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Francis deSouza is president and CEO of Illumina, which under his leadership is driving adoption of genomic sequencing to unlock the power of the genome and improve human health. He previously led Illumina’s business units and core functions responsible for envisioning, developing, producing, and launching products. With a background in technology as an entrepreneur, deSou...
Yai Vargas is founder of The Latinista, a national network of women and Latina professionals invested in professional development and career mobility, which offers skill-building, activity-driven workshops. She is also a career diversity and inclusion strategist who helps organizations develop programming focused on career and leadership development. With a background in m...
Lauren Simmons is a motivational speaker and her own brand. A former equity trader for Rosenblatt Securities, she made history by becoming the youngest member of the New York Stock Exchange and only its second African American female trader in 226 years. In traveling the world speaking, Simmons’s message is to bring awareness to the lack of diversity in the financial indus...
Kitty Boone is vice president of public programs at the Aspen Institute and the primary executive responsible for managing the Aspen Ideas Festival. Prior to joining the Aspen Institute, where she also had responsibilities for seminar programs, she served as vice president of marketing and sales at Aspen Skiing Company, where she worked for eleven years. Boone began her ca...
Edward Stack is chairman and CEO of DICK’s Sporting Goods, leading the country’s largest full-service sporting goods retailer since 1984. Under his leadership, the Fortune 500 corporation grew from two stores in upstate New York to more than 800 DICK’s Sporting Goods, Golf Galaxy, and Field & Stream stores. Stack serves on the National Retail Federation Board of Directors...
Alece Montez is director of programs at Orton Family Foundation, developing its Community Heart and Soul process that helps small and rural towns thrive socially, culturally, and economically. Previously, she was a planning director and economic development coordinator for the City of Federal Heights, CO, and before that, a planner for the City of Colorado Springs, CO. Mon...
Ben Sasseis a US senator representing Nebraska. He is a fifth-generation Nebraskan with the honor of representing the Cornhusker state in the U.S. Senate. A member of the intelligence, judiciary, and banking committees, Ben is focused on the future of work, the future of war, and the First Amendment. Ben spent most of his worklife helping companies and institutions throug...
Adam Grant is a professor of management and psychology at The Wharton School, where he’s been the top-rated professor for seven straight years. As an organizational psychologist, his expertise is in how people can find motivation and meaning. Grant writes on work and psychology for The New York Times, authored four best-selling books, hosts the TED podcast “WorkLife,” and...
Donald Felix is financial health general manager for Chase Consumer Banking, responsible for developing and executing Chase’s consumer financial-health strategy, and collaborates across JPMorgan Chase’s consumer-facing businesses, product and marketing teams, and corporate responsibility. He was previously chief of staff to Chase Consumer Banking CEO. Prior to joining Chas...
Kapil Mohabir is founder, partner, and head grower of Plympton Farms, the largest grower, aggregator, and processor of chili peppers in the Caribbean. Prior to this, he was director of the Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund in the office of the president of Guyana. He previously had a finance career in New York, including doing mergers and acquisitions for Credit Suisse and inve...
Jennifer Fettweis is founder and director of the Research Alliance for Microbiome Science (RAMS) Registry and assistant professor in the Departments of Microbiology and Immunology and Obstetrics and Gynecology at Virginia Commonwealth University. She served as project director for two large-scale vaginal microbiome initiatives funded through the NIH Human Microbiome Projec...
Vic Barrett is one of 21 youth activists suing the government to take action on climate change in Juliana v. United States. The suit claims the government violated youth rights by allowing climate-harming activities and asks for progressive changes to carbon dioxide emissions. Barrett participated in the COP21 UN climate summit in Paris on behalf of the Alliance for Climat...
Ron-Li Liaw is director of the Sala Institute Center for Child and Family Resilience and service chief for child and adolescent psychiatry at Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone Health. She is a clinical associate professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine and leads pediatric integration, family resiliency, and staff well-being strateg...
Rami Nashashibi is the executive director of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN). He is a MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellow and a 2018 Opus Prize laureate. He received a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago and has taught courses at multiple universities since, including a teaching appointment at the Chicago Theological Seminary. Rami is listed as among...
William Bishop Jr. is group president of the pet segment at General Mills. This includes Blue Buffalo, a pet food product company he co-founded with his father and brother after their family dog (Blue) had faced a variety of health issues. Prior to joining General Mills in 2018, Bishop was Blue Buffalo’s CEO and, previously, COO. He also led marketing, product development,...
Irin Carmon is a senior correspondent at New York Magazine and a CNN contributor, reporting on gender, politics, and the law. Previously, she was a national reporter at MSNBC/NBC News, Salon, and Jezebel. In 2017, Carmon teamed with The Washington Post to break the news of sexual harassment and assault allegations against Charlie Rose, garnering a 2018 Mirror Award from th...
Common is an award-winning artist, actor, and activist. His social justice and advocacy work focuses on mass incarceration, mental health, and voting, and he launched a nonprofit, Imagine Justice, in 2018. Common has released eleven studio albums, most recently Black America Again, which included the Emmy Award-winning single, “Letter to the Free.” His supergroup, August G...
Jeff Merkely is a US senator representing Oregon, since 2009. In addition to his efforts to create jobs and ensure affordable education and health care, he also aims to end dependence on fossil fuels, having introduced both the Keep It in the Ground Act and the 100 by ’50 Act. Merkely previously served in the Oregon legislature, elected in 1998 from his east Portland distr...
Matt Perault is a director of public policy at Facebook. He has led the company’s global public policy planning efforts on issues such as law enforcement and human rights, and oversaw public policy for WhatsApp, Oculus, and Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research. Prior to joining Facebook, Matt was Counsel at the Congressional Oversight Panel. He previously worked as a...