Jody Myrum

Jody Myrum is a long-time leader in advancing girls’ and women’s rights, social justice, and transformative philanthropy. For a decade, she played a critical role in championing girls’ rights at the NoVo Foundation. As the Director of NoVo’s Initiative to Advance Adolescent Girls’ Rights, Jody led the Initiative’s grantmaking and donor organizing. In this role, Jody designed and oversaw an intersectional, transnational, movement building initiative focused on adolescent girls globally, overseeing a budget of $55M a year. In addition, she led NoVo’s work to end violence against girls and women in conflict-affected settings. Jody played a key leadership role in designing and overseeing the Foundation’s historic 90-million-dollar commitment to girls of color in the US and multiple global initiatives aimed at centering girls and young people across diverse movements and sectors globally.

Prior to NoVo, she worked within various NGO’s, CBO’s, and multilaterals, leading explicit efforts to end violence against girls and women and broader efforts to center gender across sectors. Now working as a consultant, Jody works with organizations and philanthropy to center girls and women and to move resources and power to those working to build their collective power. Jody holds a B.S. from Colorado State University in Human Development and Family Studies with a focus on adolescence and a M.S. in Social Work from Columbia University. She currently serves as the chair of the Children’s Rights Innovation Fund.