@NadyaOkamoto
AUTHOR. CREATOR. ENTREPRENEUR.
Meet Nadya. She has over 5m followers across social channels, and has been working to change culture around periods for the past decade. She founded the nonprofit period.org when she was 16-years-old, published the book Period Power when she was 20, and now is the co-founder of August — a lifestyle period brand that makes better tampons and pads, and is available online and at Target.
ABOUT
Nadya Okamoto is the co-Founder of August, a lifestyle period brand working to reimagine periods to be powerful. She is also the author of the book PERIOD POWER: a Manifesto for the Menstrual Movement, and founder and former Executive Director of the nonprofit organization, PERIOD. Outside of her work in the menstrual health space, Okamoto is also a social media creator with over 4m followers on TikTok, producer and host of the podcast, Tigress, a mental health advocate, and known as a Gen Z marketing expert. She recently graduated from Harvard College, class of 2021.
Her debut book, PERIOD POWER, published by Simon & Schuster in 2018, made the Kirkus Reviews list for Best Young Adult Nonfiction that year. She has been recognized on the lists of Forbes 30 under 30, Bloomberg 50 “Ones to Watch” and People Magazine's Women Changing the World.
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TIGRESS
introducing Nadya’s debut podcast, Tigress. In her own words:
“this is my unedited and rather unfiltered reflection on where i find myself right now — feeling everything and nothing at all.”
RECENT PRESS
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