Raised between the US, Latin America and Africa, Alicia has secured over $120 million for social enterprises globally -- the majority of which are enterprises created and managed by underrepresented founders. In 2022 she relaunched her consulting practice, DeLia Impact Advisors, to leverage her expertise and networks to advance social entrepreneurship and impact investing worldwide.

As an advocate, speaker and thought leader, Alicia frequently hosts global convenings around themes of trust based philanthropy, restorative investing, racial equity investing, international economic development and gender lens investing. Alicia resides between tropical San Salvador, El Salvadar and rural NJ. She lives with her husband, two children and rescue dog, Nelly.

Anu Gupta is an award-winning author, educator, lawyer, scientist, and mindfulness teacher. His bestselling book, Breaking Bias(2024), features a foreword from the Dalai Lama and offers mindfulness-based tools to heal from bias, trauma, and disconnection. 

As a queer immigrant of color, he came to the work of Breaking Bias® after almost ending his life due to lifelong experiences with racism, homophobia, and Islamophobia. The realization that bias is learned and can be unlearned helped lead him out of that dark point. 

Anu has lived, studied, and worked globally, which informs his unique perspective on how different forms of biases use the same neural mechanism to create inequities and inefficiencies in different organizational and cultural contexts. Anu founded BE MORE in 2014.

Arundhati Roy is the author of The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, which has been translated into more than forty languages and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2017. Roy has also published several works of nonfiction including The End of Imagination, The Doctor and the Saint, My Seditious Heart, and Azadi. In 2023, she was awarded the prestigious European Essay Prize for lifetime achievement, and in 2024 the PEN Pinter Prize for telling “urgent stories of injustice with wit and beauty.” She lives in Delhi.

Courtney Montague is the face behind the Kelsey Montague Art Brand. As the Operations Director, Courtney is responsible for managing all of the company’s clients, PR, launching new initiatives and managing on-site logistics.

After studying literature in Paris, Courtney spent 6 years in International Development based in New Zealand and traveling worldwide. She then moved to NYC to attend NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service where she was a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship.

After her time at NYU Courtney worked for boutique digital agency HD Made in NYC where she managed digital projects for clients such as Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF), VH1 Save the Music Foundation, Coalition for the Homeless and Women for Women.

When Courtney is not being mom and running operations for the business, she’s hanging out with the best doodle in town – Boomer.

Kate Otto Chebly is an American internal medicine physician working in Caracas, Venezuela and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. She is the author of the book Everyday Ambassador: Make a Difference by Connecting in a Disconnected World.

Felicia Walker

Skincare Educator, Beauty Journalist, Author

Felicia Walker redefines what it means to be a skincare and beauty expert. A celebrated skincare educator, beauty journalist and content creator, she's spent her career elevating the beauty industry with her innovative approaches to skincare. 

With nearly two decades of experience reshaping how consumers approach their skincare routines, Felicia is a pioneer in merging science with skincare and has revolutionized how people achieve radiant, glowing skin through simple, effective solutions. 

Felicia is the creator of the newly launched YOUR GLOW GUIDE: a personalized skincare companion to help you stay organized, log skincare products, monitor results, and achieve the skin of your dreams with ease. With space for journaling, product tracking, reminders, and staying organized, YOUR GLOW GUIDE is the blueprint your skincare routine has been missing. 

Muscogee Nation artist, Joy Harjo, served three terms as the 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate from 2019-2022—the first Native American to hold the position. Author of eleven books of poetry, including Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light, two memoirs (Crazy Brave and Poet Warrior), and editor of three anthologies of Native literature including When the Light of the World was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through. Harjo also performs. As a musician, she's produced seven award-winning albums including I Pray for My Enemies, blending poetry with jazz and Indigenous sounds. Her twelfth poetry collection Cloud Runner drops Fall 2026, alongside Girl Warrior: On Coming of Age and a new album co-produced with esperanza spalding. She lives on the Muscogee Nation Reservation in Oklahoma—writing, playing, and singing the survival of her people into the future.

Meet Maki Makhene, MSW

Maki is a clinically trained social worker who earned her MSW from Rutgers University in her 60s — fulfilling a lifelong dream that was illegal when she was a girl in apartheid South Africa. After putting three daughters through college as a single mom, Maki finally pursued the education she'd always dreamed of for herself.

Her career spans leadership roles in sport, insurance and newspaper publishing in South Africa. At Sowetan, Black South Africa's leading daily paper, Maki broke ground in an industry that rarely welcomed women like her. Today, when she's not changing lives through her social work practice, you'll find Maki perfecting her legendary cooking or carefully arranging fresh flowers — both acts of love that nourish everyone around her.

Poet Nikki Giovanni was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, on June 7, 1943. Although she grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, she and her sister returned to Knoxville each summer to visit their grandparents. Nikki graduated with honors in history from her grandfather's alma mater, Fisk University. Since 1987, she has been on the faculty at Virginia Tech, where she is a University Distinguished Professor. 

Author, owner of Book Circle Capital, reviewer, and promoter of South African literature. 

Yvonne Biggins is a serial entrepreneur who's founded three successful start-ups, one of which raised over £1 million. Her 20-year career spans senior roles at multinational companies, including Apple. The first decade of Yvonne's journey focused on marketing for technology companies following a brief teaching career, while the last decade has been dedicated to wellbeing, where she co-founded two wellbeing-focused ventures. She developed an innovative wellbeing product that was later acquired by Babylon Health and has published several research papers in the field.

Yvonne holds a Master's in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Cranfield School of Management. An ICF-certified coach and MBSR Mindfulness teacher, she mentors entrepreneurs through the GoLondon Young Entrepreneurs Start Up Programme.