Speakers Kristine Billmyer, Ph.D. Dean Emerita, Professor of Professional Practice, Program Director, Strategic Communication Troy Blackwell Jr. (’27SPS) Student Lee Carter President and Partner, maslansky + partners; Author, Persuasion: Convincing Others When Facts Don’t Seem to Matter Zoe Carey Servicing Representative, Higher Education Department, UAW Raquel Chavez Producer, The Verbatim Salon Eric Chen, Ph.D. Director, Media and Community Lab, Columbia Journalism School Frisca Christabella (’26SPS) Student Skye Cleary, Ph.D. Lecturer Jason Cone Chief Public Policy Officer, Robin Hood Foundation Keyao (Bella) Du (’26SPS) Student Christelle El-Drouby (’26SPS) Student Dana R. Fisher, Ph.D. Director, Center for Environment, Community, & Equity; Professor, School of International Service, American University; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution Jeremy Heimans Co-founder and Chairman at Purpose; Co-author, New Power: How Anyone Can Persuade, Mobilize, and Succeed in Our Chaotic, Connected Age Scott Illingworth Associate Arts Professor, New York University Anthony Jeanmarie IV (’26SPS) Student DJ Koessler (’14SPS) Founder, Koessler Strategies; Capstone Advisor, Strategic Communication Roberto Lara Aranda (’22SPS) Director of Communications, Global Outreach, Fetzer Institute; Lecturer, Strategic Communication; Executive Director, Select Learning; Interim Executive Director, Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries Katherine Ma (’26SPS) Student Josh MacPhee Founder, Justseeds Artists' Cooperative and Interference Archive; Author, Graphic Liberation Shanelle Matthews Distinguished Lecturer, The City College of New York; Editor and co-author, Liberation Stories: Building Narrative Power for 21st-Century Social Movements Dela Meskienyar Producer, The Verbatim Salon Lesley-Ann Noel, Ph.D. Dean, Faculty of Design, OCAD University; Author, Design Social Change Devo Probol (’20SPS) Presidential Ph.D. Fellow, Fontaine Fellow, and Joint Doctoral Candidate in Communication and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania Taufiq Rahim Curator and Principal, 2040 World; Senior Fellow, International Security Program, New America Jaclyn Rothenberg Senior Vice President, Reputation Management, Avoq Jesse Scinto Deputy Program Director and Lecturer, Strategic Communication; Ph.D. Candidate in Organizational Communication; CEO of Public Sphere Andy Whitehouse Lecturer, Strategic Communication, Columbia SPS Gabriella Zutrau Digital Strategy Advisor Vedika Vinaik (’26SPS) Student
