Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin

Author

Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin is an author, activist, political commentator, and the founder of The Gaia Project for Women’s Leadership.

A former Wall Street trial lawyer and serial entrepreneur, Elizabeth founded Gaia Project Consulting, LLC, an executive consulting and coaching firm that serves senior executives across tech, finance, banking, law, fashion, healthcare, non-profit and consulting, in 2011. Five years later, Elizabeth founded The Gaia Project for Women’s Leadership, offering virtual and live programming to grow women’s leadership and activism worldwide.

Elizabeth opines routinely on political and social issues of the day through her daily video broadcast, #ResistanceLive; her wildly popular Twitter feed; her Substack publication, Resilience and Revolution; and major media appearances. Her cutting-edge commentary is followed by media figures like Joy Reid, Ari Melber, Stephanie Ruhle, Ali Velshi, and Jonathan Capehart, activists like Alyssa Milano, Debra Messing, and Fred Guttenberg, political figures like Malcolm Kenyatta, Joaquin Castro, Ayanna Pressley, and Eric Swalwell, and organizers like LaTosha Brown, Cliff Albright, and Melanie Campbell.

Elizabeth’s work has been featured in outlets such as CNN, NPR, CNBC, The Washington Post, Forbes.com, Elle Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, and The New York Times. She has taught courses to thousands of executives worldwide, including at Columbia Law School. Elizabeth also keynotes routinely in corporate and non-profit environments on issues relating to leadership, activism, diversity and inclusion, and new models of success. She has also collaboratively organized protests and mass mobilizations since her teens.

Elizabeth has a J.D. from The George Washington University Law School, where she graduated with honors, was the recipient of the West Bar Publishing Award for Clinical Achievement, and served as the President of the Moot Court Board, among other accolades. She obtained her B.A. from Carnegie Mellon University, with college honors, where she triple-majored in creative writing, professional writing, and French, won awards for poetry, and completed a Senior Honors Thesis on the work of French feminist theorist Luce Irigaray, including translations from the original French.

It is Elizabeth’s mission in life to create radical, revolutionary change toward freedom and dignity for all people by undermining white supremacist patriarchy and training women (cis and trans) to use their voices for change and to collaborate across intersectional lines for justice.

A former decades-long New Yorker, she now lives in Southern California with her children and her two French bulldogs, Sophie and Donut.

Her first book, Becoming Heroines: Unleashing Our Power for Revolution and Rebirth, will be published in July 2021.