16. Speaking About Fertility With Your Employer

Marcela Levy is a Partner at the law firm Mannheimer, Perez e Lyra, a proud working parent of twins, and a dear friend/workout buddy. She received her LL.B. from the Catholic University of Rio De Janeiro in 2008 and received her LL.M. in 2012 from Columbia University in New York City where she also met her husband.  Our first encounter was in 2012 in a midtown conference room, when she was on secondment at the law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. We talk about her journey starting with her keen awareness of how she wanted to raise a family, her transparency with her employer about fertility, and the lessons she learned balancing her career with the things she loves (family being one of them).