Dr. Carl Reid is in his 10th year at Holland Technical High School (formally Burke High School) in Boston, where he teaches Physics and Biotechnology. Prior to his career in high school science, he worked as a staff scientist in the biotechnology industry. He has published several research papers in peer-reviewed journals and is a co‐inventor on four U.S. patents.Dr. Reid’s journey in research began as an undergraduate at Brandeis University, where he studied Drosophila genetics and earned a BA in Biochemistry. He then pursued graduate studies in Virology and RNA processing at Tufts University School of Medicine, earning a PhD in Microbiology and Molecular Biology.He is also an Adjunct Professor of Microbiology at Roxbury Community College, where he has been teaching for nearly 20 years. Originally from Brooklyn, NY, Dr. Reid is passionate about mentoring and teaching science to students from underrepresented populations, inspiring them to pursue biomedical careers.

Clarence Hinton serves as Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Corporate Development at CyberArk. He is responsible for formulating, assessing, and executing strategic growth initiatives across the company, including acquisitions, strategic investments, joint ventures, and strategic alliances.Prior to CyberArk, Clarence served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at Nuance Communications, where he was responsible for identifying, developing, and executing acquisitions, divestitures, minority investments, and joint ventures. Prior to Nuance, Clarence led Strategy and Corporate Development for BMC software and held operational, strategic, and financial roles at Dell, Bain & Company, and Capital One.Clarence holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Engineering with honors from the University of Pennsylvania.

Evelynn M. Hammonds is the Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science, Professor of African and African American Studies, and Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences all at Harvard University. She was the first Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity at Harvard (2005-2008). From 2008 to 2013 she served as Dean of Harvard College. She is the former Chair of the Department of the History of Science and current director of the Project on Race & Gender in Science & Medicine at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard. Hammonds is the inaugural Audre Lorde Visiting Professor of Queer Studies at Spelman College (2022-2023).Evelynn’s areas of research include the histories of science, medicine, and public health in the United States, race and gender in science studies, feminist theory, and African American history. She is the author of Childhood’s Deadly Scourge: The Campaign to Control Diphtheria in New York City, 1880-1930 (1999). She was co-editor with Jennifer M. Shephard and Stephen M. Kosslyn of The Harvard Sampler: Liberal Education for the Twenty-First Century (2011) and with Rebecca Herzig, The Nature of Difference: Sciences of Race in the United States from Jefferson to Genomics (2008; and 2013.) Her current work focuses on the intersection of scientific, medical and socio-political concepts of race in the United States.Evelynn was named a Fellow of the Association of Women in Science (AWIS) in 2008. She has served on the boards of Spelman College, the Arcus Foundation, the Museum of Science in Boston, and Bates College. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She holds honorary degrees from Spelman College and Bates College.

Rodney Bailey is the Product Safety Executive for Raytheon, a business of RTX that specializes in integrated air and missile defense, advanced sensors, space-based systems, hypersonics, effectors and cyber solutions. In this role, he is responsible for improving Business-specific product safety strategies, policies, standards and provide functional leadership for the Business’ Product Safety Management System.Bailey has a diverse background with over 26 years of experience in systems engineering across various stages of the product lifecycle, specifically in the fields of communications, radar, and missile programs. During this time, Bailey has worked at six different Raytheon locations both in the US and internationally. Most recently, Bailey served as the Mission Assurance Executive for Communications and Airspace Management Systems (CAMS), where he led the mission assurance organization for the company’s protected communication business.Before this role, Bailey held the position of director of Raytheon Six SigmaTM (R6s) and Business Transformation for Intelligence, Information and Services (IIS). In this role, he led the development and implementation of continuous improvement methodology and solutions for the business, specifically focusing on the IIS R6s strategy.Bailey began his engineering career in 1999, working in Tucson, Arizona. During this time, he was involved in designing test equipment for various effector programs and later transitioned to systems engineering working future missile defense development.Bailey holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Tennessee State University.  

Dr. Joy Buolamwini is the founder of the Algorithmic Justice League, a groundbreaking MIT researcher, a model, and an artist. She is the author of “Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines” and advises world leaders on preventing AI harms. Her research on facial recognition technologies transformed the field of AI auditing. Her TED talk on algorithmic bias has been viewed over 1.6 million times. She lends her expertise to congressional hearings and government agencies seeking to enact equitable and accountable AI policy. As the Poet of Code, she creates art to illuminate the impact of AI on society. Her writing has been featured in publications like TIME, The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, and The Atlantic. Her work as a spokesmodel has been featured in Vogue, Allure, Harper’s Bazaar, and People Magazine. She is the protagonist of the Emmy-nominated documentary Coded Bias, which is available to over 100 million viewers. Dr. Joy is the first Black researcher to grace the cover of Fast Company, appearing in the 2020 “Most Creative People” issue, and has been named to notable lists, including Forbes 30 under 30, Bloomberg50, Time Next 100, and MIT Tech Review 35 under 25. She is the recipient of notable awards, including the Rhodes Scholarship, the Fulbright Fellowship, the inaugural Morals and Machines Prize, and the Technological Innovation Award from the Martin Luther King Jr. Center. She was selected as a 2022 Young Global Leader, one of the world’s most promising leaders under the age of 40 as determined by The World Economic Forum. Fortune names her the “conscience of the AI revolution.” Dr. Joy earned her PhD from MIT and was awarded an honorary degree from Knox College. She enjoys drawing and drumming in her free time.