The Global Workspace Association annual conference will award the winner of Coworks‘ 2025 Community Manager of the Year Award, but ahead of the prize giving Lauren Walker highlights the 3 semi-finalists and shares their stories.

They are: Audrey McKnight @ Venture X San Antonio Northwest, Brooke Dempster at HAYVN Coworking and Kathrin Louis at Carr Workplaces in Downtown LA.

Wildfires! Drunk members! Cancer fundraising! Oh and all their usual duties as well. They are the superheroes of this industry!

Felicia Rubinstein, founder of women-centered coworking space HAYVN, has opened a second location in Greenwich following the original Darien site, with plans for a third location along the I-95 corridor to complete her expansion strategy.

Rubinstein, a mechanical engineer who previously worked at Apple and GE before founding a marketing agency, created HAYVN after experiencing workplace challenges as a woman in corporate settings, including hiding her pregnancy at Apple and being the sole woman on a 15-person leadership board at a software company. The concept emerged after she heard WeWork co-founder Miguel McKelvey on NPR’s "How I Built This" podcast, though she found existing coworking spaces like WeWork to be "bro-working" environments catering to younger demographics rather than professional women.

Felicia Rubinstein and Kerrie McDevitt join Jamie Russo on the Everything Coworking podcast to chat about HAYVN, supporting local women and becoming B-Corp certified.