Past Power of Voice Panels
JUNE 28, 2023
The Future of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Workplace
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) serves as a framework and set of principles to foster environments that embrace and celebrate diversity, ensure equal opportunities and fairness for all individuals, and foster a sense of belonging and inclusion. The change required to achieve optimal work environments demands systemwide progression with thought-leaders spearheading the conversation. There has always been a need to establish equity and inclusion in the workplace, and it is more urgent than ever to discuss, educate, and inspire the future voices of DEI. This panel will provide a unique opportunity to hear from the professionals on the forefront of this crucial undertaking.
MODERATOR –
Imran Haider (He/Him)
Director of Online Programs
Scholarly Assistant Professor
Imran obtained his graduate degree from Portland State University in 2008. Immediately after that, he began his college teaching career. He taught Persuasion and Leadership at the University of Portland and later Interpersonal Communication courses at Oregon State University for eight years. Imran has worked as a college educator for more than 14 years and he also worked on a small business venture for five years as the director of operations. From that experience, he is able to bring real life anecdotes into class discussion and material for workplace related discourse.
Haider joined the Murrow College in 2020, teaching Public Speaking in the Digital Age. In the past, he has presented research on the misperception of terrorism in mainstream news and after traveling to Karachi in 2016, how the culture of (individualism and uncertainty avoidance) in Karachi, Pakistan is misconceived. Imran has also built the course DEI in Communication Organizations, the first class of its kind for the Murrow College.
Outside of teaching, he is the chair of the DEI committee in the city where he lives. He facilitates professional development for different types of company training, including DEI, public speaking, and business optimization. Haider enjoys spending time with his wife and three-year-old son. Imran was born and raised in Oregon. Growing up, sports were his passion, he played basketball his whole life at every opportunity and eventually played semi-pro basketball for one season during graduate school.
PANEL –
Karla Brashear (She/Her/Ella)
Attorney
Gonzales, Gonzales & Gonzales Immigration Law Offices
Karla Brashear is Salvadorian-American and she grew up in the Portland Area. She received her B.S. in Business Economics from Seattle University, her M.A. in Education from Dominican University and her J.D. from Santa Clara University School of Law. Karla was admitted to the California State Bar in 2014. She previously practiced family law and immigration law. Her primary focus is now in immigration litigation and removable defense. Karla also represents clients before United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in applications for adjustment of status, naturalization, asylum, U Visas, VAWA and other family-based applications. She has been a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) since 2015. Karla believes communication and language shape how we understand, serve and empower groups of people that are different from us. She is passionate about bringing more understanding and inclusion to the communities she serves.
Vivi Caleffi Prichard (She/Her, Ela/Ella)
Chief Diversity Officer
Chemeketa Community College
For the past four years, Vivi has been serving Chemeketa Community College as Chief Diversity Officer. Vivi is passionate about bridging understanding by building community through shared learning spaces. She believes in the interconnectedness of the human experience and works to advance justice and belonging not only through her professional career but also her volunteerism as Executive Board member for the Salem-Keizer NAACP and the nonprofit Garten Services. Vivi was born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, where she earned her BA in Communications. Vivi’s path to earning a master’s degree in business administration from George Fox University.
Briana Welsh (She/Her)
(Comm. ’16)
Assistant Director for Diverse Student Engagement
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Briana is an experienced professional with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. She is skilled in student development, project management, DEI facilitation/training, and student affairs. She works to create initiatives that promote academic success and foster a sense of belonging and community for Black and Brown students and has strong beliefs in creating and maintaining an inclusive and equitable environment that is diverse that is representative of BIPOC individuals. She has a BA focused on Mass Communications with a minor in Comparative Ethnic Studies from Washington State University and an MA in Communication Studies from Tarleton State University.
March 23, 2023
Communication & the Climate Crisis in the Western United States
The most severe harms from climate change fall disproportionately upon underserved communities who are least able to prepare for, and recover from, wildfires, heat waves, poor air quality, flooding, and other impacts. Join us for a conversation with industry experts on the intersection of environment, communication, and rural communities and hear how communication practitioners are handling the climate crisis that is affecting so much of the Western United States.
MODERATOR
Chelsea Thomas, M.S.
Scholarly Assistant Professor
Chelsea has more than 15 years of strategic communication experience in both the academic and industry realms. Her expertise centers in social media and health promotion, with a focus on enhancing the two-way communication of science and health-related content to target audiences through simplified communication, digital tools and strategies. She holds a B.A. in communication from Murrow College and an M.S. in technical communication from Montana Tech of the University of Montana.
Panelists
Travis Mason-Bushman
As director of the National Grasslands Visitor Center, Travis works to create a Center of Excellence for interpreting 3 million acres of public prairies spread across half a continent. The 20 National Grasslands and Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie are success stories for landscape-scale restoration. His interests are built on more than a decade of diverse experience in journalism, communications, and interpretation.
Michelle Fredrickson (Comm. ’16)
Michelle is a Climate Change Epidemiologist 2 at the Washington State Department of Health. She is a Washington native and Master’s of Public Health graduate who is passionate about the principles of public health, especially in underserved communities. She has experience in both quantitative and qualitative data gathering and analysis, and I want to use my knowledge of epidemiology, biostatistics, community education, communication, and health promotion to help solve nascent public health challenges.
Ellen Gordon (Comm. ’17)
After five years as a news producer, Ellen transitioned into Public Relations and now works as a PR Specialist at Clean Water Services. Her role includes public engagement and outreach, behavior change campaigns, and website/social media management, primarily encouraging the public to become better stewards of the environment. Clean Water Services aims to protect public health, while enhancing the natural environment of the Tualatin River Watershed.
Quinn Ianniciello (Comm. ’11)
Quinn is currently Creative Director for The Climate Pledge at Amazon Worldwide Sustainability. He’s a born-and-raised Pacific Northwest islander, and multidisciplinary creative leader—helping craft identity systems, launch digital experiences, build environments, and create thoughtful storytelling content for global retail and lifestyle brands like Amazon, REI, Microsoft, Netflix, AT&T, and more.
december 2, 2021
Communication strategies for discussing and elevating women in sports
Media and communication professionals demonstrate sexism in a variety of ways, from their descriptions of women’s skills to portrayals of women in sexually provocative ways. Join us for this panel on effective strategies for communicating about female athletes.
The Murrow College “Power of Voice” speaker series serves as a catalyst to engage the community in discussions and dialogues surrounding diversity, equity, inclusion, race, and social justice issues.
Moderator-
Wendy Raney
Wendy Raney is a scholarly assistant professor in the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication. She has created two courses, Sports Journalism and Strategic Sports Writing, providing experiential learning opportunities for students to hone their skills in real-world situations.
Panelists-
Kerith Burke
Kerith Burke reports for NBC Sports Bay Area covering the Golden State Warriors. She was part of NBC’s Olympic coverage during the Tokyo Games, and was the sideline reporter for Team USA women’s basketball during the Rio Games. Her previous work includes anchoring and reporting at SNY in New York City, where she was the sideline reporter for UConn women’s basketball during their history-making stretch of four consecutive National Championships. She is a graduate of Murrow College.
Lindsay Crouse
Lindsay Crouse is a writer and producer in the Opinion section of The New York Times. The co-executive producer of Op-Docs, The Times’s series of short documentaries by independent filmmakers, she has produced more than 300 films, winning three Emmy awards (15 nominations), four Oscar nominations, and two Peabody awards. Drawing on her own experiences as a competitive athlete, she has spearheaded coverage of women athletes at The Times. The Emmy-nominated video series she produced in 2019, Equal Play, centered female athletes’ experiences and led to widespread reform in women’s sports. A 2:53 marathoner, Crouse graduated from Harvard, where she ran cross country and track.
Martha Garcia
Martha Garcia is many things––a woman of color, an industry veteran and multi-dimensional human being. Named “Power Women of 2021” by “Women’s Running,” Martha’s proven track record traces over a decade of experience in creative storytelling, human-centered brand partnership and results-driven marketing. Martha has successfully led marketing communications across various global brands, including Teva, Sanuk, Chinese Laundry and, most recently, HOKA. Martha’s success derives from her passion for amplifying and centering the voices of historically excluded communities. By harnessing her empathetic and curious perspective, Martha finds meaning behind the strategies that resonate with customers. Martha is the founder of I Am Collective, an agency helping brands scale while being intentional marketers.
Stef Strack
Stef Strack is an innovative executive, entrepreneur and advocate. She brings more than 18 years of experience at the intersection of sport, fashion and technology with a track record of building and scaling businesses from $0 to $3.5B. Stef is the founder and CEO of VOICEINSPORT, also known as VIS, a powerful digital sports company that brings more visibility to female athletes and elevates their voice. VOICEINSPORT offers girls in sport access to mentorship, experts in sport psychology, nutrition and womens health, content and tools to advocate for change. Stef is also the founder and president of a non-profit organization called Voice in Sport Foundation, which is dedicated to advocating for girls and women in sport. The Voice in Sport Foundation® funds sport science and research on female athletes at all critical developmental moments, creates educational content and provides micro grants for girls sports programs in public schools. Stef consults for brands looking to digitally transform and most recently joined the board of directors at Kornit Digital, a public company innovating across the apparel industry to transform it to a more on-demand and sustainable industry.
November 9, 2021
This virtual panel discussion, “Communicating Health in an Era of Mistrust,” will focus on how communication professionals in journalism, strategic communication, and academia have used culturally meaningful communication to promote vaccination.
Moderator-
Amanda Boyd, PhD
Associate Professor
The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, Washington State University
Dr. Amanda Boyd is a member of the Métis Nation and Dane-zaa (Indigenous person of Canada) from Treaty 8 Territory in Alberta. She is an Associate Professor in the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication and Affiliated Faculty with the Institute for Research and Education to Advance Community Health, both at Washington State University. Amanda works with Partnerships for Native Health, a research organization in the United States devoted to the health and health care of American Indian and Alaska Native people.
Her research focuses on environmental and health communication with Indigenous populations and draws from an interdisciplinary education, which includes communication, Indigenous studies, and rural sociology. She has examined communication about human and animal diseases in North America including severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), H1N1, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).
Her current work includes examining perceptions of COVID-19 vaccinations among American Indians, communication about traditional foods in Arctic regions, developing culturally congruent methods to communicate about Alzheimer’s disease among American Indians, and facilitating Indigenous youth in creating health communications for their peers and community members. Ultimately, her research program aims to develop the tools and theory needed to improve the communication of environmental and health risks to Indigenous populations in the United States and Canada.
Panelists-
Alyssa Mayeda
Alyssa Mayeda, MA, is a communications professional and researcher. She is currently the Communications Manager for Seattle Indian Health Board where she oversees the development of culturally attuned communications content and strategies for the organization and its research division, Urban Indian Health Institute.
Her past work has centered on developing health communications particularly with rural, underserved, and Indigenous populations. Alyssa’s most recently published article appeared in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and her research focuses on public perceptions of environmental and health risks, and the development of more effective communication strategies.
In her previous position, Alyssa served as the Communications Lead for the Institute for Research and Education to Advance Community Health (IREACH) at Washington State University and co-lead of the Information Dissemination Core for Native-Controlling Hypertension and Risks through Technology (Native-CHART), a NIH-funded center grant.
Rachel Ellenwood
Rachel Ellenwood is from the Nez Perce Tribe (Nimiipuu) and was born and raised on the Nez Perce Indian Reservation located in Lapwai, Idaho. She is the motherto one son, Terrell. She graduated from Washington State University (WSU) with a BA in Comparative Ethnic Studies with minors in American Indian Studies and Women’s Studies in 2017. She recently completed her MA from WSU this year 2021.
Rachel’s research interests in the healthcare field with a special focus on American Indians. Her MA thesis was on the Nez Perce perspectives of Covid-19 and the vaccinations focusing on the enrolled tribal members residing within the reservation boundaries. Rachel is very passionate about her family, community and tribe and hopes to continue to do research for the betterment of her people.
Jourdan Bennett-Begaye
Jourdan Bennett-Begaye is the managing editor for Indian Country Today. She is also a Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) board member. She is a Diné citizen of the Navajo Nation.
Since her hire with Indian Country Today in 2018, Jourdan has reported stories on health, education, public health, 2020 Census, policy, politics, and more. She has focused on the COVID-19 pandemic coverage and created Indian Country’s COVID-19 database with Johns Hopkins.
Jourdan received her master’s degree in magazine, newspaper and online journalism through the Newhouse Minorities Fellowship at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in New York.
February 9, 4PM
Moderator-
Erin Tomson
Erin earned her both her Master’s degree (2006), and her Ph.D. (2010) from the Murrow College of Communication. She then joined the faculty at Oregon State University. In 2015, she returned to WSU, where she holds her current position as Scholarly Assistant Professor. She is the course director for Public Speaking in the Digital Age, which enrolls about 1,000 students each semester, and she oversees and mentors the graduate teaching assistants for that course. She also teaches Crisis Communication courses and mentors students at the undergraduate and graduate level. Erin spends her free time riding and competing horses in the equestrian sport of 3-Day Eventing. In June 2020, Erin started Eventers for Equality to raise awareness and support for the Black Lives Matter movement within the equestrian community. She and other allies are actively working toward greater diversity and inclusion in horse sports.
Panelists-
Enrique Cerna
Enrique Cerna is a veteran journalist who has worked in Seattle media for nearly 45 years. Cerna worked for 23 years at Cascade Public Media’s KCTS 9 and retired in February 2018 from his role as senior correspondent. Prior to joining KCTS in 1995, he worked as a reporter, producer and host for KOMO Radio and Television and KING Television.
At KCTS 9, Enrique produced and hosted award-winning current affairsprograms and documentaries. He produced and reported stories for national PBS programs, provided election analysis for the PBS NewsHour, moderated U.S. Senate, Congressional, Gubernatorial, and Mayoral debates. In addition, he produced and reported documentaries covering critical social justice and civil rights issues, the environment, immigration and documented the history and contributions of Latinos in Washington State.
Enrique has earned nine Northwest regional Emmy awards. The Seattle Weekly honored him with a 2003 Editors’ Choice selection as Best TV Host. In 2006, Seattle Magazine named him one of the most influential people of the year for his broadcast work. And in 2008, the Zeta Pi Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate fraternity established by African Americans, awarded Enrique its Community Service Award for coverage of communities of color. In addition, the Minority Executive Directors Coalition honored him with its 2011 President’s Award and the Seattle Chapter of the National Latino Peace Officers Association awarded him its Outstanding Community Service Award in 2012. In 2013, he was inducted into the National Association of Television Arts and Sciences Northwest Chapter’s Silver Circle for his contributions to the television industry. In 2016, Enrique was honored by the U.S. Mexico Chamber of Commerce Northwest Chapter Executive Board for his coverage of Washington State’s Latino community and by AFP Advancement NW for his 15 years as emcee of National Philanthropy Day, Washington State’s largest celebration of philanthropy.
Active in the community, Enrique serves on the Washington State Historical Society Board of Trustees, the Yakima Valley Museum Board of Directors and King County Television’s Citizens Advisory Committee. He has also served on the boards of United Way of King County, the World Affairs Council of Seattle, Seattle City Club and the Chief Seattle Council’s Scout Reach program. He was the co-chair of the successful Plaza Roberto Maestas Capital Campaign which raised more than 40 million dollars to build low income affordable housing on Seattle’s Beacon Hill.
Enrique grew up in the central Washington community of Wapato. He is a graduate of Washington State University.
John E. Davis
Broadcast journalist and media executive John E. Davis was born on November 3, 1947 in Wichita Falls, Texas to Tommy Christian and Myrtle Donaldson. Davis was raised in Wichita Falls and graduated from Booker T. Washington High School in 1966. He went on to attend Henderson County Junior College in Athens, Texas before transferring to Washington State University, where he received his B.S. degree in broadcast communications in 1970.
Upon graduation, Davis was hired as a news reporter for Fresno, California’s KMJ-TV. In 1977, Davis moved to KGW-TV in Portland, Oregon, where he served as a news reporter and anchor until 1982. Then, for the next twenty years, he worked as a general assignment reporter and later as a weekend anchor for Chicago, Illinois’ WBBM-TV. During his time at WBBM, Davis became the first United States news reporter to interview Nelson Mandela after he was released from prison in 1990. In addition to his work on television, Davis served as a news director and anchor for WVAZ Radio, and has hosted a real estate show on WLS-AM Radio and WIND-AM Radio.
In 2003, Davis founded and served as president of John E. Davis Media, a firm that serves politicians, corporate executives, celebrities and athletes by providing them high-end political consulting, media crisis management and public speaking coaching. Through his media company, Davis has worked on numerous political campaigns, including Scott Lee Cohen for Governor of Illinois; the Terrence J. O’Brien Campaign for Cook County Board President; Howard B. Brookins, Jr.’s Campaign for Cook County State’s Attorney; and Dorothy Brown’s Campaign for Mayor of Chicago.
Davis has earned many honors throughout his career, including a 1988 local Emmy Award for his coverage of Chicago Mayor Harold Washington’s death; an Ada S. McKinley Youth Services Mentor of the Year Award; the Better Communicator Award from the League of Black Women; and a Monarch Award for Outstanding Communicator. He has served as a board member of the Harold Washington Library and of the Greek-American Rehabilitation and Care Centre, and as a charter member of the Saltpond Redevelopment Institute and member of the We Care model program of the Chicago Public Schools and Chicago Police Department.
Carolyn Sawyer
Carolyn Sawyer is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Tom Sawyer Company (TSC). She has served as its President and set the strategic direction for this fast growing Communications firm since its inception in 1996.
TSC’s core competency is Communication Contact, which includes full service Call Center Operations, Strategic Instructional Training and Public Outreach.
This talented communicator has parlayed her mastery of mass media into creating a firm with capital sales exceeding the multi-million mark. Her cutting-edge business practices have garnered attention from USA Today (March 2004), where she was cited for optimizing Wi-Fi communications access to augment her business capabilities years before it became a mainstream operational tool.
Following TSC’s award-winning unveiling of South Carolina’s historic African American History Monument on the Statehouse grounds, former US Senator Fritz Hollings nominated Sawyer to serve on national Commission commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, et al. As the Marketing Communications Chairwoman, Sawyer helped shape the Commission’s worldwide publicity efforts, highlighting the landmark Supreme Court decision that ended school segregation in America.
Ms. Sawyer was a founding member of the Boston chapter of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women and previously served on the Board for the National Association of Blacks in Journalism. Ms. Sawyer is a graduate of Washington State University where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications.
A former network correspondent and anchor for ABC News, LIFETIME Television Network, and NBC News, Sawyer has authored an inspirational guidebook for entrepreneurs Forget the Glass Slipper: Build Your Own Castle – 10 Traits of a Million Dollar Business and co-authored ABC’s of Media. She regularly contributes guest columns on topics of communications and business.
Murrow Grads and the BLM movement
October 28, 4pm
Join us for a moderated panel discussion focused on the experiences of recent Murrow graduates who have been professionally involved in the Black Lives Matter movement. Our panelists include journalists covering BLM protests and strategic communication practitioners whose work intersects with the movement.
Moderator-
Erin Tomson
Erin earned her both her Master’s degree (2006), and her Ph.D. (2010) from the Murrow College of Communication. She then joined the faculty at Oregon State University. In 2015, she returned to WSU, where she holds her current position as Scholarly Assistant Professor. She is the course director for Public Speaking in the Digital Age, which enrolls about 1,000 students each semester, and she oversees and mentors the graduate teaching assistants for that course. She also teaches Crisis Communication courses and mentors students at the undergraduate and graduate level. Erin spends her free time riding and competing horses in the equestrian sport of 3-Day Eventing. In June 2020, Erin started Eventers for Equality to raise awareness and support for the Black Lives Matter movement within the equestrian community. She and other allies are actively working toward greater diversity and inclusion in horse sports.
Panelists-
Kelsey Jones
Kelsey Jones (they/them pronouns) began their advocacy work in college in their home state of Washington, serving as the chair of the campus sexual violence prevention and education committee and the policy specialist for campus health and safety. They were awarded the President’s Award for Leadership for their work combating sexual assault on campus and across the state. While earning their bachelor’s degree from Washington State University in communications, they were awarded a national Certificate of Merit from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association and was named a finalist for the Society of Professional Journalist’s Region 10 Mark of Excellence award in 2016, 2017 and won in 2018. They traveled to Cuba and reported on a baseball player who had played across the United States, and to southern Mexico to report on immigration as an awardee of the Backpack Journalism scholarship in spring 2017. They also held internships at Lambert House, an LGBTQ youth center in Seattle, Legal Voice and the LA City Attorney’s Office. After Kelsey graduated in December 2017, they moved to Los Angeles and volunteered as a legal assistant at the Los Angeles LGBT Center and a sexual assault counselor advocate at Peace Over Violence. Kelsey was soon hired at Peace Over Violence as an emergency services coordinator/case manager before being promoted to volunteer program manager. They currently work as a housing navigator for Neighborhood Legal Services, assisting clients in connecting to community resources in order to ensure that they are not unhoused and unsheltered as a result of being evicted. Kelsey plans to eventually go back to school to pursue a master’s in public policy.
Latisha Jensen
Hi! I am a 2019 WSU graduate with a degree in journalism and a major in Spanish. In college, I edited and wrote for the school newspaper the Daily Evergreen, produced and published a magazine, studied abroad in Spain and did a reporting project in Guatemala. I moved to Portland immediately after college and got a job as a reporter with a local alt-weekly exactly a year after graduation—which happened to be at the very beginning of the protests against police brutality while in the middle of the pandemic. My beat focuses on underrepresented communities, in particular east Portlanders. Outer east Portland is where marginalized communities have been forced to move to as the city gentrified. So far, a few things I’ve written about are wrongful evictions of undocumented immigrants, the spread of COVID-19 in overcrowded homes, and a series called Black and White in Oregon. This series involves analyzing data and comparing life as a person of color versus life for white Oregonians.
Nashika Stanbro
Nashika Stanbro is an experienced communications professional. She left a career in healthcare compliance to pursue her educational goals, earning her Bachelor’s degree in Integrated Strategic Communications from Washington State University Everett in 2018. Nashika’s current professional role is public information specialist for Community Transit, a Snohomish County public transit agency. She serves as a lead communicator for the agency on COVID-19 related topics, equity and crisis communications. Nashika is a longtime resident of Snohomish County and is passionate about lifelong learning and equity. She is an active community member, serving on community boards and volunteer committees. Nashika is known for her love of community, vinyl records, and outdoor rollerskating. She lives in Everett with her husband and their teenage son.
Nathan Howard
Nathan Howard is a freelance photojournalist based in Portland, Ore. He was previously a staff photographer at The Columbian in Southwest Washington, The Newport News-Times in Oregon, and The Moscow-Pullman Daily News covering Washington and Idaho. For the past four months he’s covered continued political violence and protests in Portland, Ore. Recent clients include Getty Images, The Associated Press, Reuters, and Bloomberg News. Nathan is a winner of two National Press Photographer Association Best of Photojournalism awards, as well as the Associated Press Cowles Cup. He graduated from Washington State University in 2015 where he studied communication and political science. (Go Cougs!)
Katherine Barner
Katherine is a multi-media producer at KHQ Local News. She is one of the many KHQ producers who has been on the forefront of the Black Lives Matter movement news coverage, producing multiple protest focused newscasts and photographing the May 31 Spokane riots. Katherine graduated from Washington State University in 2019 with a degree in Strategic Communication. While at WSU, she was the President of KUGR Cougar College Radio, was a Murrow Ambassador, and was an assistant producer at Northwest Public Broadcasting. She is originally from Orange County, California. In her spare time she photographs concerts, events and portraits.
Xavier Henderson
With over 2 million views across social media platforms Xavier Lee has established a representation for being a catalyst for positive change through his videos. Xavier has been featured on news station’s KHQ 8 and KOMO 7, and has spoken in front of more than 100,000 youth and working professionals. He uses his voice and tells his story of him being homeless & a High School Drop out to becoming an Academic Scholar and a Business Owner. He speaks to inspire others to chase their dreams and believe in themselves. Xavier expertise are on topics relating to higher education, community, diversity inclusion, and fatherhood. He loves being a husband to his wife Sabrina and a father to his two sons: August and Juni. He also loves speaking to students and athletes.. He is a key note speaker, he host break out sessions, does program development and workshops. “Helping others succeed is my only goal and I really just want to see everyone win.”