Who We AreWomen's Media Group is a New York City-based nonprofit association of women who have achieved prominence in the many fields of media. Our members—drawn primarily from print and digital book, magazine, and newspaper publishing; film and television; and online and other digital media—meet to collaborate with, learn from, inform, and support one another. The organization is also dedicated to mentoring young women interested in pursuing media careers. |
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Free for WMG members; $15 for non-members (Zoom) Come hear a power panel of master storytellers at this unforgettable event for AANHPI Heritage Month. Their voices deserve to be amplified all year long, but May is the month when we lift the AANHPI community even higher! These award-winning authors, screenwriters, playwrights, performers, teachers, founders, and journalists will talk about their work and how they came to share their stories with the world. This group of fabulous trailblazers has taken the time to consistently amplify marginalized voices throughout their careers, serving as role models for how to uplift others. Their courage, strength, and creativity will inspire you to claim your voice and harness your narrative power to tell your story. Meet the speakers:
Elaine Hsieh Chou is a Taiwanese American author and screenwriter from California. Her debut novel, Disorientation, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice Book, New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award finalist, and Thurber Prize finalist. A former Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow at New York University, her Pushcart Award–winning short fiction appears in Guernica, Black Warrior Review, Tin House Online, Ploughshares, and The Atlantic, while her essays appear in The Cut and Vanity Fair. Elaine is a Fred R. Brown Literary Award recipient, a Sundance Episodic Lab Fellow, and a Gotham Series Creator to Watch. Her work has been supported by the Harry Ransom Center, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and Hedgebrook’s Writers-in-Residence Program.
In 2025, Hali Lee was named to the inaugural TIME100 Philanthropy list in recognition of her work building collective giving. In 2021, she was named to Forbes’ 50 Over 50: Impact in recognition of her work as a founder of the Donors of Color Network, Philanthropy Together, and the Asian Women Giving Circle. Today, she leads a boutique consulting practice, Radiant Strategies, and is a frequent public speaker who has made appearances at more than fifty conferences and events in the last year. Her work has been covered by The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Good Housekeeping. Her first book, The Big We, was published by Sweet July/Zando in 2025. She lives in Brooklyn with her family, a big love of a dog, and rooftop honey bees.
Beth Nguyen is the author of the memoirs Owner of a Lonely Heart and Stealing Buddha’s Dinner, as well as the novels Short Girls and Pioneer Girl. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an American Book Award, and her work has appeared in publications including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, TIME, and Best American Essays. Beth is a professor and director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Meet the moderator:
Vicky Nguyen is an anchor and correspondent for NBC News and TODAY, as well as author of Boat Baby: A Memoir. Her reporting gives consumers valuable information for how to live healthier, wealthier, and safer lives. Vicky’s dynamic storytelling has led to impactful changes at the local and national level and resulted in numerous awards, including a National Emmy, the Gerald Loeb Award for Business and Financial Journalism, and the duPont Columbia Award for Broadcast Journalism. She graduated as valedictorian from the University of San Francisco. Vicky is based in New York, and when she’s not working she enjoys spending time with her husband, their three daughters, and tiny dog Moose.
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Thursday, June 4, 5:30-7:30 p.m. ET Penguin Random House, 1745 Broadway (between 55th & 56th Streets), Cerf-Lane Room, NYC $20 for WMG members and partner organizations; $25 for non-members; $10 for active Scholars Join Women’s Media Group for a bold, interactive program that brings leadership principles off the page and into practice. Elaine Meryl Brown and Rhonda Joy McLean, co-authors of The Next Little Black Book of Success, will be joined by Penguin Random House associate publisher Porscha Burke in a conversation expertly moderated by Tiffany Dufu. A follow-up to the widely influential The Little Black Book of Success, this new work reframes leadership for today’s landscape—centering ownership, intention, and bold decision-making. This program will go beyond discussion: attendees will participate in guided exercises drawn directly from the book, designed to help assess your current path, sharpen your voice, and activate your next move. Come ready to connect and challenge assumptions, and leave with clarity and conviction. Meet the speakers:
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Tuesday, May 19, 5:30-6:30 p.m. ET
Susan Lieu is a Vietnamese American author, playwright, and performer. A daughter of nail salon workers, she took her award-winning autobiographical solo show, 140 LBS: How Beauty Killed My Mother, on a sold-out national tour with accolades from the Los Angeles Times and American Theatre. Her debut memoir, The Manicurist’s Daughter, was a Best Book of the Year from NPR and the Smithsonian and a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and Goodreads Choice Awards. Recognized as one of Seattle’s “Most Influential People,” Susan is a graduate of Harvard and Yale and the co-founder of Socola Chocolatier, an award-winning artisanal chocolate company with Vietnamese-inspired flavors. Susan lives with her husband and son in Seattle, where they enjoy mushroom hunting, croissants, and big family gatherings.
Elaine Meryl Brown is a Daytime Emmy Award-winning writer, executive producer, and former HBO media executive. During her tenure at HBO and Showtime, she led the creation and promotion of original programming and launched digital platforms to engage targeted audiences. A multi-hyphenate creative, she has received more than 40 industry awards and produced impactful campaigns, including the global AIDS: Get Tested initiative featuring Queen Latifah and Jamie Foxx and the launch campaign for Def Comedy Jam. Elaine is the author of two novels, Lemon City and Playing by the Rules, and co-author of the bestselling The Little Black Book of Success: Laws of Leadership for Black Women and its companion workbook, the forthcoming The Next Little Black Book of Success. A member of the Producers Guild of America and Women’s Media Group, Elaine continues to write and develop new creative projects.
Porscha Burke is associate publisher of Storehouse Voices, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group at Penguin Random House. Over her more than twenty years in publishing, she’s supported executives, acquired and edited works by Dr. Maya Angelou, Jon Meacham, Candice Benbow, Bryant Terry, Kathy Iandoli, Queen Afua, Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. and Christopher Benson, Connie Briscoe and Milton Washington, David E. Talbert, and Arian Simone, and spearheaded new editions of The Autobiography of Malcolm X and The Black Book, originally edited by Toni Morrison. A Queens, New York native and University of Virginia graduate, Porscha received her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College, where she currently teaches.
Rhonda Joy McLean
Tiffany Dufu is president of the Tory Burch Foundation, which advances women’s economic power by supporting entrepreneurs to build sustainable businesses. She is the author of the bestselling book Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less, praised by Gloria Steinem as “important, path-breaking, intimate and brave,” and her writing has appeared in O, ESSENCE, and The New York Times. Named to Entrepreneur’s 100 Powerful Women and Fast Company’s League of Extraordinary Women, Tiffany has raised more than $25 million for women and girls. She is the founder of The Cru, a peer coaching platform acquired by Luminary in 2023, and previously served on the launch team of Lean In and as Chief Leadership Officer of Levo. Earlier in her career, she was president of The White House Project. Tiffany serves on several nonprofit and academic boards and lives in New York City with her family.