Summit Speaker

Lisa D. Cook is Professor of Economics and International Relations at Michigan State University. She was the first Marshall Scholar from Spelman College and received a second B.A. in Philosophy, […]

Van Jones is the Founder of the Dream Corps, a social entrepreneur, a CNN political commentator, Emmy Award-winning producer, and a New York Times best-selling author. Famous for his heart-felt election night

Cathy O’Neil is the author of the New York Times best-selling Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, which was also a semifinalist for the National Book Award. She

Dr. Nicki Washington is a professor of the practice of computer science and gender, sexuality, and feminist studies at Duke University and the author of Unapologetically Dope: Lessons for Black Women

Equipped with little more than a notebook, binoculars, and her fascination with wildlife, Jane Goodall braved a realm of unknowns to give the world a remarkable window into humankind’s closest

Darryl Yong is a Professor of Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College, Director of the Mathematics Clinic Program, and Associate Dean for Diversity and Faculty Development. He was also the Founding

Eshika Saxena is a freshman at Harvard University planning to major in Computer Science. She developed an early interest in technology as a regular participant in FIRST Lego League robotics

Through her work at the DO-IT Center at the University of Washington, Brianna Blaser works to increase the participation of people with disabilities in science and engineering careers. She is

Dr. Paul is the leading authority on employee engagement and respect in the workplace. He earned his doctorate in clinical psychology from Yale University and has worked in the field

Janine Vanderburg leads Changing the Narrative in Colorado, a campaign to change the way people think, talk, and act about aging and ageism. Committed to leveraging the talents of people

Ella Ingram joined Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology as a member of the Biology and Biomedical Engineering Department in 2004, then assumed duties in the Center for the Practice and Scholarship

Shawn is a member of Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations tribe of Canada. She is originally from Kirkland, Washington, and currently lives in Seattle with her two young boys. She holds a

Daniella Scalice is the Education and Communications Lead for the NASA Astrobiology Program. Ms. Scalice holds a Bachelor of Science in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology from UC Santa Cruz and worked

Ruzena Bajcsy was born in 1933 and grew up in Czechoslovakia. Because of the family’s Jewish background, all of her adult relatives were killed by the Nazis in 1944. Declared to

Amanda Parker serves as the Senior Director of Enrollment Management at CU Engineering. Amanda works to provide access, pathways, and support to prospective engineering students. Her focus is to increase

Sarah Miller currently serves as assistant dean at Yale University, where she provides leadership to advance science and engineering priorities on campus. Prior to this post, she worked as Associate Dean for

Nancy M. Amato is Abel Bliss Professor and Department Head of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Amato’s research focuses on robotic motion planning, computational biology and

Susan L. Thackeray is an Assistant Professor of Technology Management in the College of Technology and Computing at Utah Valley University (UVU). She has more than 20 years of demonstrated

Kathleen Fitzpatrick, MS is the Senior Program Manager for the National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity (NAPE). In this role, Kathleen assists a national team of equity professionals that build

Cynthia Lee is a Lecturer in the Computer Science Department at Stanford. She founded peerinstruction4cs.org to support educators in flipping their computer science classrooms using peer instruction. Her teaching awards

Tommy Orange is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel There There, a multi-generational, relentlessly paced story about a side of America few of us have ever seen:

Ruha Benjamin is a Professor of African American studies at Princeton University and author of People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier (Stanford University Press). She has

Temple Grandin, PhD, is one of the most accomplished and well-known adults with autism in the world. Her life was brought to the screen with the HBO full-length film Temple Grandin,

Lucy Simon Rakov has had a lifelong passion for mathematics, winning awards for math in high school and going on to obtain a math degree from Wellesley College. In 1960,

Patricia Palombo began her career in computing in 1959, when she was recruited as a programmer by IBM Corporation. IBM assigned her to a team working on Project Mercury, NASA’s