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Podcast: Office Hours with David Meltzer
Episode: Marcy Syms, Dre London, Kelly Roach | Office Hours: The Human Experience
Description: Marcy Syms
Marcy Syms is a social entrepreneur, former CEO of Syms Corp, and the youngest woman to lead a NYSE-listed company, where she built the nation’s first off-price retail chain. A longtime advocate for education, justice, and the arts, she serves on boards including Columbia Law School’s ERA Project, CUNY’s Macaulay Honors College, the Sy Syms School of Business, and NPR. As past Chair of the ERA Coalition/Fund for Women’s Equality, she helped secure the 38th state ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, and in 2022 was a fellow at Harvard’s Advanced L...