President, Board of Directors

William Winters (he/him) is a seasoned digital campaign strategist for progressive organizations and causes. William is also a leader in the Bay Area’s polyamorous and sex-positive communities. He is the founder of Bonobo Network, a sex-positive, consent-focused, power-aware community that facilitates well-informed, emotionally sophisticated, inclusive, and curated conversation and praxis about sex and intimacy. He's also a founder of Express Yourself, a quarterly gathering uniting people of color in celebrations of the erotic.

Gabrielle (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based writer, social media strategist and non-monogamy educator whose writing has been featured in Cosmopolitan, Insider, Men’s Health, and is marked by its focus on marginalized people and voices. Her work focuses on mental health, race, class, intersectional feminism, love, sex and polyamory, and seeks to illuminate and educate on the people and places that folks often overlook, or forget to honor. Her values of community, justice and radical honesty reverberate through all of her work, as does her belief everyone has right to have a seat a the table.

Noa (she/her) moved to the California Bay Area in 2012 to get her MBA from UC Berkeley and stayed local for a decade, working on some of the biggest tech brands in the world, including Adobe, Square, Lyft, and Cruise. For most of her life, Noa felt like she lived a double life—tech executive by day and community builder by night. Currently, as the CEO of Plura, she can merge these two worlds together by building an alternative social app for alternative communities. Plura is where queer, polyamorous, activists, kinky, spiritual, and edge-of-culture people connect.

Casira’s (she/they) work is motivated by her passions for racial justice and queer community-building. She serves as the Communications Director for the ACLU of Delaware, sits on the board of the Bisexual Resource Center, and worked on the planning committee of the National Humanities Conference to advocate for more inclusive practices that welcome marginalized speakers and attendees. Casira is currently obtaining her Master’s degree in Social Justice and Community Action. When she’s not hard at work, she enjoys gaming, crochet, writing, cooking, and traveling.

Stacey (she/her) is a 2005 graduate of the University of Texas School of Law. Her solo practice provides wholistic legal services that are affirming of folks with non-traditional lifestyles, including the polyamorous, kinky, and burner communities. Ms. McLarty works with clients to support them in relationship transitions and to ensure protections for their chosen families, with legal and practical solutions to meet their unique needs.

Stacey has been a part of the local alternative lifestyle communities since 2006. She conducts workshops at PolyBigFun, the Austin-area polyamory conference, and acted as volunteer coordinator for the event. She is a participant and safety volunteer at Burning Flipside (the Austin-area regional burning man event). She also has ties to the kink community and is a presenter at the Austin Kink Weekend. Stacey is a member of the Texas State Bar College, the Texas Pro-Bono College, the Texas Bar LGBTQ and Family Law sections, the National LGBTQ+ Bar Association and Family Law Institute. You can contact Stacey McLarty at https://chosenfamilylawtx.com/

Founder & Executive Director

Brett Chamberlin (he/him) is a social impact organizer with over a decade of movement-building experience.

Prior to stepping into non-monogamy advocacy, Brett cut his chops in the environmental sector. He is the co-founder of the Post-Landfill Action Network, a national nonprofit organization supporting student-run sustainability programs on college campuses. Brett also served as Director of Community Engagement at The Story of Stuff Project, where he led the global grassroots distribution and impact campaign of their Emmy-winning documentary "The Story of Plastic." As a sustainability advocate, Brett has appeared on CNN International, NBC, and conferences nationwide.

Director, Open Workplaces Initiative

Dr. Lily Lamboy (she/they) is a social impact executive, educator, artist, and researcher with over 15 years of experience building complex systems to support human flourishing. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Stanford University, where she also served as a Lecturer in both the Rhetoric and Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies programs.

Dr. Lamboy previously led the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion functions at both Stripe and Blue Shield of California, scaling both internal-facing employee-focused strategies and external-facing health equity, social justice, and economic initiatives. As a performance artist, she has worked with collaborators like Taylor Mac, AnomalousCo, and Say Nothing and Leave to make pieces that inspire lasting change in how we love, act, and organize our society.

Peer Support Facilitator

Bridget (she/they) a.k.a. Professor Playtime is a transformative facilitator and advocate for sexual liberation. As a Post Traumatic Alchemist she specializes in neural repatterning and somatic integration. Bridget offers trauma-informed, kink-educated support, helping individuals navigate their humanity, rewrite their narratives, and find meaning in past challenges. Through interactive activities and the power of play, she helps unlock your potential and invites you to embark on a transformative journey of self-discovery, turning your pain into purpose. With a belief in the transformative potential of erotic spaces, she has designed play parties and immersive erotic experiences for thousands worldwide and advises organizations on consent and accountability as the Executive Director of forLove.