Maeve DuVally Keynote Speaker

Maeve DuVally is a multi-cultural communications specialist, storyteller and LGBTQ+ advocate.  She has spent the bulk of her career as a journalist and corporate spokesperson, most recently at Goldman Sachs.

After a lifetime of working for large companies, she now consults for corporations and other organizations on communications strategy and diversity, equity and inclusion, Maeve also mentors transgender people and is a frequent public speaker on LGBTQ+ workplace issues.

She was a managing director in corporate communications at Goldman Sachs over an 18-year career. Prior to joining Goldman, Maeve worked in media relations at Merrill Lynch.

Before that, she was a financial journalist and editor at Bridge News for nearly 15 years with stints in Tokyo, Washington D.C. and New York. She spent ten formative years in Japan in the 1980s and is fluent in the language.

Maeve serves on the boards of GLAAD; the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship, a journalism non-profit; Connecticut-based LGBTQ+ health provider Anchor Health Initiative; and Trans New York.

She earned a B.A. in English from Providence College in 1983 and was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism School in 1994.

Her memoir, “Maeve Rising,” debuted in August 2023.