Our Guests

Adrienne Lawrence

Adrienne Lawrence, an award-winning gender-equity advocate, serves as General Counsel and Director of Outreach for BetterBrave. The accomplished attorney is familiar with what it takes to fight sexual harassment. In 2017,  she went public about gender discrimination at her former employer ESPN, later becoming the first on-air personality to sue the sports media giant for sexual harassment. Since that time, Adrienne wrote a first-of-its-kind book titled Staying in the Game: The Playbook for Beating Workplace Sexual Harassment (Penguin / May 2020). When she’s not supporting BetterBrave’s legal and outreach needs, Adrienne can be seen leading successful anti-sexual harassment training programs and sharing insightful legal analysis on platforms such as Buzzfeed’s AM-to-DM, NPR, and The Young Turks. 

Jaime-Alexis Fowler 

Jaime-Alexis Fowler is the founder and executive director of Empower Work which provides immediate, confidential support for difficult work situations via text. She's a seasoned leader with a track record of building agile, high-performing, healthy teams. She’s led marketing at a $100M reproductive health international NGO, run operations for a national post-abortion counseling nonprofit, overseen marketing at Code for America, and launched an investigative newsroom. Her work has been featured in TechCrunch, Slate, Fast Company, and Forbes. Jaime-Alexis frequently speaks and writes about building collaborative, healthy teams, career pathways and pivots, social entrepreneurship, and the future of work. She’s a graduate of Vassar College with an MA from the London School of Economics.

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Jean Hyams 

Over three decades ago, Jean Hyams left a successful career in high technology marketing to pursue her dream of becoming a civil rights lawyer. Jean believes that employers who institute good management practices can put a stop to discrimination, retaliation and harassment in the workplace. When they don’t, it is the job of employment lawyers to hold employers accountable for the damage and devastation that employees suffer when their civil rights are violated. As active participants in the #MeToo and #TimesUp movement, Jean and the other attorneys of Levy Vinick Burrell Hyams LLP represent silence breakers and counsel women who are speaking out as part of this national cultural reckoning.

Katharine Jiang

Katharine Jiang is a software engineer and entrepreneur passionate about creating more empathetic and inclusive culture in tech. She is Chief of Staff of #MovingForward, a global social movement working with over 170 VC firms across 23 countries to address harassment and discrimination in the industry. She is an alum of the University of California, Berkeley and currently works as a software engineer at Blend.

Ilana Giannini

Ilana Giannini worked for 20 years as a professional writer in the film industry and decided to train as a psychotherapist. She is optimistic and believes that people can write — and change — their own stories. With the right help and support, even traumatic stories can be reworked and lives reimagined. Through social work she underscored her sense that people heal best if gently moved from a place of isolation to a place of supportive understanding. Now she leads a group at WILA called Safe Space.

Tammy Cho

Tammy Cho is a tech startup founder who transitioned into the world of social justice and nonprofits. Tired of the rampant harassment and discrimination in workplaces across the tech industry, Tammy felt compelled to take action and founded and launched BetterBrave, a nonprofit organization dedicated to tackling toxic workplaces in 2017, just before the #MeToo wave began. She also co-produces Hidden Narratives, a podcast that illuminates the untold stories of Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic and is Co-Founder of Hate Is A Virus, a nonprofit that combats xenophobia and racism. Prior to these initiatives, Tammy co-founded Encore Alert, an AI platform that helps brands like IDEO, Denver Broncos, and the University of Michigan identify and act on emerging trends, crises, and influencers in their industry. She started the company as a college freshman at Georgetown University and sold it to Meltwater in 2016 at age 21.