Aimée Eubanks Davis is the founder and CEO of Braven, a nonprofit organization focused on helping underrepresented and first-generation college students develop the skills, confidence, and networks they need to secure strong jobs post-graduation. Before founding Braven, Aimée spent over a decade at Teach For America (TFA), where she served in various senior leadership roles, including Chief People Officer. She founded Braven out of a personal passion for ensuring that all young people, regardless of their background, have access to the same opportunities for success, particularly as they transition from college to career.

Her work has earned her numerous accolades, including being named a 2019 Obama Foundation Fellow and a 2020 Leadership Greater Chicago Fellow. Aimée is also a graduate of Mount Holyoke College. Throughout her career, she has been driven by her belief in the power of proximity and diversity in creating opportunities and solving social challenges​(American Academy)​(New Profit).

Aliyah Saleem is the Founder of Hope for Health & Hygiene. She’s inspired to build a future where no one has to choose between food and basic hygiene necessities. H4HH directly tackles the intersecting issues of poverty and health. By providing essential hygiene products and promoting hygiene education, the organization contributes to improving the quality of life for individuals facing hygiene poverty. Additionally, by advocating for systemic change and challenging the perception of hygiene products as “luxury items,” H4HH aims to create a more equitable society where everyone has access to the resources necessary for good health and well-being. Through this experience, she has come to understand the importance of public service and its power to create positive change. Aliyah recently graduated from Rutgers University Newark, majoring in Public and Nonprofit Administration and minoring in Health and Society. Previously, she has interned at the U.S. House of Representatives in the office of Representative Nydia Velázquez, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine and TE Connectivity. She is a 2023 Rutgers University – Newark SPAA Service Awardee, 2022 Obama-Chesky Scholarship for Public Service Recipient, Johnson & Johnson Pathway to Success participant, Former New Jersey Orator (Plainfield Chapter), Vital Voices: Grassroots Voices Fellow, and Johnson & Johnson Bridge to Employment Alumna. She resides in Plainfield, New Jersey, and has a history of volunteering for several organizations. Ms. Saleem has dedicated well over 300 hours of community service. She is inspired to lead, educate, and empower others, take on new challenges, and make a lasting impact in communities worldwide.

Betty Fleurimond is a principal owner of Deloitte Consulting LLP, the largest professional services network in the world. A first-generation college graduate, she is one of two co-founders of Deloitte’s US Higher Education practice that currently serves over 300 accredited colleges and universities. Betty leads Deloitte’s Higher Education Cloud Technology and Student Systems Portfolio with responsibility for bringing together an integrated discipline around strategy, analytics, technology, cyber security, organizational change management and enterprise transformation capabilities across the portfolio.

Betty also Chairs the Deloitte Center for Higher Education Excellence, a dedicated research center and leadership institute that provides groundbreaking thought leadership and leadership development for college and university leaders.

With over 27 years of experience, Betty has a strong and proven track record of success, having led some of the most complex transformations in higher education. Betty also serves as a member of the prestigious Board of Trustees at Northeastern Illinois University. Prior to Deloitte, Betty served as an engineer for Intel Corp., designing motherboards and microprocessors. She is a proud McNair Scholar, an Intel Leadership Award recipient, and an Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Entrepreneur.

Félix V. Matos Rodríguez is the eighth chancellor of The City University of New York (CUNY), the first educator of color and first Latino to lead the nation’s largest urban public university which serves 233,000 degree-seeking students across 25 New York City campuses with an operating budget of $4.1 billion. To build on CUNY’s unrivaled role as an engine of economic mobility, Matos Rodríguez has focused on removing barriers to students’ success and redoubled CUNY’s emphasis on the career outcomes of its graduates, developing a series of public-private partnerships with some of New York’s largest employers and new pipelines for students to enter the workforce. An accomplished and award-winning historian who worked at three CUNY campuses before his appointment as chancellor in 2019, Matos Rodríguez is driven by CUNY’s mission of providing a first-rate public education to all students regardless of means or background and the interconnected role the University plays in lifting New York. He holds a B.A. from Yale University and a doctorate in history from Columbia University.