2020 MATRIX AWARDS

CELEBRATING FIFTY YEARS of OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS of WOMEN in COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRIES

PRESENTED BY HOSTED BY WOMEN LEADING THE WAY Congratulationsto the 2020 Matrix Honorees! Thank you for being role models to the next generation of female achievers in media and communications. #Inspiration #PowerYourPossible

Carla Hassan Ann Lewnes Barri Rafferty Carol H. Williams Chief Marketing Officer EVP/Chief Marketing Officer EVP/Head of Communications President/CEO/ Citi Adobe Wells Fargo Chief Creative Officer Carol H. Williams Advertising

2020 INCITE AWARD

Linda Yaccarino Susan Zirinsky Tina Tchen Chairman, President & CEO Advertising & Partnerships, Senior Executive Producer TIME’S UP Now & NBCUniversal CBS News TIME’S UP Foundation

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WHO WE ARE...... 5

MATRIX 2020 SPONSORS...... 7

MATRIX COMMITTEES...... 8

NYWICI BOARD OF DIRECTORS...... 10

MESSAGE FROM THE NYWICI PRESIDENT...... 11

MESSAGE FROM THE HOST...... 13

MESSAGE FROM EMCEE GAYLE KING...... 14

MATRIX HONOREES

CARLA HASSAN: Leading with Purpose...... 16

ANN LEWNES: Silicon Valley’s Real CMO...... 22

BARRI RAFFERTY: A Champion with Velvet Gloves...... 28

CAROL H. WILLIAMS: An Advertising ‘First’...... 32

LINDA YACCARINO: Building Businesses and Challenging Legacies...... 38

SUSAN ZIRINSKY: Making History of Her Own...... 44

Incite Award TINA TCHEN: A Voice for Transformation...... 48

MATRIX HALL OF FAME...... 52

2020 SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS...... 54

SPONSORED SCHOLARSHIPS...... 56

SCHOLARSHIP HALL OF FAME...... 58

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TINA TCHEN 2020 Incite Award

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NEW YORK Founded in 1929, New York Women in Communications (NYWICI) is the premier organization for female communications professionals. Today, the WOMEN IN COMMUNICATIONS 90-year-old not-for-profit association has more than 2,500 members — from senior executives to students and entrepreneurs to young professionals — in a variety of communications disciplines, including journalism, broadcasting, corporate communications, digital, publishing, advertising, integrated marketing, photography, public relations, graphic design and more.

NYWICI’s mission is to empower women in the communications field at every career stage to reach their full potential and navigate the ever-changing landscape of communications. We promote professional growth and inspire members to achieve and share success by actively encouraging leadership and professional development, as well as networking opportunities that connect women who connect the world. Over the last 50 years, NYWICI CARLA HASSAN ANN LEWNES has honored the industry’s most outstanding leaders and celebrated all the courageous women who have come before them and those who will come BARRI RAFFERTY CAROL H. WILLIAMS after with the Matrix Awards. Since 1971, 340 women have received the NYWICI Matrix Award. LINDA YACCARINO SUSAN ZIRINSKY Each year, we award scholarships ranging from $2,500 to $10,000 to high school seniors, college and graduate students, and offer educational programs, including an annual Student Communications Bootcamp for women TINA TCHEN beginning their careers or embarking on career transitions. To date, we have 2020 Incite Award awarded more than $1.9 million in scholarship support to over 344 women. We’ve also awarded $47,000 in PIVOT Development Grants — self-directed grants to female professionals who seek to evolve their careers — to 30 deserving women.

As women who connect, create and communicate, NYWICI members serve as role models, career advisors and mentors.

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WOMEN IN COMMUNICATIONS NEW YORK Celebrating the 2020 honorees and the courageous leaders recognized by the Matrix Awards over the past 50 years. Celebrating the 2020 honorees andThank all you the for courageous making leaders meaningful progress for recognizedour industry. by Matrix Awards over the past 50 years.

Thank you all for making meaningful progress to our industry and society.

6 THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS

New York Women in Communications would like to show its appreciation for the generous support of the corporations and individuals who have contributed to the financial success of the 2020 Matrix Awards. Proceeds from the event are used by NYWICI to develop and maintain a full calendar of affordable programs and special events, as well as for scholarships, networking and support systems for the organization’s members and the community-at-large.

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Our deepest thanks to all of those who have helped make this year’s Matrix Awards a success. During a difficult year, they have brought their intelligence, talent, work ethic and commitment to bear on producing an event that is a huge undertaking in the best of circumstances

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PRESIDENT VP VP, MEMBERSHIP VP, SPONSORSHIP JUDITH HARRISON PIPER GOODSPEED JILL DAVISON TIMI LEWIS Weber Shandwick Meredith Lewis Media Company VP PRESIDENT-ELECT LISA VALENTINO VP, MEMBERSHIP VP, STRATEGIC PLANNING ASHLEY MILES Disney SONIYA MONGA ALEXA CHRISTON Franklyn West Snap Inc. Pearson VP, COMMUNICATIONS, IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT VP, STUDENT AFFAIRS VP, PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMMING VP, STRATEGIC PLANNING MEREDITH LONG LAURA BRUSCA LIZ HARISH ABI EVANS Forbes MetLife dentsu TREASURER KRISTEN COMINGS VP, CORPORATE MEMBERSHIP VP, PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMMING VP, STUDENT AFFAIRS IT Cosmetics DANIELLE DARDASHTI LAUREN TRAN HILAREY WOJTOWICZ dash. Amazon The Balance ASSISTANT TREASURER LINDA DESCANO VP, CORPORATE MEMBERSHIP VP, SCHOLARSHIPS & GRANTS VP, STUDENT AFFAIRS Havas PR ABBEY KLAASSEN SANDRA SIMS-WILLIAMS KRISTI BERGERON 360i Nielsen HATCHBEAUTY CHIEF OF STAFF/SECRETARY GEORGIA GALANOUDIS VP, HIGH SCHOOL OUTREACH VP, SCHOLARSHIPS & GRANTS VP, YOUNG PROFESSIONAL HIMSS JENNIFER DIXON SAUNDRA THOMAS PROGRAMMING BNY Mellon SPT Consults JULIA CORBETT CHIEF COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER Accenture Interactive LESLIE PITTERSON VP, HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAMMING VP, SPONSORSHIP Google CHELSEA ORCUTT ALISON GLUCK VP, YOUNG PROFESSIONAL Thirty Madison PROGRAMMING Hearst BRIDGET THORESON Ulysses Press

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Welcome to the 2020 Matrix Awards! This marks the 50th consecutive year that New York Women in Communications (NYWICI) has gathered to celebrate the accomplishments of women whose leadership in our industry is changing the world. We are proud to have set the standard for recognizing female achievement and empowerment when we honored Gloria Steinem with the first Matrix Award in 1971.

On behalf of the board and our entire organization, I offer my heartfelt congratulations to this year’s Matrix Award honorees. The Matrix Award, our industry’s highest tribute, is given to a select group of outstanding leaders whose brilliant work, courage to break boundaries and commitment to championing the next generation of female leaders make them role models for everyone and beacons of light for young women who would follow in their footsteps. On this special day, we welcome them into our Matrix Awards Hall of Fame, a pantheon of women who have left indelible impressions on our industry and the communities we serve.

Thank you to Interpublic Group (IPG) for hosting this year’s celebration. IPG has hosted the Matrix Awards five times and has been an invaluable partner to NYWICI throughout the years. I would also like to thank all of our sponsors and supporters who have helped make today’s event possible. Proceeds from the Matrix Awards go toward a full range of scholarships and educational programs for women, whether they are just beginning their professional journeys or pivoting to embrace new possibilities. NYWICI is proud to be the largest provider of communications scholarships for women in the United States and has given more than $1.9 million in scholarships to young women of outstanding promise.

As the premier organization for female communications professionals, New York Women in Communications supports women in every discipline at every stage of their careers and helps them navigate the ever-changing communications landscape. Founded in 1929 by a group of pioneering women journalists advocating for equal pay to their male counterparts, NYWICI has been leading the way in breaking down barriers for women and supporting new generations of female leaders for ninety-one years.

At a time of communications discipline convergence and an increasingly competitive industry ecosystem, the women we honor today are in the vanguard of transformation and, like the Matrix Awards, inspire all women in communications to reach their full potential.

If you are not already a NYWYCI member, I encourage you to join and make NYWICI your professional home. For information on all the benefits of membership, please visit nywici.org/join.

Lastly, I would like to thank our fabulous board of directors and members for their energy, dedication and generosity of spirit as we pursue our collective goal of empowering all women in communications to embrace their ambition and realize their potential. It has been an honor, a joy and a privilege to serve as your president.

JUDITH HARRISON Senior Vice President, Diversity & Inclusion, Weber Shandwick

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Interpublic is proud to once again sponsor the Matrix Awards. During this most unusual year, this important program is celebrating a half century of honoring the most remarkable women in communications.

The Matrix Awards ceremony is always a highlight of the year. And we are normally together, celebrating this in person in New York – I truly hope that will be the case again next year. But for now, we are together virtually, and I’m thankful we can be.

As is always the case, the women who are being honored by Matrix are an impressive array of game changers who have broken ground in their respective disciplines. They are leaders, they are mentors and they are trailblazers. Just like the women at IPG – all 24,000 of them, who hold positions of all types across our marketing, advertising, public relations, media, digital and data companies.

At IPG, we have long understood the importance of diversity to the success of our business. As a marketing partner to some of the world’s most admired brands, we understand that the diversity of our workforce is essential for many reasons, not the least among them is that more diverse teams arrive at more effective, more creative solutions. What’s more, we understand the value of women to our business, and to all successful companies.

For years, IPG has worked to be a company where women will want to come to work and to grow their careers. And, of course, we want to support the next generation of women coming into our industry. Today’s event and its generous sponsors help support future leaders in our business, thanks to the Matrix scholarship program.

Today’s program was designed by IPG’s MRM New York, and reflects the unusual moment we are living in right now, and the critical role women are playing as we navigate change during this extraordinary time.

While much remains uncertain this year, several things are very clear – among these are the continued and growing importance of diversity, equity and inclusion. And the fact that we need to remain focused on our efforts in this area, especially as so many in our Black and Brown communities are suffering a disproportionate share of the pandemic’s effect. We have done a lot of work, but there is still a great deal to be done. Today’s This year’s Matrix event reminds us of the importance of this continued work and of our commitment.

With my congratulations to today’s honorees and scholarship recipients, and heartfelt thanks to our presenters, to NYWICI, and to all who support this event, thank you for letting IPG be a part, once again, of this wonderful event.

MICHAEL ROTH Chairman and CEO, IPG

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2020 marks a year of firsts for Matrix. In the years since we first honored Gloria Steinem in 1971, we gather to celebrate our fellow women in communications in person—typically in the ballrooms of Manhattan hotels. But this year we’ll be connecting through our screens. Although we won’t be able to catch up with old friends and colleagues or make new connections, we’ve developed an inspiring and innovative event.

2020 — A YEAR LIKE NO OTHER It’s been a milestone year in many ways—COVID-19, an historic Supreme Court opening, the Black Lives Matter movement and a vice presidential contender who is both a woman and a person of color. There hasn’t been a slow news day on CBS This Morning in a long time!

Not only that, for the first time in its 20-year-history, O, The Oprah Magazine, for which I am editor at large, put a woman other than Oprah on our cover. Breonna Taylor, we will continue to say your name.

OUR PAST HONOREES Since we last gathered in May of 2019, many of our past Matrix winners made the news. Gloria Steinem served as a central character in the hit television show Mrs. America. And we lost celebrated journalists Gail Sheehy and Cokie Roberts, along with renowned author Toni Morrison. We also mourned the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who smashed that glass ceiling, paving the way for so many women in the workplace.

CONTINUING THE TRADITION For 50 years, the Matrix Awards have been given annually to outstanding women leaders who exemplify excellence, have the courage to break boundaries and a steadfast commitment to champion the next generation of trailblazers, creatives and communicators. To celebrate this momentous anniversary, we look back at the incredible women we’ve honored over the past 50 years— over 340 and counting. It’s quite a list, and makesme proud to be a part of this organization. This year we welcome a fantastic group to the esteemed Matrix club, into which I was fortunate enough to be inducted a decade ago. We salute you!

SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS And while we pay tribute to those at the top of their careers, we’ll also tip our hats to a new generation of up-and-coming leaders—our scholarship recipients. Each year, New York Women in Communications awards scholarships to graduating high school seniors and undergraduate and graduate students who intend to pursue or further a career in communications. I have no doubt that we’ll see some of those winners on the Matrix stage someday.

KEEP IN TOUCH Make sure you stay connected with NYWICI beyond Matrix, and take advantage of a lineup of bold thought leadership and diverse programming designed to educate, empower and propel women forward professionally and personally at every stage of their communications career.

Finally, I’d like to thank everyone behind the scenes who worked so hard to pull this event off. It takes a village—and a village of women knows how to get it done.

Thank you for attending this year’s event. We hope you enjoy it.

GAYLE KING Co-host, CBS This Morning Editor-at-large, O, The Oprah Magazine

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Hats off to our Ad Council board members, partners and friends, along with all of the 2020 Matrix Award honorees.

Thank you for leading with purpose.

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CARLA HASSAN CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER, CITI Leading with Purpose

by JULIA CORBETT

“I DON’T THINK I CAN LEAVE DIFFERENT PARTS of WHO I AM BEHIND, CLOSE the DOOR, WALK INTO WORK and DECIDE THAT I’M SOMEBODY TOTALLY DIFFERENT,” HASSAN SAYS.

Carla Hassan brings her whole self to work. In her newly announced role as Chief Marketing Officer at Citi, she oversees the consolidated marketing and branding divisions to streamline messaging across the organization. Hassan also heads up marketing for global consumer banking to differentiate Citi’s brand and enhance its success while she looks to change the dialogue around issues such as pay equity and sustainability. Coming from a family that fled two countries to escape wars, Hassan’s experience as an immigrant shapes her as a leader, allowing her to see and value others for who they are. Her parents are her biggest heroes and her daughter, Noor, is her greatest source of strength, with contagious resilience after fighting cancer at a young age.

HOW DO YOUR PERSONAL such a source of inspiration and it keeps accomplish your objectives is even more EXPERIENCES SHAPE YOU me going when I’m facing obstacles. important. That is driven by humanity. AS A LEADER? It wasn’t very long ago that I was told I’m Who I am has shaped everything about WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO LEAD “too nice.” In fact, people were surprised me as a leader. My resilience comes WITH PURPOSE? that I could even drive results. Now, it’s from my experience as an immigrant It’s a North Star. What you believe in a trait of leadership that is highly valued. and not wanting to let my family down. and what you stand for is critical. If you You get the most out of your team by My drive comes from being a mother to don’t have that, it becomes much easier setting a vision, trusting them, valuing a cancer survivor and showing her that to rationalize every decision versus their experiences and letting them go do anything is possible. making the tough call and saying, “No. amazing work. This isn’t consistent with our purpose.” WHO HAS MADE THE BIGGEST WHAT WERE SOME OF THE RISKS IMPACT ON YOUR LIFE? WHAT IS YOUR SUPERPOWER? THAT YOU TOOK THAT LED YOU I draw so much inspiration and strength My superpower is human connection. TO CITI? from my (daughter) Noor. What she went Empathy, authenticity and vulnerability Leaving PepsiCo after 13 years to through was unthinkable. Yet, day in and play huge roles in that. Setting a vision is try to turn around Toys ‘R Us was a day out she fought. Even in her darkest critical. Strategy is critical, but how you huge risk, but worth taking. I wanted days, she had a great attitude. That is extract the most value from your team to to have a seat at the table of a

NYWICI.ORG @NYWICI #MATRIX2020 #MATRIX50 17 leadership team that was turning an WHAT IS AN INITIATIVE THAT YOU ARE entire business around. I wanted to get MOST PROUD OF AT CITI? closer to technology, first-party data “Now is the Time” launched last year on and performance-driving metrics. Going International Day of the Girl. It centered through an experience like that reshaped on the work we have done around pay me as a leader and positioned me equity and female representation in well for not only my role at Citi, but the most senior leadership roles in our also in my life. company. We wanted to tell our story, but more importantly, challenge the YOU HAVE WORKED FOR CITI, TOYS ‘R world to follow what we had done — be US, PEPSICO AND KELLOGG’S. HOW transparent about your numbers and be HAVE YOU NAVIGATED ROLES IN bold and loud about the goals you’re DIFFERENT INDUSTRIES? setting — because we have the platforms A long time ago someone told me, “Ask to make meaningful change. why and then ask again. Ask until you can’t ask anymore.” That has taught me WHAT DO YOU WANT TO PASS ON to be very curious. Not for curiosity’s TO THE UPCOMING GENERATION OF sake, but for learning’s sake. It has COMMUNICATORS? served me well in my career. I walk into Now is their time. If I can pass on every role and every company wanting anything, I would pass on courage. They to learn about the business and how should use their voice now more than ever. marketing can impact it. For marketing Use it wisely, use it carefully and use it in to be successful, it must be purpose- a way that makes an impact. But use it. driven. Being in different industries has also taught me to be OK not knowing Julia Corbett is a Senior Editor everything and building the best teams at Accenture Interactive around me.

PRESENTER ANTONIO LUCIO Former Global CMO, Facebook

In August, Antonio Lucio marketing organization, which is Before Facebook, he was named announced that he was focused on communicating the story the first Global Chief Marketing and stepping down from his of Facebook’s brands, products and Communications Officer for HP Inc role as Chief Marketing services more transparently. In 2019, following its split from The Hewlett Officer at Facebook. In Forbes named ranked him #3 in its “Most Packard Corporation. Previous to that, his announcement, he said he plans Influential CMOs in the World” list. he was Global Chief Marketing & to spend the “next, and probably final, Antonio has 40 years of experience in Communication Officer at Visa. chapter” of his professional career building brands that stand the test of time, He earned a B.A. in history from helping advertising and marketing and has been a champion for diversity Louisiana State University. He was born companies with change related to and inclusion for underrepresented in Spain, raised in Puerto Rico, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. groups in the advertising industry. He currently resides in San Francisco. In his position at Facebook, he was has won numerous awards for his work responsible for the global consumer in diversity and inclusion.

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ANN LEWNES EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER, ADOBE Silicon Valley’s Real CMO

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A SECRET to HER SUCCESS? ACCORDING to LEWNES, “WITH A LOT of INNOVATION and A GOOD SENSE of HUMOR, I‘VE DISCOVERED HOW to OVERCOME FAILURES, ADVOCATE FOR MYSELF, and STILL MAKE TIME FOR A GOOD BLOWOUT.”

It’s not too often that someone can hack it in Silicon Valley for more than a decade, but that’s just what Ann Lewnes has done. As Executive Vice President and CMO at Adobe, she’s already accomplished so much during her tenure leading some of the world’s most creative marketers to push boundaries and take risks. But after 13 years, she’s still facing challenges every day in an ever-changing industry.

MANY HAVE HIGHLIGHTED boundaries of innovation. This means marketers are here. We make the tools YOUR LONG TENURE AT ADOBE. celebrating risk-taking — whether it’s they use every day and they want to do HOW DOES THE JOB STILL with new channels, partnerships, or stuff that nobody’s done before. CHALLENGE YOU? experiences — and instituting a culture of It’s pretty unusual for anyone in Silicon testing where you can constantly iterate HOW AND WHERE DO YOU FIND Valley to be at a company for 13 years, and improve the customer experience. INSPIRATION TO FUEL YOUR let alone as a CMO. I feel really lucky. We can’t stand still. CREATIVITY? From a business perspective, Adobe’s I get my inspiration from media and business has completely transformed HOW DO YOU STAY ON THE CUTTING culture — music, TV, film, fashion, design during that time, and marketing has EDGE OF AN EVER-CHANGING — and I try to stay current. I spend a fair played a critical role. I’m really proud INDUSTRY? amount of time on Instagram and Twitter, of where we are, but there’s lots more Working in Silicon Valley, I’m constantly soaking in what’s going on. And I try to to do. People want more from brands exposed to new technology, emerging hang out with young people. today than ever before. The challenges media types, and new business models. and opportunities are bigger and every It’s just the way it is here. From a WHAT INNOVATIONS EXCITE YOU day is new. marketing perspective, we have — and AT THE MOMENT? Today’s CMOs must have a growth will continue — to push the envelope. I would say the democratization of mindset, be agile, and push the The world’s best creatives and digital creativity. Today, anyone who has a

NYWICI.ORG @NYWICI #MATRIX2020 #MATRIX50 23 phone can be a creator. There’s literally WHAT’S THE MOST RECENT LESSON WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU HAVE an explosion of creativity as a result. We YOU’VE LEARNED? FOR SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO are very excited about facilitating global I need to learn how to say no. I have a FOLLOW IN YOUR FOOTSTEPS? creativity through our online community tendency to overcommit — both personally Advocate for yourself. This is something challenges. Through these challenges, and professionally. I tell my sons all the time. Also, always Adobe has received 425,000 submissions focus on results, innovate, work well with of amazing original work in the past year. HOW DO YOU DEFINE FAILURE AND others and have a sense of humor. We’ve done challenges with incredible SUCCESS? musicians like Billie Eilish, Vampire I’ve always been a risk taker, so I’m WHAT DOES THIS MATRIX AWARD Weekend and Twenty One Pilots, and MEAN TO YOU? brands like Reddit (in its biggest activation not afraid to fail. My boss says there ever). One of the coolest challenges are “road builders” and there are “flag I’m truly honored and so grateful to be we just did was in India. On the 150th planters.” I’m the latter and I have come receiving this recognition. anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth, to realize you just can’t reach every flag. we asked students from 20,000 schools And how do I know we’re succeeding? to depict how his values can help the It’s all about the data. We need to world today. That’s something we really quantitatively demonstrate the impact need right now. of every marketing dollar. We have the most amazing marketing and customer HOW DO YOU CARE FOR YOURSELF, insights organization and we are laser SO YOU CAN SHOW UP TO WHAT focused on marketing performance — MATTERS IN THE MOST POWERFUL from advanced-mix modeling to real-time Hilarey Wojtowicz is the editor WAY? media attribution analysis. at personal finance website The Blueberry smoothies, beach days, online Balance. She’s been a member shopping, and a good blowout. of NYWICI since 2010.

PRESENTER MARGO GEORGIADIS President and CEO of Ancestry.com

Margo Georgiadis is the Prior to Ancestry, Margo served as CEO She has received multiple awards for President and CEO of of Mattel, the global leader in play, her business and community leadership Ancestry and serves on learning and development. Previously, including the Forbes “Excellence Award the company’s Board of she was the President of Americas in Innovation,” Chicago Innovation’s Directors. For over 30 years, Ancestry’s at Google overseeing commercial “Visionary Award,” the Eastman global market-leading family history operations and advertising sales. She Medal from the University of Rochester, subscription and consumer genomics also has held leadership roles as COO Executive of the Year in Utah, and services have empowered tens of millions of Groupon, EVP of US Card Services was named to Crain’s “Most Powerful of consumers to discover their family story and CMO of Discover Financial Women in Business” and Fortune’s “50 and to gain actionable health insights. Services, and as a partner at McKinsey. Most Powerful Women in Business” Margo is dedicated to building and Margo is a champion of organizations lists. Margo serves on the Board of innovating meaningful personal discovery that inspire girls to pursue education and Directors of McDonald’s Corporation, experiences that enrich lives and connect careers in STEM and advancing the next Catalyst and the Advisory Board of the world. generation of women leaders. New Classrooms. She earned a B.A. in economics and an M.B.A. from Harvard. 24 ELC_NYWICI_Matrix20.pdf 1 10/7/2020 2:13:59 PM

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HONOREE

BARRI RAFFERTY EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT AND HEAD OF COMMUNICATIONS, WELLS FARGO A Champion with Velvet Gloves

by AUNDREA CLINE-THOMAS

“I HAVE BEEN TOLD I ‘THROW A PUNCH WITH A VELVET GLOVE’ and I TAKE PRIDE IN THAT TRAIT,” RAFFERTY SAYS. “I HAVE TOUGHENED UP OVER THE YEARS, but ALWAYS TRY to MAINTAIN A LEADERSHIP STYLE THAT IS KIND and GENEROUS.”

During her 25 years at Ketchum, Barri Rafferty climbed the ladder to become the first woman CEO of a top-five public relations agency. Not satisfied with being alone at the top, Rafferty has been a vocal advocate for gender equity, diversity and inclusion. She is one of the founding members of Omniwomen, an initiative aimed at increasing the number of women leaders. This summer Rafferty made a major career move, joining Wells Fargo where she is Executive Vice President and Head of Communications, demonstrating she is showing no signs of slowing down.

AFTER BEING AT KETCHUM FOR HOW DID YOU LEARN HOW TO OWN women at all levels to acknowledge if 25 YEARS, HOW HAVE YOU YOUR VALUE? it is easier for you to advocate for your CONTINUOUSLY POSITIONED Learning to “own my value” is still a work team than to do so for yourself, you need YOURSELF FOR CONSTANT GROWTH? in progress for me, and most female to ratchet it up a notch. When I left Ketchum to join Wells Fargo, leaders. It is still hard for me to negotiate many were surprised and felt it was on my own behalf, but it is a muscle I BREAKING THE GLASS CEILING IS a courageous move. But I saw it as a continually work on. SUCH AN EXCITING CONCEPT, BUT ARE THERE CUTS ASSOCIATED WITH continuation of the professional journey When I went to Davos, after being asked I have been on, which has always BEING THE FIRST WOMAN TO LEAD several times whose wife I was, I realized A TOP-FIVE GLOBAL PR AGENCY? included making bold moves, being I had to do more. In my frustration I open to new experiences and leading wrote a blog that led to a TEDx Talk This year has been particularly tough innovation. I have always stretched and launched my journey to become as we navigated a global pandemic, myself to volunteer for the assignments a stronger advocate for women in resulting in an economic collapse and that pushed me out of my comfort zone. leadership. As I advocated for our place the need to keep our people safe while If you don’t feel challenged and a bit in business, I became a champion for moving business forward. It has been a nervous at times, I would say you are myself and my own value. I encourage priority for me to balance the human and probably not committed to growth. financial impact.

NYWICI.ORG @NYWICI #MATRIX2020 #MATRIX50 29 Simultaneously, the deepest cuts have In a world where people are scared happened when “managing out” and vulnerable, we need leaders and people who are long-term friends or brands to have more heart and focus who were unconvincing when making on societal improvement and safety. the business case for things I believed Data shows that trusted brands have in. Still, I showed up the next day with a increased market value, and conversely smile ready to “set the weather” for our there is a reckoning for brands that don’t community and that’s hard. Those scars demonstrate authenticity and commitment stay with you, but I am hopeful they have to a higher purpose. That correlation is enhanced my leadership style. the best way to convince businesses to do the right thing. WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED ABOUT BEING A LEADER DURING TOUGH WHAT DOES WINNING THE MATRIX TIMES? AWARD MEAN TO YOU? Self-care is critical. If you don’t put It is truly the one award I coveted. I have your oxygen mask on first and build watched past honorees and been moved your own resilience, you won’t be by their speeches. They shone a light on able to lead effectively with empathy varied paths to not only be successful, and compassion. I know that sounds but do it while lifting other women up. antithetical, but it has served me well. I have tried to embrace their advice and empower others to reach their full WHAT DO BRANDS NEED NOW, potential. There is so much more to do THAT THEY DIDN’T CONSIDER THREE and I hope I can continue to use my MONTHS AGO? voice to motivate others to engage in the Leaders today must show empathy and way I have. Everyone should be able to compassion, putting their customers first look back and see the number of people Aundrea Cline-Thomas is while investing in their employees and they have helped to be their best selves. a reporter at CBS New York. communities. That is what means most to me.

PRESENTER DAWN ROBERTSON CEO, On Campus Marketing

Dawn Robertson has been company to a private-equity firm company; Splitit, a payment solution leading companies for more and beating all market expectations ASX listed company; The Apparel than 30 years both in the on sale price. Group, a large retailer based in Dubai; U.S. and internationally. She She started Macys.com, Bloomingdales. Runway of Dreams; and Women in Retail has been a global business com and led Sean John, the wholesale Leadership. She is also a partner at the leader for major retailers and wholesale and retail company founded by Sean retail consulting firm WHYZ Partners; companies, holding positions such as “Diddy” Combs, where she successfully CEO of OCM, a Spire Capital company; President of Old Navy and Managing negotiated an exclusive relationship and a professor at the Fashion institute of Director of Myer Department Stores, the with Macys. Technology. largest store in Australia. She developed and executed a new strategy for the Dawn is a Director on several boards, $3.2 billion department store, selling the including a private-equity-backed

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CAROL H. WILLIAMS PRESIDENT, CEO AND CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER, CAROL H. WILLIAMS ADVERTISING An Advertising ‘First’

by CHELSEA ORCUTT

“I THINK EVERYONE IS BORN A POSSIBILITY and, AS A POSSIBILITY, YOU YOURSELF DETERMINE WHAT IS POSSIBLE REGARDLESS of the OBSTACLES AROUND YOU,” WILLIAMS SAID. “I’M NOT SAYING IT’S EVER EASY, but WITH COURAGE, CURIOSITY and CELEBRATION OF ONE’S LIFE, EVERYTHING IS ACHIEVABLE.”

Carol H. Williams has had a career full of impressive “firsts.” She was the first female and first African American Creative Director and Vice President at Leo Burnett Company, the legendary advertising agency. For Williams, who created iconic ad campaigns such as Secret antiperspirant’s “Strong enough for a man, but made for a woman,” an unwavering focus on the multicultural perspective in advertising has been essential to her success. That vision is woven into her work at Carol H. Williams Advertising, the agency she founded in 1986. Williams is the first African American female Creative Director to be inducted into the American Advertising Federation’s Advertising Hall of Fame, an honor she received in 2017.

WHEN YOU LOOK BACK, WHAT ARE fires up your life. Determination, courage, everything that is all around us. We live THE MOST IMPORTANT QUALITIES resilience, and empathy are essential, in it, we are immersed in it, we learn from THAT YOU THINK BROUGHT YOU as is the belief that no matter the barrier, it, and we repeat it daily in everything THROUGH THE CHALLENGES YOU ultimately you can learn, grow and we create. My creativity comes from FACED? succeed. God’s inspiration. I stay inspired because Life always presents a series of choices God is always with me, so the inspiration and opportunities. The universe has a WHERE DOES YOUR CREATIVITY FOR never leaves, regardless of the earthly way of disguising an opportunity, so CAMPAIGNS COME FROM? HOW DO challenges that try to snuff it out. that it looks like one doesn’t exist. Once YOU STAY INSPIRED? you recognize the opportunity within When I was a kid, my father always told WHAT WAS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT the problem, it demands your ability to me that we were made in God’s image. — OR HARDEST — LESSON TO LEARN solve the problem. This can often be At the time, I guess I thought that God WHEN TRANSITIONING FROM A exhausting, but engaging in the exercise looked like us, which was very egotistical SENIOR EXECUTIVE TO A FOUNDER/ of problem-solving brings with it the and foolish. As I grew up, I understood CEO? confidence and ability you need in order what my father was talking about — that Business does not have a welcome mat to play and win. It is exhilarating and God is the great creator of the world and at the front door. Running a traditional

NYWICI.ORG @NYWICI #MATRIX2020 #MATRIX50 33 business is, at its core, a battle against when everyone said it couldn’t be are on the rise. These marketing models creativity. It is hard, uncaring dollars and done, I had the courage, fortitude, and create disconnection and, in their present cents. There is no heart or soul in business. determination to stand up and move form, are doomed to burn time, money, The requirement to make non-creative forward against all barriers and obstacles and energy for suboptimal results. Online courses built decisions has often been painful. and succeed. I was hired at a prestigious advertising firm and promoted to vice WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE WHAT DOES YOUR AGENCY president in seven years. YOUR 30-YEAR-OLD SELF? by women, for women... BRING TO THE MARKETPLACE It is expensive to be black in America. THAT OTHERS CANNOT? WHAT MORE DO YOU HAVE TO Our success as individuals and families is to enjoy anytime, anywhere. I compete for attention in a world of ACCOMPLISH? less secure than it is for our counterparts. ever-expanding choices and distractions. The narratives that matter to African Our radar/sonar is more finely What differentiates me is my empathy. Americans are about people’s lives, their tuned, hypersensitized to social and My agency excels at encoding ideas opportunities for agency, and elevating cultural signals — across the universal and possibilities that are based not only their potential. The role that narratives play dimensions. The stakes for our choices CONGRATULATIONS 2020 MATRIX HONOREES! on the needs of the brands who turn to us, makes the difference. I want to be part are usually higher. but are built on concepts that will resonate of creating these narratives, so that I can in a meaningful way and be powerfully continue making a difference. WHAT DOES THE MATRIX AWARD relevant to what people actually care MEAN TO YOU? about. WHAT IS IT THAT ADVERTISERS STILL To have the honor of being recognized DON’T UNDERSTAND ABOUT THE by my peers who believe my work is YOU HAVE RECEIVED SO MANY AFRICAN AMERICAN CONSUMER the best and it acts as a social force, is ACCOLADES. WHEN YOU THINK OR THE CONSUMER OF COLOR? absolutely huge, humbling, inspirational ABOUT YOUR CAREER, WHAT ARE Culture and ethnicity are shaping forces in and gratifying. YOU MOST PROUD OF? our lives. Yet today, I see that persistent but What I’m most proud of is that at the utterly outdated approaches to marketing, Chelsea Orcutt is a Senior Program beginning of my advertising journey, which value efficiency over effectiveness, Manager at Thirty Madison.

PRESENTER ROLAND S. MARTIN Journalist and Host, #RolandMartinUnfiltered

Over the course of a career Martin spent 13 years at TV One Cable In 2013, Martin was named “Journalist that has seen him interview Network, where he hosted the nation’s of the Year” by the National Association multiple U.S. presidents to only Sunday morning and daily morning of Black Journalists. In 2008, he was top athletes and entertainers, show targeting African Americans. From inducted into the Texas A&M Journalism Roland S. Martin is a journalist who has 2008-2019, Martin served as senior Hall of Honor. He is a four-time NAACP always maintained a clear sense of his analyst for the Tom Joyner Morning Image Award winner, including being calling in this world. Show, where his daily segment was named Best Host twice. Martin is the host and managing editor of heard by 8 million people. In addition, he He earned a B.S. degree in journalism #RolandMartinUnfiltered, a daily online spent six years as a contributor for CNN. from Texas A&M University in 1991. He show focused on news and analysis of He has been named four times by Ebony has been awarded multiple honorary contemporary culture from an explicitly Magazine as one of the “150 Most degrees and is a life member of Alpha African American perspective. Influential African Americans in the U.S.” Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and NABJ.

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by HILAREY WOJTOWICZ

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LINDA YACCARINO CHAIRMAN, ADVERTISING AND PARTNERSHIPS, NBCUNIVERSAL Building Businesses and Challenging Legacies

by HILAREY WOJTOWICZ

“THE OLD LINE IS ‘IF YOU BUILD IT THEY WILL COME,’ LINDA SAYS. BUT IN MY EXPERIENCE, YOU HAVE to COME READY to BUILD.”

As Chairman, Advertising Sales and Client Partnerships at NBCUniversal and the daughter of a fierce Italian mother, Linda Yaccarino learned early on to race toward where the business was going, while bringing a whole lot of humanity, compassion, and style along the way. From innovating in ways that drive the marketing industry forward, to keeping her family and values in mind at all times, Linda continues to inspire others to challenge legacies while building their own.

YOU’VE WORKED WITHIN LARGE of being. Imagine having the freedom so that we can collectively lift up MEDIA CONGLOMERATES FOR to combine all the resources, scale, and underrepresented voices, combat YEARS, WHILE EMBODYING AN security of a giant global company with racial bias, and provide opportunities ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT. WHAT the energy and innovation of a startup. for people of color. That’s how we will DID YOU DO TO WORK YOUR WAY build a more inclusive industry. UP TO THE TOP AND WHAT ADVICE YOU LEAD A TEAM OF 1,500 PEOPLE. WOULD YOU GIVE TO THOSE HOW HAVE YOU TRIED TO CLOSE HOW IMPORTANT IS IT FOR WOMEN STRIVING TO DO THE SAME IN THAT GAPS, INCREASE VISIBILITY OF ESPECIALLY TO TAKE ENVIRONMENT? UNDERREPRESENTED GROUPS ON PROJECTS THAT ARE TIED I learned early on that if you’re focused OR MAKE PROGRESS? TO A COMPANY’S REVENUE? on growth, you’re innovating. And if I’ve been on this journey for a long time, Less than 6% of the world’s largest 3,000 you’re innovating, you’re focused on the working to support our Black colleagues, companies are run by women. That’s future. This is why I love building new people of color, women, and veterans. unacceptable. Part of the problem is things and finding new ways to grow. We all need to be even more intentional that men dominate a majority of the jobs That mindset is addicting. about our efforts and keep doubling considered ‘feeder positions’, such as Throughout my career I’ve been down on our investments. My team is chief operating officer, head of sales, studying the business, paying attention reimagining everything — from how we and chief financial officer. Women hold to consumer trends, scrutinizing the recruit, retain, train, and develop, to how less than 10% of these roles in large marketplace, and asking what’s next. we operate and collaborate. And we’re companies. What do they all have in Leaders like Ted Turner, Brian Roberts, going to open up more educational common? Revenue. When you’re directly Steve Burke, and now Jeff Shell, have and collaborative programs to all of responsible for revenue, you learn what trusted me, and given me the latitude to our partners. Every company must stand it takes to run a massive business. be the entrepreneur I always dreamed shoulder-to-shoulder and share resources

NYWICI.ORG @NYWICI #MATRIX2020 #MATRIX50 39 Since 2011, I’ve had the extraordinary WHO INSPIRES YOU, AND WHY? opportunity to run advertising and Inspiration starts with my mother. She was partnerships at NBCUniversal, and be a first-generation Italian-American and responsible for over $10 billion in annual for her, college wasn’t an option. That revenue. I’ve used that platform to offer was not the future she wanted for us, and P&L opportunities to the next generation she made sure my two sisters and I took of leaders because leadership isn’t sitting every single opportunity she never had. at the table — it’s running the table. Mom had one rule for us: “Be financially independent.” She is my Kris Jenner. DESCRIBE A TIME YOU FAILED. HOW DID YOU HANDLE IT? WHAT MESSAGE DO YOU HOPE When I was in my early 30s, I had two RECEIVING THE MATRIX AWARD wonderful young kids and just bought a SENDS TO OTHERS WHO LOOK house. But I made one big career mistake UP TO YOU? that taught me two lessons. I accepted a Consider your legacy. Do you want to job simply because it promised a bigger be remembered as someone who did paycheck, even though there were many exactly what was expected? Or do you red flags. I thought I was doing the right want to be known as someone who thing for my family. To no one’s surprise, transcends their job description and taking that job turned out to be a huge transformed an entire industry? Let me be mistake. The bigger mistake was that I clear: It’s up to you to execute on new didn’t listen to my mentors who told me creative ideas. Always go beyond what’s to reconsider. The money might talk, but expected of you. You owe it to yourself. when it comes to your mentors — listen.

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HODA KOTB ANDREA MITCHELL NATALIE MORALES STEPHANIE RUHLE SAVANNAH SELLERS Co-anchor, Today; Co-host NBC News, NBC News Chief NBC News, West Coast NBC News; MSNBC NBC News, Co-host of Today with Hoda & Jenna Foreign Affairs Correspondent; Anchor, Today Anchor, MSNBC Live; Stay Tuned; NBC News Host, Andrea Mitchell Reports NBC News Senior Correspondent Business Correspondent 40 NYWICI.ORG @NYWICI #MATRIX2020 #MATRIX50 “Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.”

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SUSAN ZIRINSKY PRESIDENT AND SENIOR EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, CBS NEWS Making History of Her Own

by AUNDREA CLINE-THOMAS

“I LEARNED THIS YEAR THAT JOURNALISM IS NOT A JOB, IT’S A PUBLIC SERVICE,” SAYS ZIRINSKY. “WE ARE SEPARATING FACT FROM FICTION EVERY DAY – and the STAKES COULDN’T BE HIGHER. THIS MAY BE A DEFINING MOMENT IN OUR PROFESSION.”

Susan Zirinsky, or “Z” as she’s affectionately known, walked into the CBS News Washington bureau at 20 years old, just two weeks after the Watergate break-in. It started what has been a whirlwind career that has given her a front row seat to history. In 2019 Zirinsky became the first woman to be named president of CBS News. From overhauling the news division, to guiding production and coverage through a pandemic and racial justice uprising, Zirinsky is meeting the challenges with compassion and a steadfast commitment to both viewers and her colleagues.

DID YOU FEEL AS IF YOU DIDN’T GET launch of the 60 Minutes of the future. At cloud-based editing done in kitchens A CHANCE TO EASE INTO YOUR NEW 48 Hours, I was succeeded as executive and at dining room tables. A piece from ROLE AT CBS NEWS? producer by a long-time colleague, who New York City might be edited in our The word easy is not in any dictionary I is one of the finest writers and producers Los Angeles or Dallas Bureau, then sent have ever used. First, it was establishing I know. back to D.C. We have a new phrase — a new management team and HR team. “Adaptive Creativity.” Then overhauling CBS This Morning WHAT HAS BEEN THE BIGGEST There is a dramatic movement in this with Gayle King, Tony Dokoupil and CHALLENGE? country, recognizing what so many Anthony Mason as the new anchor team, COVID-19 hit CBS News like a bomb. have known for so long about the and installing a new executive producer We had one of the first clusters in New prevalence of systemic racism, implicit and senior team. Next was remaking York City. Our main broadcast center bias and unequal justice under the law. the CBS Evening News, tapping Norah was shut down on March 18. We had We have to actively and intentionally O’Donnell as anchor and managing to stay on the air. The logistics would work against unconscious and implicit editor, bringing in a new executive have scared General Patton. More than bias at CBS News. We cannot be producer and making the daring call 100 days later, our first partial group has defensive. We have to listen. We have to move the broadcast to Washington, re-entered the building. Still, 60 Minutes, to acknowledge this pain. We have to D.C. 60 Minutes needed a new leader 48 Hours and CBS Sunday Morning are do something about it. Some initiatives and appointing Bill Owens began our all being produced out of house, using we have launched include creating an

NYWICI.ORG @NYWICI #MATRIX2020 #MATRIX50 45 Executive Task Force, a Race & Culture pay tribute to the late Congressman John policing of America through telling unit, facilitated conversations about Lewis. Creating a special television tribute the stories that for too long have not race through training and workshops, to the lion of the civil rights era brought been told. That’s what I want to change. and establishing an Advisory Board, untold joy. It’s time. which will become as important as our standards and practices group. We have WHAT GOALS DO YOU HAVE YET a responsibility to our employees and our TO ACCOMPLISH? audience to reflect America and bring I want to be known as an agent of diverse voices and perspective to every change. Honest, transparent, dedicated conversation and every story. to the mission of a free, inclusive press. The person you could call in the middle WHAT HAS BROUGHT YOU of the night when you were in trouble. A THE MOST JOY? caring, loving, leader who finds sheer, Taking over as the first woman president unadulterated joy in the successes of of CBS News. I also kept the second part those on her team. of my title, Senior Executive Producer, CBS News. I never want to abandon being IF YOU COULD CHANGE ONE THING known as a creative soul. Having worked IN THE WORLD, WHAT WOULD IT BE? my way up doing every administrative and We are living in a moment that appears editorial job, I know what everyone does. to have galvanized a nation. The death I know what everyone gives up to be part of George Floyd has energized us as of the driving forces of CBS News. A line journalists. Change will not be easy. I adopted from another Matrix winner: It will be uncomfortable to some. It will “I’m not a show pony, I’m a workhorse.” alter every fiber in us. It will take time. Joy is getting a call from Oprah who had We all must do a reset. We can help drive talked to Tyler Perry and they wanted to an end to the systemic racism and the

PRESENTER LESLEY STAHL 60 MINUTES, CBS News Correspondent

Lesley Stahl is one of joined the broadcast as a correspondent correspondent – the first woman to hold America’s most honored in March 1991. She is the author of that job – during the Carter and Reagan and experienced two best-selling books: Reporting Live, presidencies and the first half of George broadcast journalists. about her work as a White House H. W. Bush’s presidency. Her reports Her rich career has correspondent, and the more recent appeared frequently on the CBS Evening been marked by political scoops, Becoming Grandma. News, first with Walter Cronkite, then investigations, surprising features and Her recent work at 60 Minutes with Dan Rather. award-winning foreign reporting, a includes a news-breaking interview In addition to her 13 Emmys, she has a body of work that won her the Lifetime with former National Security Council collection of awards including an Alfred Achievement Emmy in 2003 for overall official Fiona Hill and three interviews I. duPont-Columbia University Silver excellence in reporting. with Donald J. Trump. Baton in 1996 for Punishing Saddam, She’ll begin her 29th season on 60 Prior to joining 60 Minutes, Stahl which exposed the plight of Iraqi citizens, Minutes in September 2020, having served as CBS News White House mostly children, suffering the effects of the United Nations sanctions against Iraq. 46 NYWICI.ORG @NYWICI #MATRIX2020 #MATRIX50 INCITE AWARD

TINA TCHEN PRESIDENT & CEO, TIME’S UP NOW AND THE TIME’S UP FOUNDATION A Voice for Transformation

by AUNDREA CLINE-THOMAS

“IT DOES FEEL LIKE I’VE BEEN WORKING and BUILDING MY WAY THROUGH THESE VARIOUS JOBS TO THIS MOMENT, TO THIS JOB, TO THIS TRANSFORMATIONAL POINT IN TIME THAT I THINK WE’RE IN,” SAYS CHEN. “A LOT of LIFE IS the LUCK OF BEING IN the RIGHT PLACE AT the RIGHT TIME. I THINK THAT MAYBE I WAS FORTUNATE to ARRIVE AT RIGHT NOW.”

A lawyer by trade, Tina Tchen’s career has sent her on an unexpected journey. Currently the President and CEO of TIME’S UP Now and the TIME’S UP Foundation, she co-founded the TIME’S UP Legal Defense fund in 2017, which has helped provide legal and PR support to more than 4,000 people confronting sexual harassment in various industries. Tchen began her career in Illinois state government in a role that landed her in the White House as the former assistant to President Barack Obama, then as the executive director of the White House Council on Women and Girls, and, finally, as chief of staff to First Lady Michelle Obama. Now in what she calls her “third act,” Tchen believes she has changed careers during a transformational moment in history.

WHAT INNATE QUALITIES DID family camp with other families from the have those moments — especially if you YOU HAVE AS A CHILD THAT YOU Midwest, where we learned the Chinese are experiencing them for the first time in CULTIVATE, WHICH CONTINUE TO language and the way to really keep your professional career — and not let SERVE YOU TODAY? the connection to our cultural heritage those feelings get inside your head and I am a child of Chinese immigrants and alive. That camp has been going strong undermine your confidence. grew up in a neighborhood where I for 62 years. When I became one of was more of a curiosity — and certainly only a few women who were at the HOW DID GENDER EQUALITY AND very different. I can remember at a very level I was practicing in corporate law, PARITY IN THE WORKPLACE BECOME young age being looked at and pointed or certainly the only woman of color A PASSION OF YOURS? in a meeting with senior executives or to in a grocery store. My parents just Illinois was the only northern industrial co-counsel … it was familiar territory. instilled in me and my sister a very strong state that had not ratified the Equal Rights I think my familiarity with feeling like sense of self and a great appreciation Amendment in 1978. Everyone who an outsider really enabled me to be for our heritage. They started a Chinese was a national icon from the women’s successful in those situations. It is hard to

NYWICI.ORG @NYWICI #MATRIX2020 #MATRIX50 49 movement came to Illinois. We had going to jail. It has caused companies that I have been working on my whole demonstrations and I became an officer to take a second look at what are we life. A lot of life is the luck of being in in the National Organization for Women. missing. What’s in our policies? How do the right place at the right time. I think I think that experience set me on a path we do better? I believe the reason why I that maybe I was fortunate to arrive at of working on women’s issues my entire took this job at TIME’S UP is that we are right now. career. Then I spent my whole working life in a transformational moment culturally as a mom, raising two kids on my own as to change the gender norms. They don’t a lawyer, but with resources. I was very come around very often. But when they conscious of the fact that if it was hard for come, we can completely adjust the way me, how much more exponentially difficult we think about the workplace, about it would be for a woman on minimum women’s and men’s roles, and about wage, a woman with no sick leave let how we treat one another. alone paid family leave. So that has continued to propel me. HOW HAS WORKING IN THIS SPACE CHANGED YOU? HOW DO YOU THINK THE PUBLIC FALL When I left the White House after eight OF VERY POWERFUL MEN IMPACTED years, I returned to private practice. That THE WORKPLACE FOR EVERYDAY was my third act. I was still supporting WOMEN? TIME’S UP working with the legal defense We’ve seen it with the incredible, brave fund, the United States of Women and silence breakers that came forward. You When We All Vote. Then this opportunity cannot solve a problem you cannot see. came along, which I really resisted for a We started seeing it for the first time in the long time. At this stage of my life, it’s really last few years and that has had a ripple put me into an entirely new profession of effect, not just on individual powerful men full-time advocate. [It just] had me double who are losing their jobs, who are now down on my commitment to these issues

PRESENTER DYLLAN MCGEE Filmmaker and Founder, McGee Media

Dyllan McGee, a 2014 the women’s movement. McGee has Past projects include the Emmy Award- Matrix Award honoree, is a made a mark in bringing creativity and nominated, Gloria: In Her Own Words two-time Emmy and du-Pont- innovation to all her collaborations. (HBO); du-Pont-Columbia Journalism Columbia Journalism Award- McGee Media projects in production Award-winning, Reconstruction: America winning filmmaker as well as the founder include: Not Done, a documentary After The Civil War (PBS); and Emmy- and executive producer of McGee Media, that will tell the story of the women’s nominated, In Memoriam, 9/11/01 a documentary film company dedicated movement today and the reignited (HBO). McGee is also the Executive to producing content that inspires a more intersectional fight for equality (PBS); Producer of The MAKERS Conference, fair and equitable world (founded with her Frederick Douglass, a series based an annual gathering of corporate women husband, Mark Weigel). on the Pulitzer Prize Award-winning and men with an agenda to advance She is also the founder and executive biography by David Blight (HBO); The diversity, equity and inclusion in the producer of MAKERS, a live events and Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is workplace. media platform that exists to accelerate Our Song (PBS); Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (PBS); and more.

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2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 Padma Lakshmi Halle Berry Rukmini Callimachi Linda Boff Kirsten Gillibrand Kate Lewis Mika Brzezinski Gretchen Carlson Nancy Dubuc Debra L. Lee Jeanine D. Liburd Kim Kelleher Susan Credle Lena Dunham Andrea Mitchell Susan Magrino Betsy Kenny Lack Savannah Guthrie Nancy Gibbs Robbie Myers Norah O’Donnell Dia Simms Kristin Lemkau Carol Hamilton Martine Reardon Kathy Ring Alexandra Trower Judy Smith Mellody Hobson Megan Smith Lisa Sherman Shelley Zalis Nancy Weber Liz Kaplow Sally Susman Jodi Kantor, Emily Steel, Janice Min Megan Twohey*

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2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 Alix M. Freedman Christy A. Ferer* Carole Black Andrea Alstrup Candice Carpenter Ann Fudge Gretchen C. Morgenson Peggy Conlon Judy Corman Ranny Cooper Susan Peterson Kennedy Sheila Nevins Eve Ensler Jane Friedman Patricia Cornwell Nell Merlino Maurie Perl Kati Marton Joanne Lipman Patricia D. Fili-Krushel Martha Nelson Carolyn K. Reidy Helen Thomas Judy McGrath Katharine Graham Bernadette Peters Jane Rosenthal Madeline de Vries Valerie Salembier Judith Jamison Debra Shriver Daisy Expósito-Ulla Meg Whitman Lois Smith Ann Jackson Paula Zahn Kate White Anna Wintour Pamela Thomas-Graham Linda Kaplan Thaler

52 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 Katie Couric Pilar Crespi Red Burns Charlotte Beers Shelly Lazarus Esther Dyson Anthea Disney Nora Ephron Whoopi Goldberg Carolyn Lee Joyce Hergenhan Phyllis McGrady Anne Sutherland Fuchs Geraldine Laybourne Patricia Matson Dorothy Kalins Bette Midler Betty Hudson Liz Smith Toni Morrison Debbie A. Krenek Sally Minard Laura Landro Martha Stewart Cokie Roberts Linda Srere Janet Robinson Esther R. Newberg Amy Tan Elizabeth Tilberis Meryl Streep Rochelle Udell Rosie O’Donnell Patrice Tanaka Nan Talese Mary Lou Quinlan

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1984 1983 1982 1981 1980 Susan Brownmiller Maya Angelou Karen W. Arenson Letitia Baldrige Franchellie Cadwell Tamara K. Homer Kay Koplovitz Cathleen P. Black Judith Daniels Suzanne Garment Judy Lynn Prince Patricia Martin Caroline R. Jones Beth Fallon Frances Fitz Gerald Enid Nemy Mary McGrory Joyce Carol Oates Pegeen Fitzgerald Barbara Hunter Patricia Ryan Jane Bryant Quinn Jeannette E. Paladino Jane Brown Maas Pamela Hill Diane Sawyer Charlotte Kelly Veal Kay J. Wight Letty Cottin Pogrebin Ruth Whitney

1979 1978 1977 1976 1975 Betty Furness Rena R. Bartos Ann Berk Gay Pauley Madeline Amgott Marcia Ann Gillespie Jane E. Brody Beatrice Buckler Sylvia Porter Aileen Corbett Joan Lipton Patricia Carbine Gloria Emerson Lynn Povich Elizabeth Janeway Elaine R. Pitts Dr. Dorothy Gregg Muriel Fox Marlene Sanders Charlotte Klein Harriet Rabb Barbara Seaman Ada Louise Huxtable Jean Schoonover Judy Klemesrud Barbara Tuchman Barbara Walters Nadeen Peterson June Thursh Geraldine Rhoads Barbara Yuncker Shirley Polykoff

1974 1973 1972 1971 Shana Alexander Jo Foxworth Mary Andrews Ayres Gloria Steinem Charlotte Curtis Sondra Gorney Marylin Bender Theo Wilson Susanne Loeb Lucy Jarvis Pat Coffin Joan Murray Eileen Shanahan Melba Toliver *Special Award Rita Sands Gail Sheehy

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Ann Liguori Foundation Sports Media Scholarship This scholarship supports the study of sports media communications or management and is intended for those hoping to pursue a career in sports broadcasting, reporting, programming or production. Applicants must be at least a rising junior.

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Meredith Corporation Scholarship Awarded to a student who has demonstrated a commitment to a career in publishing (print, digital and/or marketing) and who has completed the sophomore year in college.

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