Cara Chacon

VP of Social & Environmental Responsibility, Patagonia

Cara has worked in the corporate responsibility industry as an executive, consultant, trainer and auditor for the past 20 years. She is Patagonia’s VP of Social and Environmental Responsibility and leads a global team that sets strategy and implements the company’s sustainability initiatives. In her past jobs, Cara has helped hundreds of companies reach their sustainability goals in over 35 countries. Cara has a Master’s degree in International Affairs from California State University, Sacramento.

Joan Trant

Managing Partner, TriLinc Global

Joan Trant is a key member of the TriLinc executive management team and a member of the Investment Committee and the Sustainability and Impact Committee. Prior to joining TriLinc, she launched and was executive director of the International Association of Microfinance Investors (IAMFI). IAMFI’s limited partner members’ microfinance commitments/investments totaled $780 million, and general partner members managed an aggregate portfolio of $1.84 billion. Trant serves as an advisor to Inspiring Capital and co-leads the Georgetown alumni college program in New York City.

Cecile Chalifour

West Division Manager, Community Development Banking, JPMorgan Chase

As part of a global financial services firm with assets of $2.2 trillion, Community Development Banking is a leader in providing financing solutions that benefit communities across the nation. The real estate lending team originates roughly $1.5 billion annually in construction and permanent debt products to develop and revitalize affordable housing properties throughout the Chase retail footprint. Cécile Chalifour’s team originates over one-third of the national lending goal for community development real estate. Chalifour has two decades of community development and finance experience. She earned a Master of the Arts in law, with honors, from the University of Paris I, Pantheon-Sorbonne, with a concentration in territorial law and urban management. She holds a Bachelor of the Arts in law, with honors, from the University of Paris I, Pantheon-Sorbonne, in Paris, France.

Robin Hyerstay

VP of Capital Markets, Enterprise Community Investment, Inc.

Robin Hyerstay is vice president of capital markets with Enterprise Community Investment. In this role, he raises capital for low-income housing tax credit investments that are syndicated by Enterprise. Formerly, he was with The Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle, where he managed the community lending programs, including the affordable housing program. During his 14 years at the bank, he participated in the development of over 15,000 units of housing. He has an MBA in finance from New York University Stern School of Business and a B.A. in business administration from the University of Washington.

Tyler Monroe

VP of Development, Thomas Safran & Associates

Thomas Safran & Associates (TSA) is a developer and operator of affordable, mixed-income and mixed-use rental housing in Southern California. TSA develops communities with a focus on excellent design, management and resident services to enrich the lives of the people who reside in its buildings and enhance the greater community.

Tyler Monroe joined TSA in 2008. He is responsible for the acquisition, community outreach, design, land use entitlement, finance and construction of new construction projects. He is experienced with public/private partnerships; financing structures that use low-income housing tax credits, tax exempt bonds and other public funds; and design and construction management. Previously, he was a project manager for a regional general contractor. He is an alumnus of the University of Southern California, with graduate degrees in both business administration (MBA) and real estate development (MRED). He has a bachelor’s degree in both architecture and Italian studies from the University of California, Berkeley.

Michelle Kempner

VP of Operations, BuzzFeed Entertainment Group

Michelle oversees day-to-day operations and strategy. She played a key role in building and growing BuzzFeed’s video business and helped create many of the tools, successful pages, and data-driven processes that built BuzzFeed into one of today’s leading digital media companies. Michelle oversees teams including production, post-production, insights, and social, and brings her strategic expertise to helping prioritize resources, streamline publishing, and ensure that BuzzFeed’s massive production schedule functions efficiently. As a leader within BuzzFeed Entertainment Group, she is a strategic partner to the executive team on revenue and growth strategies. Prior to joining BuzzFeed, Michelle held a variety of product, tech, and business leadership roles over nearly 20 years in tech and new media. While serving as Director of Solutions Architecture at Possible Worldwide, she accomplished award-winning work for projects including interactive kiosks for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Visitor's Center in Seattle, Google's virtual art museum tour web experience Google Art Project, and Universal Music Group's Vevo.com. Michelle was an artist-in-residence at Eyebeam, where she worked under the guidance of (future) BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti.

Chuck Lee

Director of Insights, BuzzFeed Entertainment Group

Chuck leads an embedded analytics group obsessed with content insights and experimentation, publishing growth, platform monetization, newsletter & messaging products and internationalization. He helped build many of the video reporting and workflow tools and data-informed processes, brand expansions that have helped propel BuzzFeed become one of today’s leading digital media companies. Prior to joining BuzzFeed, Chuck held a variety of business, consulting, and product leadership roles across tech and digital media, across companies such as Groupon and Fullscreen.

Stephanie Ocampo

Deputy Social Media Director, BuzzFeed Entertainment Group

Stephanie manages a group of Social Media Strategists who lead BuzzFeed’s video content publishing strategy across Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat. She oversees the publishing strategies for some of BuzzFeed's most beloved brands including: Tasty, Nifty, Goodful, Pero Like, Bring Me, SOML and BuzzFeed Video. Before she started at BuzzFeed, Stephanie worked at NBC for 6 years leading The Voice's social media team where she lost 3 Emmys, but worked closely with talent and producers to create innovative first-to-market activations to drive tune-in.

Alex Molloy

Organizer and Lead Facilitator, OpenIDEO Los Angeles Chapter

Alex Molloy is a product designer, educator, storyteller and maker-of-things. She is founder of Super Curious, a social impact design firm that specializes in product design and workshop facilitation for international impact causes. She guest-lectures at Haas on “Design Thinking for Entrepreneurs” and teaches UX design at General Assembly. She also designs workshops for OpenIDEO global and facilities workshops with OpenIDEO’s Los Angeles Chapter. She has worked as a photojournalist and at international tech start-ups.

Sarah Dzida

Co-lead Facilitator, OpenIDEO Los Angeles Chapter

Sarah Dzida is UX strategist and creative storyteller in Los Angeles. She collaborates with in-house, start-up, agency and global teams to create innovative digital and content user experiences across multiple platforms. Her recent work for Lexus received recognition at the 47th Creativity International Awards. In addition, she writes articles, essays and poetry. They've been featured online, in print and at the Architecture + Design Museum in Los Angeles.

Darya Allen-Attar

Financial Advisor, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management

Darya Allen-Attar is a financial advisor in the Santa Monica office of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. Drawing from over 23 years of experience, she focuses on advising Endowment and Foundation clients. She focuses on socially responsible investing and “investing with impact.” She serves on the Investment Advisory Committee for CCF and on the Board of Governance for the Westside Family YMCA. She is committed to investing her time and treasure toward environmental, social and governance impact.

Travis Antoniono

Investment Officer, Corporate Governance Division, CalSTRS

Travis Antoniono is an Investment Officer within the Corporate Governance Division of the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS), the nation’s largest teacher retirement fund. Travis is responsible for working with a dedicated governance and sustainability team to secure the financial future and sustain the trust of California’s educators. Travis’s main areas of focus are corporate engagement, co-managing CalSTRS $2.8 billion Sustainability portfolio, and helping lead ESG integration efforts across CalSTRS $220 billion fund.

Andrew Behar

Chief Executive Officer, As You Sow

Andrew Behar has 30 years’ experience as a Senior Executive and strategist in the cleantech, communications, and life science sectors. Prior to As You Sow, Andrew founded and was CEO of a start-up developing innovative fuel cell technologies. He serves on the board of US-SIF and is a member of the UN Sustainable Stock Exchange Green Finance Advisory Group. He authored “The Shareholders Action Guide: Unleash Your Hidden Powers to Hold Corporations Accountable” in November 2016.

Anabel Luna Giron

Investments Director, California Community Foundation

Anabel Luna Giron is responsible for the oversight and management of the California Community Foundation’s (CCF) investment portfolios and those of related entities. She works closely with development and donor relations on the investment aspects of asset development and support services to donors and donor advisors. Prior to joining CCF, she was an associate at Houlihan Lokey. She also served as VP of finance at Saber Es Poder and as a manager in KPMG’s Economic & Valuation Services group.

Evan Mizrachy

Senior Client Relationship Manager, Aperio Group

Evan Mizrachy is a senior client relationship manager at Aperio Group, where he oversees efforts with a variety of strategic clients nationwide. With over 17 years’ experience in financial services, he most recently served as a managing director at BlackRock. As global head of retail alternatives, he was responsible for coordinating alternative product development initiatives and supporting distribution and education efforts with BlackRock’s Private Wealth clients. Previously, he was a director within BlackRock’s Corporate Strategy team.

Andrew Olig

Investment Strategy Analyst, Eaton Vance

Andrew Olig is a responsible investment strategy specialist with investment experience since 1999. Andrew focuses on responsible investing and insights on investment strategy and portfolio positioning. Prior to joining Calvert, Andrew was with Putnam Investments and Hartford Funds. He was a member of the Mutual Fund Advisory Board at Hartford Funds. He holds a Series 7 and 63, and is a graduate of Central College in Pella, Iowa.

Brian Kariger

CEO, Recargo

Brian Kariger is co-founder and chief executive officer of Recargo, Inc. Prior to Recargo, he founded the company behind Dictionary.com in 1995 and served as its chief executive officer through its acquisition by IAC/Ask.com in 2008. Previously, he served as director of technology for Hajjar/Kaufman, a unit of Dentsu Advertising. He is chairman of Beneventures Foundation. He is also a board member of Island Culture Archival Support. He attended California State University, Fullerton.

Les Borsai

Founder and CEO, Gridmob

Les is one of the leading executives in the technology space, consulting for some of the prominent players in the emerging music, gaming and cryptocurrency industries, including market leader Ripple, RightMesh, YouNow and Backstage Playas well as founding WetNet. Other clients in his portfolio are Zynga Inc., Shazam, Giphy, Allihoopa and Membran Entertainment Group in addition to managing Grammy winner and platinum recording artist Wynonna Judd.

Sheri Kaiserman

Principal Advisor & Co-Founder, Maco.la

Maco.la was formed to support the growing blockchain ecosystem with a 3-pronged approach of providing capital, advisory and talent. Prior to co-founding Maco.la, Sheri had a successful 28-year career on Wall Street at two firms: ten years as an Institutional Equity Research Salesperson at Oppenheimer, and then 18 years at Wedbush in which she spent 16 of them successfully building and running the Equities Division. Under Sheri’s direction, Wedbush wrote the first Wall Street research report on the topic of bitcoin and blockchain and became one of the first financial services firms to invest in the space.

Gabrielle Katsnelson

COO and Co-Founder, SMBX

The SMBX is a marketplace that connects small businesses to the people who want to invest in them—like the New York Stock Exchange but for small businesses and on a proprietary blockchain-based technology stack. Gabrielle Katsnelson has a decade of financial accounting, strategy and operations experience, including managing the loan portfolio of the Artists’ Community Federal Credit Union and the restricted royalty funds of TuneCore, as well as architecting financial infrastructure for countless small and medium-sized businesses. Having directly experienced the inefficiencies of legacy banking systems, when she first heard about distributed ledger technology, she was captivated; she knew she was going to be an active participant in its evolution.

Amy Wan

Founder and CEO, Sagewise

Amy Wan is founder and CEO of Sagewise, a dispute resolution infrastructure for smart contracts. Previously, she was a partner at a boutique securities law firm and general counsel at a real estate crowdfunding platform. She is also the founder and co-organizer of Legal Hackers LA, which programs around the intersection of law and technology; was named one of ten women to watch in legal technology by the ABA Journal in 2014; and was nominated as a finalist for Corporate Counsel of the Year in 2015 by the Los Angeles Business Journal.

Alex Belisle

Purpose Strategy Director, Imperative

Alex Belisle works with organizations to activate cultures rooted in meaning, fulfillment and impact. He derives impact when challenging the status quo and pushing organizations toward future notions of responsibility. His past work at Boise State University focused on emerging visions for the future of higher education—in course curricula, campus operations and modernized fundraising strategies. Today, he creates purpose-driven cultures that unlock new waves of corporate responsibility.

Jennifer Vaden Barth

Program Manager - CS Education in Media, Google

As a program manager for Google's K-12 CS education initiatives, Jennifer's work currently focuses on Research and Evaluation of initiatives focusing on changing perceptions of computer science in media, focusing on girls and underrepresented groups. She began her career with Google in 2008 when she landed the opportunity to work with Google's Engineering Research org. In 2011, she had the privilege of joining Chairman Eric Schmidt's team and managed projects including government relations, press, speaking engagements and major summit event planning. From 2012-2015 she developed strong relationships with YouTube and Google Sales. As a member of the founding YouTube Space LA team, she drove cultural and brand initiatives in a start-up environment. The exposure to working with YouTube content creators enhanced her ability to establish cross-functional relationships for the Consumer Goods and Entertainment teams, as well as learning the business side of Google's Sales and advertising opportunities for digital media and marketing.