The Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network conversation series was launched as a means to encourage, inspire, and empower women in the legal community and beyond. In 2016-17, Jeannie Forrest, BWLN co-founder and former vice dean for development and leadership initiatives at NYU Law, interviewed alumnae across different disciplines and at different stages in their careers. We hope that listeners will continue to find the discussions relevant, useful, and insightful.
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Carol Robles-Román: “All About Power”
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Recorded in November 2017 - Carol Robles-Román ’89 is the new co-president and CEO of the ERA Coalition/Fund for Women’s Equality. She leads national efforts to advocate, educate and organize to ensure constitutional equality in the United States. The ERA Coalition is an umbrella of organization's for a national constituency in support of constitut…
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Robin Steinberg: “Working in the Public Defense Community"
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Recorded in October 2017 - Robin Steinberg ’82 is a leader and a pioneer in the field of indigent defense. She is the CEO of The Bail Project, a national organization modeled after The Bronx Freedom Fund, which she co-founded with David Feige in 2007. Steinberg is the founder and former executive director of The Bronx Defenders, a community-based p…
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Mitra Hormozi: “The Flexibility of a Law Degree”
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Recorded in November 2017 - Mitra Hormozi ’95 is Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Revlon. She is responsible for overseeing Revlon’s legal affairs worldwide, including the Board of Directors, corporate governance, intellectual property, licensing, acquisitions and divestitures, regulatory matters, and litigation. Hormozi has extensiv…
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Alma Asay: “Founding My Own Legal Tech Company”
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Recorded in November 2017 - Alma Asay ’05 is the Chief Innovation Officer, Legal Solutions, at Integreon Discovery Solutions, a leading global provider of alternative legal services, where she focuses on opportunities to improve legal services delivery for both corporations and law firms by applying best modern practices across people, processes, a…
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Faiza Patel: “Working in National Security”
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Recorded in December 2017 - Faiza Patel ’91 serves as co-director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice. Patel is an expert on national security and surveillance laws and policies, who focuses on how they impact minority populations. In addition to co-authoring the Center’s Extreme Vetting report, she has pu…
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Marilyn Sobel: “My Career as a Corporate Lawyer”
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Recorded in December 2017 - Marilyn Sobel ’78 is currently Of Counsel at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, where she previously served as partner. She specialized in mergers and acquisitions, advising multinational corporations and private and hedge funds on business combinations and a wide variety of other strategic transactions. Sobel…
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Linda Gadsby: “Successfully Managing an In-House Career”
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Recorded in September 2017 - Linda M. Gadsby ’92 is vice president and deputy general counsel at Scholastic, the world’s largest publisher and distributor of children’s books, and a leading developer of educational technology. For more than 20 years, she has been providing counsel to employers on all aspects of employment law, and representing her …
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Florence Davis: “Communication Tactics”
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Recorded in May 2017 - Florence Davis ’79 has served as President and a member of the Board of Directors of The Starr Foundation since March 1999. A graduate of Wellesley College (highest honors, Phi Beta Kappa) and New York University School of Law (Root-Tilden Scholar), she began her legal career in private practice with Sullivan & Cromwell in 19…
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Hon. Doris Ling-Cohan: “Becoming a Judge”
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Recorded in December 2016 - Hon. Doris Ling-Cohan ’79 is a sitting judge on the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Term, First Department. She is the first woman of Asian descent to be appointed to an appellate panel in New York State. Before becoming a judge, she worked in the New York State Attorney General’s consumer fraud protection unit a…
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Lisa Marie Boykin: “Failure, Resilience, Persistence”
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Recorded in November 2017 - Lisa Marie Boykin ’95 is Senior Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs/Television Group at Annapurna Pictures. Born in Philadelphia, PA, Boykin grew up in Sumter, SC, where she attended Sumter High School. She holds a BA in Government/Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame and a JD from NYU School of Law. Boykin …
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Hon. Betty Weinberg Ellerin: “Being a Groundbreaker”
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Recorded in February 2017 - Hon. Betty Weinberg Ellerin ’52 is senior counsel in the firm’s Litigation & Trial Practice Group in the New York office. Prior to joining Alston & Bird, Justice Weinberg Ellerin served more than 20 years as an Appellate Division jurist. She was the first woman appointed as Deputy Chief Administrative Judge of the State …
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Hon. Betty Staton: “Leadership and Service”
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Recorded in May 2017 - Hon. Betty Staton ’79 attended NYU School of Law on a full scholarship. After graduation, Staton worked at Bedford-Stuyvesant Community Legal Services (BSCLS) for eight years, during which she served as the deputy director and director of community outreach and education. As part of her position, she developed curriculum in v…
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Capt. Brenda Berkman: “From NYU Law to the FDNY”
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Recorded in September 2017 - Capt. Brenda Berkman ’78 retired as a Captain in the New York City Fire Department after serving the City for 25 years. She was assigned to firehouses in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Capt. Berkman began her career in the fire service after winning the federal sex discrimination lawsuit she initiated that resulted in the hiri…
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Maureen Brundage: “The Importance of Networking”
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Recorded in January 2017 - Maureen Brundage ’81 is the former executive vice president, general counsel, corporate secretary, and chief ethics officer of The Chubb Corporation, where she worked for over ten years. Before joining Chubb as general counsel, she spent over 24 years at White & Case, where she was a partner and head of the Global Securit…
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Hon. Lorna G. Schofield: “Making the Most of Mentorship”
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Recorded in May 2017 - Hon. Lorna G. Schofield ’81 is a United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York. She was nominated in 2012 by President Obama and confirmed by a unanimous vote of the US Senate. For 20 years previously, Judge Schofield was a litigation partner at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP in its New York office. Her practic…
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Recorded in April 2017 - Melissa Tidwell ’03 is Vice President and General Counsel at Reddit, advising on a wide range of legal and business matters and managing the company’s Legal, Policy, and Communications groups. Previously, Tidwell was Senior Counsel at Google, advising the Product, Engineering, Business Development, and Sales teams on a vari…
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Sloan Lindemann Barnett: “Taking a Different Path”
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Recorded in April 2017 - Sloan Lindemann Barnett ’93 is the author of the New York Times bestselling book Green Goes with Everything: Simple Steps to a Healthier Life and a Cleaner Planet. Lindemann Barnett has been a television and print journalist for more than 15 years, appearing on-air as a consumer and green contributor on NBC's Today Show, as…
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Claudia Carvajal Lopez and Alina Das: “Telling Your Story”
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Recorded in March 2017 - Claudia Carvajal Lopez ’18 is a third-year law student at NYU School of Law. She is an AnBryce scholar and is on the Law Review, and she previously served as executive co-chair of the Latino Law Students Association (LaLSA) during the 2016-17 academic year. Carvajal Lopez was born in Sinaloa, Mexico, and moved to Oakland, C…
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Recorded in March 2017 - Carol Bellamy ’68 is the chair of the Governing Board of the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund. Bellamy was previously president of the New York City Council, a member of the New York State Senate, executive director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), director of the United States Peace Corps, pre…
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Recorded in February 2017 - Maggie Drucker ’90 serves as senior vice president, general counsel and secretary at Grubhub Inc., which is a NYSE-listed company and is the nation's leading online and mobile food-ordering company dedicated to connecting hungry diners with local takeout restaurants. Drucker held the general counsel position at Seamless …
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Leslie Spencer: “Knowing Yourself”
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Recorded in April 2017 - Leslie Spencer ’98 is a partner in Ropes & Gray’s intellectual property group, and co-chair of the firm's diversity committee. She advises clients on matters involving computer software, electronics, financial technology (“FinTech”), healthcare information technology and consumer products. Spencer has over 15 years of exper…
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Rachel Robbins: "Career Advancement”
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Recorded in December 2016 - Rachel Robbins ’76 currently serves as senior independent non-executive director at Atlas Mara, a London Stock Exchange listed company focused on building the premier financial services group in in Sub-Sahara Africa. Her legal career in the financial and international development sectors spans more than 35 years, beginni…
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Sheila Birnbaum: “Reflections on the Legal Profession”
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Recorded in June 2017 - Sheila Birnbaum ’65 is currently a partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, where she practices primarily int he areas of products liability, toxic torts, and insurance coverage litigation and is co-chair of the firm's Global Product Liability and Mass Torts Practice. She was previously a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate…
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Vijaya Gadde: “From Texas to Twitter”
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Recorded in March 2017 - Vijaya Gadde ’00 is Twitter’s General Counsel, leading the company’s legal, trust and safety, and public policy teams. She previously served as a Legal Director at Twitter, where she managed the international and corporate legal teams.Prior to joining Twitter in 2011, Gadde was Senior Director, Legal at Juniper Networks; pr…
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Recorded in April 2017 - Deb Ellis ’82 is director of operations at NJ LEEP, a college bound program in Newark, NJ. Previously, Ellis has served as the executive director of the NJ Coalition to End Homelessness, assistant dean for Public Service at NYU School of Law, legal director of NOW Legal Defense Fund, staff attorney at the ACLU Women’s Right…
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Elizabeth Vrato: “The Value of Mentorship”
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Recorded in February 2017 - Elizabeth Vrato ’90 is the author of The Counselors: Conversations with 18 Courageous Women Who Have Changed the World (with a foreword by President Bill Clinton), which provides mentoring advice from some of this country's most trailblazing women leaders, including Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Janet Reno.A Harry S. Truman Sc…
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