(The Wing spokeswoman said Ms. Nelson was leaving for “a new opportunity that was already in the works before the changes of leadership” at the company.). Audrey Gelman, the co-founder of The Wing, resigned from her position as CEO on Thursday, as employees publicly voiced their anger with the company's "systemic" mistreatment of … "[10] The first location was in the Flatiron District. [12] On March 1, 2018, the New York City Commission on Human Rights started a "commission-initiated" investigation[13] into how The Wing membership system operates. “I’m looking forward to spending a little time as a stay-at-home mom,” Ms. Gelman said in an interview Thursday night. She is the founder of The Wing, a women's co-working space and social club founded in New York City in 2016. Employees who witnessed the altercation said they felt the white guest was at fault. She adroitly navigated the cultural tide of feminism, female empowerment and the #MeToo movement, transforming herself from a publicist to a veritable power broker. Black lives don’t matter to yall.”. Employees at the West Hollywood location and at the New York headquarters were outraged, according to two former senior employees. [21] In December 2017, she was listed in a TechCrunch feature on 42 women succeeding in tech. The Wing CEO, Audrey Gelman, steps down as turmoil rocks the buzzy social club for women By Sara Ashley O'Brien , CNN Business Updated 8:59 AM ET, Fri June 12, 2020 With her business partner Ms. Kassan, Ms. Gelman founded the Wing in 2016 with the idea that women in gig-economy New York needed a place to take meetings, network and refresh their makeup. HuffPost is part of Verizon Media. Check your priorities.”. But the Black Lives Matter movement, amplified by the police killing of George Floyd, has not played to Ms. Gelman’s advantage. Between April 15 and June 7, employees could apply for one-time assistance grants of $500 each. [9] Initially, she and Kassan raised $2.4 million to create the club, with "aspirations to resurrect the atmosphere of the women’s clubs of the late 19th and early 20th century suffrage movement. Big yikes. Information about your device and internet connection, including your IP address, Browsing and search activity while using Verizon Media websites and apps. Dues are waived for about 300 low-income members.). [11] The club had a founding membership of 200 women. Audrey Gelman (born June 2, 1987) is an American businessperson and political staffer. “Hold up, how do you have 200k for orgs when you still haven’t paid numerous employees that applied for the employee relief fund?” said one commenter, among many. Civil rights movements were good for Audrey Gelman, a founder of the upscale women-only club and co-working space the Wing, until they weren’t.
She maintains an ownership stake of more than 10 percent in the company and will remain on the board. “Black lives didn’t matter when I said I had a miscarriage and was asked to still come into work. [22], Gelman endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the run-up for the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
[7] During the 2012 presidential election, Gelman was involved with the revival of the political action committee Downtown for Democracy. [4], In 2008, Gelman worked as a press aide for Hillary Clinton's campaign for president. Find out more about how we use your information in our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. On June 1, one employee who asked for an update on her payments was told in an email that “the fund is currently paused as we continue to raise more money and distribute grants to the existing applicants.”. Audrey Gelman… She declined to be interviewed. “The company is elevating leadership from within to create a newly formed Office of the CEO that will be composed of Lauren Kassan, Celestine Maddy, and Ashley Peterson,” a spokeswoman for the company said in a detailed email. “We have been told over and over by our leadership that we’re a mission-driven company, even as the company’s actions consistently prove otherwise,” employees wrote in a statement Thursday afternoon. [28] Their first child was born on September 24, 2019. Others took the opportunity to highlight general work conditions for people of color at the Wing. Less than a month after the opening of the club’s first location, in New York’s Flatiron district, Donald J. Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the presidential election, and suddenly the Wing had a new mission and urgency. “The Wing unilaterally condemns all racist and state-sanctioned violence against Black communities. “This is a time of incalculable mourning,” the post said. The two also attended Oberlin College together. Shortly after she did so, employees went on virtual strike to protest her leadership and to ask for sweeping changes to the management of the Wing, especially its treatment of black and brown employees. [4][5] During this time, she also appeared in the satirical web series Delusional Downtown Divas by Lena Dunham. Corporations around America have tried to position themselves on the right side of history by posting on Instagram about their commitment to anti-racism. In the next three and a half years, Ms. Gelman and Ms. Kassan raised more than $100 million from venture capitalists and investors like Valerie Jarrett, a former adviser to President Barack Obama, and the soccer star Megan Rapinoe, opening eight more locations, from London to Los Angeles. [14] In June 2019, the Wing's motion to dismiss the lawsuit was denied and as of September 2019, the lawsuit was pending. [8], In October 2016, Gelman launched The Wing, a women's co-working space with her co-founder Lauren Kassan. Gelman dated photographer Terry Richardson from 2011 until 2013. [2] She began Oberlin College in 2005[4] and attended for two years before leaving to work for Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign for U.S. She is the founder of The Wing, a women's co-working space and social club founded in New York City in 2016. [2] She returned to New York after Clinton's primary defeat. Soon after, Instagram posts and tweets began to emerge, stating, “Audrey Gelman’s resignation is not enough.”, Audrey Gelman, the Wing’s Co-Founder, Resigns. [4] In 2013, Gelman joined the New York office of strategic consulting firm SKDKnickerbocker. She leaves amid a furor over treatment of black and brown employees at the chain of women’s networking spaces.
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[26] In April 2016, she married Genius co-founder Ilan Zechory[27] in Detroit. Audrey Gelman — who resigned as CEO of women-only club the Wing in June amid accusations that the feminist networking space treated black and brown employees poorly — … Ms. Gelman, 33, resigned Thursday. Audrey Gelman is the CEO and, with Lauren Kassan, the co-founder of women’s co-working space The Wing.The company has locations in New York City, Chicago, and San Francisco, with plans to open soon in L.A. and Boston (and London, West Hollywood, Toronto, Seattle, and Paris to follow). By mid-May, several former employees had received their checks, but others had not. “The decision is the right thing for the business and the best way to bring The Wing along into a long overdue era of change,” Ms. Gelman wrote to colleagues. Vox reported in 2019 that the company’s “several hundred dollars a month for membership” put it “out of reach of the very women who could use them most, especially women of color and low-income women.” By December 2017, The Wing had a second location in New York's Soho. She finished her bachelor's degree in political science at New York University. [15], In April 2017, The Wing announced it had raised a Series A led by venture capital fund New Enterprise Associates with support from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and an expansion to three new locations. She resigned from her position as The Wing's CEO in June 2020. The black women of Dumbo had a whole groupchat that we spoke in every single day for MONTHS because we didn’t feel safe working at the wing. Ms. Gelman stepped down. ”, Diedra Nelson, the company’s chief financial officer and one of two black women in the company’s C-suite, also resigned. We stand with the protesters who are putting their voices and bodies on the line to advocate for the dire change that we need in this country.”, The response was perhaps not what Ms. Gelman and her fellow executives had hoped. “Particularly black & brown space staff who were making $16.50. It's Just Getting Started", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Audrey_Gelman&oldid=983519097, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 14 October 2020, at 18:09. She resigned from her position as The Wing's CEO in June 2020. To enable Verizon Media and our partners to process your personal data select 'I agree', or select 'Manage settings' for more information and to manage your choices. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Your Privacy Controls. We and our partners will store and/or access information on your device through the use of cookies and similar technologies, to display personalised ads and content, for ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. It chartered buses to ferry members to Washington for the inaugural Women’s March and offered its members panel discussions like “Workshop on Anxiety & Depression in a Post-Trump World and “A Conversation With Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.”. She declined to comment further. In an interview Thursday evening, Ms. Jarrett agreed to have her comment published. In accordance with Wing bylaws, employees alerted the white woman that she would be banned from the space. The Washington Post via Getty Images Audrey Gelman, the founder of The Wing, on April 9, 2018, in Washington. Audrey Gelman, co-founder of The Wing, is stepping down as CEO of the millenial-pink–hued women’s co-working space.. On Thursday morning, Gelman notified staff in a company-wide email that after running the business for a little over three years, today will be her last day. [2][3], Gelman attended the Lab School and Bard High School in New York City. “Black lives didn’t matter when majority of the black staff would cry in the break room from the mistreatment from our superiors,” wrote Tahirah Jarrett, 29, a former employee who was paid by the hour. [16][17] The Series A funding came to $8 million. Audrey Gelman, the founder of the Wing, a women-only co-working space, at the Washington, D.C., location in 2018. [4] That month, The Wing launched the magazine No Man's Land[4] and also raised $32 million in a series B funding round, led by WeWork. Amid the hoopla and news media attention that she courted, Ms. Gelman became a self-appointed president of Instagram-friendly feminism, appearing on the cover of Inc. and in the pages of Vogue.
[7] In the December 2014 issue of Forbes, Audrey Gelman was named one of its 30 Under 30: Corporate Climbers, and was previously named in the magazine's 30 Under 30: Law and Policy list. Early this year, 26 former and current employees described low pay and poor treatment of employees in a New York Times Magazine article.
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