New Delhi, June 14 -- forcing her to draw down retirement savings she only recently began to accumulate after breaking through as an actress at the age of forty.

"I've lost so much money because of this administration, the past year."

Cox, who starred in Netflix's Orange Is the New Black from 2013 to 2019 and was 40 when she booked that breakthrough role, said she previously carried student loan debt and had no savings or retirement fund before the show's success. The collapse of DEI-linked speaking and branding income has directly reversed those hard-won gains: "I managed to stay busy with acting and branding work, as well as speaking engagements. But I never thought college speaking gigs would dry up."

Corporate reluctance, she said,...