Yael Swerdlow is the Co-founder and CEO of Snapcious, LLC and F.8 Interactive, LLC. She is Co-Founder of the Women's Empowerment Foundation with Illana Shoshan. Yael is a board member of the International Visitors Council of Los Angeles and Shelters for Israel. She is on the Advisory Board of the Alliance for Women in the Media/Southern California. As owner of Dip Pouch Consulting, Yael works with the Consular Corps in Southern California, and the International Criminal Court Alliance. Yael is adjunct faculty for both the Museum of Tolerance’s Multicultural Leadership Project and the San Diego Anti-Defamation League’s Manhigim Institute. Formerly, she was co-chair of the national leadership council of Games for Change, and a board member of the Hadassah Brandeis Gender Research Institute.

A native Angeleno, Yael has been a freelance photojournalist based in Los Angeles for over twenty years, shooting for United Press International, the Associated Press, and the Los Angeles Times, where she was a part of the Pulitzer Prize winning teams for the Los Angeles Riots in 1992 and the Northridge Earthquake of 1994. In summer of 1994, Yael went to Somalia, Southern Sudan, and Rwanda for International Medical Corps, to document the reestablishing of the medical infrastructure in those war-torn countries. Yael also writes fiction, including the cinematic script for Activision’s best selling video game, “True Crime: Streets of LA”.