As Google’s CMO, Lorraine manages a global team responsible for telling the story of Google’s brand, driving revenue growth, and helping billions of users discover and make the most of Google’s products. Her teams oversee global marketing across some of the world’s most used and loved brands. Lorraine has helped drive Google’s social impact focus […]

Mahyad Tousi is a multidisciplinary storyteller and co-founder of BoomGen Studios and the newly launched Starfish—a creative IP accelerator designed to unleash the full market potential for transformative pop culture ideas originating from artists of color. Tousi’s work spans across mediums, genres, and platforms, ranging from museum pieces to Hollywood blockbusters. He is currently producing […]

Noor Tagouri is an award-winning journalist, speaker and brand consultant. Her documentary and subsequent podcast series sold in America received a Gracies Award for best investigative series. Noor is a touring speaker and brand consultant focused on identity, representation in media, and breaking barriers through storytelling. In 2020, Noor founded her production company, at your […]

Steve Stoute is Founder and CEO of UnitedMasters and Translation. With funding from Alphabet, Andreessen Horowitz, the companies are converging music, technology, and storytelling in unprecedented ways. Previously, Stoute was a music executive producing albums for Mariah Carey and Nas, leading production for Gwen Stefani and Enrique Iglesias, and executive producing the Academy Award-winning “8 […]

Chelsea is a cultural strategist at sparks & honey, recently making the move from LA to NYC. She has been a consistent voice in diversity conversations since she entered this industry in 2015, mainly working to bring young BIPOC and LGBTQ+ strategists into this space. Last year she developed daily programming at Cannes Festival of […]

Tiffany Smith-Anoa’i oversees entertainment diversity and inclusion initiatives and develops new programs that recruit, nurture and hire inclusive talent to work in front of and behind the camera. In addition, she serves as the entertainment liaison to multi-cultural coalitions and provides outreach to agencies, guilds and other industry organizations. She had been Senior Vice President […]

RAENA SADDLER is VP of People & Managing Director at the Sheryl Sandberg & Dave Goldberg Family Foundation, which runs Lean In and Option B. In her role at Lean In, she has helped launch initiatives that raise awareness on issues critical to advancing women at work, and developed programs to help companies build equal […]

Dr. Marcel Rosa-Salas is an anthropologist of consumer culture who studies advertising’s role in creating racial ideas in America. She is currently an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Dr. Rosa-Salas is the co-editor of “Documenting the Nameplate,” a forthcoming book about nameplate jewelry culture, and co-host of the Top Rank […]

Courtney Richardson is an award-winning creative visionary who currently serves as Creative Director for PAPER, where she leads original ideas and disruptive thinking on behalf of numerous brands and celebrities within pop culture, sports, beauty & fashion spaces. Courtney’s proven strengths in producing effective brand campaigns and thoughtful strategies have not only outshined competition but […]

Freed from prison in 2018, Richie Reseda is an abolitionist-feminist producer and organizer. He founded Question Culture, a social-impact record label; Success Stories, a transformational feminist program for incarcerated men chronicled in the CNN documentary “The Feminist on Cell Block Y;” and cofounded Initiate Justice, which organizes people directly impacted by mass incarceration to change […]