Shireen Mitchell
Stop Online Violence Against Women Founder
DC
Shireen founded Digital Sisters/Sistas Inc. the first organization to focus on women and girls of color in tech and online access. She created the first women of color web multimedia management firm (MHG). In addition, she founded Stop Online Violence Against Women (SOVAW) a project to address online threats against women particularly women who face both gender-based and racially charged threats of violence. SOVAW produced the first reports on digital targeting of black identity to shape disinformation in politics and is currently focused on digital voter suppression. Shireen currently resides with her family in the Washington DC metro area.