Christian F. Nunes, MBA, MS, LCSW-C, LCSW, an internationally recognized speaker and expert in mental health, gender equity, and digital safety, created Saving Ourselves Foundation with a vision rooted in a fundamental truth: communities already possess the skills, knowledge, and power needed to create lasting change. What they need is to center survivors, and they deserve equity, access, and safety.
Christian’s expertise spans evidence-based clinical practice, policy advocacy, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice (DEIJ), and organizational transformation. She consistently weaves social work, research, and social justice frameworks throughout her work. Her insights have shaped national conversations on CNN, The Dr. Phil Show, Forbes, The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Washington Post, among other media outlets.
Christian is a licensed clinical social worker with over 20 years of experience, a Certified Clinical Trauma Specialist, and the founder and CEO of Equity Bound Solutions LLC, where she guides organizations through equity-centered transformations, with a focus on psychological safety. She is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Social Work (DSW) at Simmons University and continues to advance scholarship on trauma-informed practice and systemic change.
Previously, she served as National President of the National Organization for Women (NOW) from 2020-2025. Christian made history as only the second African American woman to hold this role in the organization's 60-year legacy.
Under her leadership, she transformed NOW. She modernized the organization and anchored it in intersectional feminism and anti-racist practice. She restructured its systems, governance, and strategic priorities to center racial justice and intersectionality, mobilized a new, diverse generation of feminist leaders, and amplified marginalized voices within the movement.
She is also the author of the children's book No Hug Today, about consent and bodily autonomy.
