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Melissa Berton

Melissa Berton

Academy Award Winning Producer, Global Women’s Rights Activist, Forbes 50 Over 50, Women Making Social Impact

Melissa Berton, Academy Award winning producer, recipient of the 2019 Eleanor Roosevelt Global Women’s Rights Award.

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Melissa Berton, Academy Award winning producer, recipient of the 2019 Eleanor Roosevelt Global Women’s Rights Award, and Founder and Executive Director of The Pad Project, was recently named to Forbes 50 Over 50 list, Dreamers & Doers: Women Making Social Impact.

A lifelong advocate for girls and women, Melissa has taught English at Oakwood Secondary School in Los Angeles for over a decade. As faculty advisor for Girls Learn International, a program of The Feminist Majority Foundation advocating for equal access to education across genders, she has thrice participated as a delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, leading the largest student delegation from a single high school. In 2013, following that first U.N. trip, Berton inspired her students to produce a documentary to raise awareness about menstrual health and education worldwide, leading to a 2019 Oscar win for Best Documentary Short Period. End of Sentence. With her students, she also co-founded The Pad Project, a global non-profit organization dedicated to the idea that “a period should end a sentence, not a girl’s education.” The newly released book, Period. End of Sentence.: A New Chapter in the Fight for Menstrual Justice, with foreword by Berton, outlines universal menstrual challenges and the solutions being championed by a new generation of body positive

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A Period Should End a Sentence, Not a Girl’s Education

Stay Open to Surprise: How Mentoring Gen Z Activists Is a Two-Way Street

Stay Open to Surprise: How Mentoring Gen Z Activists Is a Two-Way Street

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Oscars Winners for 'Period. End of Sentence.' Full Press Room Speeches | THR
Interview with Melissa Berton (Feminist Talks: Conversations with Inspiring Women Advocates)

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