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Gina Rubel goes on record with Sara Merken, legal reporter with Reuters, to discuss her journey of becoming a legal reporter, legal innovation during the coronavirus pandemic, the importance of access to diverse sources, and legal trends on her radar.

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Sara primarily writes for a subscriber-audience of lawyers and other professionals, covering a variety of legal topics, including privacy and data security; the business of law; and legal innovation and technology. She joined the Reuters Legal team in April 2020.

In addition to Reuters, Sara has been a reporter at Bloomberg Law and Bloomberg BNA. Reuters is the news and media division of multinational media conglomerate Thomson Reuters. The Reuters Legal team is part of Reuters.

Gina Rubel goes on record with May Lee, award-winning journalist and host of The May Lee Show, to discuss AAPI Heritage Month, her journey to becoming an award-winning journalist, what experiences have had the greatest impact on her career in communications, and what inspired the launch of The May Lee Show.

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At the start of 2020, May partnered with NextShark, the leading Asian online news source, to launch “The May Lee Show”, a podcast/video program focused on Asian and Asian American issues and stories.

Prior to “The May Lee Show”, May was the LA-based correspondent for international network CGTN-America. She covered news, politics, business, and entertainment throughout Southern California and beyond.

May is also the founder and CEO of Lotus Media House, a media company that she started in Singapore and produced original programs including “The May Lee Show”, the first pan-Asia talk show for women. May’s international experience as a broadcast journalist began in 1992 at Japan’s NHK network. Then, May became the first Korean American to become a news anchor for CNN, first as the Tokyo Correspondent and then the main anchor for CNN International in Hong Kong.

In 2000, May joined the dynamic new women’s network, Oxygen Media, founded by Oprah Winfrey as one of its main talk show hosts. She headed back to Asia in 2004 to join CNBC Asia as the primary anchor.

Gina Rubel goes on record with Joan Block, co-founder, and senior advisor to the Hepatitis B Foundation, to discuss Hepatitis Awareness Month, AAPI Heritage Month and the Hepatitis B Foundation.

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Joan is a nationally recognized leader in hepatitis B outreach, education, and patient advocacy. She and her husband, Dr. Timothy Block, started the Hepatitis B Foundation when Joan was diagnosed with chronic hepatitis B.

The Hepatitis B Foundation is a national 501c(3) non-profit organization dedicated to finding a cure and improving the lives of those affected by hepatitis B worldwide through research, education, public health and patient advocacy.

Leslie Richards goes on record with Cathryn Miller-Wilson, Executive Director of HIAS Pennsylvania, to discuss the history and important work of HIAS Pennsylvania, recent trends impacting immigration, and how COVID-19 has impacted the organization’s work.

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Cathryn Miller-Wilson graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1993 and has spent her career doing social justice work: representing parents accused of abuse and neglect at Community Legal Services, Inc., representing persons with HIV/AIDS at the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania and teaching and supervising law students who represented low-income persons in a variety of civil matters at both Drexel University School of Law and Villanova University School of Law.

Gina Rubel goes on record with Whittney Beard, Master Certified Coach at Volta Talent Strategies, to discuss the benefits of coaching, the impact of COVID-19 on the need for coaching services, and how coaching can support lawyer retention.

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Whittney brings over 14 years of professional coaching experience to her coaching and consulting practice at Volta. She spent eight years exclusively coaching lawyers at Orrick in a broad range of areas, including leadership, team management, business development, and effective communication.

At Volta, Whittney continues to coach partners and lawyers at all levels. In addition, she developed and co-leads the Volta Coach Training program, an International Coach Federation-accredited program which aims to establish and expand the culture of coaching within law firms by providing tailored coach training to lawyers and law firm staff.

Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with Bill Heller, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the New York Giants, to discuss his transition from private practice to in-house, the legal issues that keep him the busiest, what resources he values to stay abreast of legal developments, and his advice to new general counsel.

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As the New York Giants Chief Legal Officer, Bill is involved in all aspects of the Giants’ business, running the gamut from labor and employment, to sponsorships, naming rights, licensing, entertainment and other contracts, to assistance with the legal aspects of the football operations.

Prior to his tenure at the Giants and throughout his legal career, Bill practiced at major law firms based in New Jersey and handled cases nationwide. He tried federal and state court cases involving intellectual property, commercial and employment matters, among other things, for clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to family-owned entities.

In this episode of On Record PR, Founder and CEO, Gina F. Rubel, Esq., goes on record with Vanessa Blum, Newsroom Innovation Director at American Lawyer Media, to discuss newsroom innovation, trends in legal media and how trends impact the way news is delivered.

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Vanessa is ALM’s first Director of Newsroom Innovation, a role that combines vision, leadership and editorial expertise. A graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Vanessa covered courts and the legal industry in Washington D.C. and South Florida before joining ALM in San Francisco in 2012.

She served as managing editor of The Recorder and led ALM’s national litigation desk before stepping into her current role in 2018. As newsroom innovation director, Vanessa has helped to conceive and launch several recent offerings for ALM including the new Law.com Radar, a tech-enabled website that provides customized early awareness of key legal developments.

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Susan Freeman, CEO & founder of The Conscious Inclusion Company, to discuss how companies can crash their outdated, nondiverse and non-inclusive operating systems.

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Susan Freeman is the CEO and founder of The Conscious Inclusion Company and its subsidiaries, Executive Institute on Inclusion (for large companies) and Diversity University (for small to midsize companies and firms). Her mission (and passion) is to help people achieve workplace equity in professional environments.

The Conscious Inclusion Company, is a woman-owned and minority-owned business dedicated to helping companies succeed from a business perspective while doing the right thing, creating equity in the workplace, and equality in the world.

In this episode of On Record PR, Executive Vice President Sarah Larson goes on record with James Greenwood, senior policy advisor at DLA Piper, retired CEO of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, and former congressman representing Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

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Jim Greenwood started his career as a social worker focusing on abused and neglected children in 1980. At the age of 29, he was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and six years later to the state Senate.

In 1992, he was elected to Congress and would go on to represent Pennsylvania's eighth congressional district for six terms from 1993 to 2005. In 2005, Jim voluntarily left Congress to serve as the president and CEO of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization. After 15 years at the helm of BIO, he recently joined DLA Piper where he now chairs the Life Sciences, Health, Policy and Regulatory Group.

Leslie Richards goes on record with Ellen Snortland to discuss the origin of the National Women's History Alliance and the significance of Women’s History Month for women and girls today.

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Ellen has her Juris doctorate from Loyola Law School, and is an author, lecturer, playwright, filmmaker, and writing coach for local and internationally based clients.

A long-time woman's rights advocate, Ellen is a blogger for the Huffington Post and Ms. Magazine, has been featured on NPR and has written for many major market newspapers. Ellen's acclaimed one woman show, Now That She's Gone, is a comic memoir about growing up Norwegian-American in Colorado and South Dakota. She has attended several United Nations World Conferences, and annual UN meetings as an NGO delegate, self-defense advocate and journalist.