Sara Darehshori

PRINCIPAL

Darehshori is an expert in highly sensitive sexual abuse investigations. Darehshori has decades of experience conducting difficult investigations in highly-charged situations where victims and witnesses are reluctant to talk. She has developed effective strategies to improve response to sexual misconduct and prevent abuse in a variety of contexts, including the US military and police departments. She has worked with hundreds of survivors from rape victims in Rwanda and Bosnia, to service members, veterans, college students, and undocumented immigrants in the US.

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Brande Stellings

PRINCIPAL

An expert on workplace inclusion and women’s advancement, Stellings combines her experience as a litigator, diversity and inclusion consultant and lifelong advocate for women’s equity to help build organizations that work for everybody. She conducts culture assessments, serves as a monitor, acts as a litigation consulting expert and provides executive coaching. Stellings has held senior roles in both the private and public sectors at Catalyst, NBC and Cravath, Swaine & Moore. She previously led the consulting department at Catalyst, partnering with CEOs, senior executives and board directors of leading companies to advance women and promote inclusion in the workplace and the boardroom.

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Maureen Garrity

COMMUNICATIONS EXPERT

Maureen Garrity is an award-winning crisis communications and public affairs specialist who has counseled Fortune 500 companies, professional sports teams, private educational institutions and non-profit organizations. Garrity brings media, corporate, government affairs and agency experience. She has a track record of developing successful strategic internal and external communications and helping leaders communicate in times of crisis. Garrity’s crisis skills helped overturn a federal policy that discriminated against children in the allocation of adult donor lungs.

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Silda Palerm

STRATEGIC ADVISOR

Palerm is a seasoned corporate litigator and a leading advocate for women. She was Head of Litigation at Warner Music Group for more than a decade and the Chair of New York City Commission on Gender Equity for ten years. Palerm was also Vice President and Legal Director of Legal Momentum. She has been on the board of directors of Planned Parenthood of New York City, and of Planned Parenthood of Greater New York. She was Chair of the Board of Directors of Violence Intervention Program and has been on the Board of Directors of The New York Women’s Foundation, John Jay College Foundation, MFY Legal Services, and the Puerto Rican Women’s Foundation. Her experience in the corporate world combined with her work on behalf of women gives her unique insight into handling workplace investigations.

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Elana Sigall

EDUCATION EXPERT

Sigall is an educational expert and attorney who has held high-level education-related legal and policy positions. She also has deep experience working on education issues in religious communities. Her policy roles have included serving as New York State’s Deputy Secretary for Education, and as both an Internal Special Master and Chief Policy Officer for special education for New York City. Sigall’s work spans both K-12 and higher education, and she teaches law and policy courses at Columbia University in both areas. She serves as an expert on educational matters in litigation, including in cases related to sexual misconduct on college campuses, placement, curriculum, and discipline. She helped create a national hub to support schools and school districts in addressing deepfakes, especially those that sexually exploit adolescent girls. She also serves as the education advisor for Footsteps, the non-profit that supports people who choose to leave the ultra-Orthodox community.  She produced a documentary film on the failure of education in that community that premiered in New York City in September, 2025.

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Suzette Ramirez-Carr

STRATEGIC HR AND TRANSFORMATION EXPERT

Ramirez-Carr is a seasoned human-capital strategist, executive coach and board advisor with a career spanning finance, media and entertainment, higher education, and consumer products. She has held CHRO roles at TKO Group Holdings, Beautycounter, United Talent Agency, Oaktree Capital Management and Southern Methodist University. Her work centers on navigating transformation, whether through M&A, IPOs or systems redesign, while building high performing workplaces that scale. She also brings a governance perspective to the table through her board service and advisory work with senior leaders.

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