About Us
Among Other Things was founded by moms in NYC as a collective for moms everywhere to be recognized and empowered.
Women’s health experts for “In Pursuit of: Reproductive Freedom” Event
Dr. Genevieve Tam is the Co-founder & COO of Vitala Global
Dr. Genevieve Tam (she/her) is a Canadian obstetrician gynecologist and has spent the last 15 years working in global women's health with various NGOs around the world, including Doctors Without Borders. In 2020, her global health experiences culminated in her co-founding Vitala Global with her friend and colleague, Dr. Roopan Gill.
Genevieve is the Chief Operating Officer for Vitala and is grateful for the opportunity to co-lead Vitala with an amazing, passionate, multidisciplinary, and global team. Together, they work to advance Vitala's mission to revolutionize sexual and reproductive self-care through co-designed, holistic, and localized digital solutions that meet women and girls where they are, empowering them to be agents of change.
Francelle Kwankam Toedtli is a public health specialist, a women’s health and rights advocate and a sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) expert.
She has over fifteen years of global health experience across international contexts and for nearly a decade l has committed herself to strengthening women’s health and rights.
In particular, she develops evidence-based technical guidance, provides strategic direction, delivers technical assistance and supports thought leadership on comprehensive abortion care as part of an integrated approach to ensuring sexual and reproductive health and rights for individuals in all their diversity.
Francelle has worked with United Nations agencies including the World Health Organization, as well as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Ipas as well as in the private sector.
The Among Other Things Team
Jess Kahn Marks is the co-founder of Among Other Things. After leaving mechanical engineering in 2016 to travel and have children, she challenged herself to read only books by women for a year. That simple challenge led to a larger awakening about systemic misogyny and her place within the system. She obtained degrees in physics, engineering and business management from Vassar and Dartmouth. She lives in Greenwich Village with her husband and two daughters where she has become a marathon runner.
Tiffany Hodges is the co-founder of Among Other Things and writes the bi-monthly substack articles. She is also a filmmaker and activist. She is the owner of FairSay Films, a production company dedicated to the untold story of the underrepresented. Her latest film DISPLACED is being screened as part of Soundbites2Soulutions sponsored by SoulTech Magazine. She also serves on the Democratic County Committee, is a proud member of the ACLU and works closely with New York Women in Film & TV.
Jamie Dennison is a consultant to Among Other Things. She spent 15 years as an executive in the real estate industry at CBRE before pivoting into an operational leadership role on the founding team of a Web3 blockchain startup called ZK Ladder. She brings a passion and career history for supporting and advancing women, leading CBRE's Tri-State Women's network of over 600 women, co-launching a national Working Parents Collective and founding her own women's centric real estate practice called Through the Lobby.
Cristina Sansone Lyssy is the podcast coordinator for Among Other Things. She took a break from her career in Public Health Communications in 2022 to become the full-time caregiver to her 3 kids (5 and under). She also took a break from life in Manhattan to investigate the world of suburbia in the Southern, US. Bentonville, Arkansas, to be exact. Inspired by a variety of specialized experiences in public health practice and research, both domestically and abroad she seeks to shed light on the inherent diversity of the experience of motherhood from a wide array of perspectives. Cristina earned a Master of Public Health in Health Behavior from the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health where she focused on the application behavior change theory, qualitative research, and global health.