Journalist and frequent TV commentator, Best-selling author
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Gretchen is an award-winning journalist, bestselling author, and internationally recognised women’s rights advocate. A former CBS News and Fox News anchor, she became a leading voice for workplace equality after her landmark legal action against Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes helped spark the global #MeToo movement. Named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People, Carlson is the co-founder of Lift Our Voices, a nonprofit dedicated to ending forced arbitration and workplace silencing practices. She played a key role in the passage of the bipartisan Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act and the Speak Out Act. Carlson is also the author of the bestselling books Be Fierce and Getting Real.