean King Youth Leadership Award at the ESPYs for her commitment to elevating women’s sports through the VIS Advocate Program.
VIS ADVOCATE LEADERS
The Foundation’s approach to leadership and progress is centered around the collective voice. The VIS Advocate Leadership Team is responsible for guiding the Board on the current challenges that women athletes face in sport. The Leadership Team consists of outstanding girls & women in sport ages 13-23 yrs old that have a passion to stand up and use their voice to drive change. Our commitment is that the VIS Advocate Leaders will always represent at least 1 girl or woman athlete from middle School (12-14), High School (15-18) and College (19-23). These are the girls & women in sport that we serve at VOICEINSPORT Foundation - and they will always have a seat at the table.
Kiersten Thomassey
VIS Advocate leader
Kiersten Thomassey is a student athlete at the University Of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. As a member of the Field Hockey team, Kiersten has earned 2 consecutive ACC titles, and 1 National Championship. As an athlete she has seen firsthand the disparity that exists between men's and women's athletics including treatment and access to resources. Kiersten has been a VIS Advocate since 2021 and has participated in the planning and organization of VIS Capitol Hill Days and worked on several projects centered around Diversity & Inclusion. Kierstens passion for advocating for change will pave the way for a brighter future for generations to come.
"The VIS Advocate Program has helped me find a sense of purpose that goes beyond simply being an athlete. Because of VIS, I now recognize that I have the platform to help open doors for girls just like me"
-Kiersten Thomassey
AUDRA KOOpman
VIS Advocate leader
Audra Koopman is a former track and field athlete at Penn State and a dedicated activist and academic from Fort Collins, Colorado. She previously served as an executive board member of College Athlete Unity, and was the Vice President of the newly founded Black Student Athletes Association at Penn State. Currently, Audra is working on her Master’s degree in Prosthetics and Orthotics at the University of Washington. She continues to speak on discussion panels and at events focusing on racial and social injustice, athlete identity, and women’s rights.
“The VIS Advocate program at the VOICEINSPORT Foundation has introduced me to amazing women and gives me hope for women’s sport!”
- Audra Koopman
GRACEANN BENNETT
VIS Advocate leader
Graceann Bennett is a Division 1 basketball player at Georgetown University. Raised in Lake George, NY, she grew up playing basketball with her parents and siblings before competing in AAU and high school. She is dedicated to empowering girls and women in sport to pursue growth relentlessly and without fear. Graceann is passionate about using her voice to advocate and create visibility for all, hoping to to uplift girls and women to compete unapologetically. Graceann has been part of the VIS Advocate Leadership team since 2021 and has been an integral part of the team as we continue to activate on the ground in Washington DC.
“The VIS Advocate Program gave me an outlet to channel my passion for gender equity into change.”
- Graceann Bennett
molly Dreher
VIS Advocate leader
Molly Dreher is a D1 Runner at Saint Mary‘s College of California. As a Biopsychology major and Women Gender Studies minor, she hopes to bring equity in medicine to the queer community as a Doctor. With a passion for gender activism, she led the creation and propagation of Title IX legislation with the VIS Advocate leadership team that has culminated in the Fair Play for Women Act of 2022. Molly’s own personal experience fighting for change at her school and now at a federal level makes her contribution to the VIS Advocacy Leadership team critical to the change we all hope to see.
“VOICEINSPORT Foundation has been key to me exploring my passion for sport while fighting for justice in our community. Being at the forefront of change has shown me Just how much our voices matter“
- Molly Dreher
SADE GREENidge
VIS Advocate leader
Sade’ Greenidge is an 20 year old track athlete and has been running since 7th grade. She is from Long Island, New York, and first got involved at VOICEINSPORT Foundation during her time as an athlete at Poly Prep Country Day School. She is now furthering her academic and athletic journey at Colby College. Sade’ is an advocate for diversity and inclusion. She believes that no one should be silenced and has unfortunately experienced her own voice being minimized.
“I want to see every group or minority come out from the shadows and have a voice in sport.”
- Sade’ 18 yrs old
SAMANTHA HARTUNG
VIS Advocate leader
Samantha Hartung is a D1A cheerleader at San Diego State University. She grew up in Los Angeles County, and has been cheering for 10 years. She is passionate about elevating the voices of women in sports and changing the narrative around cheerleading and other aesthetic sports. Samantha during her time at VIS has dedicated herself to fighting for equality and recognition for women and girls in sport, including helping present the Fair Play Act for Women Act of 2022 at Capitol Hill.
“The VIS Advocate Program has pushed me to become the role model I wished my younger self had.”
- Samantha Hartung
NYA HARRISON
VIS Advocate leader
Nya Harrison is a Division 1 soccer player at Stanford University playing defender and forward. She is from San Diego, CA and grew up playing competitively for San Diego Surf. She also played for the United States at the U-16, U-18, and U-20 levels. She is passionate about inspiring young girls in sports, especially those of minority backgrounds who play in predominantly white sports. With Voice in Sport, she helped organize and lead the 2022 Capitol Hill Day and also spoke in D.C to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Title IX and announce the Fair Play for Women Act.
“Being a part of the VIS Advocate Program has helped provide a platform for me to share my voice for good.”
- Nya Harrison
REYAN TUCK
VIS Advocate leader
Reyan Tuck is a Division 1 softball player at the University of New Mexico. She is from Portland, OR, and has played competitively since she was 5. Reyan is very passionate about women's rights and wants to spend her life advocating for equality in sports. Reyan has been an active leader in the VIS Advocate Program and as part of the internship attended the VOICEINSPORT Foundation Capitol Hill Day for the 50th Anniversary of Title IX. Her experiences and leadership skills are an important part of the advocacy team. She is dedicated and passionate about advocating for women's health and wants to use her voice to create change.
"VOICEINSPORT has given me the opportunity to use my platform to make change for all women in sports"
- Reyan Tuck
Logan SMITH
VIS Advocate leader
Logan Smith is a Division 1 soccer player at Stanford University. She grew up in Boise, Idaho and played a variety of sports but ended up competitively running, cross-country skiing and playing soccer. Logan is passionate about uplifting girls and women in sport, especially in issues regarding Title IX, as well as injury prevention and recovery. Logan wants to help educate girls in sport so they are better equipped to advocate for themselves and their well-being.
“The VIS Advocate Program has given me a platform to create change within my community.”
- Logan Smith
Ella Harris
VIS Advocate leader
Ella Harris is a Division 2 Cross Country and Track athlete at Colorado State University Pueblo pursuing a degree in Exercise Science. She is originally from Boise, Idaho where she played soccer throughout childhood before becoming passionate about running. She has dedicated herself to the education and support of athletes through their mental health journey. Ella started the VIS Advocate Program in High School in Idaho and then continued the leadership program as she transitioned to College. She attended the in person 2022 Capitol Hill Day as part of the VIS Advocate leadership team. She is dedicated and passionate about encouraging young girls to stay involved in athletics and wants to create a better experience for the girls coming up behind her.
“VIS has impassioned me to use my voice to create equality and support young athletes.”
- Ella Harris
CLArE PALEN
VIS Advocate leader
Clare Palen is a tennis player at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. She grew up in Rochester, MN and has played competitive tennis since a young age. She is very passionate about Title IX and ensuring that all women in sport are treated fairly and equally. Clare is also passionate about expanding Title IX education so that all athletes know their rights and stand up to fight for their rights. At the 2022 Capitol Hill Day, Clare spoke on a panel and shared her Title IX story and helped announce the Fair Play for Women Act. After completing her undergraduate degree, Clare hopes to go on to law school where she can continue learning about Title IX and eventually become an attorney.
"The VIS Advocate Program has allowed me and other women athletes to raise our voices and fight for change and equality in sport."
- Clare Palen