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Zubaida Bai is the President and CEO of Grameen Foundation, where she leads holistic programming that enables women and families to build financial health and leave poverty. Leveraging her engineering and social entrepreneurship background, she brings systems-level innovation to financial inclusion challenges, with a proven track record from founding healthcare social enterprise ayzh to leading social ventures at CARE International. Recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and TED Fellow, Zubaida combines institutional leadership with governance experience to drive transformative approaches to sustainable development and financial inclusion.

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Elected to the California State Senate in 2020, Senator Becker represents San Mateo and northern Santa Clara counties. A lifelong advocate for innovation in service of the public good, he founded Full Circle, a nonprofit supporting leaders and organizations advancing economic opportunity, education, environmental sustainability, and health in the Bay Area.

Blending entrepreneurial expertise with social purpose, Josh co-founded New Cycle Capital, helped launch a biotech company researching cancer cures, and led Lex Machina from a Stanford project to a nationally recognized legal tech platform. In the Senate, he continues his commitment to equity, sustainability, and innovation, championing policies that align business and community impact and environment.

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Gary A Bolles is a Global Fellow for Transformation at Singularity University.  He lectures, writes and consults about the intersection of technology, impact, innovation, and capital to fuel continuous transformation in the Age of AI. 

He is a co-founder of SoCap Global, the enduring conference helping entrepreneurs and investors to explore strategies for “doing well and doing good.” As a partner in the boutique consulting firm Charrette LLC, Bolles helps organizations intent on scaling their impact, including corporations, entrepreneurs, family offices and corporate philanthropies. A widely-acknowledged expert on the future of work, Bolles is the author of The Next Rules of Work: The mindset, skillset, and toolset to lead your organization through uncertainty.

As co-founder of eParachute.com, he is a thought leader on co-creating strategies for multi-generational organizations, helping youth to 50+ to develop their own career paths by leveraging insights from “What Color Is Your Parachute?”, the best-selling career book of all time. 

Bolles is the former COO of Evolve Software, the former VP Marketing for Network Products Corporation, and the former editorial director for six technology magazines, including Inter@ctive Week and Yahoo! Internet Life. 

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Marcus Briggs-Cloud (Maskoke) is a language revitalizer, scholar, musician and co-director of Ekvn-Yefolecv: an off-grid, climate-positive, income-sharing ecovillage compromised of Maskoke People who, after 180 years of displacement, returned to their homelands for the revitalization of their language and culture, and commitment to ecologically regenerative lifeways. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School, he has a PhD in interdisciplinary ecology from the University of Florida’s School of Natural Resources and the Environment. Marcus serves on the board of directors of Cultural Survival, an NGO defending Indigenous Peoples' rights globally.  He is partnered to Tawna Little (Maskoke) and they have two children, Nokos-Afvnoke and Hemokke, with whom Marcus enjoys speaking exclusively in the Maskoke language.

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With over 30 years of small business experience, Sara knows the stages of a small business and the issues encountered as it grows.  Founder and CEO of Amani Financial, the Amani Money Method combines a healthy money mindset with confident money management skills that help her clients claim their wealth and their worth.  

Sara is committed to bridging the wealth gap/economic divide – through high-quality financial literacy programs that are engaging, impactful, and truly change the conversation of money; dismantling the stigma and myths that create both external and internal barriers to wealth creation and enjoying your relationship with money.  

Sara's greatest joys are spending time with my son and his family, biking through the wine country or any intriguing adventure near or far. 

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Robert Browning is Director of Healthcare and Organizational Partnerships at HeartMath and Vice President of the Fyera Foundation. He has trained over 100,000 people in heart-based resilience tools and co-leads healthcare alliances with institutions like Johns Hopkins and Stanford. With a doctorate in Human Caring and experience in UN and G20 diplomacy, Robert brings heart intelligence to peacebuilding and systems change. 

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Syama Bunten is an award-winning entrepreneur, investor, and advocate for women’s financial empowerment. As Co-Founder of Big Delta Capital, she’s on a mission to help one million women build wealth through access, education, and community. She is the creator of the Wealth Catalyst Summit, a nationally recognized event that brings together investors, founders, and wealth-builders to reimagine how capital flows. She also hosts the award-winning podcast Getting Rich Together, where she leads candid conversations about money, investing, and values. With a background in fashion and finance, Syama has been featured in Forbes, The New York Times, and speaks on values-aligned investing and financial freedom. 

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Paul Bradley Carr is a journalist and author. He has written three memoirs about his adventures in and around Silicon Valley. He was the Silicon Valley columnist for The Guardian, senior editor at TechCrunch, cofounder of PandoDaily, and founder and editor-in-chief of the infamous NSFWCORP in Las Vegas. His writing has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, HuffPost, National Geographic, and much more. He lives in Palm Springs with his family and is the co-owner of The Best Bookstore in Palm Springs.

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Sheva Carr is the founding CEO of Heart Ambassadors® and The Fyera Foundation, and Co-Director of HeartMath® Healthcare. She integrates Eastern medicine, emotional intelligence, and diplomacy to advance global wellbeing and sustainable development. With consultative status at the UN and leadership in the G20/C20, Sheva champions heart-based solutions to mental health, leadership, and social transformation. 

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Dr. Jacqueline Chan, D.O. is the Medical Director, Advanced Hyperbaric Recovery of Marin, San Rafael, CA; Staff Physician, Marin Natural Medicine Clinic, Larkspur, CA; Part-time Faculty, Academy of Intuitive Medicine, Sausalito, CA, and author of “Regenerate Your Brain: A breakthrough plan to regain your brilliance” 

She is a board-certified holistic medicine physician dedicated to providing compassionate, patient-centered care. Dr. Chan integrates the latest in holistic and functional medicine with a deep understanding of the body’s healing potential. She holds a strong belief that optimal health extends beyond the absence of disease. Dr. Chan focuses on aligning physical, emotional, and energetic well-being to support each patient’s highest vitality. 

Dr. Jacqueline Chan holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Mount Holyoke College, MBA training from National Westminster Bank, and a Doctorate in Osteopathic Medicine from Ohio University.  She completed her Family Practice Residency in 1997 and is Board Certified in Integrative Holistic Medicine and Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine. Drawn to osteopathic medicine for its holistic and individualized approach, she has spent over two decades blending cutting-edge functional medicine with traditional healing wisdom. 

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Kristin Coates is the CEO of Regenerative California, a pioneering nonprofit dedicated to transforming California into a regenerative economy through a place-based strategy.  Kristin is a seasoned entrepreneur and leader that has been creating positive change in the private, non-profit, and public sectors for over 20 years. After nearly a decade of working in the nonprofit sector in land conservation, green building, and environmental media, Kristin launched Coates Consulting, a sustainable tourism firm, where she and her team helped to create dozens of award-winning hospitality destinations. For nearly 7 years Kristin held the role of VP of Food and Nature-Based Solutions at SecondMuse, an innovation company that works with visionary corporations, cities, governments, organizations, and startups to create 21st century economies.   Within her portfolio was the Food System Vision Prize funded by The Rockefeller Foundation; the launch of a new regional food system initiative called Urban Food Hives in partnership with Oxfam, and the design and implementation of entrepreneurial and innovation accelerators.  Kristin received degrees in International Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont and Sustainable Tourism at George Washington University and is a 2024 fellow of the With Life Program (a collaboration of Capital Institute and nRhythm). 

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Raised in California’s agricultural heartland and a proud son of family farmers, José brings decades of cross-sector leadership to his current role as Chief Agriculture Innovation Officer with the Office of Kat Taylor. His work is rooted in a deep belief in community-led systems change, supporting grassroots investment platforms that build economic resilience in the Central Valley and beyond. Through his work, leading the Agricultural Platform Collective - a flagship initiative of the Office of Kat Taylor - he is helping to transform the agricultural sector by bolstering the economic viability, sustainability, and resilience of under-represented farmers, ranchers, and rural communities at-large.  

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Amira Diamond is the Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of Women’s Earth Alliance (WEA), where she leads global initiatives that equip grassroots women leaders with the tools, networks, and resources to scale community-driven climate solutions. With over three decades of experience advancing climate resilience, gender equity, and economic justice, Amira’s career includes directing philanthropic strategy, cultivating cross-sector partnerships, and movement organizing. She is a dynamic speaker and coach known for integrating music, storytelling, and cultural tradition into her work, including as founder of the Social Prophet Choir.

Her leadership at WEA has contributed to reaching more than 24 million people and protecting vital ecosystems in some of the world’s most climate-impacted regions across 31 countries. Amira is a co-recipient of the 29th Heinz Award for the Environment. 

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Meghan French Dunbar is a “business anthropologist” who studies organizations to 

find solutions that improve work for everyone. As an author, entrepreneur, workplace 

strategist, and speaker, her work has touched the lives of over a million people worldwide. 

Her first book, This Isn’t Working: How Working Women Can Overcome Stress, Guilt, and 

Overload to Find True Success, came out August 5th, 2025 as the #1 Amazon release for Women In Business and #2 in Workplace Culture, becoming a best-seller in both categories. Prior to that, she co-founded the first nationally distributed print magazine in the U.S. focusing on impact-driven business, Conscious Company Magazine, where she interviewed more than 1,000 business leaders worldwide. She led the company through a successful acquisition in 2017 and remained on as CEO until 2020. As a leadership and workplace strategist, she works with leadership teams at companies, like Coach, Kate Spade, Leonard Green, Charter Next Generation, and more while writing for outlets like Forbes, Fast Company, and Inc.about her key insights. Meghan lives in Boulder, Colorado, with her husband, Scott, and kiddos, Jack and Atty. 

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Jed Emerson has worked in the arena of purpose driven capital for over 30 years. He has co-authored eight books on impact investing and social entrepreneurship.  

Jed is the founder of Blended Value Group, a consulting and advisory firm working with investment firms, funds, family offices and foundations to advance more effective wealth management and impact investing strategy and practice.  He currently serves in leadership roles at AlTi Tiedemann Global, Happiness Capital/Hong Kong, Katapult Foundation/Oslo.  He is a Senior Fellow at both Impact Assets and the Blended Finance Initiative at the University of Zurich and is a Senior Research Fellow at University of Heidelberg’s Center on Social Investing in Germany.  Jed has taught at the Harvard, Stanford, Kellogg, and Oxford business schools as well as NYU-Abu Dhabi. 

Emerson’s last book, The Purpose of Capital: Elements of Impact, Financial Flows, and Natural Being, explores how we may bridge the divide between how we think about doing well and doing good in order to optimize the total, integrative impact of our lives and wealth, creating an inter-generational, living legacy that reflects our values and aligns our wealth with our ultimate life goals. 

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Rick Farman co-founded Superfly in 1996, becoming one of the creators behind iconic experiential properties like Bonnaroo, Outside Lands and The Friends Experience in addition to other various landmark experiences for clients including Intel, Citi, Bravo, Google, Nike, Apple and more. He plays a leading role in business development, identifying key opportunities to grow and expand Superfly's capabilities through strategic partnerships and investments. Rick also invests opportunistically in businesses that are similarly evolving culture - many of which align with his personal interests towards wellness, technology and entertainment. Description goes here

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Janine Firpo is an accomplished speaker, author, and social entrepreneur, with a long history of working at the intersection of women and their money. From the early years of Apple Computer to senior positions with Hewlett-Packard, the World Bank, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Janine has always found herself making an impact. 

In 2017 she left a successful 35+ year career in technology and international development to focus on how women can create a more just and equitable society through their financial investments. Her book, Activate Your Money: Invest to Grow Your Wealth and Build a Better World, was published by Wiley in May 2021. Later that year, she co-founded Invest for Better, a nonprofit that is catalyzing a movement in which millions of women are educated, enabled, and empowered to activate the power of their money for themselves and for the world. 

Janine walks her talk. She is taking action to move all her own assets into investments she feels good about and is watching them grow with market-rate returns. She is also a lead investor in Next Wave Impact, a venture fund designed to help more women become angel investors. In 2024, Forbes named Janine one of “50 Over 50” female leaders who continue to make impact later in life. 

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Timothy Fredel’s journey from a Wisconsin dairy farm to Silicon Valley is a testament to resilience, adaptability, and the power of access to the right opportunities. Raised in a family that valued hard work and education, Tim started his career far from the world of venture capital—milking cows twice a day—before earning his place among the leading minds in technology. He worked for Apple, Cray Research, and Sun Microsystems, gaining deep expertise in technology, business strategy, and innovation. 

Tim’s career took a pivotal turn when he joined Jennifer Carolyn King as co-CEO of BioSpace.com.  Together, they built a platform that supported some of the most critical advancements in life sciences, directly impacting the search for cures for devastating diseases. 

After winding down BioSpace they invested in Baidu, gaining invaluable insight into what it takes to scale exponential impact on a global level.  Now at The Butterfly Effect Fund Tim is focused on paying forward his experience and success. He works alongside Jennifer to support founders from historically overlooked communities, ensuring they have access to the capital, knowledge, and networks necessary to thrive. He believes that every underdog deserves a shot—because he’s been there, and he knows firsthand what it takes to rise. 

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Elizabeth Funk is the Founder and CEO of DignityMoves, an innovative nonprofit dedicated to ending unsheltered homelessness using private-sector practical approaches. She has been a tireless advocate for the impact investing movement, serving as a fund manager for several impact funds, a mentor to social entrepreneurs, and an angel investor. Most recently she served as the Senior GP at Dev Equity, an impact fund investing focused on economic development, low-income housing and sustainable agriculture in Latin America. 

Elizabeth started her career as a founding member of both the Microsoft Office and Yahoo product teams.  She later served as President and CEO of CML Global Capital, a global public company with operations in Belize, Hong Kong, Canada and the US.  She chairs the YPO San Francisco Gold chapter and the YPO Impact Investing Initiative as well as Peak Power, a climate technology company at the forefront of the energy transition. She is a member of Toniic (an impact investors network) Battery Powered, Campden Wealth’s Institute for Private Investors, among many other prominent impact-focused organizations. 

Elizabeth holds a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School as a Baker Scholar. She is a proud single mother of two children and lives in San Francisco

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Rafe Furst is an entrepreneur, investor, bestselling author and World Series of Poker champion. With a background in artificial intelligence and cognitive science, Rafe’s expertise spans a wide range of fields, including venture capital, blockchain, complex adaptive systems, and game theory. His success in both business and poker is rooted in his ability to make strategic decisions under uncertainty—an ability he has honed over decades of experience. 

Rafe holds a master’s degree in Computer Science and a bachelor’s degree in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University. He co-founded his first company, Pick’em Sports, in 1996, which he later sold to a public company. Since then, he has co-founded several startups, helped launch multiple venture funds, and advised over 200 founders. He has helped raise over $40 million in charitable donations and investment capital and has helped generate over $450 million in liquidity for investors. 

Rafe’s book The Future of Venture Capital (forward by Tim Draper) hit #1 on Amazon in 2025 in Venture Capital, Private Equity and Portfolio Management.  

Rafe is Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of The Crypto Company (OTCID:CRCW). 

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Dr. Isabela Granic is a researcher, teacher, writer, and designer working across sectors to help build developmental spaces and collective experiences that promote flourishing. Dr. Granic got her PhD at the University of Toronto in developmental psychology. She is currently Industry Professor at McMaster University and the CEO of Liminal Learning, a combined place-based and digital program designed to launch young people into adulthood with community, purpose, and presence. She also runs the Games for Emotional and Mental Health (GEMH) Lab, a multidisciplinary research and development lab that designs and tests digital play experiences for mental health.  

Her lab has created MindLight, a neurofeedback “haunted mansion” game that teaches children to regulate anxiety while immersed in play, and BloomBox, a toolbox of collective practices, design tools, and scientific methodologies that together help transdisciplinary teams build interactive, healing experiences. Grounded in developmental science and ancient philosophy, she is fiercely optimistic about the future of communal-based learning and our collective potential for social, emotional, and societal wellbeing.

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Arani Kajenthira is founder and CEO of Impact Pollinator, where she designs values-aligned investment strategies and holds space for reflections on wealth, family, and legacy. A warm and charismatic leader, Arani has channeled her long fascination with the dynamics of social change into a book exploring the gender aspects of the psychology of money in relation to the Great Wealth Transfer.  

Arani has decades of experience advising business, nonprofit, and government leaders on social and environmental impact. Most recently, she was Managing Director of Investing at the single-family office Good Chaos, where she was a founding team member and built and led the investment function. Her professional career also includes time at Walton Enterprises and the Walton Family Foundation, the consulting firm FSG, and the Harvard Kennedy School.  

Arani is a Rhodes Scholar with a PhD in Earth Sciences and Engineering from the University of Oxford and a BS in Biological Engineering from the University of Guelph. Born in Sri Lanka, she has lived in 5 countries and now lives in the Chicago area.  Arani is an avid reader, food lover, and supporter of women-owned businesses. 

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Melinda Kramer is the Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of Women’s Earth Alliance (WEA), a global organization she launched in 2006 to close the resource gap for grassroots women leading climate solutions. With a background in environmental policy and cultural anthropology, she has spent over 20 years advancing women’s leadership in climate-vulnerable regions—supporting work in food security, water access, clean energy, and community health from Kenya to the Arctic. At WEA she has led efforts to train over 52,000 women across 30+ countries, resulting in thousands of women-led initiatives and stronger, more resilient communities. Melinda is a frequent speaker and strategist, and serves on the board of Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability. She is a co-recipient of the 29th Heinz Award for the Environment. 

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Ken Kurtzig is a serial entrepreneur, impact investor, and sustainability pioneer helping mission-driven ventures scale solutions for climate, equity, and innovation. As Co-Founder of CataCap, he’s building a groundbreaking platform that unlocks donor-advised funds, foundation capital and annual giving for direct impact investments, transforming how philanthropy fuels change. Ken previously founded and led companies at the intersection of sustainability and technology, including iReuse—recognized with awards such as Green Entrepreneur of the Year and Acterra’s Environmental Enterprise Award. A frequent speaker and executive coach, Ken is passionate about empowering founders and investors to leverage technology and catalytic capital for a more just and regenerative future.

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Sarah Lacy is a veteran investigative journalist, serial entrepreneur, three-time author, independent bookstore owner, collaborative writer, and all around badass. 

As a journalist, she has written for BusinessWeek, Fortune, hosted TechTicker on Yahoo Finance, helped build TechCrunch, and co-founded Pando.com. She has written three books about entrepreneurship and Silicon Valley. She is known for her interviews of major technology founders, CEOs, and investors, which collectively have millions of views. She’s been written about in San Francisco Magazine, New York Magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post— to name a few— and featured on Bloomberg, the Today Show, and CBS This Morning among many others.  

In 2018, she also cofounded ChairmanMe, which started life as ChairmanMom and helped tens of thousands of working women achieve economic parity in the workplace.  

These days, she splits her time between San Francisco, where she does collaborative writing and story consulting for many of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, and Palm Springs, where she co-owns the Best Bookstore in Palm Springs.  

She lives with her partner in life and work, Paul Bradley Carr, her two ferocious daughters, three opinionated cats, and a-way-too-clingy poodle.  

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As a serial entrepreneur who built and sold multiple companies, Master Arthur Levitan has spent over 30 years at the unique intersection of technology and spirituality. His early success, however, revealed the emptiness of material wealth, leading him to seek a spiritual path rooted in ancient Eastern philosophy and martial arts.  

After years of dedicated study, he was ordained as a Taoist Master by the High Priestess of the Qingcheng Mountain Taoist temple in China. As one of the few true Western masters, he now offers CEOs and their teams powerful tools to navigate the challenges of business and life. Master Arthur's approach combines ancient Taoist wisdom, cutting-edge science, and decades of firsthand business experience to help leaders foresee challenges, overcome crises, and create sustainable success. 

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Ron Levy is the co-founder and CEO of The Crypto Company (TCC), one of the first publicly traded companies in the blockchain sector (OTC: CRCW), offering emerging technology solutions, consulting, education, and training services. He is the co-founder of Redwood Fund, LP, investing in and guiding small cap companies, and was the founder and CEO of one of the largest, award-winning custom build and development companies in Los Angeles, CA. Ron is also the co-founder and host of The Crypto Roundtable (TCR), a community engagement platform within a private organization focused on the knowledge and compliance of digital assets and blockchain applications worldwide. As a technology trailblazer and transformational leader, he serves his companies and communities with character and commitment. He is a blockchain mentor and guest lecturer for student organizations and institutions such as Pepperdine University, a founding member of an AI-blockchain mastermind group for social entrepreneurship and change, and is, or has been, an advisor and director of several boards, including the International Blockchain Real Estate Association (IBREA). Ron has owned and operated businesses for over 30 years, and has raised more than $100M in capital for various projects and innovative solutions 

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Chris is the founder of several soulful ventures including Puente Guidance, Irresistible Wisdom Network, Watershed Embassy, and the Puente Institute.  The Institute provides technical and social solutions to all sizes of organizations, with a mission to bring sophisticated GIS strategies and tactics to underserved audiences and the global community of environmental stewards.  

Outside of Puente he and his collaborators host classes, retreats, workshops, and participatory learning experiences focused on being in right relationship.  Prior to this work Chris founded Catalyst Marketing, a sports equipment and apparel company based in Boulder, Colorado.  Chris has served on the board of directors of the Equilibrium Fund, The GIS Institute and Warrior Films and holds a master’s in the Human Validation Process model.  He makes his home in Latin America, in a small village nestled near a marine sanctuary. 

Chris will speak on how the next generation of wealth holders are coming into these conversations on finance and devotion – how they are both connected and disillusioned, cynical optimists who will bring a wave of change to the financial industries over the next ten years.   

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Mica Eades Mayo stands out as a dynamic, executive operations and finance powerhouse with a penchant for driving revenue growth and transformation, and for inspiring people with her storytelling superpower. She has over two decades in the hyper-innovation, hi-tech sector with industry legends and darlings like ServiceNow, Juniper Networks, Oracle, and Sun Microsystems.

After earning her MBA in Finance from Cornell University, Mica returned to Silicon Valley to rise and shine amidst the dot.com revolution of Sun. She then found her calling working alongside sales in the Go-To-Market function, accelerating time to revenue and expanding lifetime contract value. Most recently, she steered the lead-to-cash digital transformation at ServiceNow helping to fuel the rocket ship from $2B to $10B ARR in 5+ years.

Mica currently serves as an industry luminary, angel investor and advisor for Aviso AI. She is vice chair of the board for the American Leadership Forum-Silicon Valley. She is also a member of BLCK VC, a limited partner in multiple female-founded VC funds, an active donor partner with Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund (SV2) and is the recent co-founder of Untapped Investing with a mission to spark change and profoundly impact the venture landscape, actively closing the funding and wealth gap which has excluded people of color and women, both as founders and funders.

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Connie, the host and owner/steward of the Anna House Retreat, has a deep call to service as a social worker, psychotherapist, and facilitator of healing spaces that honor the unleashing of our spirit to the betterment of humanity.   

Connie's purpose as psychotherapist, sound healer and steward of the sacred land, is to support others in actively engaging in consciousness work to transcend their rational mind, access their higher selves and ultimately come to know their infinite possibilities.  

In addition to four decades of advanced psychological and spiritual training and licensure, Connie has extensive experience in sound meditation. 

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David Onek is the CEO of Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund (SV2). He has over three decades of non-profit, philanthropic and government experience, with a deep commitment to racial equity and social justice. Previously, David served as Executive Director of the Northern California Innocence Project and as Deputy Director of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s Office of Criminal Justice. He also taught at UC Berkeley Law School and served as Executive Director of the UC Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice. Earlier in his career, David worked for the W. Haywood Burns Institute for Juvenile Justice Fairness and Equity and Legal Services for Children. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Northern California Grantmakers. A graduate of Stanford Law School and Brown University, David is a long-time mindfulness meditation practitioner and an impact and angel investor. He lives in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights neighborhood with his wife Kara Dukakis and they have two adult daughters. 

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Barbara Pierce’s mission is to inspire women to become the CEO of their own wealth—and to use that power as a force for meaningful change. She is the founder of Women with Capital®, a private learning community that educates, supports, and mobilizes progressive women to direct their capital in line with their values. In just five years, members have moved over $150 million into new impact investments and philanthropic ventures—with plans to move multi-millions more in the coming years.  She has more than 25 years experience advising some of the world’s leading philanthropists. Barbara directs her family’s investments and philanthropy and is a member of the Women Donors Network, the International Women’s Forum, and the REDF Advisory Council. As a values-aligned investor, she is an LP in How Women Invest and Portfolia.  

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Lisa Love Rueff is a multi-faceted leader specializing in Personal Transformation, Holistic Wellness and Heart-Centered Connection. Lisa guides Sacred Medicine Journeys and Wellness Retreats, weaving together Ancient Wisdom and Contemporary Holistic Practices like Sacred Medicine, Sound Healing, BreathWork, Guided Meditation for profound healing and growth.  

As a sought-after Life Coach, she empowers individuals to cultivate self love, clarity and courage to follow their dreams. Deeply committed to fostering meaningful community experiences, she regularly hosts Enriching Events that inspire connection, belonging, inner joy, and outward expansion.  

Lisa is also the founder of Collective Hearts, a globally cherished jewelry company dedicated to spreading love and connection. Through all her work, Lisa creates transformative spaces for people to awaken their hearts, trust their intuition and embrace their fullest potential.  

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Jennifer Risher is an author, speaker, philanthropist, and investor focused on gender, racial, and economic equity. Her book, "We Need to Talk: A Memoir About Wealth" explores the impact of wealth on identity and relationships to acknowledge and validate the emotional complexities of money. She believes that when we have a more comfortable relationship with our money, we are better positioned to fuel positive change.  

In 2020, Jennifer and her husband, David co-created #HalfMyDAF to inspire more giving. Through #HalfMyDAF, they've contributed millions in matching funds, rallied donors and nonprofits, and built a community that has put over $80 million DAF dollars to work at nonprofits. Jennifer also invests in underserved communities and with women-of-color fund managers. 

Jennifer and David live in San Francisco where David is CEO of Lyft. Jennifer loves playing and watching tennis and spending time with her two twenty-something daughters. She is on the board of Women Moving Millions and GivingTuesday and is a member of Women Donors Network and Solidaire. 

Connie's purpose as psychotherapist, sound healer and steward of the sacred land, is to support others in actively engaging in consciousness work to transcend their rational mind, access their higher selves and ultimately come to know their infinite possibilities.  

In addition to four decades of advanced psychological and spiritual training and licensure, Connie has extensive experience in sound meditation. 

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Maria Ross is a keynote speaker, author, strategist, and empathy advocate who believes cash flow, creativity and compassion are not mutually exclusive. She is the founder of Red Slice and advises organizations on how to leverage empathy to better engage and connect. Maria has authored multiple books, including her most recent, The Empathy Dilemma: How Successful Leaders Balance Performance, People, and Personal Boundaries and hosts The Empathy Edge podcast. A dynamic speaker, Maria has delighted audiences at leading conferences and organizations such as TEDx, The 3% Conference, The New York Times Small Business Summit, and Salesforce and her insights have appeared in many media outlets, including MSNBC, NPR, Entrepreneur, Newsweek, Huffington Post, and Thrive Global, and she is currently a Forbes contributor. 

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Marc Ruxin is the Chief Strategy Officer, AXS where he leads corporate development, partners, and strategic planning. Before joining AXS, he has spent career as an entrepreneur, media executive, and influential advisor/investor steering media and technology companies to the forefront of digital entertainment. He has held positions as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Marketing Officer of the music streaming service Rdio (acquired by Pandora in 2015) who acquired his music technology company TastemakerX. Prior to that he the CEO of audio company Mixhalo. Earlier in his career he was the  Chief Innovation Officer at Universal McCann and McCann Erikson where he played a pivotal role in driving their digital transformation. He was also the Head of Digigital for WPP Group and started his career at EMI records in A&R. Marc currently sits on advisory boards of numerous internet and technology start-ups in and around Silicon Valley and is on the Board of the Stern Grove Festival in San Francisco. 

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Vicki Saunders is an entrepreneur, award-winning mentor, advisor to the next generation of change-makers and leading advocate for entrepreneurship as a way of creating positive transformation in the world. 

Vicki is Founder of #radical generosity and Coralus (formerly SheEO), a global community of radically generous women supporting women-led Ventures working on the World’s To-Do List. 

Vicki has co-founded and run ventures in Europe, Toronto and Silicon Valley and taken a company public on the Toronto Stock Exchange. 

Vicki was received numerous awards for her work at Coralus including; UBS Global Visionary in 2020, YWCA Women of Distinction Award in 2020, Business Leader of the Year 2019 by the Toronto Regional Board of Trade, 2018 Startup Canada Entrepreneurship Promotion Award and was selected as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in 2001. 

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Jared Strasser is a strategic operator and creative problem solver at the intersection of blockchain, emerging technology, and media. With over 15 years of cross-sector leadership experience, he has built a reputation for navigating complexity, launching high-impact initiatives, and driving growth across both public and startup environments. At The Crypto Company (OTCID: CRCW), Jared leads operations, partnerships, and the development of new blockchain and Web3 initiatives—whether built internally or acquired—to support platform growth and expansion. He also serves as President of Blockchain Training Alliance (wholly owned subsidiary of TCC), where he has scaled one of the most widely recognized certification providers in Web3, working with Fortune 500 clients, government agencies, and leading universities worldwide. Prior to his current roles, Jared was Director of Enterprise Sales at BlockApps, an enterprise blockchain protocol, where he led go-to-market strategy, worked with strategic accounts, and helped shape commercial adoption across multiple verticals. He also founded and scaled a crypto-native gaming ecosystem to thousands of users, overseeing global teams and establishing partnerships with key players, and achieving top 5 status in Chainlink requests on Polygon.  Whether building from zero or scaling what’s working, he combines sharp strategic insight with the hands-on leadership needed to make it real. 

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Terra is the co-founder of Health Relativity, a forward-thinking approach to corporate wellness that places nervous system balance at the core – empowering teams for enhanced workplace productivity, clarity and satisfaction. She also leads transformational healing seminars that equip individuals with energetic, physical and spiritual tools to navigate life with greater resilience, purpose and joy.  

Terra is an inspiring educator and practitioner with over 30 years of experience in bodywork and two decades specializing in Bowenwork – a gentle, highly effective neuromuscular technique that supports the body in resetting toward its innate blueprint for optimal function and health.  Her work is rooted in a holistic understanding of how energy, structure, and trauma interrelate to shape our lived experience. 

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Philip Taylor, Ph.D. is the CEO of Mad Agriculture. He co-founded the organization in 2018 with his life partner, Nicole Brinks, to reimagine and restore our relationship to the land, sea, and each other through regenerative agriculture.

Prior to founding Mad Ag, Philip was a career global ecologist who specialized in ecosystem ecology and biogeochemical cycling. His research ranged widely, from understanding carbon sequestration in tropical rainforest to exploring solutions to the sustainability challenges of agriculture. Philip’s work has been published in numerous journals, including Nature, Nature Climate Change, Ecology Letters,Ecology, and he has diverse international experience in both private and public sectors, having led research and business efforts throughout North America, Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia.

Now, he is bringing his entire being into Mad Agriculture, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to creating a regenerative revolution in agriculture. Over the past 7 years, Mad Agriculture has created two sister organizations, Mad Capital PBC and Mad Markets PBC, which are driving change in finance and the marketplace. Collectively, MAD! works across 35 US states, serving over 200 farmers and ranchers stewarding 300,000+ acres. Philip has helped put over $110mm to work for the cause, and currently oversees a team of 33 people across the three organizations.

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Lynne Twist is the co-founder of Pachamama Alliance and a lifelong advocate for the Amazon rainforest and its Indigenous peoples. For over 30 years, she has worked in deep partnership with rainforest communities to protect their lands and cultures, while inspiring global citizens to align their lives with a vision of environmental sustainability, social justice, and spiritual fulfillment. 

She is the founder of the Soul of Money Institute and the author of The Soul of Money and Living a Committed Life, transformative works that offer powerful insights into transforming our relationship with money, living with purpose, and creating a thriving world. A recipient of the Goi Peace Award, Lynne is an internationally recognized speaker, fundraiser, and thought leader whose voice invites a profound shift in our role in the web of life. 

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As president and CEO of RSF, Jasper van Brakel sees firsthand the energy that mission-aligned, catalytic capital sparks. He guides RSF in revolutionizing how people relate to and work with money, leading a talented team that develops innovative giving, investing, and lending programs to address the significant social, environmental, and economic challenges of our time. Prior to joining RSF in March 2018, Jasper was a partner at Newpark Capital, a private equity firm for impact-driven companies. He served as an operating partner with Armonia, an impact investor and regenerative field builder, where he initiated collaborative partnerships and provided strategic leadership support to several portfolio companies, both as an adviser and as a board member. Born and raised in the Netherlands, Jasper worked for 14 years with the Weleda Group, moving to the US to become Weleda North America’s president and CEO. A graduate of Harvard Business School’s general management program, Jasper also holds a master’s degree in economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam. In 2024, Jasper was honored to join as a Fellow of The Aspen Institute. Jasper lives in San Rafael, California with his wife Marieke and their four children.

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Wendy Verba, founder of Belonging by Design, helps organizations and communities of all kinds strengthen their cultures to bring out the best in people, boosting retention, engagement, performance, collaboration and trust. She offers a proven methodology and tools via coaching, speaking, training and facilitating change. Wendy lives in the Bay Area where she raised three kids and enjoys building community around music, nature and spirituality with her husband and friends. 

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Rev Sara Jolena Wolcott serves as an unconventional minister and entrepreneur. Her consulting work focuses on empowering women on their business leadership paths and strategic planning as they go through periods of rapid growth.  Sara directs the international decolonizing learning community Sequoia Samanvaya which provides a variety of deconstructive courses and workshops as well as innovative work around circular/cyclical calendars and related reflective processes.  

Sara holds an M.Div. from Union Theological Seminary and an MA in Science Society and Development with a focus in Finance from the Institute of Development Studies.  She hosts the ReMembering and ReEnchanting podcast, is deeply Quaker, and lives with her wife in New York.