2022 Speakers

Tracy McCaughey

Managing Director, Claims Operations

Yemi Sekoni

Owner/Director, Donahue Models & Talent

Lisa Guillette

Executive Director

Tammy Vargas Warner

Assistant Commissioner, RI Office of the Postsecondary Commissioner

Su Joun

Principal, Diversity@Workplace Consulting Group

Nishita Roy-Pope

Founder & CEO, WorldRoo & Tribe Academy

NIKKI GROOM

Lanre Ajakaiye

Theresa Agonia

Neil D. Steinberg

President & CEO, Rhode Island Foundation

Rodney Davis

Naisha Bradley

Chief DIB Officer, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Sharmin Attaran

Professor of Marketing, Bryant University

Jessica Morse

Director, AR30 Quality

Stephanie Gonzalez

Attorney

Margie O’Brien Reed

co-moderator

Persephone Hall

Executive Director, Connecticut College, Hale Center for Career Development

Dennise Kowalczyk

Owner , CTD Creative Consulting LLC

Stephanie Fortuanato

Special Projects Director, Global Cultural Districts Network (GCDN)

Martha Sheridan

President & CEO, Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau (GBCVB)

Nicole Pollock

Chief of Staff to Mayor Elorza, City of Providence

Shirley Moore

Founder, Be Moore Interpreting

Catherine Velez

SVP, Director, Banking Center Sales & Service, Webster Bank

Sterling Clinton-Spellman

Founder /Co-Owner, POLISHED by Sterling/ Incred-A-Bowl Food Company

Allie Coppola

Writer / Personal Improvement Paraeducator

Chiquita Rice, AAMS

Financial Advisor

Olga Lowe

Global Brand Manager, Hasbro

Sonya Barbosa

Owner, Mina's Clearning Services

Natanja Craig Oquendo

Executive Director, Boston Women’s Fund

Carla Cristina Rojo

Paola N. Fernandez

Dr. Ellise Davis LaMotte

Associate Dean of Student Diversity, Inclusion and Success, Tufts University

Jessica Kaplan

VP, Talent Consulting and Executive Coach, ClearRock

Stephanie Lemoi

Program Director

Lelani Williams

Consultant/ Business Coach/ CFO of The Kings Cathdedral

Vimala Phongsavanh

Organizing Director, Congressional Progressive Caucus Center

Gloria Olubowale

Rising Senior at Lincoln School

K. Joseph Shekarchi

House Speaker Representative

Angela Semedo

Doctor of Physical Therapy and Wellness coach.

Dara Chadwick

Dara Chadwick Communications Consulting

Clarissa Guillen

Founder, She Rocks at College

Dr. Mariza Goncalves Lopes

Psychologist

Peniel Saidon

Rising Eighth Grader at Sophia Academy

Sophie Glenn Lau

Head of School, Lincoln School

ADRIANA DAWSON

Global Committee Lead for SOMOS, Verizon

Bianca Casanova Anderson

Co-CEO

Lenora Lassiter

GIsselle Perez

Head of HR for Biogen Intercontinental Region

DIANA PAGANO

Jocelyn Nacci

VP, Commercial Lending, Centerville Bank

Desiree Delgado-Pedraza

2022 Central Falls High School Graduate

Ana Duque

Founder, Green Tenderfoot

Kameelah Benjamin-Fuller

Chief Diversity Officer and CSR Leader, PTC

Nya Isom-Agazie

Freshman at Providence Career and Technical Academy

Kamilah A’Vant

Assistant Dean of Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Miguel Quezada

Kathryn L. Hersey, CFA

Regional President, Boston Berkshire Bank

Promise Pitts

Cranston West High School

Eva-Marie Mancuso

Special Advisor to Governor Dan McKee Co-Founder and Board member Clothes To Kids, RI

Elizabeth Succart

Owner, Madilacie Photography