Beverly Richardson

Senior Director of Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion

AECOM

APRIL 2022

About Beverly

Beverly (Bev) Richardson joined AECOM in 2016, she leads Equity, Diversity & Inclusion for the Americas. For over 25+ years, prior to joining AECOM Bev held roles in Human Resources with increasing responsibilities in healthcare and biotech organizations such as Baxter Healthcare and Amgen, Inc.

Sam Cooper

Sales Manager

Lamar Advertising - Littlerock Arkansas

APRIL 2023

About Sam

Sam's experience includes a blend of media & industry categories… out-of-home advertising, television production, web content, direct mail, print, radio, and social media. My clients come from healthcare, financial, restaurant /food, industrial, cultural, and government agencies.

Brands he's worked with include BF Goodrich, Chloraseptic, Cigna / Nations Health, IDT Telecom, Indigene Pharmaceuticals, Rawlings, Subway, U.S. Radio Surgery, and Weed Eater.

Sam began his career in media during the mid-1980's as a morning DJ. His disc-jockey exploits took him to Orlando, FL where he helped launch the first "live" satellite-delivered children's radio network, The Kids Choice Broadcasting Network.

His DJ stints also included The Imagination Station WXJO in St. Louis, MO, KKDS Salt Lake City, UT, KPAL and KURB both in Little Rock, AR (Sam'n Eggs In the Morning! and Surf'n Sam).

Emmanuel King

CEO

Permasize AI Forge

March 2026

About Miranda

mmanuel King is the founder and leader of Permasize, specializing in AI-driven business scaling and process automation for IT service providers. Permasize is a company that transforms owner-dependent businesses into scalable, systematic operations. Their methodology, called Document, Delegate, Scale, converts critical knowledge trapped in employees’ heads into documented systems that can be delegated or automated.

Emmanuel has over 17 years of experience in enterprise technology and AI implementation, having worked with firms like NTT DATA before founding Permasize. He focuses on helping B2B companies scale predictably by combining AI-powered lead generation, sales enablement systems, and operational automation. His expertise spans from SAP implementations to AI integrations, emphasizing measurable business outcomes such as increased revenue, efficiency, and client retention.

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Rosa Nunez

Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer and Consultant

Foley Hoag

April 2025

About Rosa

Rosa Nuñez is responsible for developing, implementing, leading and championing proactive diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and programs, in alignment with Foley Hoag's overall strategic plans. Rosa is a strategic partner to the firm’s Executive Committee and also a co-chair the firm’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee.

Rosa has close to 20 years of experience specializing in workplace diversity, equity, inclusion, employee engagement, workplace culture and community outreach programs. Prior to joining Foley Hoag in 2019, she worked at BCW Global - Burson Cohn & Wolfe in New York as the SVP, Senior Director, North America - Diversity & Belonging. In that capacity, she was responsible for creating and implementing a comprehensive U.S. inclusion, diversity, equity and belonging strategy to identify talent and help them flourish at BCW.

Rosa was the U.S. Head of Diversity & Inclusion at Omnicom Media Group and started her career as a member of the Global Diversity & Inclusion Team at information technology and global consulting firm, Accenture.

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Jonathan Feingold

Associate Professor

Boston University School of Law

SEPTEMBER 2023

About Jonathan

Jonathan P. Feingold started as a full-time faculty of Boston University School of Law in January 2020. As an associate professor, he teaches property law, and will adds evidence and critical race theory in future semesters.

Feingold’s scholarship explores the relationship between race, law, and the mind sciences. Much of his recent research has interrogated how and why various American legal regimes, including equal protection doctrine, function to reinforce and reproduce racial hierarchy. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the California Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Utah Law Review, and Temple Law Review. Representative publications include SFFA v. Harvard: How Affirmative Action Myths Mask White Bonus, Hidden in Plain Sight: a More Compelling Case for Diversity, Eyes Wide Open: What Social Science Can Tell Us About the Supreme Court’s Use of Social Science (with Evelyn Carter), and Defusing Implicit Bias (with Karen Lorang).

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Mia Wenjen

Social Justice Leader, Author and Blogger

Aquent - Co-founder

August 2024

About Mia

Mia blogs on parenting, children's books, and education at PragmaticMom.com and is the co-creator of Read Your World celebrating Multicultural Children's Book Day, a non-profit celebrating diversity in children's books. Her debut picture book, SUMO JOE, is illustrated by Nat Iwata and published by Lee and Low. SUMO JOE was chosen by Bank Street College as one of The Best Children’s Books of the Year!

She is also the co-founder of Aquent, the world’s largest company staffing creative, digital, and marketing talent with 37 offices around the world..

Mia graduated from Harvard College cum laude in history and science in 1987 and earned an MBA from UCLA's Anderson Graduate School of Management in 1993. She lives in Boston with her husband, and three kids. Follow her on social media @PragmaticMom on Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, & Facebook; and @Mia Wenjen for YouTube and LinkedIn. She's also @MulticulturalChildrensBD on TikTok.

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Angela Dixon

Senior Vice President & Chief Diversity Officer

Berkshire Bank

AUGUST 2022

About Angela

Angela Dixon, a 30-year veteran in the Human Resources and the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion space has joined the Company as Chief Diversity Officer, reporting to EVP, Chief Human Resources and Culture Officer Jackie Courtwright. Dixon brings a range of experience working with public and private sector organizations on workforce and strategic management issues, including strategic planning and leadership development. global leaders to advance and embed diversity and inclusion as a strategic approach to maximize business performance and create a competitive advantage.

As Chief Diversity Officer, Dixon is responsible for driving the Company’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion strategy in collaboration with executive management and each of Berkshire’s business lines. She also works to enhance the impact of Berkshire’s existing diversity initiatives and programs.

Sally Murphy

Partner & Co-Founder

Rattle, Inc.

May 2025

About Sally

Sally is a strategic architect of award-winning brand teams generating measurable increases in response rates, leads, awareness, loyalty and sales for a broad range of businesses and industries including tourism, healthcare, financial services economic development and technology.

She oversees strategy and management of award-winning integrated marketing communications campaigns and product launches that directly impact clients' bottom lines. Sally provides direct enterprise internal strategic planning, day-to-day operations management, business development, internal marketing & branding efforts, shareholder relations, and community outreach.e at a National Historic Landmark Cemetery, where he produced films and an interactive website about diverse outsiders, horticulture, landscape and funerary iconography.

Sally is the Co-founder of innovative brand and products in the consumer packaged goods industry. Her contributions include IP marketing performance, branding, business infrastructure, and brain trust creation.

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Lisa Blackshear

Senior Vice President for Communications and Digital Operations

Comcast

SEPTEMBER 2021

About Lisa

Lisa Blackshear is the Senior Vice President for Communications and Digital Operations at Comcast. She oversees a team of several hundred individuals who get to communicate directly with our customers every single day.

Lisa began at Comcast in 2007 as a Director of Strategic Communications for Comcast Business. Prior to joining Comcast, she spent twelve years at a global shipping and logistics company in communications and led employee and merger and acquisitions communications for North America, Asia and Europe. Lisa got her start in broadcast journalism, and the “breaking news” skills she developed in the newsroom still serve her.

Steven Cohen

Principal

Keller Williams Realty Boston Metro

December 2025

About Steven

Steven is a principal at Keller Williams Realty Boston-Metro. He leads the Steven Cohen Team, which provides expert real estate insight, guidance and representation for discerning residential property buyers and sellers in the Greater Boston area. Steven has been one of Boston's top real estate brokers for many years and has facilitated thousands of transactions in all market conditions over the past three decades.

Steven is consistently ranked among the nation's top producers and has received honors as the top-producing Keller Williams agent in New England.

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Elaine Powell

Head Coach - Women's Basketball Program

Langston University

DECEMBER 2021

About Elaine

Elaine Powell enters her sixth season leading the Langston University Women’s Basketball program in Fall 2021. In her fifth season at the helm, the Lady Lions overcame a COVID-19 shortened 2020-21 season to reach their first bid to the NAIA Women’s Basketball National Championship Opening Round under Coach Powell and 14th overall in program history.

Naznine Tilak

Vice President, Learning, Development, & DEIB

Pega

FEBRUARY 2023

About Naznine

Vice President, Learning, Development, & DEIB

Naznine brings more than 20 years of human resources experience to this new role, in which she oversees the functional teams across DEI&B, learning and development, and talent cultivation. She focuses her creativity and expertise to develop organizational DEI&B capabilities and impactful initiatives that will drive inclusion and diversity outcomes.

Naznine joins Pega from Waters Corporation, where she was the global head of talent management. She has global experience working for companies across various industries including Santander Bank, State Street, Accenture, and MphasiS. She also holds two degrees in human resource management – a master's degree from The University of Texas at Arlington and an MBA from Christ University in Bangalore.

Joyce Craig

Mayor

City of Manchester NH.

FEBRUARY 2021

About Joyce

Mayor Craig strives to continue the city’s progress as a statewide leader in economic development. She is the 48th Mayor of Manchester NH.

Jack Rasmussen

Best Selling Author & ABM

Sherwin-Williams Company

February 2025

About Eric

Jack Rasmussen is an operations manager at the world's leading color company. He contributes to the management of the sole SWA branch in the Sacramento–Roseville–Arden-Arcade metropolitan statistical area.

He is the Author of “Fine Dining: The Secrets Behind the Restaurant Industry” (Publication: May 2022) and “Yin Yang: The Elusive Symbol That Explains the World” (Publication: October 2023)

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Kori S. Carew

Chief Inclusion & Diversity Officer

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

FEBRUARY 2022

About Kori

Seyfarth Shaw LLP has welcomed Kori S. Carew, Esq. as Chief Inclusion & Diversity Officer, who joins from Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP, where she was the Director of Strategic Diversity Initiatives for the past seven years. In this newly created role, Carew is responsible for advancing Seyfarth’s inclusion and diversity strategy, and accelerating its existing portfolio of award-winning programs and external partnerships.

Celeste Wong

Designer & Watchmaker

Celeste Watch Company

February 2025

About Celeste

Celeste is the spirit and force behind Celeste Watch Company. Wanting to be a watchmaker since childhood, Celeste first became a biomedical engineer and ran her own engineering education company for 18 years. She is the author of over 20 books and booklets on engineering careers and education.

In 2005, she was awarded the prestigious Norm Augustine Award from the National Academy of Engineering, given to an engineer every two years who has demonstrated the capacity for communicating the excitement and wonder of engineering. (Two years earlier, astronaut Neil Armstrong won this award.)

She also won the ASEE Engineering Deans Council Award for the Promotion of Engineering Education and Careers. The National Engineers Week website listed her as one of “50 Engineers You Should Meet.” Celeste uses her engineering brain to refine and improve every process from design, to material choices, preparation, and coloring; cutting, cleaning, inlay, then building and testing the watches for integrity. She works with individual customers to design their custom timepieces. A serial entrepreneur, Celeste has worked for herself for 28 of the last 30 years.

Celeste was awarded Business Person of the Year in 2022 by the Springfield Chamber of Commerce. Having opened her store in the downtown historic district of Springfield, Oregon, Celeste Watch Company has become a destination for many visitors.

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Leadership Dialog Series

Outreach

World Unity Inc.

January 2021

5 Minute Leadership Dialogues - We launched World Unity Inc.’s 5-Minute Leadership Dialog program recognizing leadership is essential to advancing equality, diversity, and inclusion. Short interviews asking thought-provoking questions about life issues we all must face, let’s learn from a leader.

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Rosalin Acosta

Managing Director | Government & Public Sector

Ernst & Young

January 2026

About Eric

Rosalin is the former Massachusetts Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development. She led rebranding of 16 Workforce Investment Boards and 20 career centers to align with the commonwealth’s strategy.

Rosalin works with labor and workforce development leaders on ways to solve some of the most difficult obstacles facing state governments. She aims to find solutions to labor force shortages by modernizing technology, focusing on user experience and optimizing accessibility to services.

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Dr. Timothy Babineau

President and CEO

Lifespan

January 2022

About Dr. Babineau

Prior to his appointment as Lifespan’s president and chief executive officer, Timothy Babineau, MD served as president and chief executive officer of Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital. Before coming to Rhode Island in 2008, he was the senior vice president and chief medical officer for the University of Maryland Medical Center and School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD.

He is credited with helping build the state’s largest multispecialty physician practice, Lifespan Physician Group, which has nearly 1,300 employees including 850 providers in more than 20 specialties including primary care, psychiatry and behavioral health, women’s medicine, urgent care, cardiology, gastroenterology, and ophthalmology.

Before the 2005 appointment at the University of Maryland, Dr. Babineau held numerous administrative positions, including vice chairman of the division of surgery, surgical residency program director and director of the center for minimally invasive surgery at Boston Medical Center and surgeon-in-chief and medical director for the Boston Medical Center Surgical Associates at Quincy Medical Center.