About Vanessa.

Vanessa Valenti is CEO and co-founder of FRESH Speakers, a next generation speakers bureau focused on creating more inclusion and equity in thought leadership. She is also a Partner of Valenti Martin Media, a social change communications consultancy, and the co-founder and former Managing Editor of the award-winning blog Feministing.com.

Over the last decade, Vanessa has worked with a range of institutions and organizations across the globe, including the Aspen Institute, TED, UN Women, the Clinton Foundation, Planned Parenthood and more, inspiring new forms of online movement-building, producing content development and curation, and delivering speaker coaching and storytelling. 

She has won several awards for her activist work and Feministing, including the Hillman Prize for Exemplary Reporting that Fosters Social and Economic Justice. She was also the recipient of the TED Residency, where she explored solutions to inspire minds to redesign thought leadership. 

When she's not working, Vanessa is unplugging her two kids and a cat named Tweet in a little Hudson river town in upstate New York.