Early career As a Wall Street executive, Siskind was a pioneer and expert in the
distressed debt trading market. She became the first female Managing Director at
Wasserstein Perella & Co. in 1996, at the age of 31, and later ran trading departments at
Morgan Stanley and Imperial Capital, where she was also a partner. Siskind worked 20 years on Wall Street before retiring in 2006. Siskind has drawn criticism from liberals for voting for
John McCain over
Barack Obama. In August 2008, Siskind co-founded The New Agenda in her living room with 30 Hillary Clinton supporters who alleged sexism and misogyny were at play during the 2008 election. The New Agenda is a non-profit organization "dedicated to improving the lives of women and girls by bringing about systemic change in the media, at the workplace, at school and at home". It focuses on issues that affect the success of women, including pay discrimination, sexual assault and sexual harassment. In October 2018, in the days following the
Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, Siskind posted on Facebook that she was organizing an anti-hate vigil in her Westchester County community. After a local newspaper ran a story about it,
Proud Boys founder
Gavin McInnes and his family, who lived in the nearby community of
Larchmont, New York, appeared at Siskind's door without invitation or forewarning; she called the police.
The List In November 2016, Siskind started keeping a weekly list of not-normal events of the Trump administration, and posting the lists on social media. Siskind indicated that she did not intend to merely recite normal political disputes, but to catalogue "things that are uncharacteristic of our democracy". writing in
Forbes in July 2018,
Jo Piazza listed this as one of the "Podcasts Created by Women You Need to Be Listening To Right Now". In July 2017, the United States
Library of Congress began archiving her weekly reports. In 2018, ''The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump's First Year
was called one of the best books of 2018 by Carlos Lozada of The Washington Post. Her podcast was also recognized by Marie Claire'' in 2019. Siskind also organized the 2019
We the People March, a national march advertised as an event to remind elected officials that they work for the American people. The march took place on September 21, 2019, in Washington D.C., with others in various cities across the United States. ==Personal life==