Joselyn Dumas is an award-winning Ghanaian actress, television host, producer, and philanthropist known for her authenticity, elegance, and powerful voice in media. With a career spanning film, television, and digital platforms, she has become one of Africa’s most respected media personalities. She is the creator and host of Keeping It Real with Joselyn Dumas, a YouTube talk show where honest conversations about life, relationships, growth, and societal issues take center stage. Beyond entertainment, Joselyn is passionate about women’s empowerment, wellness, and meaningful storytelling that sparks dialogue and inspires change. Through her work on screen and through the Joselyn Dumas Foundation, she continues to use her platform to uplift communities, champion important causes, and encourage people to live boldly and authentically.

Gloria Feldt is an acclaimed expert on women, power, and leadership with frontline leadership experience, a bestselling author, and in-demand keynote speaker. She is cofounder and president of Take The Lead, whose mission reflects her life’s passion: to prepare, develop, inspire, and propel women to take their fair and equal share of leadership positions across all sectors by providing breakthrough training, mentoring and coaching role modeling, and thought leadership. She is the bestselling author of five books. She is formerly president and CEO of the world’s largest reproductive health and advocacy organization, Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She was named by Vanity Fair one of “America’s Top 200 Women Leaders, Legends, and Trailblazers,” Glamour’s “Woman of the Year,” She Knows Media Inspiring Woman, Women’s eNews 21 Leaders for the 21^st Century.

Deepa Purushothaman is an author, leader, speaker and fierce advocate for leaders looking to rise on their own terms, and a vital advisor to executives and leaders grappling with questions of advancement and retention. Deepa spent more than 20 years at Deloitte helping clients transform and grow. She was the first Indian-American woman and one of the youngest people to make partner in the firm's history. As a Senior Partner, Deepa was the US Managing Partner of WIN, Deloitte's renowned Women's Initiative. She is the author of internationally acclaimed book, The First, The Few, The Only, hailed as a Financial Times best business book pick and won multiple book awards. She founded the re.write, an unconventional think tank advancing a new story of work. Deepa is also an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School. Deepa has worked closely with the Aspen Institute, both as a fellow, and now as an advisor.

Liesl Gerntholtz is the managing director of the PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Center at PEN America. She is a South African human rights lawyer who spent the early part of her career working for the South African Human Rights Commission and the Commission on Gender Equality in post-apartheid South Africa. She was the head of the HIV Litigation Unit of the AIDS Law Project and the Director of the Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre. In those capacities, she led high impact, strategic litigation to advance the human rights of people living with HIV and women affected by violence. She has lived in the US since 2008, but remains committed to her South African roots, serving on the boards of several South African human rights organisations. Between 2008 and 2020, Liesl worked for Human Rights Watch in different capacities. She was the executive director of the Women’s Rights Division for nearly ten years, overseeing research and advocacy that responded to the most critical women’s rights issues in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe and the US.

Katie Mehnert is an authority and catalyst building the ecosystem where human, financial, and natural capital converge at the frontier of the new economy. She has spent 15 years at the intersection of energy, innovation, and human potential. As the founder of ALLY Energy and now The Bee Suite, she has created strategies that transform how companies attract talent, build culture, and compete in the new energy economy bridging oil and gas with renewables to create the market leaders of tomorrow. Her influence reaches the highest levels of policy. Katie served as an Ambassador to the U.S. Department of Energy under both the Trump and Biden Administrations and as a member of the National Petroleum Council, making her a rare voice trusted by both sides of the aisle. Corporations, private equity firms, and startups seek her out as a strategic advisor when the stakes are highest. A sought-after speaker and author, Katie's thought leadership has appeared on NASDAQ, CNN, FOX, and Newsweek.

Debra Zimmerman is an American film distributor and lecturer. She has been the Executive Director of the non-profit media arts organization, Women Make Movies since 1983. WMM is a non-profit NY based social enterprising organization that supports women filmmakers. During her tenure it has grown into the largest distributor of films by and about women in the world. WMM’s internationally recognized Production Assistance Program has helped thousands of women get their films made. Films from WMM programs have been nominated or won Academy Awards. She is in great demand as a speaker on independent film distribution, marketing and financing as well as on women's cinema. She has moderated panels and given master classes at the Sundance and Toronto Film Festival’s IDA’s Getting Real conference as well as other events in Europe, Africa, Asia and South America. She speaks at conferences and panels, including the Women’s Film History Conference at the University of Sunderland, Visible Evidence Conference at NYU and the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference at Boston University. She lectures regularly at universities across the United States, including Harvard, Smith College, UCLA and others.

Mileydi Guilarte is a global strategist, democracy advocate, and international development expert with more than 20 years of experience advancing governance, human rights, and institutional resilience across Latin America, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia. She is the CEO of Fomento Strategies, LLC, a social impact advisory firm that works with governments, multilateral organizations, and civil society to navigate complex political environments and strengthen democratic systems. Throughout her career, Mileydi has held leadership and advisory roles with institutions including USAID, the White House, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the United Nations contributing to high-level initiatives focused on democratic governance, anti-corruption, economic reform, and civic participation. Her work is grounded in ensuring that institutions serve people, especially in contexts shaped by political fragility, inequality, and systemic exclusion. She has led and advised programs that strengthen electoral integrity, support civil society, and promote accountability and transparency in the world’s most complex environments. Currently, she serves as a Visiting Professor of International Relations at Universidad Francisco de Vitoria in Madrid.