Julia Santos Solomon is a contemporary Dominican artist whose works include paintings, sculptures and digital media. She has been engaged in the arts for over forty years. Her vision shaped generations of successful Latinx artists as a founding member of the Altos de Chavon School of Design. She taught Fashion Illustration and Design at Parsons School of Design in NY. Santos Solomon’s work has been exhibited and collected nationally and abroad.

Pablo Helguera (Mexico City, 1971) is a New York based artist working with installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, socially engaged art and performance. Helguera’s work focuses on a variety of topics ranging from history, pedagogy, sociolinguistics, ethnography, memory and the absurd, in formats that are widely varied including the lecture, museum display strategies, musical performances and written fiction. 

Scherezade Garcia is a painter, printmaker, and installation artist whose work often explores allegories of history, migration, collective and ancestral memory, and cultural colonization and politics. A co-founder of the Dominican York Proyecto GRÁFICA, she holds an AAS from Altos de Chavón School of Design, a BFA from Parsons School of Design | The New School, and an MFA from The City College of New York, CUNY.

Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian is the China reporter at Axios, based in Taipei. She is the author of the weekly Axios China newsletter, and she covers China's role in the world.

Before joining Axios, she served as the lead reporter for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists' China Cables project, a major leak of classified Chinese government documents revealing the inner workings of mass internment camps in Xinjiang. 

Mariano Federici is a senior managing director at K2 Integrity, resident in the firm’s Washington, DC office. He is a leading global expert in anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT) and has more than 25 years of experience in government, international institutions, and the private sector. Mariano advises clients, including governments and financial institutions, on complex sanctions, regulatory compliance, fraud investigation, and risk management matters.

Paula Goldman is Salesforce’s first-ever chief ethical and humane use officer. In her role, she leads Salesforce in creating a framework to build and deploy trustworthy technology, including AI. Prior to Salesforce, Paula was VP and head of the tech and society solutions lab as well as VP of Impact Investing at Omidyar Network, a mission-driven investment firm founded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.

Kaio Philipe has founded and led global brands into several markets, with a distinguished career spanning technology, finance, and media. With a well-versed multicultural background (originally from Brazil settled in the US), Philipe's journey encompasses both consumer sectors and the banking industry. He ran KAYAK.com & OpenTable products globally, and expanded the company into emerging markets and the US Hispanic market.