Audrey Gelman: The Wing’s CEO, Founder, and Political Staff Member

Audrey Gelman is CEO (and founder) of The Wing, a co-working and hospitality space for women. Gelman is also a political staffer who worked on Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign and the 2013 campaign for New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer. She notably was on the front cover of Inc. Magazine in 2019 as the first visibly pregnant woman on a business magazine cover.

Despite its rapid expansion ($117.5 million as of February 2019), critics raise concerns over membership being out of many women’s financial reach. Critics also point to membership practices they say are gender-biased against men.