She did not request that I not tell the board—I don’t think we discussed that possibility.
To clarify—do you mean you didn’t tell them by because you hadn’t discussed the possibility that you would, or you did tell them because you didn’t discuss the possibility that you wouldn’t? That’s an important ambiguity!
Either way, for all my recent disillusionment with EVF, I feel like you’ve been the one constant I’ve continually heard good things about, so I hope you learn whatever lessons apply here and continue providing much needed support to the community :)
In 2021, the woman and I discussed who she wanted to know about the situation. Our focus was on his colleagues at that time and people he might have a mentorship relationship with. I’ve clarified here that this did include one person who was a board member of EV UK (then called CEA UK) at the time.
When the TIME piece publicly described the situation but not either of the people’s identities, Nicole and I decided that the board should know that the account was about Owen (but not the identity of the woman).
Based on this comment and this excerpt from the UK EV board above, my interpretation is that the board as a whole did not know about this until Feb 2023.
I do think the comment doesn’t fully clarify between whether she considered telling the board but opted against this versus this option did not cross her mind back in 2021, but I suspect this is something that will also be part of the investigation, which is why I didn’t follow up on this.
To clarify—do you mean you didn’t tell them by because you hadn’t discussed the possibility that you would, or you did tell them because you didn’t discuss the possibility that you wouldn’t? That’s an important ambiguity!
Either way, for all my recent disillusionment with EVF, I feel like you’ve been the one constant I’ve continually heard good things about, so I hope you learn whatever lessons apply here and continue providing much needed support to the community :)
In 2021, the woman and I discussed who she wanted to know about the situation. Our focus was on his colleagues at that time and people he might have a mentorship relationship with. I’ve clarified here that this did include one person who was a board member of EV UK (then called CEA UK) at the time.
When the TIME piece publicly described the situation but not either of the people’s identities, Nicole and I decided that the board should know that the account was about Owen (but not the identity of the woman).
Based on this comment and this excerpt from the UK EV board above, my interpretation is that the board as a whole did not know about this until Feb 2023.
I do think the comment doesn’t fully clarify between whether she considered telling the board but opted against this versus this option did not cross her mind back in 2021, but I suspect this is something that will also be part of the investigation, which is why I didn’t follow up on this.