Audrey Gelman
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Audrey Gelman (born June 2, 1987) is an American businessperson and political staffer.
The Wing, a women's coworking space and social club, was founded in New York City in 2016.
Allison Williams' character Marnie on Girls was inspired by her.
Early life and education
Gelman is the niece of microbiologist Irwin Gelman and psychologist Lisa Speigel. She was born on the Upper West Side of the country. Gelman attended the Lab School and Bard High School in New York City. She began attending Oberlin College in 2005 and spent two years before going to work for Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign for President George W. Bush. Following Clinton's primary loss, she returned to New York. At New York University, she earned a bachelor's degree in political science. She appeared in Lena Dunham's satirical web series Downtown Divas during this period.
Personal life
Gelman dated photographer Terry Richardson from 2011 to 2013. She married Genius co-founder Ilan Zechory in Detroit in April 2016. On September 24, 2019, the couple's first child was born.
Lena Dunham's childhood friend, who has named her the inspiration for the Girls character Marnie. Both the two students attended Oberlin College together.
Career
Gelman served as a press aide for Hillary Clinton's campaign for president in 2008. She served as deputy communications director in Scott Stringer's 2011 bid for New York City Comptroller. Gelman served with the political action committee Downtown for Democracy during the 2012 presidential election. Gelman joined the SKDKnickerbocker's New York office in 2013.
Gelman co-founder Lauren Kassan unveiled The Wing, a women's coworking space in October 2016. Initially, she and Kassan raised $2.4 million to create the club, with "aspirations to revive the spirit of the late 19th and early twentieth century suffrage movements." The first location was located in the Flatiron District. 200 women were eligible members of the club at the time.
The Wing did not have a formal membership policy in its first two years, and its policy was to only accept women and non-binary individuals. On March 1, 2018, the New York City Commission on Human Rights initiated a "commission-initiated" inquiry into how the Wing membership system works. A male applicant who was refusing admission filed a lawsuit against The Wing in August 2018. The company introduced its first formal membership program shortly after, which went into place on September 24, 2018. The Wing's motion to dismiss the case in June 2019 was denied, but the case was still pending in September 2019.
The Wing announced in April 2017 that it had raised a Series A led by venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates with support from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and the expansion to three new locations. The Series A funds amounted to $8 million. Around 1,500 members had by November 2017 by November 2017. That month, The Wing unveiled No Man's Land, as well as raising $32 million in a series B funding round, led by WeWork. By December 2017, the Wing had a second location in Soho, New York.
Gelman was one of its 50 Politicos to Watch in 2013. Audrey Gelman was one of Forbes' 30 Under 30: Corporate Climbers, and she had previously been listed in the magazine's 30 Under 30: Legisl and Policy list. Gelman was named to their Most Creative People in Business list in 2017. In December 2017, she was included in a TechCrunch article on 42 women in technology.
In the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, Gelman endorsed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
Gelman was on the front page of Inc. magazine in 2019, marking the first time a physically pregnant woman appeared on a business magazine's front page.
Gelman resigned as CEO of The Wing in June 2020, following protests over how The Wing didn't respond to racist conduct of its staff members and a staff walkout.
Gelman opened The Six Bells ("a new country store") in Brooklyn, New York, in April 2022.
The Wing officially shuts down on August 31, 2022, the longest time the Wing has been active.