Jessica Neuwirth is the Founder and Executive Director of the Frontline Women’s Fund, a project to strengthen women’s rights organizations around the world, and one of the founders and Honorary President of Equality Now, an international women’s rights advocacy organization.  Ms. Neuwirth led the initiative advocating for the prosecution of Big Apple Oriental Tours, the first sex tourism company prosecuted in the United States.  She is also one of the Founders of the New York State Anti-Trafficking Coalition; is President Emerita of the ERA Coalition/Fund for Women’s Equality; and is a Distinguished Lecturer and Rita E. Hauser Director of the Human Rights Program at Roosevelt House.