Yin Lin is the co-founder of SheWorx, a collective of ambitiousfemale entrepreneurs and changemakers redefining a new wave of leadership. In her last venture, she co-founded a design and development agency that worked with early stage clients who went on to raise over $27M in funding with their pitch decks. Yin is passionate about improving the quality of education in disadvantaged neighborhoods and is an active advisor to ed tech startups. She is a 4-time marathon runner with plans to run a marathon on every continent. Yin is a graduate of Tufts University and Seth Godin’s altMBA. Follow her on Twitter @yinnus.

Kavita Pawria-Sanchez is Assistant Commissioner at the NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA) and oversees MOIA’s legal and policy initiatives. Kavita started at the Mayor’s Office as General Counsel in August 2013. Prior to MOIA, Kavita served for five years as Executive Director of the Office of Refugee and Immigrant Affairs at NYC’s social service agency where she spearheaded policies and programmatic strategies to meet civil rights mandates for over 1 million immigrant New Yorkers. Prior to making the leap to government, Kavita was immersed in legal, policy and community organizing work with diverse immigrant-based groups in New York City, such as DRUM (Desis Rising Up and Moving). Kavita has a B.S. in Public Policy from Cornell University and a J.D. focusing on Human Rights Law from the City University of New York School of Law.

Monica Sibri is the founder and president of CUNY DREAMers, an undocumented student-led organization committed to creating a network of support and higher education accessibility to undocumented students at The City Univesity of New York (CUNY) - the Nation's Largest urban university. Through public hearings, press conferences, and documented stories, Monica assures that public officials, the media, and the community are aware of all public policy matters that are important to the immigrant community. She has also created professional development workshops for universities, the private sector, and the community to better understand how to work with Undocumented Americans. As a rising social entrepreneur with years of experience, Monica helped change the lives of many undocumented students for better, especially in 2015 when she led a successful year-long campaign where CUNY refunded thousands of dollars to more than 300 Undocumented students who were unfairly charged out-of-state tuition. Follow her work at @MonicaSibri

Murad Awawdeh is the NYIC's Senior Manager of Political Engagement where he leads the Coalition’s civic, electoral, and political engagement. Mr. Awawdeh actively works with member agencies to develop transformational civic and community engagement campaigns, meaningfully engage immigrant communities in the electoral process, and support capacity and movement building. Mr. Awawdeh has created and developed many successful partnership, alliance, and coalition models that have helped uplift low income communities and communities of color. He has extensively organized and led social, environmental, transportation, and climate initiatives. Mr. Awawdeh played a leading role in securing community benefits through multi-year grassroots and political campaigns that add up to well over 75 million dollars. Mr. Awawdeh’s dedication to develop and build leadership across communities has been the backbone of success in his efforts.

Arka is the Co founder of TravAlarm which is a smart journey planner app and interactive subway map that uses AI to get you there on time. TravAlarm recently won awards sponsored by the MTA and AT&T and was featured on the Discovery Channel. Arka has mad skills in Big Data, which he is putting into use when heading up the tech side of TravAlarm. On his time off, Arka is working hard on achieving the same level of skills in kite boarding.

Jukay is the founder of C4Q. After graduating from Harvard College, Jukay served as a U.S. Army officer where he commanded a rifle platoon in Iraq and earned the Bronze Star Medal. Jukay led economic development and governance initiatives for two Iraqi districts, and founded the first private provincial radio station with Iraqi reporters. After military service, Jukay returned home and founded C4Q because of tech’s potential to empower people and communities. Jukay was honored to serve as the youngest member of Mayor de Blasio’s Transition Team and Jobs Task Force. He serves as a Trustee of the Queens Public Library as well as the Board of Directors of NYC & Company and the Stuyvesant H.S. Alumni Association.

Adrian Reyna is the Director of Membership and Technology Strategies at United We Dream. Adrian works with developers to design technology solutions to help organizations achieve their goals and design strategies to leverage technology to increase membership engagement. Adrian was born in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, and migrated to the United States when he was 11 with both his parents and sisters. He first became involved in activism in 2009 through the University Leadership Initiative at The University of Texas at Austin. Adrian was a part of large campaigns like the Dream Act fight in 2010, the #RightToDream campaigns that lead to the victory of DACA, and developed DreamConnect, a software currently used by over 30 organizations across the country to assist their DACA implementation efforts. Adrian lives in Washington, D.C. and loves the outdoors and camping.

 Known for award-winning, highly-effective advertising, Kathleen Grayce Griffith founded Grayce & Co to work with major brands, agencies and foundations exclusively on business strategy and rapid market acceleration. As CEO, Kathleen crafts and executes plans that will bring her clients’ new ideas to market, driving the development of products, platforms and services.

Her work has been recognized with awards, including a Cannes Gold Lion for creativity and an Effie for effectiveness. She has been featured as a ‘Leading Woman In Business’ by Huffington Post, 'Creative Innovator' by Conde Nast, 'Spotlight On Success' by Citi Women & Co, New York Fashion Week 'Role Model', as a Levo League Mentor and Women in the World’s featured entrepreneur, and on the BBC's Apprentice.

As featured in The Wall Street Journal and NBC News, Cris Mercado has helped hundreds of students ascend to college and earn over $1.5 million in scholarships/grants over his career, most recently through his award-winning company, GrantAnswers. His roles as junior board member and mentor coach at the professional development non-profit America Needs You inspired his latest project, KeyJargon, a mobile application for career-minded individuals. As an increasingly sought-after consultant & speaker, Cris has presented at UCLA, NYU, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on college/career readiness, immigration, & entrepreneurship.

Andrew Levy oversees mobile marketing, sales, and client strategy efforts at Twitter. He is responsible for designing and managing multi-million dollar performance marketing campaigns for the world's leading mobile apps, brands, and agencies. Andrew was an early employee at TapCommerce, acquired by Twitter for $100mm, where he helped scale the company's sales strategy and operations and drove early client acquisition.

Carlene Pinto is the Immigration Campaign Manager for the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC). Ms. Pinto focuses on developing federal and local campaigns to help change the perception and policies that have created the broken immigration system that currently exists. Ms. Pinto works to create resources and opportunities for immigrant communities by focusing on civic engagement, community education, capacity building and coalition building. Ms. Pinto played a central role in April 2016 by mobilizing more than seven hundred New Yorkers to Washington D.C in support of the Deferred Action Programs that would protect 5 million immigrants from unjust deportation. Ms. Pinto's extensive work with low income communities of color has created an intersectional moment where advocates across the country are working collaboratively in understanding the parallels of mass incarceration, and immigration enforcement / detention.

Data-driven marketer with $25m spent across channels. Experienced an AdTech exit to Adobe, acquired over 1m emails at Travelzoo, survived 2 Google algorithm updates at ShopStyle and scaled acquisition 30x at SumoMe. Bootstrapped from Agency (Ladder) to SaaS product (JACK), working with YCombinator, 500 Startups and Techstars companies.