Jaren Lewison is an up-and-coming actor from Dallas, Texas, who has recently gained fame playing Ben Gross in the Netflix original series “Never Have I Ever”. Lewison has been acting since a young age and made his acting debut playing Joshua in the television series “Barney & Friends” and was also in the film “Barney: Let’s Go on Vacation”, “Barney:... read full bio
Ventura Alvarado is an American soccer player who has played for various teams as well as the United States national team. Alvarado was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and he began his career playing with Club America as a teenager. Throughout the years he moved up in rank and helped them place third in the U-20 Copa Libertadores. He went on... read full bio
Tab Ramos is an American former soccer player and coach who is currently the head coach of the Houston Dynamo of the MLS. Ramos was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and he immigrated to the United States with his family when he was 11 years old. He had a passion for soccer since a young age as his father played professionally... read full bio
Lisa Damour is an American clinical psychologist and author who specializes in the development of teenage girls and young women. Damour was born in Denver, Colorado, and she went on to graduate with honors from Yale University and worked for the Yale Child Study Center before earning her doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Michigan. Damour went on... read full bio
Stuart Holden is an American retired professional soccer player who played as midfielder for various teams as well as the United States national team and is currently a lead television game analyst for both Fox Sports and Turner Sports. Holden was born in Cults, Aberdeen, Scotland, and he began his career playing soccer in high school before playing college soccer... read full bio
Steve Ralston is an American retired soccer player who played as midfielder and has also been an assistant coach for various teams. Ralston was born in Oakville, Missouri, and he began his career playing college soccer for Florida International University. Ralston went on to be drafted 18th overall in the MLS College Draft by the Tampa Bay Munity. During his... read full bio
Steve Cherundolo is an American former professional soccer player who has also been a coach for various teams. Cherundolo was born in Rockford, Illinois, and he began his career playing for the La Jolla Nomads club team, which won the California State Champion six times while he was playing there. Cherundolo went on to play college soccer for a year... read full bio
Stephanie Cox is an American professional soccer player who also is the current head coach of the girl’s soccer team at Gig Harbor High School. Cox was born in Los Gatos, California, and she began her career playing soccer at her high school where she helped them win two league championships. She also won the youth All-American award from NSCAA,... read full bio
Shannon MacMillan is an American retired soccer player who played as midfielder and forward, coach, FIFA Women’s World Cup champion, and an Olympic gold and silver medalist. MacMillan was born in Syosset, New York, and she began her career playing soccer college at the University of Portland where she won the Hermann Trophy for best female collegiate soccer player. MacMillan... read full bio
Sean Johnson is an American soccer player who is currently playing as goalkeeper for New York City in Major League Soccer. Johnson was born in Lilburn, Georgia, and he began his career playing college soccer at the University of Central Florida for the UCF Knights. While playing soccer with the UCF Knights, Johnson was a member of the C-USA Commissioner’s... read full bio
Ryan Meara is a professional soccer player who most recently has played as goalkeeper for the New York Red Bulls in Major League Soccer. Meara was born in Crestwood, New York, and he began his career playing for youth clubs such as Fordham Prep, Reading, and Fordham Rams. While playing at Fordham University, Meara was named team captain and was... read full bio
Robbie Findley is an American former professional soccer player who played as forward for various different teams as well as for the United States national team. Findley was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and he began his career playing college soccer at Oregon State University. He also played amateur soccer for the Boulder Rapids Reserve before turning professional. After graduating, Findley... read full bio
Patrick Chung is a Jamaican professional American football strong safety player for the New England Patriots of the NFL. Chung was born in Kingston, Jamaica, where he lived until he was 10 years old. Chung then moved to California where he began playing football at Rancho Cucamonga High School where he was a two-time All-League pick. Chung went on to... read full bio
Jason Stuart is an American actor, comedian, writer, host, producer, and activist who was born in The Bronx, New York City, New York and was raised in Los Angeles, California. Stuart has been seen in numerous television series and films over the years. He made his television debut in an episode of “The Life and Times of Eddie Roberts” and... read full bio
James Hewitt is a performance scientist, author and speaker whose works focuses on relationships between wellbeing, working patterns and performance in knowledge workers. His research also focuses on the influence of sleep, stress and technologies on the wellbeings of human and how the affects their productivity in the workplace. Hewitt has previously earned his Bachelor’s in sport and exercise science... read full bio
Anusha Wijeyakumar is a health and wellness speaker, author, and consultant who is the founder of Shanti Within, a holistic wellness organization based out of Orange County, California. Wijeyakumar has earned her B.A. from the University of Auckland and went on to earn her M.A. in Transnational Communications and Global Media from Goldsmiths College, U. of London. She is a... read full bio
Alfred A. Edmond Jr. is a business and financial journalist, entrepreneurship expert, executive, and public speaker and event moderator. Alfred is currently the SVP and Executive Editor-at-Large at Black Enterprise. Through his role, Alfred is responsible for brand, marketing, and content leadership. With Black Enterprise, Alfred began working as an associate editor working his way up to Senior VP/Editor-in-Chief and... read full bio
Patrick Awuah is an educator, engineer, and entrepreneur who is working on building new ways of higher education in Ghana, where he is from. Awuah has founded Ashesi University, which has gone on to earn him several awards and honors some of which include The Order of the Volta, John. P. McNulty Prize, MacArthur Fellowship and the Wise Prize of... read full bio
Dennis F. Hightower is a former Army Officer, a retired business executive, a college educator, and public servant who has previously been the 15th United States Deputy Secretary of Commerce under President Barack Obama. Hightower was born in Washington, D.C., and he graduated from high school at 16 years old as class president. He immediately went on to study at... read full bio
David Ikard is a diversity speaker, author, and Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University. Ikard’s research and teaching includes African American Literature, hip-hop culture, black feminist criticism, black masculinity and whiteness studies. Ikard has earned his B.A. from North Carolina State University, has earned his M.A. from North Carolina State University, and has earned his Ph.D.... read full bio
