Meet Our Facilitators
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Arati Misro
Arati Brings 20 years of experience in the Entertainment, Startups Education & lifestyle business from a global perspective. Her expertise includes Feature films, TV, product sales & startups. She thrives on recognizing & prioritizing short and long-term goals to greenlight a show or scale a business from a holistic approach.
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Maureen Lawton
Maureen Lawton, comes with a Masters in Leadership Studies and Certification in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the workplace. She enjoys creating open and welcoming community spaces with a high concentration in purposeful leadership and emotional intelligence.
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Dr. Froswa' Booker-Drew
Froswa’ Booker-Drew, Ph.D. is a Network Weaver who believes relationships are the key to our personal, professional, and organizational growth. As the President and CEO of Soulstice Consultancy, the company provides philanthropic guidance, community engagement strategies, leadership capacity, and DEIJ training.
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Cristina Costa
Cristina is on a mission to empower people of color with the opportunity, mindset, professional skills and confidence to succeed. She is the Founder of Cristina Costa Coaching where she offers career coaching to job seekers, career transitioners and entrepreneurs.
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Sarah Rimmel
Sarah Rimmel (she | they), Founder of Slow Integration Coaching, is committed to people's needs being met. As a Certified Somatic Coach and Intercultural Strategist, she supports Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) Professionals and people committed to culture change.
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Jonathan Faxas Gutierrez
Jonathan Faxas Gutierrez is a Filipino, Cuban, Queer, Male, Meditator, movement and flow enthusiast. He is a Somatic Life Coach and trained with the Mindfulness Coaching School. His mission is to support people in connecting somatically to their body’s wisdom, to be present with whatever arises, creating flow and clarity in their lives.
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Jenny Medrano
Jenny Medrano (she/they) is an experienced coach, consultant and facilitator within the arenas of lifestyle, liberation and DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion). With over a decade of experience, Jenny pulls from her background of education and DEI training to inform all of the coaching and consulting that she currently does.
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Linda González
Linda González (she/ella) is a bilingual small business strategist, coach, and author with a focus on liberatory practices and multicultural wisdom. Her passion is to inspire BIPOC on a creative journey of love and healing for this and future generations.
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Darius Frasure
Professor Darius Frasure received a B.S. in Secondary Education from Paul Quinn College in 2005, an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from National University in 2010, an M.A. in Apologetics from Luther Rice College & Seminary in 2013, and he is now finishing his Ed.D. in Leadership for Change at Fielding Graduate University.
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Crystal Simmons
Crystal Simmons, founder of Crystal Clear Purposes, offers professional coaching, corporate facilitation and hosts the “UnStuck Yourself with Crystal Simmons” podcast. She believes everyone deserves to speak up, be heard, and valued for their unique contributions, and that when businesses listen- they can literally change the lives of their employees and customers.
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Alex Dumas
Alex Dumas is the CEO/Founder of Abundance Daily Coaching and Vice-President of the BIPOC Coach Collective. He has a background in Psychology and a decade of leadership experience in the Nonprofit world.
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Dr. Marissa Kalu-Thompson
Dr. Marissa Kalu-Thompson is an educational consultant and coach who gets excited when building capability around systems thinking, equity, effective leadership development for aspiring and experienced leaders, emotional wellness/emotional intelligence, and continuous improvement.
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Neil Alvanzo
Mr. Alvanzo is a certified life and leadership coach helping people find and maximize their leadership and development abilities. Mr. Alvanzo was formally trained in coaching fundamentals at the ICF-accredited Ipec Training Institute.
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Ana Maria Desmaison
Ana Maria Desmaison is the co-founder of Ventura Collective, a Latine women-owned consulting firm that partners with committed organizations to develop an equitable, diverse, and inclusive work company-wide framework.
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Jacqueline Antonetti Moreno
Jacqueline is a professional with 20+ years of combined experience in marketing, corporate communications, coaching, facilitation, and training in four different countries. Bestselling author, healer, radio host, international speaker, and most recently network marketer.
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Beatriz Espinosa
As an experienced People Ops & DEIB Strategist with a decade of experience strategizing, creating, and iterating on inclusive people ops systems to deliver a rich and authentic employee experience, Beatriz supports others you to do the same.
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Prerika Agarwal
Prerika Agarwal has built a career in strategy and technology through management consulting. Over the past 18 years, she has worked as a leader across 30+ Fortune 500 companies.
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Rosa Revuelta
Rosa is a first-generation Chicana, the oldest daughter of immigrant parents from Mexico, and a proud mama to a 1-year-old. Rosa is a leadership coach, facilitator, and experienced trainer. She has 15+ years of experience advocating for women and communities of color, 10 of those years as a strategic leader in management roles.
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Blessing Uchendu
Blessing Uchendu is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who works with individuals and organizations to use authenticity as an avenue for emotional wellness. With 10+ years’ experience working in schools and community-based organizations, Blessing understands that individual wellness is deeply connected to organizational functioning and capacity.
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Christina Ching
Christina is a lawyer turned entrepreneur who founded Rise and Make Waves to empower the #aanhpi community to rise above the challenges of their career and lives and make waves as they become the purposeful passion-filled leaders they’re meant to be. Through her inclusion advocacy and public speaking, she encourages you to reignite your courage, challenge the status quo, and change the world one conversation at a time.
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Linda Espinosa Valencia
Linda Espinosa Valencia is an equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging consultant, a Gallup-certified strengths-based coach, facilitator and speaker. She is the Co-Founder of Ventura Collective, a Latinex women-owned firm that partners with committed organizations to develop equitable, diverse, and inclusive work environments that center humanity and are data-driven.
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Lorena Sanchez
Lorena Sanchez leads advocacy, communication, and development at the Downtown Women’s Center (DWC), the only organization in Los Angeles focused exclusively on empowering women experiencing homelessness. Prior to joining DWC, Lorena served as Director of Admission for USC’s Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, responsible for recruiting the College’s freshmen class and administering its merit-based scholarships.
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Sara A. Farooqi
Sara is a cross-sector strategic operations practitioner, community builder, poet, mama, and friend. She is the founder of Conscious Collectivist™, a practice dedicated to healing the toxic impacts of individualism by uplifting interdependence and mutuality as the heartbeat of our existence.
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Janice Lao
Janice Lao is an internationally multi-awarded environmental scientist and economist working with businesses so they can be a force for good for the world. For over 20 years, her work has been recognized by Forbes Magazine as one of the world’s most influential sustainability leaders.
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Angela Howard
Angela R. Howard is an organizational psychologist, culture strategist and social entrepreneur working to build human-centric workplaces, better leaders and thriving communities along-side growth minded leaders. Her mission is to create more human-centric workplaces that send happier and more fulfilled humans home to further enrich their communities and society.
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Priya Sodha
Priya Sodha, is the founder of Innergem, a coaching & training company focused on people centered work. Priya is a workshop facilitator & mindfulness instructor. She also holds her Masters in Organization Change from The New School, in NYC. Her speciality lies in topics such as the art of self promotion, setting healthy life/work boundaries, battling imposter syndrome & building resilience through mindfulness.
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Jevin Koleth
Jevin Koleth is an Executive Leadership Development Coach and Keynote Speaker based out of Austin, Texas. His mission is to impact future and current leaders by implementing a dynamic mentorship curriculum with a primary focus on Emotional Intelligence (EQ).
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Anthony Lê
Anthony Lê is a driven leadership consultant, coach, and trainer. His mission is to guide others to become more effective strategically while championing diversity, inclusion, and equity building.
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Jenny Vazquez-Newsum
Jenny is a leadership consultant, author, and Founder of Untapped Leaders, LLC. Jenny has facilitated leadership programs and training for 500+ leaders across 200+ organizations. Her book, Untapped Leadership: Harnessing the Power of Underrepresented Leaders will be out June 2023.