Flight Club

Cyntoni Miller (popularly known as Admin Cyn) is the founder of Black On The Job, a black-owned career development network aimed at fostering a wide range of global professional skills in the black community.

Founded in June, 2018, the group has transcended career, geographical and academic limits that have pulled our people behind for so long and successfully contributed to the career growth of over 44K members and approximately $1.2M in increased salaries.

Website: https://blackonthejob.as.me

Kisa Puckett is creative director of marketing and branding agency Pink Icing, and the founder of Bonafide Impact Summit & The Business Diamond. She helps new and established entrepreneurs and business owners get clear, highly visible and become next-level profitable.

She has worked with prominent organizations such as Techstars as lead organizer for Startup Week Temecula, and is the Marketing Director of the National Association of Women Business Owners – IE (NAWBO-IE), and Marketing Chair of SCORE Inland Empire.

Kisa and her work have been featured in the San Diego Union-Tribune, iHeart Media, We Are Beautiful Magazine, the Valley Business Journal, and Menifee Buzz.

Website: https://www.getpinkicing.com/ Twitter: @GetPinkIcing

Michelle Stansbury excels at building credibility, generating positive press and media exposure, and positioning companies as experts in their industry.

She runs San Diego-based Little Penguin PR, working with tech companies, life sciences, and professional services. Michelle produces measurable results that deliver both short-term and long-term brand value.

Website: www.littlepenguinpr.com

Shauna Ruyle is Founder of the AWS Chatbot Challenge San Diego, VP Public Policy at AAUW San Diego Branch and Director Channel Success, SaaSMAX Corp. She is a B2B tech professional with experience in business development, sales, channel success, marketing and sales enablement for high growth startups to global brands (including Microsoft, TD Ameritrade, and Iomega Corporation).

Shauna’s Personal Leadership Vision: Leading with relationships, service and an unquenchable thirst for learning, it is my personal leadership vision to ensure students are prepared for digital transformation in the workforce and to help reduce equity gaps in tech for women and minorities.

How? With a bottom up approach, her contributions are made through public-private partnerships that work to #innovate #educate and open the conversation to influencing change in current institutional thinking, cultural shifts, and fostering #innovation, #equity, #diversity, #inclusion, and #socialpolicy that improves peoples’ lives.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shruyle Twitter: @shruyle

Valerie A. Grant has worked with nonprofit organizations and for-profit organizations to help obtain grant funding since 1998. Grant Consulting Services assists organizations through project development, comprehensive funding searches, expert grant management, and professional grant proposal writing services.

Ms. Grant is also a published author and an accomplished freelance writer.

Website: www.grantconsultingservices.com

Danielle is the Founder and Principal of Client Raiser, a business dedicated to helping artists to increase their client volume and the visibility of their art. Since 2014, she has worked with nearly 100 artists across the country in support of their professional goals. Emerging and established artists alike begin with Client Raiser’s in-depth interview process, which results in a tangible assessment of their art practice and concrete next steps for advancing their careers.

Website: www.clientraiser.com

Dhalia Balmir, Owner of Balmir Consulting, transitioned careers in 2018 to build a diversity consulting and writing business and working towards “living the dream”! Having worked at a Fortune 500 technology corporation for 12 years in contracts and supplier management, Dhalia expanded her personal interests in Diversity & Inclusion through leading female-led and African-American led employee networks, building strategic partnerships with other diversity employee networks while influencing initiatives on recruitment efforts, mentorship, and development for female and black employees. As a writer, she helps others find their voice through writing.

De’Anna Nunez is a Speaker and Trainer delivering Breakthrough Hypnosis strategies that push the outer limits of what you believe is possible. She is one of America’s best applied learning Speakers and has conducted more than 1,000 presentations to over 500,000 people. De’Anna has contracted with the U.S. Marines across America and Asia for 20 year and Norwegian cruise lines speaking internationally in 23 countries. She is known for her edutaining style.

Website: DeAnnaNunez.com Twitter: @DeAnnaNunez 

Bree K. started We•col•ogy Society after selling on eBay for 7 years. We•col•ogy Society is a sustainable circular retailer and brand. Bree K. is working on scaling We•col•ogy Society to a brick and mortar store that offers a buy/sell/rent platform (Imagine a mixture of Buffalo Exhange, Anthropologie, and Rent the Runway) as well as an in-house, sustainable clothing label.

Website: www.wecologysociety.com

Carey Adolfsson is the CEO of Diagnostic and Defense Technology Analysts, DTA. DTA’s focus is on providing world class commercialization assistance to advanced technologies in areas as diverse as AI, diagnostics and defense related applications.

Her volunteer work includes being a founding member of Women In Technology International San Diego chapter, and a working committee member of the MIT Forum in San Diego.

Website: www.dtanalysts.com