Lift Our Voices is an American nonprofit organization led by journalist and television host Gretchen Carlson and political consultant Julie Roginsky, who co-founded it in 2019, after their respective experiences of alleged sexual harassment while working at Fox News.
[1] Founded after the start of the MeToo movement, its mission is to end legal mechanisms that prevent survivors of Sexual assault, harassment, and other workplace abuse from speaking out publicly, such as Non-disclosure agreement and forced arbitration.
[13] In founding the nonprofit organization, Carlson and Roginsky stated their goal was to work with both business and government leaders in order to remove NDAs and similar legal agreements from workplaces in instances of assault, harassment and discrimination.
[26] In June 2022, Carlson and Roginsky joined Representatives Lois Frankel, Cheri Bustos, and Ken Buck, who as co-sponsors introduced the bipartisan federal Speak Out Act in House of Representatives, which would prohibit NDAs from being required as part of employment contracts to prevent employees from openly sharing allegations of sexual assault or harassment in the workplace; its lead Senate co-sponsors include Senators Gillibrand, Graham, Marsha Blackburn and Mazie Hirono.
[27][28] Lift Our Voices was called a "pro-worker policy group " that earlier in 2022 "ushered a similar bill into law, nullifying mandatory arbitration provisions for workers alleging #MeToo claims" and noting bipartisan support of both efforts in both chambers of Congress.