community Experts

Anissa Freeman Starnes

Regional Development DirectorConstant Contact, Inc.

Entertaining Educational Marketing Expert - North & South Carolina

Hillary Berman

FounderPopcorn & Ice Cream

Small business marketing. Passionate about customer engagement, customer experience, small/local business, startups and entrepreneurship.

Meca Williams-Johnson

ProfessorGeorgia Southern University

Meca R. Williams-Johnson's mixed methods research emphasis explores student motivation, emotions, teaching and learning.

Golden Richard III

ProfessorLouisiana State University

Expert in cybersecurity, specializing in malware analysis, reverse engineering, and digital forensics.

Trevor Zink, Ph.D.

Professor of Management and Sustainability, College of Business AdministrationLoyola Marymount University

Richard Franza, PhD

Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management, Hull College of BusinessAugusta University

Dr. Franza focuses on process improvement, supply chain management, and technology transfer.

Ning Zhang, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical EngineeringVCU College of Engineering

Professor Zhang is engineering strategies for the treatment of traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury and brain stroke

Eric Kmiec, Ph.D

Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer, The Gene Editing InstituteChristianaCare

Dr. Kmiec, a pioneer in the field, has achieved several ground-breaking firsts in CRISPR gene editing.

Whitney Battle-Baptiste

Professor of Anthropology / Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois CenterUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst

Whitney Battle-Baptiste is a historical archaeologist whose research intersects with Black Studies and history.

Jim Finkelstein

President and CEOFutureSense, LLC

A contrarian who is a stimulating speaker; an expert in people and organization strategy and a "millennial in boomer clothing"