Emma Mayerson

Co-Founder and Executive Director

Previously, Emma Mayerson was the Co-Founder and Founding Executive Director of Alliance for Girls (AFG). Under Ms. Mayerson’s leadership AFG has become the nation’s largest alliance of girls’ organizations, with a mission to mobilize girls’ advocates to address barriers facing girls, create conditions for their success, and advance systemic change to achieve equity. Mayerson is a sought after speaker and advisor on issues of gender equity and inclusion. Mayerson was also a community organizer for the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, and worked for the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco and the Women’s Foundation of California. She has served, and currently serves, on several nonprofit board including Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice, the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, ProjectGlimmer, Shelectricity, and the Oakland Unified School District African American Female Excellence Initiative. 

Mayerson is a recipient of Oasis for Girls’ Spark Award for Visionary Leadership, the National Council on Jewish Women’s Outstanding Advocate for Social Change Award, the Delilah Beasley Award, Love Never Fail’s Advocacy for At-Risk Girls Award and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s National Girls Initiative Innovation Award. She has also received honors in recognition of her leadership from the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women and Equal Rights Advocates. Mayerson is currently a Women Leaders for the World fellow. Her work has been featured on CBS Channel 4 News, ABC 7 News, the San Francisco Chronicle, Philanthropy Women, KCBS, the Oakland Post, Telemundo and NPR’s All Things Considered. I live in Albany with my two kids and husband