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Yolo Akili Robinson

Yolo Akili Robinson (he/him/his) is a non-binary award-winning writer, healing justice worker, yogi and the founder and Executive Director of BEAM (Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective). BEAM is a national training, movement building and grant making organization dedicated to the healing, wellness and liberation of Black communities. Yolo has worked primarily in three areas: Batterers intervention/family counseling with Black men and boys, HIV/AIDS, and healing justice/wellness. In 2018, Yolo was awarded the prestigious Robert Wood Johnson Foundation “Health Equity Award” for his work. He was also featured at the 2020 BET Awards as an “Empowerful Spotlight,” highlighting his work facilitating the vision of BEAM. His writings and work have appeared on Shondaland, GQ, Women’s Health, USA Today, Vice, BET, Huffington Post, Cassius, Ebony, Everyday Feminisms and more. He is the author of the social justice themed affirmation book, Dear Universe: Letters of Affirmation & Empowerment for All of Us (Michael Todd Books, 2016) and a contributor to the New York Times Best Seller; Tarana Burke and Dr. Brené Brown’s anthology on Black vulnerability and shame resilience, You are Your Best Thing (2021, Random House Books).

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Nadine B. Hack

Nadine B. Hack is the CEO of beCause Global Consulting. Her awards include Responsible CEO of Year Shortlist; Top Corporate Social Responsibility Leader; Top Trustworthy Business Leader Lifetime Achievement; Top Ethical Green Business Influencer; Enterprising Woman of Year; Inspiration Lifetime Achievement presented at Säid Business School Oxford University. Her company beCause Global Consulting was named Best Specialist Stakeholder Engagement Consulting Firm, and featured in a cover story in AI Global Media magazine. 

She is a Forbes Councils author and her TEDx talk “Adversaries to Allies” has 15K+ viewers. She’s the first female Executive-in-Residence at IMD Business School, focusing on responsible leadership, diversity and inclusion, sustainability, human rights, global citizenship, entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership development. She’s a fellow at Salzburg Global Seminar and New Westminster College. She holds Master’s degrees from Harvard and New School.

She’s currently writing a book, “The Power of Connectedness” with a foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Boards include: senior advisor Global Citizens Circle; Geneva Center for Business and Human Rights; Robert F Kennedy Human Rights Switzerland; Synergos Institute; and the Africa-America Institute.

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Josh Goldberg

In January 2023, Josh became the first Chief Executive Officer of the Boulder Crest Foundation, a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring first responders, combat veterans, and their family members live great lives in the midst of struggle, stress, and trauma. In this role, Josh is responsible for Boulder Crest’s operations and activities, overseeing Boulder Crest Arizona, Boulder Crest Virginia, the Boulder Crest Institute, Boulder Crest’s Training and Education work (to include the Warrior PATHH and Struggle Well program and mobile applications,) and their fundraising, marketing, and partnership efforts. 

Josh, along with Boulder Crest’s Founder and Chairman, Ken Falke, co-authored Struggle Well: Thriving in the Aftermath of Trauma. In addition, Josh and Ken co-authored Transformed by Trauma: Stories of Posttraumatic Growth alongside Dr. Richard Tedeschi and Dr. Bret Moore.

In 2017, Josh was named one of 60 Presidential Leadership Scholars. Established by the presidential centers of George W. Bush, William J. Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and Lyndon B. Johnson, the Presidential Leadership Scholar program is an innovative leadership program designed to ensure that scholars have the opportunity to succeed in creating and executing meaningful and impactful leadership projects in communities across the nation.

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Tjada D’Oyen McKenna

As Chief Executive Officer of Mercy Corps, Tjada leads a global team of more than 5,600 humanitarians, who provide immediate relief and help communities forge new paths to prosperity in the face of disaster, poverty, and the impacts of climate change, reaching 37 million people in more than 40 countries. Previously, Tjada served as Chief Operating Officer of CARE, where she oversaw the organization’s programming and global operations. Tjada spent more than a decade working to end world hunger in roles with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the U.S. government.

During the Obama administration, Tjada served as the Deputy Coordinator of Development for Feed the Future, the U.S. government’s global hunger and food security initiative, and the Assistant to the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Food Security in Washington, D.C. Tjada also brings a passion for innovation to her work, developed early in her career, through various roles at McKinsey & Company, American Express, and General Electric. Tjada earned a B.A. from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

When she’s not working, Tjada enjoys reading, spending time with her husband, Joe, and chasing their two young sons. To learn more about what Tjada is up to as CEO of Mercy Corps, she can be followed on her Twitter handle @Tjada.

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