meet the team

  • Elizabeth (she/her) is the Program Director of The Night’s Watch, a nightlife advocacy organization in San Francisco that focuses on addressing and preventing sexual violence at bars, nightclubs, and music festivals. Elizabeth has provided and supported event-based consent programs (outreach services and education) at nightlife events and festivals around the world, including Good Night Out Vancouver programs, and resides in the occupied and unceded ancestral territories of the Raymutush, Ohlone, and Muwekma people.  


    Currently a Civil Servant for the City and County of San Francisco’s Performing Arts Center, Elizabeth is interested in applying proven strategies from successful models from nightlife offices around the world to make San Francisco’s nightlife safer via policy and infrastructure and to positively impact its reputation as a nightlife destination. 

  • Amanda Leal (she/her) is the Program Officer at The Night’s Watch committed to fostering consent culture and preventing sexual violence in the sf bay area. with a background in community engagement and a passion for social justice, she actively works to create safe and inclusive spaces. with a strong work ethic and attention to detail from her experience in operations and project management, amanda is driven to challenge herself and contribute to causes that create safer communities and empower individuals to live free from harm.

meet the advisory committee

  • Alicia Scholer dedicated 20 years to the non-profit RHI, most recently serving as Vice President. In this role, she led operations, communications, project management, and consultation services. She crafted action plan reports for 36 cities across 24 states and provinces in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Throughout her career, Alicia’s passion has been to educate city planners, business district managers and venue operators on the need to create safer, more welcoming spaces for women when socializing at night. She co-authored a chapter about making nightlife more female-friendly in the book, Designing Downtowns for Women-Men Will Follow. In 2024, she was invited to present in Sydney, Australia at NEON, an international nightlife policy forum, with the New South Wales’ Women’s Safety Commissioner and prominent hospitality industry leaders to discuss how to make nightlife safer for women employees and patrons alike.

  • Jocelyn Kane is the former Executive Director of San Francisco's Entertainment Commission, charged with ensuring the health and vitality of indoor and outdoor entertainment venues in San Francisco. Along with daily regulatory concerns, her most important policy work included the first legislative protections for nightlife businesses from new residential and hotel construction in the US, and ongoing improvements to SF Bay Area late night/early morning transit. In addition, she has improved San Francisco’s sound ordinances over the past 10 years to make them easier to understand and implement citywide.

    Jocelyn works as a Senior Consultant for the Responsible Hospitality Institute (RHI), and independently with cities in the North America on their nightlife policies from her home in Palm Springs, CA. She is also the Vice President of the Coachella Valley Cannabis Alliance Network (CVCAN), and Vice President of the California Nightlife Association (CalNight).