A Baltimore City native and current City resident, Cassie Motz has been the Executive Director for the CollegeBound Foundation in Baltimore for the past eight years. Prior to joining CollegeBound, Cassie served as a Deputy Chief of Staff to Governor Martin O'Malley. She also served as Deputy Legal Counsel to Governor O'Malley and as the Interim Director of the Governor's Office for Children.

Cassie graduated from Dartmouth College and Yale Law School. Between college and law school, Cassie taught at a public middle school in the South Bronx, New York through Teach for America. She practiced law for several years in Washington -- prosecuting homicide and domestic violence cases as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, and serving as a Deputy Attorney General for the District of Columbia government, representing the city's child welfare and mental health agencies.

Cassie currently serves on the boards of the University of Maryland Medical System and Catholic Charities of Baltimore. She served on the University System of Maryland Board of Regents from June 2014 through March 2015 and just ended her term as board secretary for the KIPP Baltimore public charter schools.

Kiya Jones serves as the Program Director for the Guided Pathway Support Program. Kiya was named a Ron Brown Scholar in 1999. She most recently graduated from the University of Mississippi Law School, where she concentrated in poverty law, earning an Outstanding Student Award in Legal Problems of Indigence and a Public Interest Law Foundation Student Award. She was also selected to participate in the Mississippi Innocence Project and the Macarthur Justice Clinic. Before starting law school, she worked with the Mississippi Center for Justice, helping to administer the Neighborhood Home grant program for Hurricane Katrina victims along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. She earned her B.A. in government with a specialization in American campaigns and elections from the University of Texas at Austin. She has managed field operations for ballot initiatives, independent expenditure campaigns and voter registration drives in low-income minority precincts across the country. She currently resides in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Christopher Morphew, dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Education, concentrates his research on issues of institutional diversity in higher education, including those related to state higher education policy and the ways in which colleges and universities communicate to constituent groups. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Lumina Foundation, Research Council of Norway, and Ford Foundation. Morphew has held leadership positions in the Association for the Study of Higher Education and American Educational Research Association, and he has made invited and refereed presentations in more than two dozen countries. His work has appeared in many journals, including the Review of Higher Education, Research in Higher Education, The Journal of Higher Education, and Educational Finance. His most recent book, The Challenges of Independent Colleges, co-edited with John Braxton, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in November 2017. Prior to joining the Johns Hopkins School of Education, Morphew was professor and executive associate dean in the College of Education at the University of Iowa. He also has held tenured positions at the University of Georgia and University of Kansas, and served as a visiting professor and Leiv Eiriksson Scholar at the University of Oslo. He holds a PhD in social sciences and education from Stanford University, as well as degrees from Harvard University and the University of Notre Dame.

Shantell Roberts is a Baltimore City Native, Adjunct Professor and Forward-thinking nonprofit leader with demonstrated ability to think creatively and strategically while applying sound business judgement and quantitative analytics to execute strategic partnerships. In her role as the Chair of the Operations Committee on the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners and Board Member for the Maryland Association of Boards of Education (MABE), she is able to use her award-winning community-focused approach to successfully gain buy-in from diverse stakeholder groups and navigate cross-functional teams through successful execution of complex programs and projects. Shantell is the mother to an amazing 3rd grade student that attends a Baltimore City Public School, serves as a board member for The Port Discovery Children's Museum and was appointed to the State Child Fatality Review Team in 2018.

Delali Dzirasa is the CEO and founder of Fearless, a full stack digital services firm in Baltimore, Maryland with a mission to create software with a soul — tools that empower communities and make a difference. He’s also the CEO and founder of Fearless Sports, an apparel company with a mission to ignite, equip, and uniform the impactful. Delali’s committed to creating a soulful world where action breeds impact, and he’s been named as one of Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneurs of the Year for the Mid-Atlantic Region, the Daily Record’s Most Admired CEOs, in the Baltimore Business Journal’s (BBJ) Power 10 list, and in the Black Business Review’s 40 under 40 list. He chaired the inaugural DevOpsDays Baltimore, as well as Hack Baltimore, and is a founding member of the governing board of the Digital Services Coalition.

Delali’s passion and entrepreneurial spirit started at a young age. As a kid, he used to knock on doors and offer to cut grass, mow lawns, wash cars, or walk dogs. He then went on to graduate from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) with a B.S. in Computer Engineering. Delali has over 15 years of experience leading agile software teams and programs, and he strives to make a difference in technology and in his surrounding community. He’s passionate about increasing the rate of city youth heading into STEM fields and works closely with city nonprofits to provide funding and mentorship programs in city schools, as well as other education initiatives. In 2019, Delali testified to the US Senate Small Business committee on behalf of the National HUBZone Council for the Small Business Reauthorization Act. He was also awarded the National HUBZone Corporate Citizen of the Year in 2020.

Delali currently lives in Baltimore City with his wife Dr. Letitia Dzirasa (Baltimore City's Health Commissioner) and two sons Dominic and Jaden. When he isn’t busy running Fearless’ family of brands, he enjoys working out and hanging out with friends and loved ones.

Jessica is National Director of 10,000 Small Businesses, one of the firm's signature philanthropic initiatives that helps entrepreneurs grow their businesses by providing education, support services and access to capital. Jessica joined Goldman Sachs in 2014 as a vice president and was named managing director in 2021. Prior to joining the firm, Jessica was an executive director at the New York City Department of Small Business Services, where she led commercial revitalization and Hurricane Sandy recovery programs during Mayor Bloomberg’s administration. While in this role, she was selected to participate in the 25th cohort of Coro Leadership New York. Before that, Jessica served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Guatemala. Earlier in her career, she led a variety of youth development and community health projects across US cities, including Philadelphia, Phoenix and Washington, DC. Jessica earned a BA in Foreign Affairs and Spanish from the University of Virginia in 2006, where she was a four-year letter winner and two-time all-conference in softball. Jessica earned an MPA from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in 2012.

Shelley Stewart Jr. retired as the Chief Procurement Officer at E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. In that role, he reported directly to the Chief Executive Officer in leading procurement, global sourcing, and logistics. Additionally, he was responsible for global real estate and facility services. He focused on delivering benefits through a strategic approach to supplier management and assuring efficient facility utilization and maximizing the real estate footprint. He also served on the company risk committee which was responsible for managing all financial instruments. Shelley played a significant role in the DowDuPont merger by helping to deliver synergy savings and stand up two new organizations in support of spinning into three standalone world class companies. Currently Shelley leads Bottom Line Advisory LLC, a boutique consulting firm focused on procurement, logistic and operational improvement. From 2005 until joining DuPont in 2012, he was Senior Vice President of Operational Excellence and Chief Procurement Officer at Tyco International, where his portfolio of responsibilities included oversight of supply chain, procurement, information technology, facilities, real estate, trade compliance and lean six sigma initiatives company wide. He joined Tyco in 2003, first as Vice President of Supply Chain Management. Previous roles included serving as Senior Vice President of Supply Chain at Invensys PLC. Prior to that, he served as Vice President of Supply Chain Management at Raytheon Company. He spent 19 years at United Technologies Corporation where he held positions of increasing responsibility, as Vice President of Procurement at Hamilton Standard and finally becoming Director of Worldwide Sourcing for the Corporation. Shelley currently serves on the boards of Otis Worldwide and Kontoor Brands, where he is on the audit committees and nominating and governance committees. Shelley served on the board of directors of Cleco Corporation, a Louisiana regulated utility for five years until the sale of the company in April 2016, where he was chair of the nominating and governance committee. He was elected chairman of the Billion Dollar Roundtable Inc. (BDR), where he helps to shape the strategic direction of the BDR, a top-level advocacy organization that promotes corporate supplier diversity excellence and advances best practices through its member companies. Shelley currently serves in several capacities with Howard University. He is on the Board of Trustees for the University as well as chairing the board of visitors for the school of business where he founded the supply chain program. Shelley also serves on the board of Governors for the University of New Haven. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Drexel University Center of Corporate Governance and a Fellow of the National Association of Corporate Directors. Shelley is the co-author "Straight to the Bottom Line" An Executive's Roadmap to World Class Supply Management, Q. Ross Publishing). Shelley holds a B.S. and an M.S. in Criminal Justice from Northeastern University and received his MBA from the University of New Haven. He currently resides in North Palm Beach, Florida.

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Brief Bio Panagis Galiatsatos, MD, MHS is an Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and a physician in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. He is co- chair of the Johns Hopkins Health Equity Steering Committee and is the co-director and co- founder of Medicine for the Greater Good. His clinical responsibilities center on critical care services in adult populations, Director of the Tobacco Treatment Clinic at Johns Hopkins Medicine, Associate Director of The Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia Center of Clinical Excellence, and Physician in The Obstructive Lung Disease Group at Johns Hopkins Medicine and in the post-COVID-19 acute clinic.

Short Bio Panagis Galiatsatos, MD, MHS is an Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. He is co-chair of the Johns Hopkins Health Equity Steering Committee and is the co-director and co-founder of Medicine for the Greater Good, a novel medical initiative impacting over 10,000 Baltimore City lives in regards to health and wellness while at the same time creating physician-citizens. He has published over 70 research articles, with a focus on health equity, community engagement, and contextual-level variables impact on health outcomes, and is a co-author of the book series, "Building Health Communities". During the pandemic, Dr. Galiatsatos and colleagues coordinate community engagement to assure all populations were able to access COVID-19 updates and resources in an effort to assure compliance with public health requests. His clinical responsibilities center on critical care services in adult populations, Director of the Tobacco Treatment Clinic at Johns Hopkins Medicine, Associate Director of The Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia Center of Clinical Excellence, and Physician in The Obstructive Lung Disease Group at Johns Hopkins Medicine and in the post-COVID-19 acute clinic.

Long Bio Panagis Galiatsatos, MD, MHS is an Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He is the co-chair of the Johns Hopkins Health Equity Steering Committee and the co-director and co-founder of Medicine for the Greater Good, a novel medical initiative impacting over 10,000 Baltimore City lives in regards to health and wellness while at the same time creating physician-citizens. He has published over 60 research articles, with a focus on health equity, community engagement, and contextual-level variables impact on health outcomes. He is also a co-author of a book series, "Building Health Communities", where a review in JAMA discusses "this book literally has the potential to save lives". He has a TED talk discussing the need for healthcare to engage with the local community for health equitable outcomes. He completed his undergraduate studies at Temple University, his medical school at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, his internal medicine training at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, his critical care medicine training at the National Institutes of Health, and his pulmonary training at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. During the pandemic, Dr. Galiatsatos and colleagues coordinate community engagement to assure all populations were able to access COVID-19 updates and resources in an effort to assure compliance with public health requests. His clinical responsibilities center on critical care services in adult populations, Director of the Tobacco Treatment Clinic at Johns Hopkins Medicine, Associate Director of The Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia Center of Clinical Excellence, and Physician in The Obstructive Lung Disease Group at Johns Hopkins Medicine and in the post-COVID-19 acute clinic.

Winston Henderson is Vice President, General Counsel of Clear Scientific Inc. in Cambridge, Mass. Prior to Clear Scientific, where he is responsible for all legal functions, including corporate governance, corporate legal strategy, regulatory, intellectual property and licensing, litigation, and also business development support, Mr. Henderson was General Counsel of Nano Terra Inc., a Boston-based nanotechnology company with life science and non-life science divisions; and before that Mr. Henderson was Corporate Secretary and then Vice President, General Counsel of Surface Logix Inc., a biopharmaceutical and drug development company in Boston. Prior to joining Surface Logix, Mr. Henderson was an attorney with Kenyon & Kenyon and a consultant with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) in its Advanced Systems and Technology Integration Services groups. During that time, he consulted with and advised numerous international high technology, medical device, and pharmaceutical companies, including several based in the United Kingdom and Israel. Mr. Henderson received his B.S.E. in Biomedical & Electrical Engineering from Duke University (where he was a Reginaldo Howard Scholar) and his J.D. from Duke University School of Law.

Stacy Garrett-Ray, MD, MPH, MBA, is the Senior Vice President and Chief Community Impact Officer for Ascension nationally. In this role, Dr. Garrett-Ray leads the development and implementation of strategies that address community needs and healthcare access, invest in and maintain sustainable impact for health, and convene partners to direct investment and program development. Dr. Garrett-Ray previously served as Vice President/Medical Director of the University of Maryland Medical System's Population Health Services Organization and President of both the University of Maryland Quality Care Network and Transform Health MD. There, she was responsible for leading the planning, development and execution of value-based, population health initiatives and innovations for multiple populations (approx. 100,000 commercial, federal, self-insured patients) with over $1B in medical costs. She also served as the Chair of the Board for Quality Care Network and Transform Health MD – both start-up business lines within the healthcare/value-based industry, partnering with community practices and insurance companies. Previously, Dr. Garrett-Ray served as the medical director of the Baltimore City Cancer Program of University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center which provided cancer screening, treatment and diagnostic services to low-income residents of Baltimore. In 2010, Dr. Garrett-Ray was appointed to serve as the national Deputy Director of Comprehensive Women's Health for the Veterans Health Administration, and later held other leadership positions to support VA senior leadership including serving as the Deputy Director of the Office of Strategic Integration. Her responsibilities included overseeing the operations of the Integrated Health Operating Portfolio nationally for VHA with a budget of approximately ¾ of $1 billion and leading various national innovative initiatives. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree with a Biology major and Women's Studies minor from the University of Richmond and her medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She completed her family medicine residency at the University of Maryland Dept. of Family and Community Medicine where she served as chief resident. She also earned her Master of Public Health and Master of Business Administration degrees from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. A board-certified family physician, Dr. Garrett-Ray is on faculty in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She resides in Maryland with her family and is actively involved with her community.

Catherine Ling is an Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Her more than 30 years as a nurse and family nurse practitioner have centered on providing functional access to ambulatory care in community settings. As an educator, she provides innovative and rigorous curriculum and course design with delivery for quality learning and practice outcomes. Dr. Ling has led and participated in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of macro-and micro-level population health interventions for disease prevention and disaster planning in the federal and private sectors. She received a BSN from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; a Masters of Nursing as a Family Nurse Practitioner from Emory University and a PhD from the Medical University of South Carolina.

Dr. Patty Wilson is an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHSON). In her faculty role, she serves as a clinical coordinator for pre-licensure nursing students during their psychiatric clinical rotation. She also teaches in the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner post masters’ certificate program. For her faculty practice, Dr. Wilson is the site coordinator for doctoral nursing students working as community health nurses at the House of Ruth Maryland, a shelter for Individuals and families escaping intimate partner violence. Dr. Wilson is the co-principal investigator of the Passport to Freedom program which provides psycho-educational sessions for women to promote self-awareness of the link between trauma and health and offers strategies to cope with symptoms of trauma/stress. Dr. Wilson completed her Doctoral and Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) studies at the University of Virginia School of Nursing. Her dissertation focused on the relationship between housing instability, race/ethnicity, depressive symptoms, and increased exposure to IPV among mothers. Dr. Wilson works as PMHNP at Families First Counseling and Psychiatric, a Baltimore City Community based behavioral health clinic.

Vanya Jones, PhD, MPH is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health, Behavior and Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a core faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy, and the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute. Her research agenda has focused on psychosocial and environmental factors and their impact on the burden of injuries among diverse populations. She investigates both intentional and unintentional injury risk factors, specifically those that increase risk of severe disability or death. Through her expertise, she has an understanding of the social environment’s impact on behaviors how to determine factors for positive behavior modification. Dr. Jones received her MPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education and her PhD from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health from the Department of Health, Behavior and Society. She is currently investigating strategies that improve partnerships between university researchers and community leaders, reduce violence among urban adolescents, and eliminating motor vehicle crash deaths among older adults. She also serves as the co-director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Interdisciplinary Research Fellows Program.

Darah McCray Okeke, Esq. is the Founder & President of EPIQ Consulting, a Black-owned enterprise that provides diversity, equity and inclusion consulting services for businesses, as well as employment negotiation and compensation navigation services for individuals. Darah has practiced employment law for nearly 15 years with a special focus on DEI issues, such as pay equity, anti-discrimination/harassment and overall workplace justice. Darah’s experience includes leading prominent companies, such as Twitter and Uber, through the development and implementation of progressive policies and initiatives that drive workplace fairness and belonging. She is also expert in compliance with global, federal, state and local employment laws and regulations. Darah received her Bachelor of Business Administration from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, and her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.

Emily M. Dickens is Chief of Staff, Head of Government Affairs and Corporate Secretary for SHRM, the Society for Human Resource Management. A member of the executive team, Emily has responsibility for implementing the CEO's vision, corporate governance, global outreach, government affairs, and the organization’s buildings and property. She serves on the executive board of the North America Human Resource Management Association (NAHRMA), and is Secretary-General of the World Federation of People Management Associations (WFPMA).

Emily is an attorney with significant and progressive experience in government, higher education and the non-profit sector. She has served as a member of the leadership team at the University of North Carolina system, the Association of Governing Boards of Colleges and Universities and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. Her prior roles include general counsel, chief relationship officer, senior vice president, vice president for public policy and assistant vice president for federal relations. She has also worked at Duke University and Fayetteville State University in administrative and external affairs roles.

Emily is actively engaged in board service. She is a member of the U.S. Council for International Business Board of Directors, Strategic Education, Inc. HIRE Advisory Board; North Carolina Central University Board of Trustees; National Foundation for Women Legislators Board of Directors; Bryce Harlow Foundation Board of Governors; and is Chairman of the International HBCU Task Force for Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated.

She is a graduate of North Carolina Central University and North Carolina Central University School of Law.

Maurice A. Jones was appointed CEO of OneTen in March of 2021. OneTen is a coalition of leading chief executives and their companies who are coming together to upskill, hire and promote one million Black Americans over the next 10 years who do not yet have a four-year degree into family-sustaining jobs with opportunities for advancement. Prior to joining OneTen, Maurice was the President of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), one of the country's largest organizations supporting projects to revitalize communities and catalyze economic opportunity for residents.

During his time at LISC, Maurice led the company’s effort to expand its footprint into the southern part of the country. He grew the company’s annual investment from a billion dollars to over two billion dollars. He also increased the economic development investments of LISC throughout the country, including launching a subsidiary company dedicated to small business lending. During his tenure, LISC diversified its partnerships with multiple industries, including healthcare, technology, sports, retail and advanced manufacturing.

He previously served as Secretary of Commerce and Trade for the Commonwealth of Virginia where his primary job was to utilize Virginia’s assets to solidify its position as the preeminent place to live, work and conduct business.

Maurice also served as Deputy Secretary for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) from April 2012 through January 2014. As the second most senior official at HUD, Maurice managed the Department's day-to-day operations, the annual operating budget of $40 billion and the agency's 8,900 employees.

Before his appointment at HUD, Maurice was President of Pilot Media, the largest print and digital organization in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He joined Landmark Media Enterprises, owner of Pilot Media, in 2005, serving as Vice President of the Landmark Publishing Group. In 2006, he became the Vice President and General Manager of Pilot Media, and in 2008 he became President and Publisher of The Virginian-Pilot.

Maurice was also the Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Social Services and Deputy Chief of Staff to then-Virginia Governor Mark R. Warner. Other positions include: Special Assistant to the General Counsel at the U.S. Treasury Department, Legal Counsel to the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund and Director of the Fund during the Clinton Administration, Associate Attorney at Hunton & Williams in Richmond, Virginia, and Partner at Venture Philanthropy Partners.

Maurice received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Hampden-Sydney College and attended Oxford University in England on a Rhodes Scholarship, where he received a Master of Philosophy in International Relations. He later received a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia.

Mr. Lugo has over 25 years’ experience in managing international equities for various clients -- including pension plans, endowments, high-net-worth individuals and mutual funds. He is currently founder and managing partner at EL2 Capital, LLC, an investment advisory focused on international and global equities. His business is a minority-owned investment firm and was recently started in 2021 in Westport, CT.

Prior experience includes 15 years of investing in New York City in international smaller companies. He led a team of up to five analysts at Franklin Templeton, one of the largest fund managers globally, between 2006 and 2021. Mr. Lugo’s team grew assets from $100 million in 2006 to $6 billion by 2014. He managed several concentrated small-to-mid-cap investment products for Franklin Templeton, including European Small-Mid-Cap, International Small-Cap and Global Small-Mid-Cap retail mutual funds, and separate institutional accounts. Mr. Lugo has travelled extensively globally, visiting companies in various industries to analyze businesses and meet management teams in different cultures and regions, including Europe, Asia, the Americas and emerging markets. In 2002, Mr. Lugo joined Brown Capital in Baltimore and built their international service in Baltimore, working with Mr. Edward Ramos. The focus at Brown Capital was an all-cap international portfolio. It started with $1 million in assets in 2002 and built assets up to $50 million by 2006, before Mr. Lugo departed to rejoin Franklin Templeton. In 1996, Mr. Lugo initially joined Franklin Templeton in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, after graduating with an MBA from Columbia Business School. He worked as an analyst and eventually as a portfolio manager, covering industrial companies globally, and the countries of Israel, Egypt and Argentina. He left in 2002 to work with Brown Capital. Separately, since 2005, Mr Lugo has been involved with The CollegeBound Foundation, a charitable organization dedicated to helping Baltimore high school students enter college. He is currently the chairperson of the finance committee.

MICHAEL D. HANKIN, President and Chief Executive Officer, Brown Advisory Incorporated, has been a director of the Company since April 2016. Since 1998, Mr. Hankin has served as Chief Executive Officer of Brown Advisory Incorporated, an independent investment firm that provides investment solutions to individuals, families, nonprofits and institutions globally. From 1993 to 1998, Mr. Hankin served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Alex Brown Investment Advisory & Trust Company, a subsidiary of Alex Brown Incorporated, where he helped create the business that became Brown Advisory. Prior to that, Mr. Hankin was a partner at Piper & Marbury (now DLA Piper) where he specialized in business and tax law. Mr. Hankin is a director of Brown Advisory Incorporated and its affiliated companies, including Brown Advisory Funds. During Mr. Hankin’s tenure as Chief Executive Officer of Brown Advisory Incorporated, the firm has grown from a company with approximately $1.5 billion in client assets to a company with over $130 billion in client assets. The firm is committed to delivering first-class investment performance, thoughtful strategic advice and the highest level of service to and for each client. Using a team-based approach, Brown Advisory relies on a bottom-up, fundamental and sustainable research process to build portfolios and solutions across all asset classes to help clients meet their long-term financial objectives. Mr. Hankin is also passionate about the responsibility of business leaders to be visible and constructive in their communities. Mike gave a TEDx talk in 2017 titled, “Speak Up. Where It Counts. Loudly.” In it, he shares his journey to finding his voice as a business leader and his hope that others will join him in catalyzing positive change by speaking up. His community commitment extends to his roles as Chairman of the Baltimore Healthy Harbor Project, Trustee of Johns Hopkins University, Trustee and Vice Chair of Johns Hopkins Medicine, and member of the Principal Professional Staff and former Chair of the Board of Managers of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab. He is also a member of the boards of directors of Business Executives for National Security, Center for Large Landscape Conservation, and Nature Sacred. Mike also serves on the board of directors of Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. (SWK) and on the boards of directors of three private companies, Tate Engineering Services, Inc., The Wills Group, Inc. and 1251 Capital Group, Inc. In 2021, Mike assumed the role of Co-Chair of UpSurge, an effort to propel Baltimore into the top tier of innovative cities by building an engine to launch, support, scale and celebrate high-impact startups with an “Equitech” lens.

Uriridiakoghene “Ulili” Onovakpuri returned to the Kapor Capital team in 2016. She is focused on sourcing investment opportunities, conducting diligence and supporting Kapor Capital’s portfolio companies particularly those in the digital health and medical technology industries. Previously, Uriridiakoghene served as Director of Global Programs at Village Capital, a global accelerator program and venture capital firm which supports healthcare, education, agriculture, energy and FinTech businesses. At Village Capital she worked side by side with entrepreneurs from around the world helping them grow their ideas into marketable businesses. Uriridiakoghene received her MBA with a concentration in Health Sector Management from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. She is a native San Franciscan and a proud UC Berkeley Alum. In her free time, you will likely find Uriridiakoghene watching Bollywood movies or playing with her niece Maya.

Alicia Wilson is Vice President of Economic Development for Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Health System in Baltimore, Maryland. She leads a core team focused on developing and implementing Hopkins’ institution-wide strategies and initiatives as an anchor institution in and around Baltimore, and the elevation and expansion of Hopkins signature commitment to the city through investments in economic and neighborhood development, healthcare, and education.

Prior to joining Hopkins, Alicia served as Senior Vice President of Impact Investments and Senior Legal Counsel to the Port Covington Development Team and as a partner at the downtown Baltimore law firm of Gordon Feinblatt.

Alicia actively serves on the boards of the University of Maryland School of Law’s Board of Visitors, the Center for Urban Families, the Walters Art Museum and the National Diverse Attorney Pipeline Program. Notably, Alicia was recently elected as Chair of the CollegeBound Foundation and as such is the first CollegeBound Foundation alum, first woman, first African-American and youngest Board Chair in the thirty history of the organization.

Alicia is a graduate of the University of Maryland Baltimore County and the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.

For her accomplishments and public service, Alicia has received numerous awards and honors, including the National Bar Association’s 40 Under 40 List of the Nation’s Top Advocates 2019 Whitney M. Young Award from the Greater Baltimore Urban League and the 2019 Distinguished Women from the Girl Scouts of Central Maryland. In 2020, Alicia was named to the Maryland Daily Record’s 2020 VIP List by the Daily Record for her professional accomplishments, community service, and commitment to inspiring change.

In 2019, Alicia was profiled in Forbes magazine as the “The Black Millennial Lawyer Making Michelle Obama More Accessible to Baltimore’s Youth” and by Savoy Magazine as one of the Most Influential Women in Corporate America. In late 2018, the National Business Journal featured Alicia as one of the nation’s Top 50 Influencers under 40 and Black Enterprise produced a feature on Alicia for her work in securing the $660 million tax increment financing for the Port Covington Project.

Marissa McKeever, Esq. is the Director of Government and Community Affairs for Sibley Memorial Hospital. She is responsible for representing Sibley’s local legislative and regulatory interests; overseeing Certificate of Need applications in DC; and driving community priorities for Johns Hopkins Medicine in DC, including developing strategic partnerships, enhancing community engagement, and expanding community investments, with a particular focus on medically underserved areas of DC. She is passionate about advancing health equity and creating strategic partnerships that address the social determinants of health, build community capacity, and utilize place-based solutions.

Ms. McKeever previously served as a senior legislative assistant where she advanced and monitored legislation, engaged in policy research and analysis, and managed key stakeholder concerns. She also practiced health law, advising a variety of clients on federal and state statutory and regulatory matters related to mergers and acquisitions, contracts, business formation, fraud, data privacy, and compliance. Ms. McKeever earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School and bachelor’s degree in Communication from Messiah College. She is a member of the bar in Maryland and DC.

Audrey Johnson is the Director for Economic Innovation and Strategy at John Hopkins University and John Hopkins Health Systems. In this role, she is responsible for economic diversification and innovation in the university and health system footprint to incite emerging sectors, strengthen assets, support growth, and solve complex challenges. In 2019, Audrey was selected as the Healthcare Champion of the year and received the Community Leaders Award by Women of Prince George’s. In 2021, Audrey was named President-elect of the National Association of Health Service Executives, Baltimore Chapter and after eight months in the role ascended to President. Audrey is an Advisory Board Member of the District of Columbia Community Anchor Partnership, Advisory Member of the Greater Washington Partnership, Capital Region Rail Vision Committee, Board Trustee of National Collegiate Preparatory Public Charter High School, and Board Member of Art with a Heart. She has an undergraduate degree in Economics from Howard University, a Master of Business Administration in Finance from The George Washington University School of Business, and completed The Academy for Women and Leadership, Executive Education at the Johns Hopkins University, Carey Business School.

Vanya Jones, PhD, MPH is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health, Behavior and Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a core faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy, and the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute. Her research agenda has focused on psychosocial and environmental factors and their impact on the burden of injuries among diverse populations. She investigates both intentional and unintentional injury risk factors, specifically those that increase risk of severe disability or death. Through her expertise, she has an understanding of the social environment’s impact on behaviors how to determine factors for positive behavior modification. Dr. Jones received her MPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education and her PhD from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health from the Department of Health, Behavior and Society. She is currently investigating strategies that improve partnerships between university researchers and community leaders, reduce violence among urban adolescents, and eliminating motor vehicle crash deaths among older adults. She also serves as the co-director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Interdisciplinary Research Fellows Program.