FILE - In this June 23, 2014, record photo, Tina Tchen, main of unit to archetypal woman Michelle Obama, speaks astatine the White House Summit connected Working Families successful Washington. Tchen, who went connected to go the CEO of the enactment harassment victims' advocacy radical Time's Up, resigned from the presumption connected Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021, successful the aftermath of revelations that leaders of the radical advised erstwhile New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo connected however to grip allegations made against him. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

FILE - In this June 23, 2014, record photo, Tina Tchen, main of unit to archetypal woman Michelle Obama, speaks astatine the White House Summit connected Working Families successful Washington. Tchen, who went connected to go the CEO of the enactment harassment victims' advocacy radical Time's Up, resigned from the presumption connected Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021, successful the aftermath of revelations that leaders of the radical advised erstwhile New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo connected however to grip allegations made against him. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) (Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

NEW YORK – Time's Up CEO and president Tina Tchen resigned Thursday successful the aftermath of revelations that leaders of the intersexual harassment victims’ advocacy radical advised erstwhile New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's medication aft helium was accused of intersexual misconduct.

In a connection posted to Twitter, Tchen — the erstwhile main of unit to Michelle Obama — said she's “spent a vocation warring for affirmative alteration for women” but she wasn't the close idiosyncratic to pb the #MeToo-era enactment astatine this time.

“I americium particularly alert that my presumption astatine the helm of TIME'S UP has go a achy and divisive focal point, wherever those precise women and different activists who should beryllium moving unneurotic to combat for alteration are alternatively battling each different successful harmful ways,” she wrote.

Tchen's resignation comes connected the heels of the departure of Roberta Kaplan, who stepped down arsenic the seat of the committee of directors Aug. 9.

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An autarkic probe overseen by New York's lawyer wide culminated successful a study that concluded Cuomo sexually harassed astatine slightest 11 women. The study said apical Cuomo adjutant Melissa DeRosa sent a missive that sought to discredit his archetypal nationalist accuser, Lindsey Boylan, to Kaplan for review.

“Ms. Kaplan work the missive to the caput of the advocacy radical Times Up, and some of them allegedly suggested that, without the statements astir Ms. Boylan’s interactions with antheral colleagues, the missive was fine,” the study said, without explicitly naming Tchen.

Tchen had resisted calls for her ouster for weeks, but said Thursday it was clip for her to “resign and proceed to enactment for alteration successful different ways.”

Tchen, a lawyer, antecedently served arsenic an adjunct to President Barack Obama and enforcement manager of the White House Council connected Women and Girls. She co-founded the Time's Up Legal Defense Fund successful 2017, on with Kaplan and 2 different women.

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This isn't the archetypal clip the advocacy radical has been roiled by enactment issues. Tchen took the helm successful 2019, aft Lisa Borders stepped down arsenic president and CEO pursuing intersexual misconduct allegations against her ain son.

After months of resisting calls for his resignation, Cuomo himself near bureau earlier this week.

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