Lisa Gelobter is the CEO and Founder of tEQuitable. Using technology to make workplaces more equitable, tEQuitable provides a confidential platform to address bias, discrimination, and harassment.

Lisa has worked on products that have been used by billions of people and pioneered several Internet technologies, including Shockwave, Hulu, and the ascent of online video. Previously, at the Obama White House, Lisa was the Chief Digital Service Officer for the Department of Education, and prior to that she served as the Chief Digital Officer for BET Networks at Viacom. Lisa is one of Inc.‘s 100 Women Building America’s Most Innovative and Ambitious Businesses, Fast Company’s Most Creative People, and serves on boards for: the Obama Foundation, Times Up, and The Education Trust.

Lisa is one of the first 40 Black women ever to have raised over $1mm in VC funding. She is also proud to be a Black woman with a Computer Science degree. Go STEM!

Evan Jackson is the Co-Founder and COO of Intus Care. Intus Care provides data analytics and services to help integrated care programs improve outcomes for their patients in Medicare and Medicaid managed care. The company serves 30+ health plans and care programs with tens of thousands of patients nationwide and has raised $16 million in venture capital funding to date.

Additionally, Evan is passionate about serving and empowering overlooked communities across the country. Through these efforts, Evan raised over $600,000 in COVID relief funding directly distributed to low-income college students during the height of the pandemic; developed a successful minority mentorship program operational in 48 states; and has been featured in publications including the Today Show for his work in childhood literacy.

Evan holds the distinction of being the first judge who was a previous winner of the Brown Venture Prize back in 2019!

Richard Katzman is a private investor in early stage companies, advising and investing in over two dozen startups. He is also a board member of The Noodle Companies, a group of ventures seeking to increase transparency and efficiency in education. Richard was President, Chairman, and CEO of Kaz, Incorporated, a multinational consumer appliance company, from 1984 until its sale in 2011. Under his leadership, Kaz grew from $5 M to $500 Million in annual sales of humidifiers, digital thermometers, air cleaners, and other products under the Vicks, Honeywell, and Braun brands. He also co-founded Terra Firma Software, a provider of enterprise solutions and an early developer of Macintosh applications.

Jayna Zweiman is an architecturally-trained multidisciplinary designer and social entrepreneur. Her independent practice combines architecture, art, craft and new media to focus on experiences that overlap physical, virtual and conceptual spaces. Her work is about civic intimacy, accessibility, and joy.

Perhaps best known as the co-creator/co-founder of Pussyhat Project, an international network and movement of women’s rights supporters, Zweiman has become a leading advocate of using design innovation to enact social change. Zweiman’s innovations in craftivism have been rooted in design strategies to make spaces and systems for people to connect through craft. The Pussyhat Project became a worldwide phenomenon at the 2017 Women’s Marches as one of the largest crowd-sourced art advocacy projects ever. Through its global adoption, the Pussyhat has become an international symbol of women’s rights and the resistance.

She is the creator and founder of Welcome Blanket, what began as a reconceptualization of the 2000-mile length of the proposed border wall as a 2000-mile length of yarn to make individual welcome blankets for new immigrants coming to the United States. This crowd-sourced collective has been so successful that the project has expanded to reframe the 24,901 mile Earth’s circumference as a distance that connects us all.

She received her AB from Brown University in visual arts and economics and her Masters in Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She lives and works in Los Angeles, and is the proud grandchild of immigrants.