With over 15 years in the sports industry, Megan brings deep expertise in brand strategy and development, media relations, cross-functional content strategy, broadcast production, and retail management. As Senior Vice President of Ketchum Sports, she leads work across the Olympics, NFL, MLB, and international soccer, helping global brands deliver breakthrough marketing and communications strategies that connect with fans worldwide. Megan began her career with the Washington Nationals, advanced through roles with Special Olympics International, and later served as Senior Director of Marketing for the Washington Capitals before joining Ketchum.

As Chief Brand Officer, Shana Renee Stephenson oversees strategy and day to day management of branding, marketing, creative, game presentation, performance marketing, digital content, and brand innovation for the New York Liberty. With her visionary leadership, Shana shepherded the Liberty through a transformational era, culminating in the team’s first WNBA championship win in franchise history and New York City’s first professional basketball championship since 1973. Stephenson’s brand and marketing strategy has positioned the Liberty at the epicenter of New York City culture and made significant contributions to the current renaissance of women’s sports. She previously served as Vice President of Marketing with the Liberty for three seasons.

Shana joined the Liberty family in 2018 before they relocated to Barclays Center and played a key role in the team’s transition to Brooklyn. As a native New Yorker, she drew inspiration from her hometown as she led the team’s complete rebrand. Core to her responsibilities are engaging and maintaining strong connections with the Liberty’s existing fan base, as well as attracting and building relationships with new fans. Her work securing critical partnership and sponsorship deals, boosting game attendance, growing the Liberty fan base, and turning mascot Ellie the Elephant into an icon in her own right continues to elevate the Liberty’s presence as a leading team of the WNBA and professional sports.

Featured in Fast Company, Andscape, The Washington Post, Billboard, The Guardian, Sports Illustrated, and more, Shana’s vision and innovative leadership has been recognized across the sports industry. She was honored as Ad Age’s Leading Women 2024, took home Gold in the CLIO Sports Awards 2024 for Gameday/In-Game Experience for creating “Ellie the Elephant: A Cultural Icon”, and was named to Crain’s New York’s list of Notable 2023 Black Leaders. In October 2020, Shana was named to the Sports Innovation Lab Women’s Sports Leadership Board, the first of its kind, specifically dedicated to accelerating the growth and commercialization of women’s sports.

A former ESPN marketing professional with nearly twenty years of sports industry experience, Shana has a passion for storytelling – adding a unique perspective, relatable relevance and necessary perspective to the sports community. Her keen knowledge of sports inspired her All Sports Everything, a New York centric sports blog with a range of lifestyle, news and other sports-relevant content. She has also contributed to Bleacher Report, espnW, Essence, Madison Square Garden, MSNBC, and Refinery29, to name a few.

Shana currently resides in Harlem. She received her BA in Psychology from Spelman College, and her MS in Sports Business from New York University.

Yvonne Bryant is the Commercial Head of Hemoglobinopathies at Novo Nordisk, Inc. (NNI) with over 20 years of experience in the healthcare industry. Starting out in Clinical Research & Development, Yvonne progressed through commercial roles in Marketing and Market Development. She joined NNI in 2015 in Rare Disease where she launched new products and developed brand strategies for Hemophilia. Yvonne later joined the Obesity Business Unit and led Strategic Planning that helped lay the foundation for future Obesity market growth. She went on to become the Market Development and Partnership Lead, driving new and innovative approaches to Consumer Marketing that span across Diabetes, Obesity, & MASH. Yvonne also led the US insulin launch team.

Today she is responsible for leading the strategy and approach to successfully launch assets in Sickle Cell and Beta Thalassemia. This new Therapy Area plays an essential role as a future growth driver and supports diversification for Rare Disease and Novo Nordisk.

Yvonne is a graduate from Temple University with a B.A. in Sociology and is also a graduate of the University of Delaware, where she earned an Executive Master’s degree in Business Administration. She has attained certifications from the Association of Clinical Research Professionals and the Drug Information Association.

Prior to joining Novo Nordisk, Yvonne worked in clinical research and development for 11 years at CSL Behring and Covance. She has been recognized as Marketer of the Year, and received awards such as NNI Visionary Award, SABRE Award, PRSA Anvil Award and was recognized as one of the top Forty under Forty by the Network Journal. Yvonne has served as co-lead for Black Employees in Novo Nordisk and Women in Novo Nordisk. She also led diversity & inclusion efforts at NNI inclusive of sharing best practices across the organization.

Yvonne serves on the board trustees for the Delaware County Christian School and is a member of Women of Color in Pharma, and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

She lives in Pennsylvania with her two children, Chloe and Joey.

Alzo Slade is a Peabody and multi-Emmy award winning journalist and storyteller. His stories have spanned a wide range of topics from Pro-Life Bootcamp, Bauxite mining fight in Jamaica to cobalt mining in The Democratic Republic of Congo. Slade won an Emmy for his reporting in “American Uprising,” a VICE News special covering the protests after the killing of George Floyd. He also won a Peabody for “Losing Ground,” an exploration about a little-known type of ownership known as “heirs property” is used to appropriate Black Land.

As a former philosophy professor, his storytelling is rooted in a deep-seated curiosity about the world and the human condition. His personal directive is ‘when I learn about the world, I learn about other people. When I learn about other people, I learn about myself.’ Currently, Alzo works with National Geographic and is a reoccurring panelist and guest host on NPR’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!

Jordan Randall is the Content Director at TikTok, leading creative direction and content strategy for TikTok For Business across video, design, copy and editorial writing. Prior to this role, he led on TikTok’s Creative Agency Partnerships team, where he built educational programs that helped ad agency creatives produce more effective and impactful work on the platform. Before joining TikTok, Jordan held marketing and business development roles at Nickelodeon, MediaCom, Media Assembly, and Digitas. A proud Howard University alum, Jordan is also the co-founder and co-host of Surface Level, a podcast that explores the nuances of the Black and Queer experience.

With over a decade of market research experience, Jaclyn Williams leads programs on TikTok’s Marketing Science team dedicated to guiding advertisers in better understanding the dynamic and diverse audiences of consumers and business-decision makers on the platform and the role TikTok plays in their purchase journeys.

Eni Popoola, known online as enigivensunday, is a beauty, fashion, and lifestyle Nigerian American creator based in New York City. After graduating from Harvard University, Eni returned to her hometown and taught middle school history, where she reignited her passion for the city’s fashion and beauty culture. This led to the creation of #EniGivenSunday, a blog she started to share her Sunday church outfits.

While pursuing her J.D. at Columbia Law School, Eni expanded her content to include accessible beauty tutorials and tips, all while balancing her rigorous academic life. After graduating with honors and passing the NY Bar, Eni transitioned to full-time content creation, continuing to build a diverse and engaging platform that blends fashion, beauty, and personal storytelling.

Joy Ogunneye is one of the happiest people you’d ever meet. She’s a passionate, global marketer with over +15 years of expertise building brands and driving category growth within highly matrix, Fortune 500 Consumer Products companies.

As the current Global Innovation & Brand Communication Lead on Aveeno® Body at Kenvue (formerly Johnson & Johnson) – the largest consumer healthcare company, she leads innovation pipeline, strategic planning and operating plan goals on the Aveeno® brand. She owns and drives multi-hundred-million-dollar P&L expansion and the development of new products, claims, and commercial innovation shaped by consumer and category insights and trends.

Joy’s entire career has been driven by her passion to make a difference and transform lives. She has spent her career at iconic companies including Johnson & Johnson, L’Oréal, Revlon, Coty and Avon, leading strategy, innovation, digital marketing and communication across numerous categories and business models.

Famous for her infectious energy and ability to find the light in every situation, she is trusted by executive leadership for high-impact initiatives from NYSE listing to enterprise restructuring to keynote speaking.

Joy is motivated by being the best person she can be, making an impact and touching lives. In her spare time, she is a podcaster who created ‘The Happy Go Joy Show’ podcast, to inspire people to live joyfully no matter what!

She is a Marketing Academy Alumni with an MBA in Marketing from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a BA in Psychology and International Affairs from UMBC. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and two kids.

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