Bryan Stromer is passionate about telling the stories of brands that make our world a better place. He found his way into marketing after studying Human and Organizational Development at Vanderbilt University. At Vanderbilt, he realized the vital role that advertising and marketing play in shaping culture and society. He is currently a Product Marketing […]

A proud native Nuyorican with roots in East Harlem, Barbara is a storyteller by nature and trade. By day, she strategizes and crafts the front facing language for notable Ad Council campaigns on topics such as teen suicide, LGBT acceptance, and more. In her free time, she’s a freelance writer at Bustle where she explores […]

Aniqua Hendricks is an Assistant Multicultural Media Strategist at Hearts & Science where she plans and strategizes media for Cricket Wireless. Within 30 days of graduating from college, she accepted the position and started out in the New York office where she worked on the multicultural strategy team for P&G at Hearts. She later transferred […]

Born and raised in the Chicago area, Alex Studer studied Advertising and Communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. There, he was President of the largest chapter of the American Advertising Federation in the country, named one of AAF’s Most Promising Multicultural Students, and founded and launched the student-run advertising publication Verge. So far […]

Alex Harris is a Client Solutions Manager at Facebook in the Chicago-based NA Agency team. She was previously an Agency Partner Manager consulting independent advertising agencies in the US and Canada on how best to grow small and medium businesses on Facebook. Prior to Facebook, Alex researched consumer behavior and marketing at Columbia Business School […]

During the day, Ace Patterson works in Consumer Marketing at Facebook, working closely with the marketing directors for both the WhatsApp and Messenger apps to provide operational, planning, and financial support. At night, he is hip-hop recording/performing artist, Call Me Ace, who delivers positive, heartfelt messages on hope, empowerment, and perseverance. His last album, Airplane […]

Mark D’Arcy is Chief Creative Officer of the Facebook Creative Shop. In this role, he leads a team of creative strategists in 18 cities around the world tasked with creating and building ideas that transform how the world’s largest and most innovative marketers use Facebook to drive business growth. After two decades working as a […]