Chris Tang

UCLA Distinguished Professor, and Edward W. Carter Chair in Business Administration

A foremost scholar on supply chain management, having published more than 100 articles in academic journals, magazines and newspapers as well as five books, Distinguished Professor Christopher S. Tang holds the Edward W. Carter Chair in Business Administration. His interest in this field began in the private sector, working for IBM on internal production planning problems. His early research focused on mainstream operations management problems, such as production planning and control, inventory models with yield uncertainties, design and control of flexible manufacturing lines, and capacity configuration problems. Tang expanded his interest and research, working with marketing researchers on production planning and promotion, joint pricing and production decision-making, and advanced booking. He continued his integration with retailing in the exploration of joint operations decisions and assortment planning, consumer shopping behaviors and product pricing.

While his research was motivated by real-life problems and industry projects, such exposure enabled him to develop teaching cases on a variety of concerns, such as micro-financing for the poor, mobile platforms for developing economies, creating shared values and direct procurement of agricultural products, response management in disasters and new business models in the age of the Internet. These new cases often went beyond the traditional topics of operations management, addressing the trendy and pressing issues faced by supply chain executives, as well as innovations that industry leaders use to create higher values in the global market.

His research now spans different areas that include global supply chain management, retail operations and social business operations. His current interest focuses on social innovation for developing countries, looking at ways that companies can operate in the environment, doing good and doing well at the same time - "where corporate responsibility, social justice, and environmental stewardship can go hand in hand."

Education

B.Sc. (First Class Honors) Mathematics, 1981, King's College, University of London
M.Phil. Administrative Science, 1983, Yale University
M.A. Statistics, 1983, Yale University
Ph.D. Management Science, 1985, Yale University

Dave Fanger

Founder & CEO, Swell Investing

As Swell's founder and CEO, Dave sets Swell's strategic vision and leads the impact, portfolio management, development and design teams. He brings with him more than 15 years in financial services. Swell is shaped by Dave's passions for investing, financial literacy, social and environmental progress. Launched in May of 2017, Swell Investing is on mission to ensure that every dollar invested has a positive impact on the world. 

Dave joined Swell Investing's parent company Pacific Life in 2008 as a director in Investment Management and rose to assistant vice president in Corporate Development where he was responsible for merger and acquisition valuations.  Prior to joining Pacific Life, Dave served as a senior associate at Mercer. He was responsible for advising Fortune 500 pension plan sponsors on funding, plan design, asset-liability management and risk management strategies.

Dave holds an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management and a bachelor's degree in actuarial science from Ball State University. Dave is a Chartered Financial Analyst® charterholder, Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries.

Deborah La Franchi ('00)

CEO & President, SDS Group

Deborah La Franchi is founder/CEO of SDS (2001), a national leader in impact investing - managing both market-rate and below-market funds. SDS invests in emerging lower-income communities - ranging from urban to rural - in need of economic and community development. Ms. La Franchi has built SDS' platform that supports $825 million of impact assets: National New Markets Fund ($477M); Develop Michigan Real Estate Fund ($60M); American South Real Estate Fund ($55M); and, $358M of third-party impact funds. Ms. La Franchi structures each fund, leads the fundraising, oversees the managers of each fund/division, provides the strategic direction for SDS' platform, and she participates on each fund's Investment Committee. SDS was recently named, for the second consecutive year, as an ImpactAssets 50 manager - a top 50 impact manager in the US.  Ms. La Franchi is also the founder and Board Chair for Sustainable Communities Fund. This unique nonprofit finances innovative and new prototype CDFI programs targeting low-income entrepreneurs in need of small business loans. She co-authored the DBL Handbook (Ford Foundation sponsor) and regularly speaks at investment and impact conferences. Prior, working for Mayor Riordan and serving as his Asst. Deputy Mayor for Economic Development (Los Angeles, CA, 1995-1999), she spearheaded the launch and became inaugural CEO of Genesis LA, which launched the Genesis Family of Funds (1999-2001). Ms. La Franchi has a BA in Political Science and History, an MBA from UCLA, an MPP from Georgetown and she has a Series 65.

Lisa Richter

Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Avivar Capital

Lisa Richter is a co-founder and managing partner of Avivar Capital, a national consultancy and SEC-registered investment advisor focused exclusively on assisting institutions and families to design and execute impact investing strategies. Lisa brings three decades of fund management and impact investing experience spanning asset classes, return expectations, geographies and issue areas, and frequently incorporating place-based or sector focus to increase equitable access to opportunity. Clients range from small to the nation's largest independent and community foundations, banks, institutional investors and families, with interests ranging from place-based or thematic impact investing outcomes to applying social criteria to traditional asset allocations targeting market-rate expected returns. Lisa authored the Grantmakers In Health Guide Impact Investing and co-authored Equity Advancing Equity (a guide to community foundation impact investing) and a rural community foundation impact investing guide. She co-designed and led the Mission Investors Exchange Impact Investing Institute for over a decade and continues as a lead impact investing trainer with partner organizations nationwide.  Lisa holds a BA and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Zev Wexler

CFO/COO, Core Innovation Capital

Zev Wexler is the CFO/COO of Core Innovation Capital, a leading venture capital fund investing in companies that that democratize prosperity.

Prior to law school, Zev worked at BlackRock in the taxable financial institutions group for two years. After law school, he worked at the law firm of Skadden, Arps in both the tax and the investment management groups for six years. Prior to joining Core, he worked at the law firm of Vinson & Elkins in the M&A group for two years.

Zev earned his BA from Princeton University and his JD from NYU Law. Zev is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), a member of the New York State bar, and a member of the Private Equity CFO Association. He previously served on the board of the Microfinance Club of New York. He is based in Los Angeles.

Michael Boehm

Managing Director, Advanced Sustainability Institute

Founder of the Advanced Sustainability Institute, dedicated to thought leadership, demonstration, and entrepreneurship in new energy and cleantech, Mr. Boehm is an entrepreneur, consultant and educator in the sustainability space. He serves as Executive Director for the Advanced Transportation Center, Industry Liaison for UCLA's Smartgrid Energy Research Center, and consultant to its EVSE spin off MOEV, and has assisted AeroVironment, Trexa, LADWP, GenOn, LAANE, SaveMe, Sempra and Toyota in their new energy and Electric Vehicle endeavors. He also served as CEO of Solar Energy Development International - an early developer of solar concentrator technology. Mr. Boehm is the Executive Director of the E4 Advanced Transportation Center, coordinating regional efforts toward developing a cleantech industry sector. Educated at Northwestern University and Stanford Graduate School of Business, Michael has taught sustainability in programs at Darden School of Business, UCLA, and the University of santa Clara. Mr. Boehm serves as board member and chairman of the German American Business Association, Southern California, CleanTech and Sustainability Industry Group, co-chair of the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation E4-Mobility Alliance, and is an advisor to LA's Clean Tech incubator.

Juan Matute

Assistant Professor, UCLA ITS

Juan researches innovation in public transit, parking, and mobility services in response to climate change, congestion, and urban market dynamics. He led UCLA's work on two strategic transit plans for the State of California and long-range climate action plans for Southern California communities.

Juan works to integrate research into practice as Chair of Downtown Santa Monica's Access, Mobility, and Parking Committee, which oversees mobility improvements and programs in the popular seaside business district. As Chair of the Los Angeles Mayor's Parking Reform Working Group, Juan coined the term "code the curb" to describe a digital inventory of street and sidewalk assets and regulations.

Dan Hopper ('16)

Principle Manager, Climate Strategy, SCE

Dan Hopper is a Principal Manager of Climate Strategy and Analytics at Southern California Edison. In this role, he leads a team that develops the foundational analyses on grid decarbonization and clean electrification that shape SCE's Clean Power and Electrification corporate strategy. With over a decade of experience, Dan has a diverse background in economic and electric system analysis, customer program planning, and policy development for distributed energy resources, wholesale renewables, and energy storage resources.

Mr. Hopper holds an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management, an MA in Economics from California State University, Fullerton, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno.

Danny Horn

Communications Coordinator, GRID Alternatives Greater Los Angeles

Danny is a communications lead for projects in three Southern California counties (Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura) with GRID Alternatives, a solar installer and workforce development organization. After graduation from UCLA, he spent the first few years of his career in nonprofit sector programs and communications, as well as similar roles for the public sector agencies. Danny joined the team at America's largest solar energy nonprofit three years ago to ensure that historically-marginalized populations and low-income communities get to play a more active role participating in renewable energy. Today he's proud to be part of GRID, which has served 14,000 households working towards its vision: a transition to clean power that includes everyone.

 As a community advocate and professional, Danny is passionate about actively involving Angelenos in issues that affect their community's long-term health. He currently sits as a representative on the LACMTA Service Council, and during his time with the Los Angeles Fund for Public Education he was first Community Manager for LAUSD, California's largest K-12 school district.

Julia Pyper

Senior Editor, Greentech Media

Julia Pyper is the Senior Editor at Greentech Media, where she writes and guides coverage on the global energy transition. She's also the host of "Political Climate," a bipartisan podcast on energy and environmental issues in America. Julia previously covered climate science and climate policy for E&E News, reporting from Capitol Hill to the Maldives. Her writing has also been published in Scientific American and The New York Times.

Jason Rondou

Manager of Strategic Development & Programs, Los Angeles Department of Water & Power

Jason Rondou is oversees LADWP's Strategic Development & Programs section, and in that capacity is responsible for LADWP's entry into the California Independent System Operator's Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) as well as its Distributed Energy Resource programs, including demand response, local solar development, and community solar programs. Jason previously worked at the Los Angeles Department of Transportation on light rail development and bus rapid transit. Jason graduated from Loyola Marymount University with a degree in Electrical Engineering and has a Master of Public Administration from USC and an MBA from UCLA. Jason is a licensed Electrical Engineer and Transportation Engineer in California and is the former Chair of the Los Angeles IEEE Power & Energy Society.​

Seth Goldman

Co-Founder & TeaEO Emeritus, Honest Tea
Executive Chair, Beyond Meat

Seth Goldman is Co-Founder & TeaEO Emeritus of Honest Tea and Executive Chair of Beyond Meat.  Honest Tea is the nation's top selling organic bottled tea, specializing in beverages that are just a tad sweet, organic and Fair Trade Certified^TM. In March 2011, Honest Tea was acquired by The Coca-Cola Company, becoming the first organic and Fair Trade brand in the world's largest beverage distribution system.  Honest Tea and Honest Kids is sold in more than 140,000 stores in the USA and Europe, including McDonald's, Wendy's, SUBWAY and Chick-fil-A. Beyond Meat is also rapidly expanding distribution, as the company seeks to expand the availability and accessibility of plant-based protein. Seth also serves on the board of Ripple Foods, the Yale School of Management and Bethesda Green.  

Grady Lee ('01)

Co-Founder/CEO, Give2Get
Co-Founder, Impact2030

Grady is the Co-Founder and CEO of Give2Get, a social impact company connecting brands and people to communities and causes. Give2Get puts purpose in motion for Fortune 500 companies on both consumer and employee facing strategies, events and programs.  Prior to Give2Get, Grady was Co-Founder/COO of RockCorps where he used live events to mobilize hundreds of thousands to give time volunteering in local communities in 10 countries throughout the world.  There, he built pro-social activation campaigns for companies including Coca-Cola (South Africa), Boost Mobile (US), Orange (UK, France, Israel), Optus (Australia), Diageo (Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela) among others. Grady is also a Co-Founder of IMPACT 2030, the only private sector-led initiative in partnership with the United Nations to align human capital investments to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.  IMPACT 2030 has a current membership of nearly 60 companies with more than 5,000,000 employees in 220 countries. He has degrees from Princeton University and The Anderson School at UCLA.

Natalie Byrne

Head of Brand Purpose, Unilever

Natalie works at the intersection of business, culture and social impact. Recognized by Mogul "for changing the way business approaches impact," Natalie recently launched Blank Space, an agency that specializes in purpose-driven brand development, transformational leadership and sustainable business growth.

The future focused co-lab works with the best in class to break old systems and evolve the status quo. We are shifting culture, not doing more of the same. Partnering across the globe with captains of industry, the unique model weaves this network of pioneers to access ground-breaking ideas, solutions and expertise. The work includes strategic advising across brand positioning, marketing, narrative development, public relations, thought leadership and impact investments for CEOS, Founders and High Impact Individuals as well as Fortune 500 Corporations, Global Brands, Foundations and Endowments. Natalie's clients include some of the world's largest brands and noteworthy influencers, all with a focus on authentic, creative, sustainable leadership. Over the past decade, her experience includes leading brand purpose strategy for Unilever's Prestige division, a portfolio of six high-end beauty and wellness brands, as well as creating a thought leadership platform for Unilever's Founder-led brands post acquisition. She developed and spearheaded Dermalogica's FITE (Financial Independence through Entrepreneurship) initiative for the past six years to empower women entrepreneurs, reaching over 100,000 women worldwide. Byrne's expertise is frequently sought out by media, you may have seen her work featured on Bloomberg, MSNBC, Town & Country, The Guardian, New York Times, Entrepreneur magazine, Irish Tatler, Harvard University's Kennedy Report, People magazine, and NPR. She was named one of MOGUL's 35 Under 35 and selected as AOL's and Levo League's 13 Millennials Changing the World. Byrne serves on Board of Directors for MAKERS@, Oath's feminist media brand under Verizon Communications, and joined the board of Land Core for the advancement of regenerative soil. She works closely with the United Nations Executive Directors on innovative leadership as well as is an advisor to 100years and Tembo group. She was honored to be a White House delegate under President Obama traveling with him to Kenya for the Global Entrepreneurs Summit as a featured speaker. Beginning her career as a journalist and then working in film and television, Natalie believes in the power of storytelling and inspiring narrative to reach audiences, shift culture and create long-term social change. Rather than focusing on a "one-off cause marketing campaign," the future relies on embedded impact and sustainable growth that invests in a future where business, culture and humanity are aligned.  

Wendy Savage

Director, Social Responsibility & Traceability, Patagonia

Wendy Savage is a multifaceted Supply Chain Sustainability and Labor Expert with over 17 years of experience. Having traveled to over 40 countries her expertise ranges from program development and implementation, training and education, capacity-building, field auditing, stakeholder engagement, supply chain mapping and traceability.

In her current role as Director of Supply Chain Social Responsibility & Traceability at Patagonia, Wendy is responsible for the company's global supply chain compliance and commitment to upholding Patagonia's Workplace Code of Conduct and Fair Labor Association (FLA) obligations.  She leads the company's Regenerative Organic Certification initiative, Fair Trade program and its work to eradicate Human Trafficking in the supply chain through Patagonia's Migrant Workers Program.  In the area of Traceability Ms. Savage also spearheaded the research, development, and implementation of leading standards such as Global Traceable Down and the Patagonia Wool Standard. Throughout her career, Wendy has advised a wide variety of industries from Apparel to Food, Agriculture and Extractives.  She has worked on programs based on certifications and initiatives such as FLA (Fair Labor Association), RJC (Responsible Jewelry Council), BSCI (Business Social Compliance Initiative), ETI (Ethical Trading Initiative), SA8000 (Social Accountability 8000), Sustainable Apparel Coalition's HIGG Index and others. Originally from Lima, Peru, Wendy completed her studies in Sociology at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).  She was then awarded with a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship to represent the United States in France, where she completed a Master's in Business Management at SKEMA Business School (Formerly CERAM).  She is fluent in Spanish, English and French.

Muhammad Shahzad

Chief Financial Officer, The Honest Company

Muhammad Shahzad is the Chief Financial Officer of The Honest Company, which was launched in 2012 with a mission to inspire and empower people to live a happy and healthy life.

Muhammad began on the Finance team at The Honest Company in 2014. He currently serves on the Honest Leadership Team overseeing all of Honest's financial affairs. Prior to The Honest Company, Muhammad spent 5 years in the Technology, Media & Telecom Investment Banking Division at Goldman, Sachs & Co. where he covered a broad array of mid cap to large cap clients in the consumer technology sector such as Apple, eBay and Netflix and in the Media & Entertainment sector such as The Walt Disney Company, DreamWorks, and Lions Gate. Previously Muhammad founded his own company and also worked at Accenture and Deutsche Bank. Since 2009, he has served on the Board of Directors for Developments in Literacy, a nonprofit organization focused on education in South Asia, and since 2015 served as Chair of the Board of Directors. He holds an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management and a BSc in Economics cum laude from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.    

The Honest Company provides 100+ safe and effective products across a wide range of consumer categories, including baby, personal care, beauty, home care, and vitamins & supplements, to a passionate community of consumers united by values and style. Honest products are available across the U.S. via honest.com and honestbeauty.com, and at a wide range of retailers across North America such as Target, Costco, Nordstrom, CVS and Whole Foods. The Honest Company is privately held and headquartered in Los Angeles, California.    Since its inception, the mission-driven Company has donated over nineteen million products and over 17,000 employee participation hours through its Honest to Goodness program.  Honest has been honored with a wide range of recognitions and awards, including Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year - Los Angeles Region, the ACG Award for Social Responsibility, PC Magazine's Seal of Consumer Approval in Tech, five Allure Best of Beauty Awards, four Good Housekeeping Seals, EPA's Safer Choice Partner of the Year Award, as well as the Pioneer in Sustainability Award by the Sustainable Business Council of Los Angeles. Under Nick's leadership, The Honest Company has also been recognized by Reader's Digest as one of the "18 Companies with the Best Bosses in America" and he has been honored by Glossy as part of their 2018 New Guard list, a list featuring industry insiders responsible for driving important shifts in the beauty industry.  

Muhammad began on the Finance team at The Honest Company in 2014. He currently serves on the Honest Leadership Team overseeing all of Honest's financial affairs. Prior to The Honest Company, Muhammad spent 5 years in the Technology, Media & Telecom Investment Banking Division at Goldman, Sachs & Co. where he covered a broad array of mid cap to large cap clients in the consumer technology sector such as Apple, eBay and Netflix and in the Media & Entertainment sector such as The Walt Disney Company, DreamWorks, and Lions Gate. Previously Muhammad founded his own company and also worked at Accenture and Deutsche Bank. Since 2009, he has served on the Board of Directors for Developments in Literacy, a nonprofit organization focused on education in South Asia, and since 2015 served as Chair of the Board of Directors. He holds an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management and a BSc in Economics cum laude from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.      

Kenny Berlin

CEO and Co-Founder, 12Twenty

Kenny Berlin is the CEO and Co-Founder of 12Twenty and the visionary behind its product and platform strategy. He is passionate about using modern software to improve the experience for students, staff, and employers. Kenny has been in the tech space for over 15 years with experience in entrepreneurial environments as well as at top tech companies including Amazon.com. He has a BS in engineering from Tufts University, an MS in engineering from the University of Texas, and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. The day the Phillies won the 2008 World Series was the fourth best day of his life (according to his wife Sandra).

Michael Lombardo

Founder & CEO, BookNook

Michael Lombardo is the Founder & CEO of BookNook, an award-winning social enterprise that uses artificial intelligence and other adaptive technologies to support reading skill growth at school, at home, and in the community. Previously, he served as CEO of Reading Partners, building it into one of the largest children's literacy nonprofits in America and publishing seminal research on volunteer-based reading programs that was accepted into the What Works Clearinghouse at the US Department of Education. A frequent author on subjects of education policy, social entrepreneurship, and nonprofit governance, Michael also serves as a Social Entrepreneur in Residence at Stanford University and is a founding Advisory Council member of the My Brother's Keeper Alliance, President Obama's signature initiative focused on supporting boys and young men of color.

Tyler Shaddix

Chief Product Officer, GoGuardian

Tyler is the Chief Product Officer of GoGuardian, an education technology startup focusing on turning the internet into the ultimate learning platform for K-12 students. GoGuardian creates tools for internet safety, classroom management, learning analytics, and suicide prevention by providing deep insight into the student learning experience via digital behavior and cutting-edge AI technologies. GoGuardian serves over 6 million students and was named the fastest growing education company ever by Inc Magazine.

With a decade of software development and product management experience, Tyler founded two SaaS analytics companies prior to joining GoGuardian. He is an acclaimed thought leader, open-source contributor and public speaker on topics including leadership,  UX, high-growth product development, and education technology.

Amy Bernal

Chief Experience Officer, Aira.io

Amy is the Chief Experience Officer at Aira.io, a San Diego startup that is changing lives of individuals who are Blind or Visually Impaired through the interaction of smart wearable devices, AI, and real, remote people, called Aira Agents.   Prior to Aira, Amy served various business & technology operations roles at Intuit. Before moving into tech, Amy managed a portfolio for the Gary and Mary West Foundation, partnering with organizations to reduce the cost of health care for older adults through technology or preventative care. She holds an Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies from the UC San Diego Rady School of Management. In her personal time, Amy promotes women in technology through her involvement with Athena, Women Give San Diego, and the UCSD Rady School of Management Alumni Board.

Cheng Cheng

Director, Expansion, Tala

Cheng Cheng is leading the market expansion efforts at Tala, a mobile technology and data science company that delivers instant credit via smartphone to globally underserved populations. With her experience of taking Tala to multiple emerging markets, she believes that listening and learning is the key to proving product/market fit and unlocking the market potential for scaling. Prior to her work at Tala, she worked for international non-profit organizations in youth leadership development and school education in disaster relief efforts in China. Cheng holds a master's degree in Public Administration from Columbia University.

Neama Dadkhahnikoo ('14)

Tech Lead, XPRIZE

Neama Dadkhahnikoo comes to the XPRIZE Foundation with 12 years of experience in entrepreneurship and technology management. He leverages his expertise in artificial intelligence and startup development as Technical Lead on the IBM Watson Artificial Intelligence XPRIZE.

Prior to joining XPRIZE, Mr. Dadkhahnikoo was most recently the CTO of CaregiversDirect (AI startup for home care), co-founder and COO of Textpert (AI startup for mental health), and a startup consultant. He started his career as a Software Developer for The Boeing Company.   Mr. Dadkhahnikoo holds an MBA from UCLA Anderson; an MS in Project Management from Stevens Institute of Technology; and a BA in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, with a minor in Physics, from UC Berkeley.

Warren Riley

Founder and President, NPO Solutions

Warren has served as a strategic planning expert for more than three decades, and his book - The Resource Development System - has transformed hundreds of nonprofit organizations across the country. As a leader and entrepreneur, Warren works with visionary executive directors and boards of directors seeking to build capacity within their organizations to advance their missions. He is inspired by the dedicated professionals that lead this robust sector, and the positive impact they are making in the world every day. In another life, Warren directed a national sales team for a Fortune 100 consumer products company and led KPMG Peat Marwick's nonprofit practice, where he provided consulting services to a variety of social service agencies, arts and advocacy organizations, associations, and universities.

  The Firm he founded, NPO Solutions, serves clients dedicated to many types of causes, including behavioral health, public education, youth development, homeless services, and the arts. The Firm's areas of focus include strategic planning, program and organizational evaluation, partnerships and organizational change, development and capital campaign planning, board development, business and social enterprise planning, communications and social media, and providing leadership convenings and workshops. Warren received his Masters of Business Administration from Stanford University, and holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from Dartmouth College.

Aviva Altmann ('13)

Manager, The Bridgespan Group

Aviva Altmann is a manager in Bridgespan's San Francisco office. Since joining in 2014, Aviva has worked in Bridgespan's Education and Global Development Practices. She advises nonprofit and foundation clients on strategy development, organizational design, and talent development. She is one of the co-authors of a joint analysis on talent development between Bridgespan and EdFuel, entitled "Hidden in Plain Sight: Tomorrow's Education Leaders Already Work for You."

Aviva led recent research on what it takes to equip teachers and administrators to support students' socio-emotional development, as well as on best practices to support low-income students and students of color to persist in and graduate from college. She has advised a number of philanthropic and nonprofit clients, including the Heising-Simons Foundation, Girl Effect, World Vision International, Education Outside, and the Margaret Cargill Philanthropies. Before joining Bridgespan, Aviva was a strategic advisor in Johnson & Johnson's Corporate Philanthropy team. Prior to her experience at J&J, she founded and ran the after school programs for Green Dot Public Schools, one of the largest charter school management organizations in California. Aviva received a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and an MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA.

Meika Hollender

Co-Founder and CEO, Sustain Natural

Meika Hollender is the Co-Founder and CEO at Sustain Natural, a leading brand of all natural, vagina-friendly products. She is also the creator of GetOnTop, a national campaign aimed at getting women to take control of their sexual health. Meika received her MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business, where she was the President of the Social Enterprise Association. Through Sustain's 10%4Women initiative, she is proud to work closely with Planned Parenthood and Women's Voices for the Earth. Meika has been listed on Forbes 30 under 30, Fast Company's Most Creative People and Inc. 30 under 30, and her second book Get On Top was just released in March 2018 by Touchstone. Meika also joined the board of the organization Net Impact in 2017.

Meika Hollender has appeared on MSNBC, Fox & Friends, CNN's Great Big Story, and been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, Teen Vogue and Cosmopolitan. Meika's video feature on Now This went viral in 2017 earning over 12 million views.  

About Get On Top: Women--especially in the eighteen to thirty age range-- are suffering from misinformation, fear, and intimidation. They're worried about the side effects of birth control, confused about consent, sexuality, and cheating, and don't know when or even where to seek medical attention. Women need answers from someone they trust, from a partner. Unselfconscious, straightforward, real, and enlightening, GET ON TOP is that partner.  

Through smart, actionable guidance, GET ON TOP will teach women everything they need to know about their bodies and change the way they think about sexual health. Christy Turlington Burns called Get On Top "Sex Ed for the #Girlboss generation."