Emily May and Oraia Reid

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Emily May and Oraia Reid

New York, NY

Oraia Reid and Emily May are nationwide experts on public safety for girls, women and the LGBTQ community. Oraia is executive director and founder of RightRides for Women's Safety and Emily is co-founder of HollabackNYC.com. RightRides for Women’s Safety (www.rightrides.org), is an award-winning nonprofit whose flagship RightRides program offers free, late-night rides home to women and LGBTQ individuals in NYC and is currently expanding nationwide. HollabackNYC (www.HollabackNYC.com) is a website with 8 chapters worldwide that is dedicated to ending street harassment by giving girls and women the opportunity to submit stories and pictures of their street harassers to an online blog.

Oraia and Emily are frequent commentators in the media, appearing as sources over sixty times, including ABC, CNN, NBC, the New York Times, and authoring op-eds in national papers. Oraia has executive education certificates from Harvard and Columbia's Business Schools and is a Junior Fellow at the Nonprofit Leadership Development Institute. Emily has a MS in Social Policy from the London School of Economics, is a winner of the 2008 Stonewall Women's Award, is a Progressive Women's Voices Fellow, and is co-chair of the Board of Directors for Girls for Gender Equity. Emily was recently selected as one of thirty ''women making history'' by the Women's Media Center, along with Rachel Maddow and Nancy Pelosi.

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