How We're Structured

Nora Benavidez is the Senior Counsel and Director of Digital Justice & Civil Rights at Free Press. A civil rights and free speech attorney, litigator, and legal strategist, Nora has spent more than a decade working at the intersection of law, technology and democracy. She has represented clients whose fundamental rights were under attack, particularly in areas of First Amendment protections, protest rights, and voting rights. She previously led PEN America’s national free speech agenda, including its successful First Amendment lawsuit challenging government retaliation against journalists, and built a national program focused on disinformation and attacks on free expression. Today, Nora’s work spans digital civil rights, privacy and free speech, and she has testified and advocated before the U.S. Congress, Federal Trade Commission, White House, Canadian House of Commons and other regulatory bodies. Nora has also led campaigns on behalf of journalists and scholars facing detention or censorship, authored research shaping emerging debates around free speech and technology, and is a contributing writer for The New York Times and The Atlantic.

Michiel is founder of a boutique board-room consultancy, which support executive teams in navigating transformational change. He brings deep expertise in top team development, business transformations and leadership development. His current client-roster includes leading clients in the energy, pension, health insurance and steel sector, all involved in industry changing transitions.

He has been the CEO of IMAGINE, an advisory firm co-founded by Paul Polman, focused on developing businesses as a source for good. (doing well by doing good. They developed an approach to include multi-stakeholder value creation in strategy-, business model- and culture development.

Michiel had a fifteen-year career at McKinsey&Co in Toronto, NYC and Amsterdam, where he was a partner focusing on large scale transformations, culture change, organizational design and leadership development. He led the global Top Team Effectiveness work for many years.

He co-founded and led Aberkyn, a change facilitation firm supporting leaders to create business as a source for good. He helped grow Aberkyn from a local start up to a global presence with offices in Europe, India, Dubai, China, and the Americas. Aberkyn is now owned by McKinsey.

Before joining McKinsey & Co, Michiel had a 15-year career at Unilever with marketing, sales and general management roles in The Netherlands, Italy and the United States. He’s an ice-cream guy with over a decade of ice-cream marketing, product development and sales experience. He has been the global brand director of Magnum in the brands early days in the 90’s.

Michiel is the author of the book Deliberate Calm, learning and leading in volatile times, published by Harper Business. Michiel is married to Christine, together they have three children and they are getting used to an empty nest. They live in nature, just outside Amsterdam.

Michael McAfee is the CEO of PolicyLink. Over the course of his leadership at PolicyLink, Michael has helped turn racial and economic equity into measurable results for communities across the United States. He played a leadership role in securing Promise Neighborhoods as a permanent federal program, led efforts that improved outcomes for more than 300,000 children and helped facilitate billions of dollars in investment in neighborhoods experiencing concentrated poverty. Michael has also helped build PolicyLink’s work on corporate racial equity, including tools designed to help companies assess and advance equity across their value chains. Earlier in his career at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Michael managed a $450 million housing and economic-development portfolio that helped create more than 3,000 affordable homes and 5,000 jobs. His broader leadership spans economic equity, democracy, community development and the role institutions and businesses can play in creating more equitable outcomes.

Eva Schulte is the Executive Director of Friends of the San Juans. An environmental and social-sector leader with more than two decades of executive experience, Eva has built her career connecting environmental protection with community health, economic opportunity and human dignity, while working directly with the communities and people impacted. Eva stewards work to protect the San Juan Islands and Salish Sea, including efforts to strengthen protections for endangered species, restore shoreline habitats and challenge industrial expansion. Friends successfully challenges fossil fuel facility expansions that increase vessel traffic, securing additional environmental reviews and mitigations, and negotiating settlement agreements. Eva’s broader experience includes impact investing for a Certified B Corp, partnerships with Tribal Nations and Indigenous communities, and national board governance with current tenure on the executive committee of the Sierra Club Foundation, where she recently served as Chair.

Jochanan Senf gets to live every child’s dream. He is the CEO of an ice cream company. And not just any ice cream company, but one that has dedicated itself to defending justice and using the power of business to fight for equity and equality. Jochanan is the CEO of Ben & Jerry’s. Jochanan always wanted to be a leader. From his early days exemplified by his interest in progressive politics and his various roles as a Student Leader in University. His tenure with Unilever, steeped in executive experience began in 2003. He led Ben & Jerry’s as Managing Director Europe for seven years from 2009 to 2017, gained other executive leadership experience including multiple roles such as Vice President of Ice-cream in Indonesia as well as General Manager Foods throughout Europe. Senf assumed the CEO job at Ben & Jerry’s in July of 2025.

Jochanan deeply believes in Ben & Jerry’s Mission, vision and values. “It’s what sets us apart - aside from making the world’s best ice cream,” the native Dutchman proudly stated.

Jochanan leads Ben & Jerry’s at a time of tremendous growth and change, while working with the team to continue the immense legacy of Ben & Jerry’s as it nears 50 years of values-led business as a leader and pioneer of corporate responsibility.

Jochanan shares his time between his European home with his wife and 3 children and his home close to the Ben & Jerry’s headquarters in Burlington, Vermont.