Raquel Willis is an award-winning activist, journalist, and media strategist dedicated to collective liberation, especially for Black trans folks. She is an executive producer with iHeartMedia’s first-ever LGBTQ+ podcast network, Outspoken, and the host of Afterlives, a podcast centering the lives and legacies of trans folks lost too soon to violence. She is also the author of The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation.

I am a strategic and transformational leader with expertise in philanthropy, emergent technologies, media production, creative convening, and organizational development. My work ensures that funding strategies, leadership structures, and programs align with the mission and impact organizations aim to create.

Advocate & Public Speaker.

1st transgender man to compete for an NCAA D1 men’s team.
Skilled in Coaching, Leadership, Public Speaking, Microsoft Office, and Social Media

I am the CEO & Founder of Reworkit, a transformational coaching company that empowers overachievers to find their best place to work and guides companies who aspire to become the best place to work.

Computer security engineer with strong background in software development and a research focus
on network exploitation (TCP Exploitation - Phrack, Nmap developer & creator of Ncrack) and IoT.
Presenter at major security conferences including DEF CON. Lead author of ”Practical IoT Hacking”
book - to be published soon by No Starch Press.

Financial services executive focused on Enterprise Data Management, Data Strategies and Architecture Governance for Global Technology at Bank of America.

Bringing 15 years of experience in Strategy & Operations, I am passionate about making teams more effective, and leaders more impactful. As a Strategy & Operations Lead for the Central & Corporate Communications teams at Google, I help Comms executives and their teams stay focused on the right priorities, and build healthy relationships internally and externally.

Raffi Freedman-Gurspan was the former Principal Deputy Director of Public Engagement at the United States Department of Transportation, appointed by President Joe Biden, where she worked on behalf of Secretary Pete Buttigieg from 2022-2025.

* Entrepreneur and CEO moving positive technology into global products
* Co-inventor of multiple pieces of intellectual property across five hard tech start-ups
* Raised and closed over $38 million in funding into Novomer (CO2 polymers), Adenios (biotech), Conamix (battery tech) and TAF Carbon (carbon foam)
* Featured in the Wall Street Journal

With over 20 years of experience in the media industry, I am a senior editor at large at LinkedIn, where I provide deep reporting, uniquely knowledgeable insight, and a sense of what really matters in an echo chamber full of distracting journalistic noise. I am passionate about covering the business of technology, the impact of innovation, and the stories of the people behind the scenes

Our Lady J is an Emmy-nominated writer, director, and producer, best-known for her work on Pose, Transparent, and American Horror Story. Before Lady J’s career in television, she toured the world performing as a singer/songwriter, as well as a collaborative pianist and musical director for pop, theatre, and classical music (Sia, American Ballet Theatre, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, among others). Our Lady J has received two Peabody Awards, three American Film Institute awards, three Writers Guild Award nominations and two NAACP Image Award nominations. She is currently writing and co-executive producing on the upcoming Netflix series, The Boroughs, executive produced by the Duffer Brothers.

I’m currently Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at Consumer Reports - the nonprofit advocacy organization and one of the most popular publishing platforms in the country.

Active, creative, strategic, Product Manager leader with continuous record of success. Contributed to 3 sequential exits. Always interested in co-founding opportunities. I served various roles in in product organizations from individual contributor to executive VP of Products.

I lead the jobs and career development team for LinkedIn News. My role is to create, cultivate, curate, and circulate knowledge that will help LinkedIn's members — and people who should be members — get hired and get ahead. You will likely encounter my work through my Get Hired and Get Ahead franchises that include newsletters, a podcast, notifications, and more.