DIRECTOR

Anne-christine d’Adesky is an award-winning journalist, author of four books, and a human rights activist. She is founder of GenDemocracy, a platform for public education and reporting on the intersection of gender and democracy that launched in fall 2023. She has over three decades of experience covering global struggles for democracy, political resistance, and social justice. Born to Haitian and French parents, she spent much of her career reporting from diverse regions, including Africa, Haiti, Russia, Brazil, and other countries fighting authoritarianism. 

She launched the Stop The Coup 2025 (STC2025) campaign in fall 2023 to sound the public alarm about the threat of Project 2025 and provide tools for fighting back to frontline community groups in America and globally. The campaign rebranded as Resisting Project 2025 to focus on organizing resistance to Project 2025. She researched and produced a comprehensive breakdown of Project 2025 for different audiences and in multiple formats, several investigative Special Reports on Project 2025 topics; myriad briefs; and co-authored a Community Organizer’s Toolkit. She directed its media campaign; developed a community voices video series; organized and co-hosted webinars; town halls; actions on Project 2025.

Her writing has appeared in The Nation, Washington Post, Global Post, HuffPo, The Advocate, OUT, the Village Voice, the Chicago Sun-Times, Ms., and LitHub, among outlets. She worked as Senior Editor at OUT Magazine for many years. She continues to investigate and report on rising US and global illiberalism and resistance networks on her Resisting Project 2025 Substack, launched in January 2025, with 13,000 subscribers. She is the author of four books.

Video and Media Campaigns: D’Adesky co-produced Pills, Profits, Protest, a one-hour documentary about the global AIDS battle (2005, Outcast Films). It aired exclusively on Showtime for a year, on Netflix, and via festival circuits. She developed and co-produced a short video testimonial series about Project 2025’s threats, This Is Personal, for social media, including You Tube, seen by millions of viewers in 2024. She was National Co-Coordinator for Haiti of its One Billion Rising advocacy campaign against sexual violence, part of V-Day, from 2010-2013. The trilingual English-French-Kreyol grassroots media campaign partnered with local women’s groups and multisectoral partners, reaching millions of Haitians with targeted messaging for different audiences, including schoolchildren.

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EDITORIAL TEAM

Sally O’Driscoll has a doctorate in Comparative Literature from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and was a professor for thirty years at Fairfield University. Sally taught courses in 18th-century British literature and culture, theory of gender and sexuality, and contemporary World Literature, with an emphasis on setting the stories in their cultural contexts. Her research and publications focused on 18th-century British and French literature and culture. She has published translations, three edited volumes, and numerous journal articles on women writers, gender theory, popular and ephemeral print culture, and public space. She has lectured around the U.S. and abroad, received many research grants, been a fellow at the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute, and taught at the CUNY Graduate Center. In her post-teaching career, Sally edits academic books, specializing in art history and gender issues.

As an editor and activist, Sally researches and writes on the effect of Project 2025’s implementation on ordinary Americans. She also copyedits and proofreads articles by other contributors.She has worked with Resisting Project 2025 since October 2023, and contributed to the following materials on its website:

-Chapter summaries of Project 2025’s “Mandate for Leadership” blueprint;

-Explanatory articles on Project 2025’s rhetoric; redefinitions of sex and gender; reproductive rights; Critical Race Theory, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; climate, disability, LGBTQ+ issues; 

-Co-authored a 13-module grassroots Toolkit for Community Organizers

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SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER

Jay W. Walker is the social media manager for GenDemocracy’s Resisting Project 2025 campaign. A queer Black leader and community organizer, Jay is a longtime New York City activist on LGBTQ+, HIV and racial justice issues. He is a founding member of Rise and Resist, President of Gays Against Guns, and cofounder and lead organizer of NYC’s Queer Liberation March.

Jay has been active in the Movement for Black Lives , anti-police brutality protests, and protests against LGBTQ+ violence. He is a staunch and outspoken ally of the transgender community and organizes on issues related to the criminalization of LGBTQ+ people in Africa and the US, and immigration and housing issues. He has worked with many African immigrant LGBTQ+ organizations.

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VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR

Saba Bando is an executive and personal coach committed to disability rights, women's rights, social justice, racial justice; first-generation immigrant, proud mother of a wheelchair-user. She resides in the Chicago-area with her husband and son.

WEBSITE MANAGER

Juno Rosenhaus is a lifetime social justice activist with a decade of experience as a web designer focused on gender liberation, civil rights, feminism, and the arts. She designed and maintains the Resisting Project 2025 and GenDemocracy websites, also contributing copy, graphics, and strategy to their related campaigns. Juno is adept at utilizing communication platforms such as MailChimp, Google Groups, and others to support the ongoing connection of the content she creates with the audience it's intended for. Juno's work combines her IT technical background and artistic tendencies to create user-friendly content and visuals that make her websites approachable and easy to navigate.

Juno is also a photoartist, intersectional feminist, anti-racist/anti-fascist activist, and drummer. An East Coast Dyke of West Coast experience, Juno is the founder of the Dyke+ ArtHaus which resides on Lenape Nation land, colonially known as Philadelphia, PA, USA.

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SPANISH TRANSLATION

Javier Morales coordinates LATINX+, a US-based network of people of Latin descent living with HIV, fighting criminalization and stigma. He lives in Milford, PA, where he is Artistic Director for Pike Opera, with his husband, Sean Strub, and their dog Alfie.