Alan Cohen is a Professional Certified Executive and Team Coach, public speaker and author, who has built a 30+ year career around the idea that no matter the industry or challenge, breakthroughs come from mastering effective communication. Spending decades as both a marketing expert and Human Resources consultant, he presided over the successful launch of the Harry Potter series as Scholastic’s Director of Marketing, as well as serving as Director of Communications for the Broadway League, representing the Tony Awards. Alan has worked with global organizations including, Bloomberg, Tiffanys, NBC / Bravo, American Express, Skadden Arps, Edelman and MetLife, and hundreds of small businesses and solopreneurs, and speaks frequently to groups and at conferences on the power of connection.
In 2014 Dr. Darrien Jamar obeyed a spiritual call to begin Chiropractic school in Marietta, Georgia. For the optics and sake of seeming sane, Dr. Darrien explained to family and friends that this was always an unspoken dream, but truthfully—it was the answer to a desperate cry for inner healing. Today, Dr. Darrien is a practicing Doctor of Chiropractic and an Integrative Life Coach with a Masters in Positive Psychology and extensive Reiki training here in the DMV—all of which informs his unique approach to life, well-being, and healing. Dr. Darrien believes trusting our inner guidance is the ultimate path to peace and purpose.
Pedro Night is the Chief of Operations and Music Director of ADOBO. A Nicaraguan DMV native, he is already a veteran in the DC music + nightlife industry, having served the area in several different capacities. Apart from assuming the day-to-day tasks of ADOBO, he is an open-format DJ, often seen performing at some of the area’s best parties. Pedro’s main goal is to put Latin culture on a pedestal in the United States, and looks poised to accomplish this through ADOBO.
Zack Peter isn't your average green-juice drinking millennial. As a writer, he has published a total of four books, with work featured on Yahoo!, Men’s Health, Bustle, People, and more. In between collagen-martinis, you can catch his signature wit and gift-of-gab as host and producer of the hit weekly podcasts, #NoFilter with Zack Peter and #Adulting: Life Hacks to Get Your Sh*t Together. He currently serves as the Executive Director for Jenny McCarthy’s autism foundation, Generation Rescue, and can be regularly seen on POPSUGAR and Maria Menounos’s AfterBuzz TV network.
Danielle Kunkle is a founding partner at Boomer Benefits, a national top producing agency that specializes in Medicare-related insurance products across 47 states. Her team helps baby boomers navigate Medicare and choose suitable supplemental coverage. She is a member of the Forbes Finance Council where she writes about Medicare, retirement and personal finance and is also a past president of the Fort Worth chapter of the National Association of Health Underwriters. Her agency was recently named the 2019 Health Insurance Advisory firm of the year by Finance Monthly.
Keshav Pingali is CEO and co-founder of Katana Graph, a high-performance scale-out graph processing, AI and analytics company, which extracts actionable insights from massive unstructured datasets. Keshav holds the W.A."Tex" Moncrief Chair of Computing at the University of Texas at Austin, and is a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE and AAAS.
Wanda is an superfan of Black women travelers. To that end she's created a Facebook group, a podcast, a conference, and a creative services agency that all center and empower Black women travelers. Wanda tried and failed to leave the States in 2010 to work and travel online as a digital nomad, and for the past five years have been doing that and much more.
Samantha is a Doctor of Physical Therapy with a fitness and wellness studio in Santa Monica. While she realizes the value in mentioning her credentials, Samantha wants to make clear that she is also a wife, mother, sober woman, and spiritual seeker who is simply searching for joy, balance, and connection in her life. Through her own soul searching, Samantha has redefined physical therapy as a whole body experience, one that inextricably connects the head with the heart for optimal outcomes.
Joey Randazzo is the Founder and CEO of Portland SEO Growth by Becoming Media. He has a team of 19 women (mostly military spouses) that produce over 2 million words of SEO focused content each year. They've worked with enterprise-level clients like Autodesk, WebMD, and NexEra.
Judy Weintraub is an accomplished entrepreneur, business executive and attorney and is a bestselling author of The Essentials of Negotiating Effectively and the author of How to Build Successful Business Partnerships. She is the founder of SkillBites, providing book writing and publishing services to help authors get their books done quickly and conveniently. In addition to SkillBites, Judy runs Weintraub Legal Services, providing corporate law services and dispute resolution services.
