When I ask Rachel Roy – associate general counsel and global employment law lead at leading cloud-computing software firm VMware – to name her proudest career moment to date, I was unprepared for her response. “In 2009, during the recession, work was very slow. So, I decided to take on a pro bono political asylum case. I met this lovely woman who had come to the US as a refugee from Uganda. Her husband and daughter had sadly been killed.