On Record PR

Gina Rubel goes on record with Ashley Gorbulja-Maldonado, Public Affairs Specialist at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Founder of GuideOn Education to discuss her time serving her country as an Army National Guard veteran and her continued work as a leading voice in supporting America’s military-connected community.

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Ashley proudly served her country as an Army National Guard veteran for over eight years and continues to serve her community as a leading voice in supporting America's military-connected community. After reviewing America's veteran systems' inconsistent patterns, Ashley realized that a change needed to be made. Today, Ashley is the CEO and Founder of GuideOn Education. This service builds meaningful and sustainable veteran programming in higher education, nonprofits, and corporations wanting to tap into the military market.

In this episode of On Record PR, Caitlan McCafferty goes on record with Professors Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor and Lisa Materson from U.C. Davis to discuss their work in women and gender history.

[Trigger warning: This audio recording contains material about sexual violence.]

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Professors Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor and Lisa Materson are historians at U.C. Davis who specialize in women's and gender history. Together they co-edited The Oxford Handbook of American Women's and Gender History, which consists of 30 analytical chapters covering topics such as women in U.S. imperialism, interracial unions and state power, gender and sexuality in popular culture and women's work under free and unfree labor regimes.

Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with Latanya Mapp Frett, President and CEO of Global Fund for Women, to discuss her journey of becoming president and CEO, the impact of grassroots movements around the world, and what International Women's Day means to her.

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An attorney by training, Latanya began her career at the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund in Washington, DC. Prior to joining Global Fund for Women, Latanya was the Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Global, the international arm of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Lantayna worked for eight years as a human rights officer for the United Nations Children’s Fund (also known as UNICEF) and for 10 years with the United States Agency for International Development. She served as a delegate to the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 and continues to fight for the human rights of women.

Sarah Larson goes on record with Holly Hotchner, President and CEO of the National Women’s History Museum, to discuss the museum’s mission to tell the stories of women who transformed our nation.

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Holly has extensive experience creating new and interesting experiences for museum visitors and driving institutional advancement. She also led her own consulting firm working with nonprofits on strategic growth and held positions with The Princess Grace Foundation, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Tate Gallery and the Museum of Modern Art.

Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with Keith Maziarek, Director of Pricing and Legal Project Management at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP and an Officer and Board Member of the Legal Value Network.

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In his role as Director of Pricing and Legal Project Management at Katten, he is responsible for developing, implementing and scaling the firm's formal pricing and legal project management functions. The scope of this position includes both internal and client-facing responsibilities focused on establishing institutional best practices related to strategic pricing, service delivery efficiency and maximizing client value.

Gina Rubel, goes on record with Pavani Thagirisa, Associate General Counsel, Vice-President and Global Head of Legal for ESG at S&P Global, to discuss how legal leaders can be advocates and advisors across a broad spectrum of responsibilities and roles.

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Pavani joined S&P Global in 2009 and currently advises S&P Global' s enterprise ESG business.

Over the past 10 years, she has held several management and non-management roles with increasing responsibility, ranging from commercial deal negotiation and M&A to helping set legal and operational strategies for the department. From late 2017 through the spring of 2019, Pavani served as Chair of the General Counsel’s Advisory Council. She assisted S&P Global’s General Counsel, Steve Kemps, and his Advisory group on cross-divisional and cross-functional opportunities and challenges across the Global Legal, Compliance and Corporate Security Department.

Gina F. Rubel goes on record with Joan Feldman, co-founder and editor-in-chief at Attorney at Work to discuss the do’s and don’ts of pitching articles to Attorney at Work an online publication and website for lawyers who want to improve the business and marketing side of their practice.

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Attorney at Work is an online publication and website for lawyers who want to improve the business and marketing side of their practice. It celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2021, has been listed in ABA Journal's Blawg Hall of Fame.

Joan is a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management. She has worked in legal publishing since graduating from Northwestern's Medill School of journalism more than 30 years ago - including as managing editor of the ABA Law Practice magazine for a dozen years.

Gina Rubel goes on record with Marcie Borgal Schunk, president and founder of The Tilt Institute to discuss how law firms can leverage data for competitive advantage and implement strategies for sustainable growth.

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The Tilt Institute specializes in helping law firms shepherd significant transformation. Marcie trains and coaches leadership teams and emerging leaders to create dynamic plans, shift mindsets and motivate action. She is an ALM Legal Intelligence Fellow, a Fellow in the College of Law Practice Management, and a frequent speaker on legal industry trends.

Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with WBNA All-Star Kym Hampton to discuss how organizations can successfully recruit and retain diverse talent and the competitive advantage of diverse teams.

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As a professional basketball player, Kym was drafted as the number four pick in the 1997 WNBA Elite draft and played three seasons for the New York Liberty. Prior to joining the WNBA, Kym did a 12-year professional stint overseas including -- Spain, Italy, France and Japan. After a 15-year professional playing career, she retired from basketball in 2000.

During Kym’s WNBA career and since then, she has become a plus size model in fashion as well as cosmetics. She is an original Cover Girl Queen Collection model featured in a nation-wide commercial. She has found herself in GLAMOUR, ESSENCE and other magazines. She is also a spokesperson for the NBA, WNBA, and New York Liberty.

As if that doesn’t keep her busy enough, singing has always been a love of Kym’s and she has also had the opportunity to grace the television and film world during guest appearances on the “Cosby Show”, “Rosie”, NBA TV, The Bobby Flay “Throw Down” and celebrity “Wheel of Fortune”. Her film experience includes “JuWanna Mann” and “She Hate Me” so far.

A graduate of Arizona State University, she received her bachelor’s degree in theater but will go down in the university’s history book as one of the most decorated hoop players to wear a Sun Devil’s jersey.

Caitlan McCafferty goes on record with Dr. Terry Sullivan, the cofounder and executive director of the White House Transition Project to discuss the history of presidential transitions and the important events leading up to inauguration day.

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Dr. Sullivan is a recently retired professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research continues to focus on presidential leadership and tradecraft as well as the presidential appointments process. His books on this subject include Nerve Center: Lessons on Governing from the White House Chiefs of Staff. His most recent academic article focuses on why Senate reforms to curb minority obstruction have consistently failed. It is entitled, “The ‘Nuclear Option’ has Fizzled… Again. Here’s Why and What to Do About It.” In 2015, he was selected as the Professor of the Year in the University System by the North Carolina Board of Governors.

Dr. Sullivan is also the cofounder and currently Executive Director of The White House Transition Project, a non-partisan consortium of university researchers who since 1997 have lent assistance to all the presidential campaigns and to all the outgoing and the incoming presidential administrations so that they can successfully traverse the peaceful transition of power and quickly and without troubling incident stand up the American national government. President George W. Bush has called WHTP’s assistance, “…a great help both to our 2001 transition in and then to our 2009 transition out.”