Nicholas (Nic) James is a diversity practitioner and consultant with extensive experience as a writer, educator, and organizational leader. Nic brings expertise in helping individuals and organizations comprehend and promote the significance of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.  Nic specializes in training and professional development, diversity coaching, project management and strategic planning support, data collection and analysis, research, and curriculum development.

Nic has led workshops and overseen organizational cultural development strategies for topics such as DEI Foundations, DEI Terminology, Cultural Competency and Proficiency, Skill Building for Difficult Conversations, Implicit/Unconscious bias, Intersectionality, Microaggressions, Racial Literacy, and Allyship for Antiracism.

Cal Jackson is the founder and CEO of Diversity Inclusion Ventures and is known in the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) community for his design, development and delivery of engaging and thought-provoking cultural competence workshops. Topics include bias, generations, gender, lookism, self-awareness, classism and enhancing the cultural competence of leaders. Cal has experience building safe containers for courageous conversations in Fortune 500 companies, academia, and civic forums.
He has received various accolades for his work from Black Enterprise Magazine, Florida Bar, Tampa Bay Diversity Chamber, Clearwater Bar, Florida Blue, National Diversity Council, Jacksonville Business Journal and Leadership Jacksonville. Cal presently serves on the board of directors for Connecting Communities for Peace and is the former President of the Florida Diversity Council Tampa Bay Chapter.

Dra. Luz D. Randolph is the Sr. Vice President and Executive Director of City Year Baton Rouge. In this role she leads 11 staff members and approximately 40 AmeriCorps members serving in four partner schools for the 2022-2023 school year. Serve as liaison to the Board and external stakeholders to continue growing the CYBR brand in the community. Before this, she served as Associate Vice President for Diversity at Louisiana State University and as the Executive Director of Development at St. Petersburg College Foundation.

Dra. Randolph is a double alumna from the University of South Florida with a B.A in Interpersonal and Organizational Communication and a Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction,  College Student Affairs. She completed her Doctor of Education in Higher Education and Leadership Administration degree from Nova Southeastern University.

Nadia Sasso is a high-powered, creative cultural producer and unconventional scholar based in Los Angeles. Her expertise is in developing engaging content and driving strategy across various platforms and media. Sasso has 10 years of relevant experience, with documented success in the areas of social innovation, strategic partnerships, and new media. Having a Ph.D. from Cornell University, she provides expert insight and advice on content and cultural messaging for major media companies and teaches in the Africana Studies / Philosophy department at Moravian University.