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How a Late-Night Tweet Inspired Allison Weiss to Amplify Women's Voices in CRE

The platform now features 200 women speakers and has ambitions for far more.

By Erika Morphy | April 07, 2025 at 04:32 AM

Allison Weiss didn’t set out to revolutionize the visibility of women in commercial real estate. But one late night, a tweet from a friend sparked a fire that would eventually lead to the creation of Women Speak CRE, a platform designed to amplify women’s voices in an industry long dominated by men.

The tweet revealed that her friend had been invited to speak at an event where she was the sole woman among 14 speakers. Weiss went to bed angry. “I knew it was bad from a percentage standpoint,” she said, “but I’m not great at math. So I pulled out my calculator and realized one out of 14 is around 7%. That’s just unacceptable.”

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