Monifa Bandele
- Executive
Monifa is the Chief Operating Officer at TIME'S UP where she leads operations, culture change, and policy campaigns that work to achieve the organization's strategic goal to ensure safe, fair, and dignified workplaces for women. 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 has more than two decades of advocacy and policy experience, such as launching two historic and successful legal cases against police misconduct in New York City (Floyd v. NYC and Daniels v. NYC) and working to pass five landmark pieces of 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.