Board of Directors
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William Winters
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.
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Gabrielle Smith
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.
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Noa Elan
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.
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Casira Copes
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.
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Stacey McLarty
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/
Staff & Team
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Brett Chamberlin
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.
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David Carlson
Legislative Advocacy Campaign Coordinator
David (they/them) is an Oregon-based organizer who has focused on increasing minimum wage, housing issues, and environmental policy. David is on the board of Community Alliance of Tenants, advocating for tenant protections across Oregon. Recently, they fought to tax giant corporations and rebate the money back to Oregonians as the Organizing Director for Measure 118 (Oregon Rebate). They can be found outside of advocacy work on their backyard flower farm, walking their dog, or on one of the many disc golf courses in the area.
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Bridget Ryan
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.