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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Brittany Sky is a Native New Yorker, DJ, and beauty creator whose influence spans music, fashion, and lifestyle. She has partnered with leading brands including Nike, Gillette, Tresemmé, OGX, and David Yurman, and has provided sets for Beats by Dre, Jordan Brand, Adidas, Oakley, and Mass Appeal. On stage, Brittany has opened for artists like Future, performed at New York’s top nightclubs, and DJ’d alongside Hot 97 personalities, cementing her place as a versatile force in music, beauty, and culture.

Crissy Spivey, Cultural Strategist at Burson (WPP family), is a trends, culture, and insights expert. She excels at decoding human behavior combining AI-powered tools with an innate, deep cultural and human understanding of what drives decisions, big and small. Crissy also co-leads Burson’s Polycultural unit, ensuring the lens of intersectionality and representation is woven across client work.

With over two decades of experience, her dynamic career began after graduate school for television, including a several years run at Forensic Files (Court TV). Her journey has spanned diverse sectors, from crime television to human rights, big tech, beauty, major entertainment, and healthcare, consistently identifying the core drivers influencing consumer choices.

Crissy previously founded the consultancy Daughters Collective, and spearheaded digital strategy within the in-house agencies at NBCUniversal and ViacomCBS (now Paramount). Her diverse experience was also part of her curriculum as an adjunct at CUNY CityTech.

A recognized leader in digital transformation, Mulqueen is the Senior Vice President of Digital Transformation at Burson. Named a two-time Admonsters and Folio: Top 100 Woman in Media and one of INC Magazine’s top young communications professionals, she founded the award-winning digital strategy agency, Kindred PR. In 2023, Kindred PR joined forces with global creative innovation agency, Lively Worldwide, to steward the world’s largest brands toward ethical and creative uses of data through brand-owned media ecosystems.

An adjunct professor of strategic communications at WSU-Vancouver, Mulqueen shapes the future of human-centered digital media strategy. Her career began at the dawn of social media, crafting strategies for Vanity Fair and CBS at major entertainment events.

As the former CMO of Grey Cloak Technologies, she pioneered market education on digital advertising fraud and has since become a premier global expert on brand-data relationships. Mulqueen lectures and conducts workshops worldwide on brand strategy, consumer and environmental shifts, emerging technologies like generative AI, and evolving data privacy regulations.