"We are going down to the studs to completely rebuild," said Ashley Judd, an actor and author who serves as one of the group's four remaining board members. The decision to effectively restart a group founded by Hollywood and political leaders in 2018 follows revelations this summer that senior leaders consulted with advisers of Andrew M. Cuomo after the Democratic governor had been accused of sexual harassment by a former aide. At one point, former CEO Tina Tchen, who worked in the White House during the Obama presidency, told her colleagues to "stand down" from a plan to release a statement supporting his accuser after two people connected with the group spoke with the governor's aides. Tchen and board chair Roberta Kaplan resigned in August. |