Foundation & Inclusion

  Fern Gillespie’s career spans advertising, public relations, radio and journalism.  For 18 years, at UniWorld Group, she specialized in leading, developing and executing diversity/CSR public relations campaigns for Kraft Foods, Home Depot, Ford Motor Company, UNCF, Con Edison and others.  She has served as PR Director for the Studio Museum in Harlem and Assistant…

  Carole Diarra is a strategic global executive leading brand, marketing and business transformation with  over 20 years of experience in Fortune 500 companies and private businesses. She is currently the Vice  President of Global Marketing for the UGG brand, where she leads the brand communications,  collaborations, social/PR, marketing, and creative departments. Carole previously served…

Kevin Jordan-Deen is Senior Vice President and General Manager, leading our Oral Care Categories in North America at Colgate-Palmolive. Kevin provides leadership for all aspects of the business to drive profitable growth including strategic direction, innovation definition and commercial implementation. Kevin joined Colgate-Palmolive in 2004 and progressed through various roles in Marketing and Sales across…

Courtney Brown Warren is the Chief Marketing Officer at Kickstarter, where she leads brand, growth and product marketing, communications, content, partnerships, and the company’s sales and community outreach strategy. Her work centers on strengthening Kickstarter’s creator ecosystem and expanding access to creative opportunity. Before joining Kickstarter, Courtney served as Twitter’s Global Head of Brand and…

Alicia is a Group Strategy Director at Translation and UnitedMasters, shaping work that sits at the intersection of brand, culture, and community. She led the strategic vision that made Translation one of McDonald’s agencies of record, setting the foundation for work including the nationwide return of the Snack Wrap. Across AT&T, Ally, and Cadillac Formula…

  Neisha Tweed Bell is proof of what it means to be undeniable – a small island girl who spent 20+ years in rooms she had no business being in and left them better than she found them. She built Meta’s Health Creative vertical from one client to $1B in sales with zero pharma experience.…

  Sisilen Simo is a Senior Strategist at McCann New York, where she turns cultural insights into human truths that shape brand storytelling. Her work spans global product launches, multicultural positioning, and ethnographic research for beauty and lifestyle brands—including strategy for two Super Bowl campaigns, where her cultural insights helped fuel high-impact, mass-culture moments and…

  Alicia Lee is the Associate Director of Agency Partnerships at Teads, a global media platform for elevated outcomes, where she brings over eight years of experience in digital and out-of-home advertising. Over the course of her career at Teads, Alicia has held multiple key roles – including Senior Media Strategist, Associate Director of Media…

Navarrow Wright has emerged as one of the distinctive and insightful voices in America and a premier expert on how the convergence of technology, the Internet, mass media, and social media can change lives, businesses, and society. A change agent in the digital space for 30 years, he has used his unique combination of technical…