New York City resident Maeve DuVally is an LGBTQ+ advocate; communications and diversity and inclusion consultant; and a writer. She is a frequent traveler to Japan where she lived for ten years. She worked as a corporate spokesperson for Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch for twenty years and was a financial journalist before that. A frequent public speaker on workplace diversity, she serves as on the board of multiple non-profits, including GLAAD, Anchor Health Initiative, and Trans New York. She mentors transgender people in corporate America.