Cynthia Cariseo is a dedicated social entrepreneur and the founder of Youthify.org, a non-profit organization that aims to empower underprivileged youth through education and mentorship. Her passion for helping young people stems from her own upbringing in a low-income family, where she faced many challenges in pursuing her dreams. After earning a degree in business management, Cynthia started her career in... read full bio
Cynthia Cooper is a former professional basketball player and coach who made history in the WNBA. She was named the head coach of the Phoenix Mercury after leading the Houston Comets to four championships. As a player, Cooper earned numerous accolades, including being named to the WNBA All-Star Team every year the game was played and earning All-WNBA First Team... read full bio
Cynthia Germanotta is an American philanthropist, activist, and entrepreneur who is best known for being the mother of Lady Gaga. Together with Lady Gaga, Germanotta co-founded the Born This Way Foundation, which she is president of. The non-profit, Born This Way Foundation, focuses on inspiring youth, end bullying, and help to build up communities. The Born This Way Foundation has... read full bio
Cynthia Johnson is an entrepreneur, marketing and branding expert, author, keynote speaker, and co-founder and CEO of Bell + Ivy, a marketing and PR firm. Prior to founding Bell + Ivy, Johnson has been a Partner and Director of Marketing for RankLab, a digital marketing agency. Johnson is also an Advisory Board member for The Millennium Alliance and has been... read full bio
Award-winning writer and filmmaker Cynthia Lowen. She devised, produced, and scripted Bully, a feature documentary that follows a "year in the life" of America's bullying issue, in collaboration with Lee Hirsch, an Emmy and Sundance Award-winning director. Bully, which was documented throughout the 2009–2010 academic year, provides a glimpse into the distressing and frequently jeopardized lives of victims of bullying... read full bio
Cynthia Marshall is the CEO of the Dallas Mavericks and is the first African-American woman to lead an NBA team. Since becoming CEO of the Mavericks, Marshall has began a culture transformation and has focused on making the NBA more inclusive and diverse. Marshall has earned her degree in Business Administration and Human Resources Management from the University of California-Berkeley... read full bio
American television journalist Cynthia McFadden is now NBC News' senior legal and investigative correspondent. She co-anchored Nightline as an anchor for ABC News and occasionally made an appearance on the ABC News special Primetime. McFadden, who was raised in Lewiston, Maine, graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. She then graduated from Columbia Law School in... read full bio
Best known as the spunky Miranda in Sex and the City, the actress was diagnosed at 42, while starring in the off-Broadway play The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, then quietly had a lumpectomy and radiation. Nixon has served as an ambassador for Susan G. Komen for the Cure and appeared in radio and television public service announcements. Nixons mother... read full bio
Oh So Pinteresting, a company that assists businesses, bloggers, and entrepreneurs in using Pinterest to its best potential, was founded and is led by Cynthia Sanchez. She formerly had a position as a licensed radiation oncology nurse before starting her social media career. She approaches social media planning and strategy holistically because of her background in the medical industry. Cynthia... read full bio
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO) at NetApp is Cynthia Stoddard. Providing a long-term technological vision that supports and is in line with the organization's strategies, goals, business plans, operational needs, and overall efficiencies is the CIO's responsibility. In order to facilitate the implementation of global business solutions and infrastructure that support the company's expansion, she gives leadership... read full bio
The biggest claim to fame of screenwriter and producer D.B. Weiss is his work on HBO’s series Game of Thrones. Along with being a screenwriter and producer, Weiss is also an author and director. On Game of Thrones, he fills the roles of executive producer, screenwriters, and occasionally the director. Early on in his career, Weiss worked as a personal... read full bio
D.J. was raised in a close-knit, devoutly Christian household that values business, music and sports. His mother instilled in him and his elder brother the value of hard work and the ability to seize chances via business. Whether it was starting a lemonade stand or getting a lawnmower and rake to mow the yards in the neighborhood to earn money. Those who... read full bio
Da Chen is a New York Times author from China, his books include, Brothers, Chinas Son, Sounds of the River, Sword, My Last Empress: A Novel, Wandering Warrior, and Colors of the Mountain. His book Brothers, has been awards for best book by The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Miami Herald, and Publishers Weekly. Chen graduated from Beijing Language and... read full bio
Norwegian engineer Dag Kittlaus is the Co-founder & CEO of Siri (acquired by Apple) and Co-founder & CEO of Viv (acquired by Samsung). When Apple acquired Siri, Dag became the Director of iPhone Apps at Apple, leading the Siri and speech recognition teams. Two years later, he co-founded his next AI company, Viv. With Viv, his goal was to make... read full bio
From MTV to Revlon model to actress, Daisy Fuentes is now a household name with viewers across the world. The first crossover VJ to appear on both the Spanish language MTV Latino and the original MTV, Fuentes has co-hosted several programs on the cable music network (including ""One on One with Michael Jordan"" and ""Fashionably Loud"") and has hosted... read full bio
After earning his B.S. and M.S. in Secondary Education, Dale Henry completed his Ph.D. in 1991 with a concentration in the area of Adult and Continuing Education. He has served as an educator, administrator, author, speaker, trainer, consultant and entrepreneur. In 1994, he was appointed Associate Dean of Professional and Graduate Studies for Tennessee's oldest College, Tusculum College in Greeneville,... read full bio
Dale Irvin is the eleventh President of New York Theological Seminary and Professor of World Christianity. Previously, he served as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Academic Dean of the Seminary and is a long-time member of the Seminarys Faculty. He has been a member of the New York Theological Seminary faculty since 1989. He is the co-author with Scott... read full bio
Dale Partridge is a serial entrepreneur and Founder of Sevenly.org, a 40+ person socially conscious e-commerce company. Sevenly was named The Most Social Media Driven Company in America by Mashable. Every week, Sevenly partners with one charity, and donates $7 from every product sold to benefit that organizations cause. Since its formation, Sevenly has been named one of the fastest... read full bio
Dale Reitzer graduated from Johnson and Wales University, later to become Chef of Alexander’s in Norfolk, VA. Working his way through the culinary world, Reitzer worked short-term jobs at nationally-acclaimed restaurants like Patina in Los Angeles. He honed in on his chef skills, and once finished with his education, Reitzer opened the restaurant Acacia. Reitzer has been named one of... read full bio
Dallas Liu is a rising American actor best known for his portrayal of Shuji Ishii-Peters in the Hulu dramedy PEN15, Carter in Legendary Dudas, and Ruihua in the 2021 Marvel film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Born and raised in San Gabriel Valley, California, Liu has been practicing martial arts since the age of five, and he... read full bio
