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Writer and executive producer
Ms. Grant is the Oscar and Emmy-nominated screenwriter and co-producer of the Netflix series Unbelievable. She is also the screenplay writer of Erin Brockovich, Confirmation, In Her Shoes, The Soloist, Party of Five and more.
The CVTC staff and board were so taken by Unbelievable when it first debuted in 2019. Ms. Grant and co-writer Ms. Timberman captured the true experiences of clients like ours, who are all trying to heal while they await justice. We are thrilled to hold our annual gala in person this year, finally honoring the unbelievable work of Ms. Grant and Ms. Timberman.
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Executive producer
Sarah Timberman's producing credits include the recently completed FX limited series "Fleishman is in Trouble," based on the critically acclaimed novel by Taffy Brodesser-Akner, starring Jesse Eisenberg, Claire Danes and Lizzy Caplan. In addition to "Fleishman Is In Trouble," Timberman and her Timberman/Beverly Productions partner, Carl Beverly, also recently completed production on the FX limited series "Justified: City Primeval," starring Timothy Olyphant, as well as the Showtime limited series, "The Man Who Fell To Earth," starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Naomie Harris, based on the Walter Tevis novel and the Nicolas Roeg film. Timberman/Beverly's other recent credits include the Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated Netflix limited series, "Unbelievable" (based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning Marshall Project/ProPublica article, "An Unbelievable Story of Rape"), with writer/director Susannah Grant, as well as seven seasons of their long-running Rob Doherty CBS series, “Elementary,” four seasons of the acclaimed Showtime series, “Masters of Sex” (based on the biography of noted sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson), and six seasons of FX's award-winning series, "Justified" (based on Elmore Leonard's "Fire in the Hole"). Other Timberman/Beverly credits include CBS’ "SEAL Team," "The Code," “Unforgettable,” “The Odd Couple, "A Gifted Man" and “Doubt,” as well as the NBC series, “Kidnapped.”
Timberman is also currently in production on the Netflix film "Lonely Planet," starring Laura Dern and Liam Hemsworth, written and directed by Susannah Grant.
Prior to starting the company, Timberman served as President, Universal Network Television. She oversaw all comedy, drama, long-form and reality programming for the company and played a key role in acquiring the rights to the British series, "The Office," for NBC. Timberman joined Universal from Columbia-Tri-Star Television, where she served as Executive Vice President, Drama Development. Some of the series she oversaw included "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek." Prior to working in television, Timberman was an assistant editor at Random House in New York.
Timberman serves on the Advisory Board of LAANE (Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy), the NRDC's Los Angeles Leadership Council, the Board of Directors of Death Penalty Focus, and the Board of Trustees of the "I Have a Dream Foundation," Los Angeles.
Timberman grew up in Greenwich Village, New York, and is a graduate of Brown University. She is married to writer/producer Ed Redlich and they have two children.
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Lawyer, advocate, survivor
Andowah earned her first degree from Georgetown University and law degrees from Cornell Law School and The Sorbonne. She was a CPA/auditor for 4 years. Her Note on African immigration to the U.S. was published in the Cornell International Law Journal, awarded the Robert H. Jackson Award for best published student writing on international law, and cited by a Congresswoman in the Harvard Journal on Legislation. Ms. Newton clerked for the First Vice President Judge of the International Criminal Court then litigated complex cases in NYC for 8 years. She was named a NY Super Lawyers Rising Star and was selected for the Hispanic National Bar Association’s Latina Commission Leadership Program. She was named an Empire State Honoree for her pro bono work which included advising detained immigrants and obtaining asylum, work visas, and protective orders for survivors of domestic violence and human rights abuses. As an in-house legal executive, she has created and led pro bono programs with Safe Passage, CUNY’s Citizenship Now, NYC Bar Association’s Fresh Start, and volunteered with the Lawyers’ Committee on Civil Rights Election Protection program. For 12 years, she mentored, coached, and judged legal debates for high school and law school students in the Legal Outreach and Inroads programs. In 2019, she founded a nonprofit whose mission is to empower youth, in memory of her baby brother Ryan Newton.
Ms. Newton’s testimony at the House Judiciary Committee hearing in 2021 prompted a bipartisan passage of the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act (HR4445)), dubbed the “most significant labor legislation of this past century,” this past March, leading to a private meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris before the Bill Signing Ceremony, where the President publicly recognized Ms. Newton as 1 of the 4 "courageous survivors who led this historic reform.” Ms. Newton will be speaking on a keynote panel about the law at the Women, Influence, and Power in the Law conference in DC on October 18th and was just recognized as a Global Top 100 Most Influential Person of African Descent: Law & Justice, for achievement as a patron of Justice and Equality for People of African Descent. Ms. Newton has paved the path for all survivors of sexual harassment to access justice, even as she continues to fight for her own.
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Advocate, law school student, survivor
Originally from Los Angeles, California, Tatiana Spottiswoode graduated from Brown University in 2015. She worked as a data analyst for a tech company until she was forced to leave because of sexual misconduct. She worked with community organizers to prevent austerity measures in Rhode Island during the beginning of the pandemic. She started at Columbia Law School in the fall of 2021 and in November testified for the House Judiciary Committee in support of HR 4445. This past summer, she worked for the Children’s Law Center of California.
Ms. Spottiswoode’s testimony prompted a bipartisan passage of the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act (HR4445) this past March. Ms. Spottiswoode has paved the path for all survivors of workplace sexual harassment to access justice.
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CVTC's Inaugural Operations Director and Complementary Therapist
Until August of 2022, Sally was the Operations Director and Complementary Therapist at the Crime Victims Treatment Center (CVTC) in New York City. She served as Administrative Director of the Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner (SAFE) Programs at CVTC’s partner hospitals and CVTC’s SAFE Training Institute and has been a New York State Department of Health certified Rape Crisis Advocate since 2001.
As CVTC’s Complementary Therapist, Sally worked with clients individually and in groups at CVTC and currently maintains a private practice. She holds certificates in: energy healing, bodywork, hypnosis and spiritual and emotional counseling from the Academy of Natural Healing; The Art of Educare™ from the Mystery School of Educare™; TranceDance facilitation from The Natale Institute. She is a certified Hypnotist under the National Guild of Hypnotists, a certified Humanistic Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner and National Acupuncture Detoxification Association Acupuncture Detoxification Specialist. She is currently pursuing an additional certification as a Mindfulness Meditation Teacher.
