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Roberta Kaplan and CEO Tina Tchen, and many of the group’s board members, including Eva Longoria, Shonda Rhimes and Jurnee Smollett, all left in a mass exodus. Time’s Up’s remaining board members include Colleen DeCourcy, Raffi Freedman-Gurspan, Ashley Judd and Gabrielle Sulzberger.

Time’s Up isn’t officially shutting down, but the scandal tainted advocacy organization will not be the same.

aid producer Shonda Rhimes, one of those powerful women, at the time.She was speaking about Hollywood. But now, Time’s Up itself is on a mission to clean its own house — and salvage its very existence -- after a damaging scandal that forced the departure of its chief executive, Tina Tchen, over revelations the group’s leaders advised former New York Gov.

Time’s Up is making some major changes.

Just over a week after Tina Tchen resigned as the CEO of Time’s Up, the besieged gender equity group has now seen a vast portion of its board of directors exit — willingly. "Time’s Up is ready for new leadership, and we want to move forcefully toward its new iteration," said exiting board members Shonda Rhimes, Eva Longoria, Jurnee Smollett, Christy Haubegger, Hilary Rosen, Michelle Kydd, Katie McGrath and interim board chair and super lawyer Nina Shaw in a statement posted online today.

Selome Hailu editorTime’s Up’s governing board of directors has issued a new statement about the impending transition of leadership within the group, which includes the exits of several prominent board members.The statement denotes the women’s advocacy group’s “crisis,” including former CEO Tina Tchen’s resignation, as an “opportunity for growth and change.” Political strategist and activist Monifa Bandele replaced Tchen, taking over as interim CEO after previously serving as COO.“We have

Just over a week after Tina Tchen resigned as the CEO of Time’s Up, the besieged gender equity group has now seen a vast portion of its board of directors exit — willingly.

Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentFollowing Tina Tchen’s departure, Time’s Up has named Monifa Bandele the interim CEO, Variety has learned.Bandele, a political strategist and activist, was previously chief operating officer for Time’s Up, which she joined in October 2020.Prior to Tchen stepping down yesterday, Time’s Up was in the process of bringing on an outside consulting firm to conduct an internal assessment, given the slew of controversies the women’s advocacy group had been

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterAfter a month of brutal headlines, Time’s Up CEO Tina Tchen resigned on Thursday, leaving behind deep questions about the organization’s mission and values and whether it can continue in its current form.Tchen, a former corporate attorney who served as Michelle Obama’s chief of staff, pursued a theory of change that relied on cozy relationships with powerful figures.

Tina Tchen is stepping down.

pic.twitter.com/sRlUZfXnYZTime’s Up’s board of directors also announced Thursday that Monifa Bandele, formerly of MomsRising and most recently the group’s COO, would be the new interim CEO, effective August 31. The board, which is led by attorney Nina Shaw, also issued a statement on the heels of Tchen’s departure, praising her dedication to making workplaces more fair and equitable.

Twitter, Tchen — the former chief of staff to Michelle Obama — said she's “spent a career fighting for positive change for women” but she wasn't the right person to lead the #MeToo-era organization at this time.“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.Tchen's resignation

Just days after making it through a duo of pivot stakeholders meeting that put her besieged  leadership under a spotlight, Tina Tchen has quit as the head of Time’s Up

Tina Tchen, the former chief of staff for Michelle Obama who became president and CEO of Time’s Up Now and the Time’s Up Foundation, has stepped down from the pro-women’s group.Tchen’s resignation comes amid a time of crisis for the organization, which was founded in Jan.

Andrew Cuomo.According to a new report by the Washington Post, leaders within Time’s Up worked closely with Cuomo’s office when his first sexual harassment accuser, Lindsey Boylan, came forward.The exposé goes into great detail, providing alleged text messages from December 2020, when the Cuomo accusations first hit, between the organization’s leaders, including embattled president and CEO Tina Tchen, who reportedly told her staff to “stand down” on releasing a public statement in support of

EXCLUSIVE: Tina Tchen says she’s keeping her CEO gig, but change is coming to Time’s Up.

Tina Tchen, the embattled president and CEO of Time’s Up Now and the Time’s Up Foundation, will remain in her position, Variety has learned.There was an emergency meeting called Monday morning after a series of missteps by Time’s Up were seen to have compromised the group, and they were enumerated in a New York Times story on Sunday.

EXCLUSIVE: The blast radius from the end of Andrew Cuomo’s reign in the Empire State this week could see another chief executive forced to exit, or at least face a reckoning.

New York Times interview that the organization is dealing with “a broken-trust moment,” with one survivor saying she was “manipulate, bullied and smeared” by Time’s Up.Among those speaking out is Drew Dixon, who was one of the first to come forward with sexual abuse allegations against hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons in 2017.

In a report from The Daily Beast, multiple former employees say that under the leadership of CEO Tina Tchen, many decisions were made within the organization on how to respond to various issues based on Time’s Up’s financial connections to those involved. Tchen apologized this past week after she and former board chair Roberta Kaplan were accused of advising Cuomo on how to handle sexual harassment allegations against him.

Rose McGowan is continuing to air her frustrations with celebrities and politicians. The 47-year-old "Charmed" alum has long been an advocate for sexual harassment and abuse victims.This week, she tore into New York  Gov.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterTime’s Up has named Chelsea Fuller its new VP of communications.Fuller replaces the organization’s first communications chief, Amanda Harrington, who joined in May 2019 and departed March.“I’m thrilled to have Chelsea join the fight for safe, fair, and dignified work,” said Tina Tchen, president and CEO of Time’s Up.

NBC and dick clark productions may be on board with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s latest attempts at reform and inclusion, but Time’s Up and Tinseltown’s top PR gurus are clearly not drinking the Kool-Aid.

The Time’s Up Foundation has joined with 1 in 4, a coalition of disabled Hollywood workers, in calling for “long-term institutional shifts” in the film and TV industry to increase employment opportunities and authentic portrayals of the disabled community on screen, behind the camera, and in the media.

Editors Note: For the latest in Deadline’s A Year of Covid series looking back at the one-year anniversary of the coronavirus pandemic, Time’s Up boss Tina Tchen surveys the damage the lockdown inflicted on women in the workforce, and some of the steps we can take to begin rebuilding in a healthy and inclusive way.

Time's Up responded to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's statement on Saturday outlining initial steps it will take to be more inclusive and increase transparency within its organization. CEO Tina Tchen wrote, "So NBCUniversal, Dick Clark Productions, and the HFPA just declared that they have a plan to fix problems they’ve ignored for decades.

UPDATE 6:54 P.M.: Literally Minutes after the HFPA announced more details of their plans to be a more diverse and inclusive organization, Time’s Up responded with “the right words are not enough. The clock is ticking.”

Minutes after the 78th annual Golden Globes Awards wrapped, Time's Up president and CEO Tina Tchen released a pair of letters to its voting body, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and its network sponsor, NBC, demanding a more substantive response to its lack of a diverse membership.

Time's Up on Saturday wrote in a blog post that there should be "no comeback" for Brett Ratner in Hollywood. In response to reports that Ratner is planning a biopic of R&B duo Milli Vanilli, Time's Up president and CEO Tina Tchen released a statement that read, "TIME’S UP was born out of the national reckoning on workplace sexual harassment.

released a statement arguing that there should be “no comeback” for director-producer Brett Ratner in Hollywood.The movement, which was founded in 2018 in response to multiple accusations of sexual assault against Harvey Weinstein and other prominent Hollywood figures, as well as a wider culture of sexual assault and abuse highlighted by #MeToo, issued the statement following the news that Ratner was planning a biopic of R&B duo Milli Vanilli.Time’s Up president and CEO Tina Tchen wrote: “TIME’S

Dave McNary Film ReporterThe Time’s Up Foundation and the Association of Film Commissioners International have collaborated on an effort to push for diversity among commissions and safety on film sets as production begins to re-open.“Our hope is that this report both inspires film commissions to stay invested in these efforts and encourages others to do the same,” said Tina Tchen, president and CEO of the Time’s Up Foundation.

The 2020 Sundance Film Festival is officially underway! 

In the wake of former Recording Academy chief Neil Portnow’s ill-spoken 2018 comment that female musicians and executives needed to “step up” in order to advance in the music industry, the organization formed a Task Force for Diversity and Inclusion, headed by Michelle Obama’s former chief of staff Tina Tchen, to identify and execute those objectives. Last month, it released a strongly-worded 47-page report identifying multiple areas for improvement at the Academy. (Read the full report here.)