Call for Board Members to Challenge Misogyny and Support Researchers

The Institute for Research on Male Supremacism (IRMS) is seeking applicants to join our board of directors. We are a small, primarily volunteer 501c3 nonprofit organization incorporated in the US that creates significant impact through our network of dozens of fellows and mentees based globally.

IRMS has recently made the shift from a working board to a governing board focused on strategy, fundraising, finances, legal, and risk management. Our first strategic planning process is underway to be completed this fall, and we are looking for board members who are doers and eager to help actualize this strategic plan.

While not a full working board, we are still a small organization with a single staff member, so we also encourage board candidates who are interested in supporting certain key operational aspects, such as accounting, grant-writing, and communications. This support falls under the board committees and helps us to stretch our limited resources as we build toward a more sustainable institution.

We are seeking English-speaking individuals across the globe who are passionate about our mission. We believe a diverse board is a better board; we encourage applicants from historically and systemically marginalized backgrounds and communities to apply, especially women of color and trans women.

We are particularly interested in candidates to support the following areas:

• Fundraising
• Communications
• Legal
• Finance
• Board recruitment and development
• Risk management

Board members typically spend 5-8 hours per month on board commitments, including preparing for and attending quarterly virtual board meetings and monthly committee meetings, and collaborating to ensure the sustainability and success of IRMS. Board members are elected annually in September and serve a two-year term starting in October.

Please submit your application here no later than June 1, 2026.

WHO WE ARE

Male supremacist ideology is the belief in cisgender men’s superiority and right to dominate, control, or erase “others”: cis and trans women, trans men, and non-binary and gender-nonconforming people. Founded in 2019 and incorporated as a non-profit in 2020, IRMS supports a community of international researchers committed to exposing and challenging common narratives that uphold male supremacist ideology. Our work is shaped by intersectionality and assessing the relationship of misogyny, transmisogyny, and misogynoir with other axes of oppression. We emphasize structural change, shifting discourse in fields such as countering/preventing violent extremism away from “eleventh-hour” interventions toward investing in creative longer-term cultural and educational solutions.