Helena Deland is a Canadian singer-songwriter, composer, and musician who performs a mixture of alternative and indie music. Deland was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and she grew up in Quebec City and is currently based out of Montreal. While growing up, Deland began picking up on playing piano as well as the guitar but it wasn’t until she later... read full bio
Haben Girma is an American lawyer and disability rights advocate who is best known for being the first graduate to be blind and deaf from Harvard Law School. Girma was born in Oakland, California, and she lost her vision as well as her hearing at a young age. While growing up, she benefited from the Americans with Disabilities Act and... read full bio
Chad Tepper is an up-and-coming alternative pop punk artist who has gone from living homeless, to performing for over 5 million followers throughout all his social media outlets. Tepper was raised in Orlando, Florida, and has since gone on to move to Los Angeles, California, to pursue a musical career. Since his move to Los Angeles, Tepper gone on to... read full bio
Meena Harris is the Head of Strategy & Leadership at Uber and the Founder & Creative Director at Phenomenal Woman Action Campaign. Harris has graduated from Stanford University and Harvard Law School. She started her career working in User Operations at Facebook and has also been Deputy Campaign Manager for Kamala Harris for Attorney General. Other jobs that Harris has... read full bio
Alpana Singh is a restaurateur, master sommelier, and speaker. Singh fell in love with food and wine in college after working as a waitress. Pursuing a position as a wine salesperson, Singh found herself at the world-renowned Everest Restaurant in Chicago as a sommelier. Singh soon passed her Master Sommelier exam, known as the youngest female ever to pass the... read full bio
Josh Hall is an American basketball player who has had a successful high school career and plays as a small forward. Hall began his career playing high school football in North Carolina before going on to transfer to Oak Hill Academy in Virginia and then play at Moravian Prep where he was named the North Carolina Player of the Year.... read full bio
Nick Perkins is an American basketball player who has played with the New Basket Brindisi of the Lega Basket Serie A. Perkins was born in Saginaw, Michigan, and he began his career playing basketball in high school where he helped lead the school to a Class B State title. From there, Perkins went on to play college basketball for the... read full bio
Tarik Phillip is a British-American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Hapoel Jerusalem of the Israeli Premier League. Phillip was born in Brooklyn, New York, and he began his career in basketball first playing basketball in high school where he helped his school to the Public Schools Athletic League. From there, Phillip went on to play college basketball... read full bio
A.C. Newman is a Canadian musician and producer from Vancouver, British Columbia who has been a member of the bands Superconductor and Zumpano before going on to be the leader of the band the New Pornographers. Newman began his musical career first working in the ground Superconductor. He then went on to play guitar in the band Nemesis Gypsy, and... read full bio
Marty Lyons is an American former professional football player who has played as a football player in the NFL. Lyons was born in Takoma Park, Maryland, and he began his career playing football in high school before going on to play college football at the University of Alabama. During his college career, Lyons was a consensus first-team All-American, played in... read full bio
Laria McCormic, better known as her stage name, Marzz, is an up and coming singer-songwriter from Louisville, Kentucky, who writes and performs unique music in hopes that the people who listen to her music are inspired to love their own uniqueness. Marzz chose her stage name as she states that you can see all bumps and scars on Mars and... read full bio
Linda Lingle is an American politician who has previously served as the 6th Governor of Hawaii, making her the first Republic governor of Hawaii in 40 years. Lingle was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and she has earned her B.A. in journalism cum laude from California State University, Northridge. She went on to begin working as a public information officer... read full bio
Bob Burg is a Hall of Fame keynote speaker and best-selling author who has been co-founder and CEO of Go-Givers International LLC. As a keynote speaker, Burg talks on how changing your focus can help your business in a profitable way as well as can help you mentally. Over the course of his career, Burg has gone on to work... read full bio
Gokul Krishnan is a learning scientist, mechanical engineer, healthcare innovator and a former STEM Research Associate at WestEd. He is also founder of Project M@CH and is known for being the creator of the Maker Therapy approach. Krishnan has earned his B.E. in Manufacturing Engineering from P.E.S. Institute of Technology and went on to earn his M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering... read full bio
John Kenagy is a physician, executive, researcher, and advisor who has worked as a vascular surgeon and has been the Chief or Surgery, Chief of Staff and Regional Vice President for Business Development for a non-profit. After suffering from a broken neck, Kenagy found frustration in the healthcare industry which led him to became a visiting scholar for Harvard Business... read full bio
Dirk Kempthorne is an American politician who has previously served as the 49th United States Secretary of the Interior. Kempthorne was born in San Diego, California, and he has previously earned his B.A. in political science from the University of Idaho where he was also a student body president. After earning his degree, Kempthorne went on to begin working as... read full bio
Avi Jorisch is an author and entrepreneur who has previously worked as an official for the U.S. Departments of Treasury and Defense. Jorisch is a counter-terrorism expert who has extensively traveled to and lived in the Middle East. During his time in the Middle East, Jorisch interviewed people that were apart of terrorist organizations. This led him to work as... read full bio
Tim Hoelter is a keynote speaker, business leader and trade professional who is best known for working for Harley-Davidson for thirty years where he helped with one of the most dramatic turnarounds in corporate history. During his career working for Harley-Davidson, Hoelter began serving on their general counsel before going on to work his way up to Vice President of... read full bio
Princess Sarah Culberson is an American dancer, actress, philanthropist, writer, speaker, and academic administration who is a Mende princess of Bumpe in Sierra Leone. Culberson was born in Morgantown, West Virginia, to an American mother and a Sierra Leonean father. She was adopted as an infant and moved to West Virginia where her adoptive father was a professor at West... read full bio
John Edward Hasse is a speaker, curator, pianist, and award-winning author who is a renowned curator emeritus for the Smithsonian. During his nearly 35 year career with the Smithsonian, Hasse has been a curator for American Music at the National Museum of American History. He has curated exhibitions on musical legends which include Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, and Ella Fitzgerald.... read full bio
