jasmine burton

CEO/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR of WISH FOR WASH & CO-Creator of Period Futures

Jasmine [she/her] is a designer, impact entrepreneur, and global health practitioner using design thinking, business acumen, and evidence-based research to build a more inclusive world. With 6 years of experience leading Wish for WASH and 8 years of diverse global health and gender equity experiences, Jasmine is passionate about accelerating innovation in the water, sanitation, and hygiene sector because #everybodypoops and #menstruationmatters.

 Inspired by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Devika patel

Period Futures CO-creator & Co-lead

Devika [she/her] is a designer, researcher, and public health practitioner exploring ways human-centered design can address pressing health care challenges. With 7 years designing with nonprofits, such as the Environmental Sanitation Institute, and 3 years leading the design team at The Better Lab, Devika is eager to dream of our future world where health innovation is embraced, and menstruators and non-menstruators thrive.

inspired by Aditi Gupta

katie kirsch

 Period futures Co-creator & advisor

Katie [she/her] is a designer, writer, and founder building products, programs, and experiences that spark joy, curiosity, and inspiration. With 5 years of experience helping to run a girls leadership nonprofit, 4 years at Stanford earning an engineering degree, and 3.5 years at IDEO—an award-winning design company—Katie is dedicated to enabling a future world that unlocks and celebrates every young person’s potential.

inspired by SUHANI JALOTA

LILLY Khorsand

Writer & Editor

Lilly [she/he/they/them] is a global health practitioner, gender equity advocate, storyteller, and social impact entrepreneur. She is using evidence-based practice, compassion, and multiculturalism to make the world a better place. With over five years of experience in diverse global health and equity projects, Lilly strives to bring attention to forgotten voices one day at a time.

ROSHI ROUZBEHANI

original illustrator

Roshi [she/her] is an illustrator bringing ideas and concepts to life through lines and colors. She enjoys creating conceptual illustrations that are feminine, considerate, and emotional. Collaborating with BBC 100 Women, Iranian Women's Studies Foundation, harasswatch.com, and Popshot Magazine among others, Roshi is passionate about gender equality and loves to put topics such as sisterhood and mental and physical health for women at the center of her work.

SHONA O’BRYANT

LEAD DESIGNER

Shona O’Bryant [she/her] is a designer, sexual, menstrual and mental health advocate with a background in Industrial Design and Psychology from her studies at RISD and Brown University. Shona specializes in human centered design that is meant to facilitate inter and intrapersonal connection, intimacy, and empathy.

Isabelle tan

MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA ASSOCIATE

Isabelle [she/her] is a UX designer with a background in public health and women’s & gender studies. Isabelle’s advocacy for menstruation flourished in college when she coordinated a campus-wide menstrual health education campaign. She currently works at Message Agency, a B Corp digital agency that specializes in nonprofits, education foundations, and government agencies. Isabelle is a firm believer that strong communities come from embracing vulnerable and stigmatized traits (such as menstrual and sex health) that make us human.

Inspired by Roxane Gay

SIMRILL Smith

Social Media Coordinator

Simrill [she/her] is an environmental engineering student, minor in global development, and Clark Scholar in her fourth year at Georgia Tech. She has 3 years of design thinking experience Wish for WASH, work including persona research on menstrual health stigma. She additionally served as consciousness-raising advisor for RISE (Re:Imagine, Serve, Empower), a feminist leadership GT organization where she mentored a sustainable menstruation drive. Simrill seeks to apply engineering to develop resilient and equitable communities in the wake of climate change.