Beatrice Perkins

Beatrice Perkins, founder of Brand Excitement, is an award winning brand strategist with 20 years experience creating and supporting brands in education, technology, finance and luxury retail.

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Michele Giordano

Michele Giordano is Vice President of Digital Crisis Services at The Trevor Project. In this role she leads a team of 60 staff who provide chat and text crisis intervention and suicide prevention to LGBTQ youth.

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Dr. Amy Ahlfeld

Dr. Amy J. Ahlfeld, Psy.D. is a clinical and consulting psychologist with a private practice in Midtown Sacramento. She is a University of Michigan grad and received her doctorate in psychology in 2009 from Alliant International University- San Diego and is in her tenth year in private practice.

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Antionette Chukudebelu

Antoinette Chukudebelu is the Vice President of People for Murmuration, a non-profit organization aimed at transforming the politics of education. She has dedicated her life to service, empowering women and people of color and making organizations better.

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Marjorie Abdelkrime

Marjorie Abdelkrime is a Business Technology Leader with over 20 years of experience managing and growing software sales, consulting businesses, service solution creation, and customer service excellence by leveraging technology solutions to resolve business problems. Today Marjorie leads the Multi-Cloud Strategy & Architecture team at VMware.

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Ayanna Smith

Ayanna Smith is a Managing Director at SecondMuse Foundation for GET Cities DC. She is an award-winning entrepreneur, startup enthusiast, social impact advocate and longtime executive communications strategist.

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Lorraine Madala

Lorraine Madala is a Talent and Culture Partner at Capital One, where she helps people and teams amplify their impact. Previously, she led learning and development at Leadership for Educational Equity and global diversity and inclusion initiatives at Lockheed Martin.

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Caroline Wetzel

Caroline offers peace of mind through financial self-care. She is a vice president and private wealth adviser at Procyon Private Wealth Partners and co-founder of the Women Owning their Wealth (WOW) Collaborative.

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Zahra Amanpour

Zahra Amanpour is an entrepreneur, mother and activist. She is driven by passion and metrics. Zahra’s career has been dedicated to economic access and equality.

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Sue Yasav

Sue Yasav is the CEO and Founder of Marquette Marketing, a firm that specializes in positioning, content strategy and thought leadership for small businesses. Prior to founding Marquette in January 2021, Sue worked at large corporations including IBM, Citibank and GE.

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Michele Mason

Michele Mason has spent the last 20 years working as an education advocate committed to access and success to higher education and access to high quality schools for black and brown children. She is the Founder and CEO of Kamau Strategies.

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Dr. Kirsten Sharma

Dr. Sharma is a neuropsychologist and child psychologist who is incredibly proud to be one of few neuropsychologists in the US who provides therapy as well as assessment for children, tweens and teens.

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Maëlle Fonteneau

Maëlle Fonteneau is a certified coach, talent consultant and facilitator. She serves as a member of the Tide Risers Leadership Team and in 2021, she was a lead facilitator as well as a coach to Tide Risers members.

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Vincena Allen

Vincena Allen is the chief growth officer at The SEED Foundation where she leads college matching, transition, and success initiatives across SEED’s small network of public college prep boarding schools and is now expanding their expertise in college completion to external stakeholders.

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Erin Thomas

Erin helps motivated professionals find jobs and careers they love, just by being themselves. Through a unique process, she guides her clients to clarify what they do best and what is most important to them, create an inspiring career and life vision, craft an authentic and compelling professional brand, and develop a strategic job search action plan.

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Charisse M. Williams

Charisse M. Williams is a certified leadership and well-being coach, speaker and author of The Joy of Thriving While Black. She supports her clients through 1:1 coaching, workshops, retreats and speaking engagements.

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Erin Perkins

Erin Perkins is a deaf entrepreneur, disabled rights activist, and accessibility educator dedicated to making the business world more inclusive. Her fierce advocacy comes from her life experiences as a deaf woman and owner of a small online business, Mabely Q.

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Dinetah Sims

Dinetah is a sixteen-year veteran of the international steel trading industry, entering the business after several years as a corporate lawyer in Manhattan.

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Melva LaJoy Legrand

With over 20 years of experience in the Live Events Industry, Melva LaJoy Legrand— founder/CEO of LaJoy Plans —has established herself as one of the leading event planners in the U.S.

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