Susan Fowler — Uber, 2017
What was the whistleblower’s path to coming forward? In February 2017, Susan Fowler posted a blog entry, “Reflecting On One Very, Very Strange Year At Uber,” about the sexism she experienced as a site reliability engineer for the company — and how her complaints were consistently undermined and ignored by HR. She described how her […]
Erika Cheung — Theranos, 2015
What was the whistleblower’s path to coming forward? In 2013, Erika Cheung was a new employee at Theranos and excited to be working at such a prominent company fresh out of college. Then she started noticing that quality control tests on patients’ samples were continuously failing. Cheung raised concerns to senior management but was shut down and told nothing […]
Babak Pasdar — Verizon, 2008
What was the whistleblower’s path to coming forward? Babak Pasdar fled the 1979 revolution in Iran with his parents and two brothers. After arriving in the United States on a tourist visa, their request for political asylum was denied, but the family eventually established themselves in their new country. In 2003, Pasdar was approached by […]
Cynthia Cooper — WorldCom, 2002
What was the whistleblower’s path to coming forward? Cynthia Cooper was raised in Clinton, Mississippi — home to the headquarters of WorldCom, the telecommunications company on whom she would eventually blow the whistle. In an interview for Fraud Magazine, Cooper noted that WorldCom was the only Fortune 500 company headquartered in Mississippi, “truly a Cinderella […]
