Mihae Kim Stefani, founder and owner of Gimga Design Group, has over 30 years of experience. She has designed thousands of projects including logos, publications, annual reports, newsletters, promotional packages, trade show & exhibit materials, advertisements, websites, and events.

Mihae works with international clients from around the world and remains actively involved with local community organizations. Her leadership style is to remain engaged with her creative team throughout the life of a project, large or small.

Sue Ann Hong joined the Center for Asian Pacific American Women (CAPAW) May 2018 as the interim Executive Director. As of January 2020, she is the President & CEO. Her career was with State Farm Insurance Companies for over 28 years, including Data Processing, Diversity & Inclusion, Corporate Business & Technology Portfolio Management and P&C Auto Claims. She’s led up to 600 employees in multiple locations, managed 1000 contract employees and supported customers and State Farm agents in 23 states. She’s worked in various locations, including MI, IL, NY and GA.

Sandy Kusano, ACC is an International Coaching Federation (ICF) Certified Coach and Global Mental Fitness Trainer. She trained at Human Potential Institute (HPI) a global pioneer within the fields of coach training and human potential development, founded by Dr. Mark Atkinson MBBS and Dave Asprey, founder of Bulletproof and 40 Years Zen. Sandy is also trained under the guidance of Shirzad Chamine, author of the New York Times bestselling Positive Intelligence and creator of the breakthrough Positive Intelligence (PQ) model, a synthesis of recent breakthroughs in neuroscience, cognitive and positive psychology, and performance science.

Kusano is the founder of Joyful Optimist, a coaching practice to empower women's resilience and potential worldwide. She has a passion for mental wellness for Asian women and girls, who are often stigmatized due to cultural values placed on them. She is on a mission to train women to shake off their autopilot habits and live more fully.

Celebrity Chef Katie Chin is an Award-winning cookbook author, caterer, blogger and Culinary Ambassador to the National Pediatric Cancer Foundation. Katie has been featured in many publications such as O Magazine, Cooking Light, Bon Appetit, Elle, Real Simple, The Wall Street Journal, HuffPost and Epicurious. Her numerous appearances on national television include Live with Kelly and Ryan, The Real, The Today Show, Hallmark Channel, Cooking Channel, Cutthroat Kitchen, Beat Bobby Flay, ABC's Localish and as a guest judge on Food Network’s Iron Chef America.

In 2013, Katie was a featured chef at the annual Easter Egg Roll at the White House under the Obama administration. Her fifth cookbook "Katie Chin's Global Family Cookbook" was released in June 2021.

Irene Nakamura, as founder of iDepo Reporters and Guardians of the Record, I help minority business women break free from suppressive cultural traditions so they can thrive professionally and personally. Being in the legal field, I work in a male-dominated industry with a national average of 87% of attorneys being Caucasion males.

Sabrina Li primarily practices in United States Immigration Law and is located in Los Angeles, California. As the founder of the firm, she works tirelessly to advocate for immigrant rights and has assisted hundreds of immigrants in their pursuit of the American dream.

Since first admitted in New York, Sabrina now has 10+ years of experience in handling a variety of immigration matters, including business immigration, removal defense, family-based immigration, applications for asylum, waivers of inadmissibility, VAWA, U visas, and appeals to the AAO, BIA and the federal courts, and etc.

Leslie is the Founder of Reclaiming Your Courage, a Trauma-informed Self-Defense Coach, Author, and International Keynote Speaker. She became the “Self-Defense Mama” when she decided to become the mother she always needed by breaking the cycle of intergenerational trauma. Leslie is a second-generation Korean and Chinese American, mother of two, wife, executive assistant, and entrepreneur. She is a San Francisco native and has been a martial artist for 20 years with a black belt in Tae Kwan Do, Hap Kido and Kenpo Karate. Today she is passionate about Muay Thai and Jiu-Jitsu.

Dr. Julie Tran, ND, L.Ac, is a native of San Jose, CA. She earned a BA in Psychology from The University of Redlands in CA. During her undergraduate studies, she interned at the Loma Linda Behavioral Medical Center as a Behavioral Health Specialist. Inspired by the idea that there is more to healing than just changing brain chemistry, Dr. Tran decided to pursue a career in naturopathic medicine as an avenue to explore whole-person healing.

Amy Wang co-founded Wayo Ventures with the goal of helping individuals gain financial freedom by making it easy to invest in commercial real estate across the United States — ultimately enabling investors with a stream of passive income while diversifying their asset portfolio.

Susan Go's career spans providing enterprise software solutions to Public Sector, Financial Services, Healthcare and Retail. From client-server to cloud, she has led clients through technology and organizational transformation. Currently she leads a team of solution engineers that are helping government agencies move to an integrated, digital platform to streamline processes and better serve constituents.

Cary is a strategic communications leader with over 20 years of experience leading brand narrative and PR strategy for clients in the gaming, digital entertainment and consumer tech industries. She is an effective storyteller who specializes in capturing millennial and Gen Z mindshare, leveraging a holistic, integrated marketing approach.

Jeanie Chang is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Founder of Your Change Provider, PLLC®, an interdisciplinary practice founded on solutions and her unique framework Cultural Confidence®. Jeanie is a bestselling author and an accomplished international speaker for corporations, community organizations, and colleges on topics such as burnout, resilience, mindfulness, stress, and mental health conditions including anxiety, depression, and suicidality.

Jeanie is also a McKinsey & Company external faculty and executive coach, corporate wellness and DEI consultant, and AAPI mental health expert. In addition, she is a teacher on Headspace, and provides support groups around the country for DEI and AAPI leaders as well as journalists.

Janan is a dynamic pharmacist and publishing professional. She is the founder of the company Global Bookshelves International, an independent publishing house focusing on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in content and voices from around the world. She actively serves as a medical content writer, pharmacy career coach, and Chief Content Officer of a coaching company, The Happy PharmD. She is passionate about DEI, speaking, writing, and connecting with others on these topics.

Claudia Chan is a Life Coach for Asian Women, helping them ditch their people-pleasing behaviours, let go of guilt, resentment and fear, so they can finally dream and go after what they want. Claudia is a proud mom to a 5 year old boy, a wife to a handsome and supportive husband. She also loves to travel around the world, have fun. She believes that if everyone can live the life they love, this world would be so much better!

Daphne Kwok is the Vice President of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Asian American & Pacific Audience Strategy at AARP. Her work empowers Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) to choose how they live as they age. She brings to AARP her experience as a “leader of leaders” through her community service in promoting and empowering the AAPI community.

Ms. Kwok was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2010 to chair his Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. The Commission served as the “eyes and ears” of the community advising the President and the federal government about the issues impacting the AAPI community.Previously, Ms. Kwok was Executive Director of Asians & Pacific Islanders with Disabilities of California. She was also the Executive Director of the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation in San Francisco.

Amy M. Le was born in Vietnam and immigrated to the United States in1980 at the age of five with her mother and cousin. She worked in the technology and telecommunications sector for twenty years but in 2017, when her mother passed, she pivoted her career and rebranded herself as a novelist.

SNOW IN VIETNAM was her debut historical women’s fiction, written as a tribute to her mother’s heroic decision to flee Vietnam after the fall of Saigon. Today she’s an author, speaker and publisher. Her company, Quill Hawk Publishing, helps indie authors publish their work. Amy is the co-founder of The Heart Community Collection, a resource for the Congenital Heart Defect (CHD) community, and serves on the board for Vietnamese Boat People Podcast.

Marlene Markowitz is the founder of Marlene Markowitz Law Offices and believes in the power of advocating for others. She was born in Guatemala but fluent in English and Spanish.

She started her own practice to provide personalized immigration plans and legal solutions for those seeking asylum, family petitions, citizenship, work permits, adjustment of status, and much more.

Her experience as a first-generation American showed her the importance of having an advocate while navigating the necessary steps and legal requirements for building a new life in the U.S.

Tina Loren is an impactful professional with over 20 years of experience in marketing, strategic planning, profit growth, and entrepreneurship. As a result, driven client-centric professional Tina has consistently met or exceeded revenue, profit, and market share goals for industry, industry leaders, Ford Motor Company, Abbott Laboratories. And now her own entity, 6 figure mentor her business leadership, strategic capabilities, and entrepreneurial innovations are recognized by her peers. Managers customers and employees.

Tina has a unique ability to manage operations with an analytical drive while keenly understanding all stakeholder needs.

Paola I. Neri is an immigration attorney that specializes in Immigration and Nationality Law. Paola has a great depth of knowledge and experience in U.S. immigration services and handles family-based immigration and removal defense cases. She established her law firm in 2020 convinced that organization, communication, and exceptional case management are essential keys to success. As an immigration attorney, she has successfully represented clients in family-based visa petitions, waivers, citizenship, U Visas, VAWA, DACA, and in immigration court matters. She represents clients in removal proceedings at the Los Angeles Immigration Court and beyond. Paola has a solid reputation for being honest, reliable, and treating each case with dedication and a personal touch.

Yuri Bazán is a bilingual trial lawyer whose practice focuses on family law and personal injury disputes. Yuri is licensed to practice law in Colorado and New Mexico. Yuri’s professional associations include the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association, Colorado Women’s Bar Association, and the Colorado Hispanic Bar Association. Yuri primarily focuses on serving the Spanish-speaking community and clients who have been injured in a motor vehicle accident.

Yuri attended the University of Texas-Pan American, where she earned her B.A. in International Business Management with a minor in Political Science. Yuri went on to earn her Judicial Doctor Degree from the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law. In her personal time, Yuri enjoys hiking in Colorful Colorado with her daughter Cristabella and traveling to Mexico.

Jessica Rivera helps executives and small businesses improve their leadership and strategy so that they can lead their teams and their lives without feeling like an imposter. She has been in corporate sales for about 20 years, sales and marketing leadership for 8 years. Working in a male-dominated industry she always felt that she had to work harder, be smarter, and do more than all her counterparts.

When she started shifting her mindset and truly working on herself and being herself in the workplace and her life... everything go easy! She lead her team with more love and sincerity and in turn, they worked harder, become more open to change, etc. She also received more recognition, money, and praises from her counterparts and company.

Patricia serves as the President AND CEO for HACE, leading strategy, fundraising AND development, professional leadership programs, and expanding organizational reach on a national scale. Patricia strives to engage experienced professionals as mentors and advisors to create a multi-generational network to support Latinx/a/o career growth.

Sharon Abaud is an immigration attorney and has been running her own law firm since November 2015.

Anastasia Locklin is a bilingual, Black and Latina intuitive holistic licensed marriage and family therapist and life coach with over ten years of clinical experience with a passion to aid women of Color in their healing journey. Anastasia guides her clients to reclaim self-love, joy, and heal from a betrayal, low self-esteem struggles, co-dependency, toxic relationships, and intergenerational trauma. Anastasia specializes in treating Women who identify as multicultural and/or highly sensitive.

Elena is a successful licensed life coach, development trainer, and motivational speaker who teaches women how to pick up their broken pieces and rebuild their strength. She helps women regain confidence and trust in themselves and become witnesses to their own excellence as they watch their lives transform before their very eyes.

As a recipient of the Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership Recognition Award presented by Northeast Indiana Innovation Center, Elena has devoted the past twenty years of her life to lifting others to excellence and leadership.

Ana Pompa Alarcón is the CEO of Founders Registry, a one-stop-shop for founders of startups and small businesses. She is half Mexican, half Austrian, and the mother of Leila and Ezra. Together they live in Los Angeles CA.

Ana’s passion is to support BIPOCS, women, and non-binary founders to get the support they need to start the company of their dreams. She believes in disrupting existing social constructs and helping minorities to build generational wealth for their families and communities to create long-lasting changes.

Previously she founded the tech startup findSisterhood, a platform that created safe spaces and connected people across socioeconomics in over 2,500 cities and 38 countries.

Budy (pronounced Beauty) Jamilly Whitfield is a Licensed Latinx Psychotherapist with over 16 years of experience in the mental health and not-for-profit sector. Jamilly holds an MSW from Fordham University. In 2019 she established Beauteous Me, Corp., and Beauteous Mind, PLLC in 2021 with the intention of creating a healing space for professionals to break through Limiting Beliefs and achieving self-confidence.

Aside from providing coaching, therapy, and leading a non-for-profit program, she is a speaker, leadership consultant, trainer, advocate of mental health, content creator, podcaster, wife, mom, and creative. Jamilly has been featured on various podcasts. Jamilly motivates you to level up, breakthrough limiting beliefs so that you can achieve self-confidence.

Celila Martin is a first-generation Mexican-American. Her parents migrated from Mexico City and without knowing anyone or a word of English they created a lucrative yacht maintenance business in Marina Del Rey. She is driven to help first-time home sellers by educating them and give them options. Celila wants to bring awareness on a larger scale to Latinx households and share how to make your equity work for you. How to protect your investment for generations to come and leave a legacy for your family.

Cielo M Prischak is a coach for coaches and service providers. She has a master's degree in applied clinical psychology, is a certified emotional intelligence practitioner, and is a certified mindfulness and meditation teacher. With her experience, she was able to help women business owners level up by increasing their emotional intelligence, implementing mindfulness, and strengthening their mindset.

Dr. Elise Sanchez is a multi-passionate, multidimensional psychologist, coach, speaker, podcaster, and consultant. She is a first-generation college student and professional. Dr. Sanchez has experience teaching at the community college, graduate level, and California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. She imagines a world where everyone is living authentic, wholehearted, purposeful lives. She inspires others by raising consciousness and awakening your soul’s purpose. She empowers through education and serves as an advocate for those who have been silenced. Dr. Sanchez’s mission is to help everyone she meets feel seen, heard, and understood. She promotes mental wellness because if we heal ourselves, families and communities we make the world a better place for ALL of us.

Marti Angel is a very active leader for the San Diego Latina community. The CEO of Angel Health & Education, Author, Podcaster, Former Formal Educator/ Administrator, and proven success coach empowering women in business to find the confidence they need to succeed. She creates her life around her three pillars Healthy Beauty, Business, and Wellness. But her mission is to leave a legacy of Latina Leaders. Leaders whom she coaches to find the confidence they need to succeed at being 6 figure power bosses.