On Tuesday, TIME’S UP, an organization that seeks to create equal opportunities for all women in their respective workplaces, named Lisa Borders its first-even president and CEO.
Borders had been the President of the Women’s National Basketball Association, and prior to this position, she served as President of Atlanta’s City Council and Vice-Mayor of Atlanta. She also served as Vice President of Global Community Affairs at the Coca-Cola Company and as Chair of the Coca-Cola Foundation.
"TIME'S UP is both a natural extension and a bold advancement of the work I have been doing for the last four decades,” Borders told TIME’S UP. “I'm honored to have this opportunity to combine my experience working across all three sectors, as real, systemic change will require collaboration from each of these arenas. To disrupt and reinvent the ingrained status quo, we will need all hands-on deck to create and sustain enduring change. I'm thrilled to lead TIME'S UP and I am convinced that together, we will shift the paradigm of workplace culture.”
TIME’S UP was created by women in the entertainment industry on January 1, 2018. Since then, the organization’s mission has expanded from the entertainment industry to many other industries where women work. To learn more about the organization’s mission, visit www.timesupnow.com.
To learn more about Borders’ appointment as CEO and president, click here.