Overall: 9:00 am - 4:30 pm

8:30 am Doors open

9:00 am Conference starts, President DeGioia & Co-chair Megan Fisher opening remarks

9:15 - 10:50am Session I & Panel I (4 speakers + Q&A)

9:15 am Speaker 1: Keisha Brewer (CEO, The PR Alliance LLC)
- “It's Not Manipulation, It's Strategic Communication”
9:35 am Speaker 2: Seth Owen (COL ‘21)
- “Really, How Are You?”
9:55 am Speaker 3: Rebecca Zaritsky (COl ‘ 20)
- “A Hidden Cost of Shame”
10:15 am Speaker 4: Diana Acosta (Program Associate at the Beeck Center)
- “The Power of Comunidad”
10:35 am Panel I Moderator: Rachel Tao

11:00 am - 12:30 pm Lunch (Riggs Library) & Brand Expo (Healy Foyer)

12:45 - 2:25 pm Session II & Panel II (4 speakers + Q&A)

12:45 pm Speaker 5: Lukas Pietrzak (MPP ‘ 21)
- “United We Stand, Disconnected We Fall: Stories from the Digital Divide”
1:05 pm Speaker 6: Elizabeth Gleyzer (COL ‘20)
- “Why Creativity and Countercultural Communities Matter”
1:25 pm Speaker 7: Meghan Ogilvie (CEO, Dog Tag Bakery)
- “Purpose Drives the Journey”
1:45 pm Speaker 8: Haley Sacks (Mrs. Dow Jones)
- “FINANCE IS COOL”
2:05 pm Panel II Moderator: Eman Rahman

2:25 - 2:40pm Break

2:40 - 4:05 pm Session III & Panel III (4 speakers + Q&A)

2:45 pm Speaker 9: Herron Gaston (Admissions Director, Yale Divinity School)
- “From Jail to Yale: Challenges and Adversities in One's Life”
3:05 pm Speaker 10: Eriana James-Bell (COL ‘20)
- “Getting Lost in Another Story Until I Embraced My Own”
3:25 pm Speaker 11: Matthew Henry (COL ‘20)
- “Being Grateful, Helping Someone, & Reaching Out: How I Managed My Depression”
3:45 pm Speaker 12: Prof. Sarah Stiles (Sociology Professor, Georgetown University)
- “Flourishing into the Future”
4:00 pm Panel III Moderator: Lily Xu

4:20 pm Co-chair Ulie Xu closing remarks

4:30 pm Ending

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