Nadya Okamoto

Nadya Okamoto is the 21-years-old Chief Brand Officer of JUV Consulting and current student at Harvard College. She is also the Founder and Executive Director of PERIOD, an organization she founded at the age of 16. PERIOD is now the largest youth-run NGO in women’s health, and one of the fastest-growing NGOs in the United States. Since 2014 they have addressed over 560,000 periods and registered over 350 campus chapters. In 2017, Nadya ran for office in Cambridge, MA. While she did not win, her campaign team made historic waves in mobilizing young people on the ground and at polls. Nadya recently published her debut book, Period Power: A Manifesto for the Menstrual Movement with publisher Simon & Schuster, which made the Kirkus Reviews list for Best Young Adult Nonfiction of 2018.