The most powerful technology of our time, put to work with the world's most effective peacebuilders: women.

Jen co-founded Peace Pays and leads Peace Signals. She previously served at the U.S. Department of State in the Secretary's Office of Global Women's Issues, where she built and managed the SHE WINS initiative and its Rapid Response Fund, getting fast, flexible funding to women peacebuilders in more than 20 countries.

She worked on Sudan for a number of years, including as part of the U.S. ceasefire negotiations and the ALPS process, working closely with Sudanese women peace leaders and grassroots civil society. Jen is a Rotary Peace Fellow at Uppsala University (2018).

Amanda J. Van Dort is a 2026 American Democracy and Technology Fellow at the McCain Institute, where her work focuses on countering foreign actors' use of gendered disinformation to undermine democratic trust in the United States. She also serves as an Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies and George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs, teaching courses on feminist statecraft, women and global politics, and gender and conflict.

Until 2025, Amanda served as Chief of Staff and Division Chief for Policy, Planning, and Public Diplomacy in the Secretary's Office of Global Women's Issues at the U.S. Department of State, where she led institutional reform efforts to integrate gender equality into policy and practice. In 2021, she helped stand up operations at the Dulles Expo Center and Marine Corps Base Quantico to support evacuated Afghans during Operation Allies Welcome. Previously, she was Policy Team Lead and Senior Advisor in the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations, where she managed U.S. government atrocity prevention efforts and advanced Women, Peace, and Security initiatives. As a Presidential Management Fellow, she worked on sexual and reproductive health and rights in the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration and on adherence to international humanitarian law in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Before her government service, Amanda was a Harold W. Rosenthal Fellow with the International Organization for Migration in Geneva and Country Director for Emerge Global, a nonprofit supporting adolescent girl survivors of sexual assault and abuse in Sri Lanka. She holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and a Bachelor of Science from Eastern Michigan University's School of Health Sciences.

Jose has predominantly worked in the nonprofit sector managing global grants such as the SHE WINS Rapid Response Fund, which supported women-led organizations around the world responding to urgent needs and emerging opportunities in the Women, Peace and Security space. He has also supported fundraising, project management and implementation for peacebuilding nonprofits based in Colombia, Greece and the U.S.

Most recently, Jose served on the steering committee of the Colombian Youth, Peace, and Security coalition and co-wrote the monitoring section of Colombia's Youth, Peace, and Security National Action Plan. He holds a Master of Arts in International Peace and Conflict Resolution from American University's School of International Service, and a Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies and International Relations from Calvin University.

Calee White works at the intersection of AI governance and gender, peace and security. As the Peace Signals Fellow at Peace Pays, she supports the expansion of its early warning work in Colombia, along with fundraising, events, and communications.

Calee is also a Research Fellow with SPAR, examining how U.S. surveillance law shapes allied countries’ decisions on AI and data sovereignty, and which reforms could strengthen democratic leadership in AI. Previously, as a Research Scholar at the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, she co-led multi-country research on technology-facilitated violence against women politicians and co-presented preliminary findings at the inaugural ACCAP Scholars Conference, supported by the U.S. Department of State. She also evaluated a federal gender-based violence consultation process for the Coalition for Adolescent Girls, co-authored published analysis on industry capture of regulatory processes at the Center for American Progress, and coordinated international election observation missions at the National Democratic Institute.

She holds a Master of Science in Foreign Service with a Certificate in Gender, Peace and Security from Georgetown University and a BA in Political Science and in Law, History, and Society from Vanderbilt University.