Reed Smith today announced London partner Tamara Box and New York partner Natsayi Mawere have again been honored by INvolve for driving gender diversity, equity and inclusion within and across the legal profession. Box was named among the trailblazing leaders on INvolve’s 2024 Heroes Executives Role Model list, and Mawere was named to the global nonprofit’s 2024 Future Leaders Role Model list. This is Box’s eighth time and Mawere’s third to be honored by INvolve.
“We are delighted Tamara and Natsayi continue to be recognized by INvolve for promoting inclusion of women and creating a gender diverse workplace at Reed Smith,” said Reed Smith Global Managing Partner Casey Ryan. “They are both leading by example with active engagement in firmwide and other community initiatives to ensure that progress achieved by women continues. We are proud of their dedication to this essential work.”
INvolve’s Heroes Role Model lists (supported by YouTube) showcase leaders breaking down barriers at work and smashing the ceiling for women in all business sectors. The organization’s 2024 Heroes Executives Role Models list recognizes and celebrates the international business leaders driving change to increase gender diversity in their places of work worldwide. Its 2024 Heroes Future Role Models List celebrates up-and-coming gender diversity champions making a significant contribution to gender diversity at work.
Box is Reed Smith’s former managing partner for Europe and the Middle East, a leading lawyer on its Structured Finance Team and a former chair of the firm’s Financial Industry Group. With more than 20 years of experience, she is a passionate advocate for women at Reed Smith and for gender balance throughout the global business community.
Box serves on the boards of Interpath Advisory and Hanover Investors; as a trustee of Chartered Management Institute and the chair of CMI Women; as a trustee of the gynecological cancer charity Eve Appeal; as an advisory board member of the charity Theirworld; as an advisory board member of LSE’s The Inclusion Initiative; and as a founding member of the Steering Committee of 30% Club. She was ranked an Eminent Practitioner in Chambers UK for London Capital Markets: Securitisation, 2020-2024 and as an Eminent Practitioner in Chambers Global for UK Capital Markets: Securitisation, 2024. In addition, Box appeared in Financial News’s “50 Most Influential Lawyers” list and earned honors as “Law Firm Leader of the Year – Large Law Firm” at the Women and Diversity in Law Awards in 2023.
Mawere is a member of Reed Smith’s Financial Industry Group with a practice focus on litigating complex commercial matters, including defending national putative class actions. Committed to issues of diversity in the legal profession, she serves as chair of the New York office’s DEI Committee and as a member of its Recruiting Committee. She is also a leader of the New York office’s Women’s Initiative Network (WINRS) Committee, which helps Reed Smith women lawyers develop to their fullest potential and position them appropriately for advancement and success.
Mawere also founded and continues to lead Reed Smith’s Corporate Day initiative, which provides biannual programming connecting low-income and homeless women served by the NYC Coalition for the Homeless’ “First Step Program” with members of the firm’s New York WINRS group who help them develop their resumes and prepare for job interviews. Mawere also expanded Reed Smith’s “Associate Buddy” program globally to connect the firm’s associates across its worldwide platform.
INvolve’s Founder and CEO Suki Sandhu OBE said, “I’m so thrilled to be celebrating this fantastic global cohort of trailblazing Executives, Future Leaders and Advocates driving change for women in business. All the individuals within our 2024 Heroes Role Model Lists supported by YouTube are championing inclusion and leveraging their expertise and knowledge to drive impactful initiatives and strategic change within their organizations. It’s vital that women across global organizations can succeed and achieve career success, and these Role Models are essential drivers of change who are smashing barriers to progress. We could not effect change without them leading the way, and my huge thanks to each and every one of them for their much-needed work for women’s inclusion.”
Honorees will be celebrated at a London gala on Friday 28 February 2025 at the iconic Natural History Museum and a New York gala will be held in 2025 at a future date.
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