Naomi Baer
Practitioner in Residence, Social Entrepreneurship at Center for Social Innovation, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Industry: Academia, Nonprofit
Naomi designs and leads programs for social entrepreneurs and provides guidance in developing social venture models for both nonprofit and for-profit ventures. She advises traditional and mid-career MBA students in user-centered design, business, and impact model development, team building and co-founder relationships, fundraising strategy, and development of advisory networks and boards. Naomi served on the board of the Northern California Translators Association for five years and is certified by the American Translators Association in Portuguese to English translation.
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Jennifer Burns
Associate Professor of History and Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University Industry: Academia
Jennifer is an Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University, where she teaches courses on American political, cultural, and intellectual history, with a particular interest in ideas about the state, markets, and capitalism and how these play out in policy and politics. I have published articles about the history of conservatism, libertarianism, and liberalism in a number of academic and popular journals, including Reviews in American History, Modern Intellectual History, Journal of Cultural Economy, The New York Times, The New Republic, and Dissent. She graduated from Harvard University Magna Cum Laude majoring in History, and received her Masters and PhD in History from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Stephenie Gosnell Handler
Associate General Counsel (Cybersecurity), MicKinsey & Company Industry: Legal, Military
Stephenie graduated with distinction from the U.S. Naval Academy and holds a M.A. degree in national security studies from Georgetown University. She earned her J.D. from Stanford Law School. Stephenie served as an active duty officer in the U.S. Marine Corps for seven years.
After leaving active duty service to attend law school at Stanford, she continued her interest in rule of law development as a member of the Afghanistan Legal Education Project, writing and editing legal textbooks and curricula that are currently being used by Afghan universities as well as by coalition personnel.
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Janet Hostetler
Industry: Government, Legal
In her previous position as Deputy Director of National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, Janet was charged with driving legal and policy strategies to ensure that everyone in the United States has a home. Janet also served as Chief of Staff & Senior Advisor for 500+ person Office of Fair Housing & Equal Opportunity in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, charged with driving and coordinating major priorities. She holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law, an M.A. (International Relations) from the Australian National University, and a B.A. (Economics and Latin American Studies) from Wellesley College.
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Julie Kurnik
Director, Innovation Start-Ups, World Wildlife Fund Industry: Business, Science
At the World Wildlife Fund, Julie identifies and researches evolving global issues and trends as potential disruptors to innovate food and agriculture systems to promote environmental sustainability tied with financial growth. Julie is a serial social entrepreneur working at the intersection of my business and science background to address food and agriculture sustainability issues and climate change. She is passionate about social enterprise models, which use private sector analysis and strategy to create innovative models for monetizing and aligning social impact with financial sustainability.
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Julie Kashen
Senior Fellow and Director, Women’s Economic Justice, The Century Foundation
Senior Policy Advisor, National Domestic Workers Alliance
Principal, Kashen Consulting Industry: Policy, Nonprofit
Julie is a seasoned, action‐oriented progressive policy and non-profit expert with a strong track record of implementing successful legislative and management initiatives. Julie adeptly utilizes coalition building, policy expertise and team management skills to drive change in the areas of work-family, economic mobility, social justice, and women’s empowerment. She is also a leadership and career coach, certified by CTI, specializes in leadership development, career transitions and work-family ease.
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Kiah Morris
Movement Politics Director, Rights & Democracy Project Industry: Government, Medicine
Kiah is responsible for co-creating and building the movement-centered governing infrastructure that shifts power into the hands of the people, especially marginalized community members, at every level of government. Her history in community organizing and mobilization spans nearly two decades in various communities throughout the United States. Her professional non-profit community engagement includes arts administration, youth programs, domestic violence and sexual assault advocacy, and health prevention coalition management.
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Heather King
Partner, Boies Schiller Flexner LLP Industry: Legal, Government
As Partner, Heather counsels C‐suite executives, founders, funders, in‐house counsel and individuals in civil litigation, regulatory compliance, congressional and regulatory inquiries, government relations, proactive strategies, policy matters and communications. In addition, she serves on the Clinton Foundation Millennium Network Leadership Council, Women Under Forty Political Action Committee Board of Directors, Running Start Advisory Council, and National Women’s Law Center Leadership 35 advisory committee.
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Liz Paxton
Executive Territory Manager, Biosense Webster Industry: Medicine
Liz is a Executive Territory Manager for Biosense Webster, a Johnson and Johnson medical device company specializing in catheters and mapping equipment to treat cardiac arrhythmias. Before entering the private sector Liz Paxton was a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco spending a total of five years in-country leading international Economic development efforts for artisans and craft exporters. She holds a B.A. in French and Political Science from Dickinson College, Magna Cum Laude, and an MBA from UNC Chapel Hill, where she graduated in the top 20% of her class.
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Obrea Poindexter
Partner, Morrison & Foerster Industry: Legal
Ms. Poindexter’s practice focuses on financial services regulation. She advises clients on financial privacy issues relating to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and the Fair Credit Reporting Act; consumer lending issues under the CARD Act, the Truth in Lending Act, and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act; debit cards, prepaid cards, electronic banking and payment system issues under the Electronic Fund Transfer Act (Regulation E) and the E-SIGN Act. Ms. Poindexter is the Chair of the American Bar Association’s Privacy Subcommittee and is a frequent speaker on banking and consumer financial services issues.
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Colleen Walz
Chief, St. John’s Fire District Industry: Government
Before St. John’s Fire District, she served as Deputy Chief with the City of Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire, where she had been employed for 25 years. She is a member of the International Association of Firefighters (IAFF) and was a founding member of Fire Service Women of Pennsylvania, an organization to mentor aspiring female firefighters. Chief Walz earned her B.A. from SUNY Empire State and a graduate degree from Grand Canyon University, in addition to graduating from the Executive Fire Officers program at the National Fire Academy.
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Jeannette Wolfe
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine Tufts School of Medicine At Baystate Campus, Baystate Health Industry: Medical
For the past 15 years she has worked at Baystate Hospital, one of the busiest emergency departments on the east coast, treating patients, teaching residents, lecturing, and writing. She is an executive member of Women Advancing and Achieving in Medicine (WAAM), which facilitates mentoring and networking for Baystate’s female providers. Over the past few years, Dr Wolfe has focused most of her non-clinical professional development on gender differences in medicine and communication after she learned that 2/3 of serious medical errors were rooted in communication flaws.
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