Alires Almon, Director of Innovation for the Mental Health Center of Denver, is also the  founder of Deep Space Predictive which brings behavioral technology for deep space exploration.  As a leader in the Colorado aerospace industry, Alires is the chair of the Colorado Space Business Roundtable and a member of  the DARPA supported 100 year Starship program. She founded a snowboarding company, Ride or Die, LLC, the home of Black Bettie, for riders who are women of color. 

Frances E. Ashe-Goins, RN, PhD (Hon), is an Adjunct Professor at the University of SC. She retired as the DHHS Office on Women's Health's Deputy Director where she was instrumental in the development of highly successful programs addressing Women and HIV/AIDS, Lupus National Awareness, Violence against Women, Minority Women’s Health,Young Women’s Health, Organ Donation, and Human Trafficking . She has received numerous awards for her efforts.

Pamela Barnes is a former Administrative Officer for NASA with over 2 decades of experience in human capital, organizational/operational management, strategic workforce planning/development, and labor/management negotiation. During her exemplary NASA career, she received many awards including Distinguished Service Awards and the Office of Strategic Infrastructure Award for Employee Engagement. Ms. Barnes optimizes investments as a member of the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce while teaching math and reading to young students.

Chris Carberry is CEO and co-founder of Explore Mars, Inc, a nonprofit dedicated to sending humans to Mars within the next two decades. Prior to the creation of Explore Mars, Chris was Executive Director of The Mars Society.  Chris also spent years as an historical researcher and archivist. In 2013, he spearheaded the annual Humans to Mars Summit in Washington, DC that has become the largest annual conference in the world focused on sending humans to Mars. 

Eliza Lo Chin, MD, is Executive Director of the American Medical Women's Association (AMWA) and Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSF School of Medicine. She served as Co-Chair for the 2015 Sex and Gender Medical Education Summit. Dr. Chin is also the author of This Side of Doctoring: Reflections from Women in Medicine and the recipient of AMWA's Bertha Van Hoosen Award. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley, Harvard Medical School and Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health and a former Visiting Scholar at Mills College Women's Leadership Institute. 

Wade Davis, a former NFL player, is a corporate inclusion and culture advisor. He consults with the NFL, NHL and Google and is a senior consultant at YSC, a leadership strategy firm. Wade is a UN Women Global Champion for innovation, a committee member for the National Fair Housing Alliance, and a member of  VICE’s Diversity and Inclusion Advisory board. He launches initiatives  to achieve political, and socio-economic equality for women and men.

Michelle L. Hailey, Ph.D. is a global business professional, trainer, speaker, and published author. Dr. Hailey has served as a Global Consultant to a former member of the Kenyan National Assembly on women’s empowerment issues.  Her passion for educating, impacting, and empowering the lives of others to excel within the global community is the driving force behind her award-winning work. Dr. Hailey is now the Director of Graduate and Undergraduate Student Services and Academic Support at Catholic University, and also serves as an adjunct professor at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Washington, DC Campus.

Catherine Johns, CEO of Kielder Observatory in England and a Board Director of the International Association of Science Parks (IASP), founded Women in IASP. During her tenure as Director of the North East Centre of Excellence for Satellite Applications, she built the fastest growing space cluster in the UK and turned the North East Technology Park into a multi-million pound pioneering science park. While serving on many boards, she manages Southpaw Dance Company and is an evaluator for Strength in Places, Innovate UK’s 300 million pound innovation fund.

Howard Lavine, a professional writer, was the senior speechwriter for Kurt Schmoke, former mayor of Baltimore; director of speechwriting for Donna Shalala, DHHS Secretary, and chief speechwriter and senior policy advisor for culture for former Governor Ted Kulongoski of Oregon. He has served on the boards of Oregon Public Broadcasting and the Writer’s Center in Maryland.

Bri Newland, PhD is the Academic Chair of Undergraduate Programs at the Preston Robert Tisch Institute for Global Sport at New York University. In addition to her research interests, she serves as the current President for the North American Society for Sport Management, Editor of Sport Marketing Quarterly, Associate Editor of Managing Sport & Leisure, and Associate Editor of Event Management.

Guadalupe Pacheco, President/CEO and founder of Pacheco Consulting Group, provides cultural and technology-centric healthcare solutions to the public and private sectors. He served as a Senior Health Advisor to the Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Minority Health within the DHHS. He developed the Center for Linguistically Appropriate and Cultural Competency in Health Care, the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Services in Health and Healthcare, and cultural competency e-learning health programs.   

With 20+ years in entertainment journalism, including senior editorial positions at the Los Angeles Times, Variety and Deadline.com, followed by a successful Corp Command PR career, Jonathan Taylor has direct working relationships with key journalists and has mastered the art of crafting stories that are vital to successful communications plans. He is Co-Principal of Robertson Taylor Partners, a Strategic Consulting Firm.