TERESA C. YOUNGER
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
President & CEO
MS. Foundation for Women
2008 WOMEN IN BUSINESS HONOREE
A noted speaker, advocate, and activist, Teresa C Younger has been
on the front lines of some of the most important battles for women's
health, safety and economic justice. Since 2014, Teresa has served
as President and CEO of the Ms. Foundation for Women, the oldest
women's foundation in the United States. Under her leadership, the
Foundation launched #MyFeminismIs, a multimedia campaign sparking
a national conversation on feminism; funded a groundbreaking report
on the sexual abuse to prison pipeline; joined leading women's
foundations at the White House to announce a $100 million funding
commitment to create pathways to economic opportunity for low-
income women and girls; and led a campaign to hold the NFL
accountable for violence against women.
She has been recognized by Planned Parenthood Federation of
America as a Dream Keeper, given Liberty Bank's Willard M. McRae
Community Diversity Award, and named one of the "50 Most Powerful
Women in Philanthropy" by Inside Philanthropy. Ms. Younger previously
served as the executive director of the Connecticut General Assembly's
Permanent Commission on the Status of Women and as executive
director of the ACLU of Connecticut – making her the first African
American and the first woman to hold that position. She was honored
as one of the Hartford Business Journal's 8 remarkable women in 2008.
