The Team
Gretchen Carlson
CO-FOUNDER
GRETCHEN CARLSON is a fierce, fearless, and internationally recognized advocate for women’s rights, whose bold actions against Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes helped pave the way for the global #MeToo movement. A former CBS News and Fox News journalist, author, TED talk alum, and champion for workplace equality, Carlson was named one of Time Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World.”
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She’s the co-founder of the non-profit Lift Our Voices and the author of the two bestsellers “Be Fierce” and “Getting Real.” Carlson’s story of harassment and retaliation at Fox News has garnered international attention, including the Showtime mini-series “The Loudest Voice” and the major motion picture “Bombshell.”
Her advocacy has been honored by numerous organizations, including the New York Women in Communications’ Matrix Award; the Radio Television Digital News Association’s First Amendment Leadership Award; the National Organization for Women’s Women of Power and Influence Award; the YWCA Phenomenal Champion of Change; and the Arizona Foundation for Women’s Sandra Day O’Connor Lifetime Achievement Award.
Carlson serves on the Advisory Board for the Michelle Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University and is also a member of the philanthropic organization Women Moving Millions.
She’s an honors graduate of Stanford University and also studied at Oxford University. A violin prodigy, she performed as a soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra at age 13 and was one of her high school's valedictorians. In 1989 she became the first classical violinist to win Miss America.
Julie Roginsky
CO-FOUNDER
JULIE ROGINSKY has long been an outspoken champion of women’s rights and issues. A nationally recognized political consultant, Roginsky began her career working at a prominent organization dedicated to electing more women to political office. Throughout her career, she has focused her efforts on mentoring and empowering women to become engaged in the political process.
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Since filing her lawsuit for sexual harassment and retaliation against the Fox News Channel, she has dedicated herself to ending the silencing mechanisms that prevent survivors of workplace toxicity from coming forward about their experiences. In Congress, she championed the bipartisan Speak Out Act, which eradicates predispute non-disclosure agreements for sexual assault and harassment. At the state level, she has advocated for laws that prevent workers from disclosing toxic workplace experiences.
Roginsky is the host of Retaliation: the Podcast, which highlights the stories of women who spoke truth to power at great personal cost.Previously, she was a contributor at CNBC and the Fox News Channel, where she was a frequent co-host of “Outnumbered” and “The Five.” In 2017, she became one of the first women to file a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit against the Fox News Channel and its chairman..
She serves as an advisor to major corporations, start-ups, non-profits, labor unions, and dozens of elected officials, including governors, senators, members of the House of Representatives, and state legislators.
Roginsky received both her B.A. and M.A. with honors from Boston University, where her graduate work focused on studying the dissolution of the Soviet Union and its transition from a planned to a market economy. Her passion for empowering women began in college, when she spent time working at the Labour Party in London, focusing on policies affecting women in the United Kingdom.
Roginsky previously served as a decade-long board member of the Women’s Campaign School at Yale University.
Adrianne Lee
PROGRAM ASSOCIATE
ADRIANNE LEE serves as the Program Associate for Lift Our Voices. She is a scientist by training with a passion for research, community engagement and social justice. During her undergrad years she gained experience conducting biochemical research, coordinating outreach and professional development events, as well as lobbied on Capitol Hill to raise support for and educate on the importance of basic science research. As a graduate student she was involved in the university’s graduate student council and served as diversity and inclusion officer for her graduate program’s student association. She earned a masters in biomedical science from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a bachelors in chemistry from James Madison University.
“Carlson [and] Julie Roginsky, are becoming adept at the art of achieving bipartisan support on wide-reaching worker protections, and are already looking at other forms of workplace toxicity to tackle next.”
— BLOOMBERG LAW