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2023 SPEAKERS

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Eli Allen

Senior Program Director, Civic Works  

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Janel Bailey

Co-Executive Director, LA Black Worker Center

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Christine Barrow, Ph.D.

Director, Education Strategy Group

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Amanda Bergson-Shilcock

Senior Fellow, National Skills Coalition

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Debra Carr

Chief Executive Officer, Job Opportunities Task Force

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Edgar Castillo

Senior Manager, Workforce Development Systems & Policy, UNITE-LA

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Brooke DeRenzis

Chief Strategy Officer, National Skills Coalition

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Cody Dorsey

Executive Director, Baltimore Digital Equity Coalition

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Katie Gilbertson

Policy Analyst, Nevada Governor’s Office of Workforce Innovation (GOWINN)

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Johntel Greene

Director or Legislative Affairs, Maryland Association of Community Colleges

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Crystal Griffith

Director of Workforce Development and Education, The Business Council of New York State

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Drew Hubbard

Executive Director, DC Workforce Investment Council

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Jamal Jessie

Workforce Development Manager, Georgia Power 

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Melissa Johnson

Managing Director, State Strategies, National Skills Coalition

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Kate Kinder

State Strategies Director (West), National Skills Coalition

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Rebecca Kusner

Director, Ohio Workforce Coalition, Founder, R4 Workforce, LLC

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Dr. Ana Luz Gonzalez-Vasquez

Project Director, UCLA Labor Center, POWER in Workforce Development 

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Erin Macey

Executive Director, Indiana Community Action Poverty Institute

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Yolanda Macklin Crewe, Ph.D.

Director of Operations-Career Education and Workforce Programs, Virginia Community College System

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Dr. Girard Melancon

President/Founder Durango Works

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Sarah Miller

Principal Adviser, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Center for Workforce and Economic Opportunity 

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Ze Min Xiao

Executive Director, Center for Economic Opportunity and Belonging

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Christopher Montgomery

Director, Syracuse Build

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Karina Paredes-Arzola

State Network Manager, National Skills Coalition

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Julie Parks

Dean & Executive Director of Workforce Training & Tassell M-Tec, Grand Rapids Community College 

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Shana Peschek

Executive Director, Machinists Institute 

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Rick Plympton

CEO, Optimax 

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Chrissie Powell,

Chief Growth and Impact Officer, ByteBack

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Lindsey Reichlin Cruse

Senior Fellow, Postsecondary Education, National Skills Coalition 

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Michael Richardson

Director of Worker and Student Voices, National Skills Coalition

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Nakeisha Ricks-Pettyjohn

Senior Fellow, Workforce Development, National Skills Coalition

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Dr. Ian Roark

Vice Chancellor of Workforce Development & Innovation  
Pima Community College 

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Julio Rodriguez

Deputy Director of the Office of Employment and Training (OET), IL Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity 

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Erin Sheehan

State Network Manager, National Skills Coalition 

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Aquilina Soriano Versoza

Executive Director, Pilipino Worker Center of Southern California 

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Randy Stamper

Associate Vice Chancellor, Career Education and Workforce Programs, Virginia Community College System

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Marisol Tapia Hopper

Director of Strategic Partnerships & Funding, Workforce Development Council of Seattle-King County

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David Troutman, Ph.D.

Deputy Commissioner for Academic Affairs and Innovation, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board 

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Portia Wu

Secretary of Labor,

Office of Secretary,
Maryland Department of Labor

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