Elise Tao is a Harvard student and 19-year-old entrepreneur, activist, writer, and model from New Jersey. She created the Menstrual Equity Initiative (MĚI), which also happens to be her project for the 2025 United Nations Academic Impact Millennium Fellowship, as a response to the societal stigmatization of women's bodies and issues she's faced with her own menstrual health. She wanted to merge the power of education, media, literature, research, and advocacy into one organization dedicated to uplifting people who menstruate all across the world.

In addition to founding the Menstrual Equity Initiative (MĚI) and leading the Perrin Research Institution, she founded the Global Digital Magazine Synthesis Publications when she was 14 and has appeared in numerous publications, including NBC, ABC, CBS, the Walt Disney Networks, the Coca-Cola Scholarship press page, and more. She is involved with Everytown for Gun Safety's Students Demand Action, is the youngest intern for the Harvard Law Review, and is a reporter for the Harvard Crimson. She was named the 2024 distinguished young woman of New Jersey and is signed to top modeling agencies in NYC. She has given a TEDx talk on "The Art of Oversharing" and has served as one of few select judges for the 2025 National Scholastic Art and Writing Competition, where she won a gold medal for journalism in her senior year of high school.

Elise is passionate about free press, women's rights, healthcare equity, putting an end to gun violence, the arts, self-expression, and the power of storytelling.