27 August 2021: Time's Up CEO Latest To Resign in Cuomo Sexual Harassment Aftermath

Time’s Up CEO Tina Tchen resigns in wake of Cuomo scandal

Choosing to place Andrew M. Cuomo's political interests ahead of your employer's interests is proving to be a fatal career choice. Tina Tchen is the latest example of that kind of poor judgment, where we had anticipated she would face "professional consequences". Those consequences have arrived sooner than we were anticipating.

The chief executive of the sexual harassment victims’ advocacy group Time’s Up resigned Thursday amid outrage over revelations that its leaders advised former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration after he was first accused of misconduct last year.

Time’s Up CEO and president Tina Tchen said in a statement that she’s “spent a career fighting for positive change for women” but was no longer the right person to lead the #MeToo-era organization.

“I am especially aware that my position at the helm of TIME’S UP has become a painful and divisive focal point, where those very women and other activists who should be working together to fight for change are instead battling each other in harmful ways,” she wrote.

The group’s chief operating officer, Monifa Bandele, will serve as interim CEO.

Tchen’s resignation comes after the Aug. 9 departure of the organization’s chair, Roberta Kaplan. Both women had been the target of ire from Time’s Up supporters over the idea they had offered any help to Cuomo, who resigned Monday, three weeks after an investigation overseen by New York’s attorney generalconcluded he sexually harassed at least 11 women.

The rapidity of Kaplan and Tchen's resignations does beg a question. Why hasn't Cuomo's cheerleader news network CNN taken similar actions, given the roles of its Prime Time host, editors, and managers in servicing Andrew M. Cuomo's interests, which have similarly negatively impacted its stated mission?