LEDA 2021 ANNUAL CELEBRATION

Wednesday, May 26, 2021

PROGRAM

LEDA 2021 ANNUAL CELEBRATION May 26, 2021 • 6:00–7:30 PM

WELCOME Shenaille Beckley, LEDA Cohort 6 | Anthony Guyton, LEDA Cohort 1 CK Swett, Lot 1 Auctioneers

OPENING REMARKS Dr. Lamont Gordon, Executive Director

VIDEO: “WHY LEDA MATTERS”

LEDA COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVES Anna Eggers, LEDA Cohort 15 | Demitrious Matus, LEDA Cohort 15 Adiela Vasquez, LEDA Cohort 13

PLEDGE DRIVE CK Swett, Lot 1 Auctioneers

VIDEO: “THE FUTURE OF LEADERSHIP: THEN & NOW”

HONOREE’S REMARKS Ken Bouyer, Americas Director of Inclusiveness Recruiting, EY Lisa Osborne Ross, U.S. Chief Executive Officer, Edelman

ALUMNI HONOREE’S REMARKS Dr. Garland Castañeda, LEDA Cohort 2, Hospitalist, Alameda Inpatient Medical Inc.

SPECIAL GUEST Sade Baderinwa, Anchor, WABC-TV

CLOSING REMARKS Ilana Goldman, Chair, LEDA Board of Directors

MEET AND GREET Meet some of your fellow guests this evening! ABOUT LEDA

Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA) empowers a community of exceptional young leaders from under-resourced backgrounds by supporting their higher education and professional success in order to create a more inclusive and equitable country.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Ilana Goldman Eric Mendez Chair Treasurer Arun Alagappan Lamont Gordon Vice President Executive Director

Eden Abrahams Holly Ash Greenwald Lawrence P. Bascom Warren H. Haber Anders C. H. Brag Yelka Kamara Jordan Dickson Piotr Kaminski Alexandra P. Engler Hilary Parker Andrew Fisher Frederick H. Fogel John C. Roberts Lucy N. Friedman Elizabeth Salinas Jesse M. Furman Lois Severini Enrique Foster Gittes Edward M. Strong Gustavo Gonzalez Anthony Yoseloff

LEADERSHIP COUNCIL

Carolyn N. Ainslie George Logothetis Maxine Clark Anthony W. Marx Nan A. Rothschild Cooper Daniel R. Porterfield William R. Fitzsimmons Shirley M. Tilghman

CORPORATE ADVISORY COUNCIL

Ken Bouyer, EY Rosanna Durruthy, LinkedIn Erika Coleman, Goldman Sachs Charley Gray, Egon Zehnder HONOREE Ken is the EY Americas Director of Inclusiveness Recruiting. In this role, he is responsible for developing and implementing the global EY organization’s recruiting strategy to build and attract diverse and inclusive talent pools for member firms in the Americas. KEN

Americas Director BOUYER of Inclusiveness Recruiting, EY

Ken has served in a variety of roles since joining the Assurance practice of Ernst & Young LLP in 1990. Prior to his current role, Ken was a Director in the firm’s Advisory Services practice, supporting various global internal audit clients. He continues to serve the firm’s clients in Advisory Services today.

Ken is a member of the Executive Leadership Council. He serves on the Board of Trustees for his alma mater, Manhattan College and is a member of the Audit Committee. In addition, he is on North Carolina A&T’s Dean’s Advisory Council and Arizona State University’s Accounting Advisory Board. He is a current Corporate Advisory Board Member of the National Association of Black Accountants, Association of Latino Professionals for America and ASCEND (Pan-Asian organization for business professionals in North America). Moreover, Ken is the past Chair and current member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ (AICPA) National Commission on Diversity & Inclusion.

Ken has a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Manhattan College in Riverdale, New York. He is a Certified Internal Auditor and member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Ken currently resides in New Jersey with his wife, Shorn, and their daughter, Kelsie. HONOREE Lisa Osborne Ross serves as Edelman’s U.S. Chief Executive Officer. Prior to this role, Lisa served as U.S. Chief Operating Officer, where she oversaw day-to-day operations and strategy for the U.S. region and led Edelman’s Washington D.C. office as President where she was responsible for overseeing the firm’s U.S. operations and providing strategic oversight to its Washington D.C. office. LISA

U.S. Chief ROSS Executive Officer, Edelman

She is known as an in-demand counselor to senior executives at Fortune 500, higher education, and government institutions.

Prior to Edelman, Lisa served as Managing Director of APCO Worldwide’s flagship office for over two years, arriving there after a 15-year career at Ogilvy Public Relations. Over her tenure at Ogilvy, she held several titles, including Founder of the Multicultural Practice, Head of the Public Advocacy Group and Practice, and Head of the Public Affairs Division.

Prior to public relations, Lisa served in the first two terms of the Clinton Administration, specializing in policy development and issues management. During this time, she was communications director for the Department of Labor’s effort to create and promote high- performance workplaces, deputy director of the bipartisan Federal Glass Ceiling Commission and chief of staff of the White House Office of Women’s Initiatives and Outreach.

Lisa devotes considerable amounts of time to her philanthropic endeavors, particularly her efforts to build a better Washington and to empower women. She has served on numerous school boards and commissions. She is a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Lisa has received several awards including PRWeek Agency Professional of the Year (2021), PRWeek Hall of Femme & National Capital Area Public Relations Hall of Fame (2020). ALUMNI HONOREE Dr. Garland Castañeda was born in Modesto, California. He grew up playing soccer and the saxophone and painted houses with his father during the summer. At age 16, he was hospitalized twice for a large blood clot in his leg. The experience was jarring and painful but inspired him to pursue a career in medicine. GARLAND

LEDA Cohort 2 CASTAÑEDA Hospitalist, Alameda Inpatient Medical Inc.

As a member of LEDA’s second Cohort, he got a chance to walk the halls of elite colleges and soak in the Aspects of Leadership curriculum. LEDA inspired him to dream big and he enrolled at Princeton the following year. After four tough but rewarding years, he graduated from Princeton University with a degree in molecular biology and minors in neuroscience and environmental studies.

He attended medical school at the University of Colorado. While there, he joined and eventually became co-president of the student-run nonprofit, Comunidades Unidas Peru. He spent two summers helping CU Peru further its goal of training community health workers (promotores) in the Peruvian Amazon. He graduated in 2015 with a certificate from the Global Health program.

Highland Hospital in Oakland put him through the trials of an internal medicine residency. He got the chance to learn from both doctors and patients who represented the Bay Area’s rich diversity. He also published three journal articles including studies on racial disparities in colon cancer and ulcerative colitis.

He has worked at Alameda Hospital since 2018 as a hospitalist. Over the past year, he has spent most of his time running the hospital’s COVID team and managing the ebb and flow of COVID-19 patients. He encourages everyone to get their vaccine as soon as possible.

When he is not in the hospital, he is most often found at his home in Oakland with his wife, Jackie, and rescue dogs, Xena and Chloe. SPECIAL GUEST Sade Baderinwa is an anchor of WABC- TV’s top-rated Eyewitness News at 5:00 and 11:00. She joined the Eyewitness News team in 2003 as a reporter and anchor of Eyewitness News at Noon. SADE

Anchor BADERINWA WABC-TV

Sade came to Channel 7 from Baltimore’s WBAL-TV, where she anchored the morning and noon newscasts and hosted a weekly community affairs show. Earlier in her career, she was a reporter for WSLS in Roanoke, Virginia; a reporter trainee at WUSA-TV in Washington, D.C.; and a production assistant for ABC News’ This Week with David Brinkley, Nightline, World News Tonight, and ABC News NewsOne.

Sade is a big believer in giving back to her community. She has worked with numerous Tri- State area organizations, community leaders and students. After being struck by a hit and run driver while covering a story for Eyewitness News, Sade championed efforts to deal with the growing problem of hit and run accidents. For her efforts, she was recognized with the NJ Governor’s Representative Award for Traffic Safety.

She has also created and developed a successful mentoring program called “Get ‘Reel’ With Your Dreams: The Inside Track.” It exposes high school students from New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut to top professionals in film and television. Her partners in this initiative include The Walt Disney Company, WABC-TV, Lincoln Center Institute, and New York Women in Film and Television.

Sade is a native of Baltimore and a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park. FEATURED

LEDA COMMUNITY MEMBERS

Shenaille Beckley LEDA Cohort 6 Hometown: Brooklyn, NY University of Pennsylvania ’15

Anthony Guyton LEDA Cohort 1 Hometown: Hayti, MO Princeton University ’10

Anna Eggers LEDA Cohort 15 Hometown: Indianapolis, IN Columbia University ’24

Demitrious Matus LEDA Cohort 15 Hometown: Mesa, AZ SMFA, Tufts University ’24

Adiela Vasquez LEDA Cohort 13 Hometown: Fairburn, GA Emory University ’22 OUR SPONSORS

DEAN LEVEL SPONSORS

JESSE FURMAN AND ARIELA DUBLER ANDREW AND CAROLINE FISHER NAN ROTHSCHILD COOPER ANTHONY AND NANAR YOSELOFF

PROFESSOR LEVEL SPONSORS

JIM AND DIANE ROBERTS OUR SPONSORS

GRADUATE SCHOLAR LEVEL SPONSORS

ALEXANDER COHEN • FRED AND SYLVIA FOGEL WILLIAM AND LUCY FRIEDMAN • TIMOTHY AND JENNIFER KINGSTON ZEGAR FAMILY FUND

SENIOR SCHOLAR LEVEL SPONSORS

Eden Abrahams Anders Brag and Amy Leeds The Citron Family Alisa and Dan Doctoroff Douglas and Susanne Durst Ilana Goldman and Jordan Goldstein Marti Meyerson and Jamie Hooper Deborah McManus Hilary Parker Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP Selendy & Gay PLLC Claire Silberman JUNIOR SCHOLAR LEVEL SPONSORS

Galia Gichon Clemens Jonathan Crystal Jeffrey and Ellen Katz Libra Group Mary and Dan Riew 2021 ANNUAL CELEBRATION SUPPORTERS

Eri Andriola Denise Gellene Bates Meghan O’Sullivan Christopher Angell Tara Gellene Edgar Orozco Sunil Arora Nancy Ginsberg Nicole LaFortune Holly Ash Greenwald Enrique Foster Gittes Michelle Peluso Toya Barnes-Teamer and Lois Severini Daniel Porterfield Lawrence Bascom Paul and Anne Grand Paul Radvany Brenda Baty Jay Grimm John Roberts Julie and Roger Baumann Joscelyn Guzman Katherine Roberts Jennifer Glueck Bezoza Julie Harnik Robert and Elizabeth Michaël Bijaoui David Hess Rodgers Michael Bosworth Peggy Hoover Michael Rothbaum Beth Breger Kristin Hultquist Scott Ruskay-Kidd Hailey Bruner Donald Ingham Elizabeth Salinas and Garland Castañeda Ethan Jamnik Jason Makhouta Julie Castelbaum Michael Jaffe Judy and Mark Sarvary Susan Cates Michele Kahn Lauren Brandt Schloss Melanie Clarke Yelka Kamara Art Schwartz Alexander Cohen Tal Kastner Loretta Stanish Erika Coleman Elai Katz Stanley Stillman Kendall Coleman Michael Katz Christian Tanja Jason Copeland Max Keilson Cathy Taylor Lara Couturier Dorothy Lacher Mary Ann Tungate Shanaya Deboo Michael Lubansky Kennedy Turner Kathleen Demarest Joseph Lucarelli Andrew Udell Jordan Dickson David McNellis Richard Verville Brianna Eastridge Nick McMahon Daniel Vislocky Jeremiah Erby Eric Mendez Skip Wiemeyer Irene Fayn Monica Mendez Vang Xiong Lynette Fernandez Emily Moniz Lori and Brett Zbar Sonia Gardner Perla Patricia Mora Nan Zheng YEAR-LONG PARTNERS SPECIAL THANKS

EVENT COMMITTEE

Eden Abrahams Tobias Citron Jordan Goldstein Yelka Kamara Emily Moniz Mary Riew Diane Roberts Jim Roberts Joseph Wehle

OUTREACH COMMITTEE

Beth Breger Kendall Coleman Jordan Dickson Irene Fayn Nancy Ginsberg Shamanata Islam Suren Jamiyanaa Melissa Kalt Wendy Levey Elisa L. Liang Shola Oyedele Matt Parodi Gary Prado Bert Rosenblatt Elizabeth Salinas Judy Sarvary YEAR IN REVIEW

The past year has been a challenging time for all of us, with the COVID-19 pandemic forcing us to rely on new ways of teaching, working, and building community. We have kept our distance from family and friends, and we have endured a looming uncertainty about our livelihoods and, indeed, our very lives.

The LEDA Community has demonstrated incredible resilience, compassion, and creativity as we banded together to face this crisis. The community spaces we create have provided a way to reflect on a collective sense of loss, but also to celebrate our hard-won successes.

We would like to share some of the highlights from an unprecedented year. A NEW LEADER AT LEDA LAMONT

Executive Director GORDON LEDA

In June 2020, LEDA welcomed Dr. Lamont Gordon as our new Executive Director. Lamont came to LEDA with over 20 years of youth development and nonprofit leadership experience at organizations including the Jackie Robinson Foundation, the Posse Foundation, and Brown University. He quickly became ingrained in the fabric of our community – attending virtual events, hosting a Leadership Chat series, and meeting with students and alumni.

Lamont’s leadership has helped LEDA successfully weather the most difficult parts of the pandemic and served as an inspiration for us all. We are grateful for his contributions thus far and excited to see how LEDA will continue to grow during his tenure.

Leadership Chat with Dr. Lisa M. Coleman of Leadership Chat with President Suzanne New York University Rivera of Macalester College VIRTUAL PROGRAMS...

LEDA’s 2020 Aspects of Leadership Summer Institute and Career Institute both transitioned to a virtual model. The Summer Institute and Career Institute staff rapidly and thoughtfully transformed programs known for their in-person enrichment opportunities and community-building atmospheres into online versions. They ensured that our LEDA Scholars and Career Fellows would have a true LEDA experience while observing public health guidelines.

The community spirit of our Scholars, Fellows, and alumni was also a key factor in the success of our virtual programs. Older students stepped up during the SI to recreate the on-campus environment of past years that celebrates inclusion, belonging, and self-expression, helping our newest Scholars connect with one another and with the larger LEDA network. They also joined with LEDA alumni during the Career Institute to mentor students in college on exploring career options and to share their experiences as professionals from underrepresented backgrounds.

LEDA Cohort 16 Scholars showing their LEDA pride on social media; caption on the right: “LEDA merch came in <3 Missing being on the Princeton campus but so grateful we get to do this SI virtually” ...REAL-LIFE COMMUNITY

Summer Institute Community Impact Project presentation

LEDA also developed a brand-new slate of online sessions to not only adapt to the global pandemic, but also to respond to feedback on topics that would interest our students. We worked closely with partners like Standard Chartered to offer an updated set of virtual opportunities that gave Scholars and Fellows a chance to learn more about specific industries, hone their job search, interviewing, and networking stills, and have direct conversations with professionals in various stages of their careers.

In addition, LEDA is preparing to launch a law school summit in June and a medical school summit later in 2021 to help students interested in these highly specialized fields.

Q&A session with Elaine Chin Career Institute alumni panel of Standard Chartered CONTINUING LEDA’S TRADITION OF EXCELLENCE

Despite the extraordinary hurdles to learning created by the pandemic – and exacerbated in under-resourced communities – LEDA Scholars and Career Fellows once again found outstanding success in pursuing their educational goals.

98% of LEDA Cohort 16 Scholars were admitted to at least one Barron’s “Most Competitive” college, and nearly half of the Cohort was awarded prestigious scholarships from organizations including the Gates Foundation, the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, the Horatio Alger Association, and the Ron Brown Scholar Program.

In addition, more than 200 Scholars and Fellows graduate from college this spring, with Narizza, Honolulu, HI; at least 20 heading to graduate school, joining LEDA Cohort 12, more than 75 current graduate students. Columbia University ’21

Tarrin, Detroit, MI; Mohamed, Lawrenceville, GA; Will, Winnfield, LA; LEDA Cohort 16, LEDA Cohort 16, LEDA Cohort 12, Brown University ’25 MIT ’25 University of Richmond ’21

Congratulations to the high school and college Class of 2021! Your hard work and perseverance in an unprecedented time are just two of the inspiring qualities you demonstrate as young leaders! DEAN DEAN DEAN DEAN DEAN DEAN PROFESSOR PROFESSOR

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Bold

Congratulations to our fearless leader, Lisa Osborne Ross for being recognized, as a LEDA 2021 Honoree. PROFESSOR PROFESSOR PROFESSOR GRADUATE SCHOLAR GRADUATE SCHOLAR GRADUATE SCHOLAR

Davis Polk is proud to support Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America. We join in special recognition of Ken Bouyer, Garland Castañeda, M.D., and Lisa Osborne Ross.

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