Queering Compliance

Jennifer Gaskin

Every queer person has a story. So does every compliance professional. Here, those two stories meet. Hosted by Jennifer Gaskin, editorial director of Corporate Compliance Insights, this podcast sits down with out LGBTQIA+ people working in compliance, ethics, risk, legal, governance and related fields to talk about the personal and professional journeys that brought them here — the challenges, the triumphs, the funny moments and the ones that still sting years or even decades later. In a post-DEI world that would have queer people head back to the closet and stay there, there's never been a more important time to tell these stories. The arts, education, even sports — queer voices and queer stories are commonplace. In the corporate world — well, not so much. Queering Compliance is here to change that. Because joy is medicine. And so is being seen. About the Host Jennifer L. Gaskin is Editorial Director of Corporate Compliance Insights, joining the CCI team in 2021. In her professional role, she covers the intersection of corporate culture, ethics and the people who navigate both. She is also an out lesbian who watched the corporate DEI tide roll in and is watching it roll back out again. Before landing at CCI, Jennifer spent more than a decade in community journalism, serving in a variety of roles, from sports reporter to managing editor. Read Jennifer's writing at CCI: https://www.corporatecomplianceinsights.com/author/jennifer-gaskin/ Visit her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jengaskin/ Interested in being a guest on the show? Drop us a line: podcasts@corporatecomplianceinsights.com

Episodes

  1. Jul 28

    Ep 003 | The Complicated Legacy of Barney Frank

    Barney Frank is a household name in both the compliance community (especially folks who work in financial services) and the queer community. In the 1980s, he became the first openly gay member of Congress to win re-election (he's often credited as the first out congressman, but that's not precisely true) and in the 2010s, the bill that bears his name, the Dodd-Frank Act, became law, reforming oversight of financial institutions in the wake of the Great Recession. While many of the legislation's reforms are still in place, its impact has been blunted in recent years, receiving a partial rollback in 2018 and under the second Trump Administration seeing the CFPB, one of the agencies the law created, effectively gutted. Similarly, his queer legacy is somewhat muddy. On many occasions, up until his final weeks, took the view that fighting for rights for trans people was a bridge too far for the broader American populace, though it's worth noting this is a view that has somewhat divided the queer community itself with a small-but-vocal minority referring to themselves as "normal" gays who cleave to the safety of "respectability." An iconoclast until the end, Barney Frank died in May at the age of 86. GUEST INFO:  Featuring Nancy Del Pizzo, an attorney at RivkinRadler ---- https://www.corporatecomplianceinsights.com/queering-compliance/ Keep up with CCI on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/corporate-compliance-insights/ Interested in being a guest on the show? Drop us a line: podcasts@corporatecomplianceinsights.com

    Ep 003 | The Complicated Legacy of Barney Frank

About

Every queer person has a story. So does every compliance professional. Here, those two stories meet. Hosted by Jennifer Gaskin, editorial director of Corporate Compliance Insights, this podcast sits down with out LGBTQIA+ people working in compliance, ethics, risk, legal, governance and related fields to talk about the personal and professional journeys that brought them here — the challenges, the triumphs, the funny moments and the ones that still sting years or even decades later. In a post-DEI world that would have queer people head back to the closet and stay there, there's never been a more important time to tell these stories. The arts, education, even sports — queer voices and queer stories are commonplace. In the corporate world — well, not so much. Queering Compliance is here to change that. Because joy is medicine. And so is being seen. About the Host Jennifer L. Gaskin is Editorial Director of Corporate Compliance Insights, joining the CCI team in 2021. In her professional role, she covers the intersection of corporate culture, ethics and the people who navigate both. She is also an out lesbian who watched the corporate DEI tide roll in and is watching it roll back out again. Before landing at CCI, Jennifer spent more than a decade in community journalism, serving in a variety of roles, from sports reporter to managing editor. Read Jennifer's writing at CCI: https://www.corporatecomplianceinsights.com/author/jennifer-gaskin/ Visit her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jengaskin/ Interested in being a guest on the show? Drop us a line: podcasts@corporatecomplianceinsights.com