Get Konnected 100

Dear Sponsors, Honorees and Friends On behalf of Get Konnected! and Colette Phillips Communications, Inc., I am delighted to welcome you to the 8th Annual Anniversary of Get Konnected!, a business networking event I founded in 2008 on the premise of “inclusion.” Today, Get Konnected! has be- come ’s premier inclusive business networking event that brings together urban and international pro- fessionals, business executives, and entrepreneurs of all cultures for the purpose of networking. Boston is a thriving world class city, that is both rich in history and diversity. Today, the city is considered one of the most culturally, ethnically and racially diverse cities in the U.S. Thanks to our status as a center for innovation in technology, healthcare, academia, and culture, Boston continues to draw people from all ethnicities and all points of the globe. The richness and influence of the city’s diversity however, is not always as widely celebrated and appreciated as it should be. The GK100: Boston’s 100 Most Influential People of Color aims to change that. It is a unique opportunity to celebrate, document and validate a plethora of individuals of color who are making positive contributions to the economic and social fabric of our vibrant city. Among them are scientists, corporate executives, educators, innovators, technologists, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, artists, social justice and civil rights advocates, high-ranking politicians and everyday people who regularly bring change and progress to their neighborhoods and beyond. The GK100 should serve as a strong reminder to Boston’s business, academic, political and social institutions and circles, to replace the phrase “we can’t find qualified candi- dates of color” with the names in this booklet. They stand on the shoulders of the GK50: the pioneers and trailblazers who shattered what must have seemed like intractable barriers in a time when little was expected of them and out-and-out prejudice rampant. Though many have retired, few have slowed down, and their work and influence continues. Equally inspiring is the next generation: the GK25: youthful leaders, thinkers, innovators and doers who are already making their mark and creating a brighter future for our city and its citizens. The GK Founder’s Choice celebrates and spotlights 10 outstanding citizen activists, social entrepreneurs and social justice advocates who are working on the frontline to level the playing field and ensure opportunity, equality and equity for all. More than a popularity contest, these lists are a tool. If you have a corporate or nonprofit board in need of energetic and thoughtful members, consult it. Tap it also for panels of experts, job and leadership candidates, or specific expertise truly rep- resentative of the city's multi-ethnic and culturally diverse citizenry. If you are a corporation or Institution, become a Get Konnected! partner. If you are a business executive, entrepreneur or graduate student we invite you to participate as well in the Get Konnected! gatherings bringing together the richness of Boston’s diversity in every sphere of influence. Are the lists complete? By no means, but they’re a start. Each represents a sampling of many thousands of African Americans, Asians, Hispanics and Native Americans who every day shape our lives in the greater Boston area, and without whom the city would not work. If any were missed, the fault is ours, and the committee humbly and enthusiastically invites nominations for the future. Lastly, we are deeply grateful to all our corporate and institutional sponsors and partners without whom Get Konnected! and this project would not be possible. We encourage all our friends and members of the Get Konnected! network to patronize and support these organizations who help to sustain and make Get Konnected! possible. With Great Admiration and Respect, Colette A.M. Phillips President & CEO Colette Phillips Communications, Inc. Diverse Solutions for a Global Market

Founder/Publisher Kaleidoscope/Get Konnected!

Colette Phillips Communications One McKinley Square, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02109 phone: 617-357-5777 • fax: 617-357-7114 e-mail: [email protected] • website: www.cpcglobal.com Get Konnected! e-mail: [email protected] • website: www.getkonnected.com The GK Academia 100

Krystal Banfield Javier Cevallos Dean for City Music President Berklee College of Music Framingham State University

Tommy Chang Pam Eddinger Superintendent President Boston Public Schools Bunker Hill Community College

Robert Gittens Joi Ito Vice President Public Affairs Director, Institute of Technology Media Lab

Deborah Jackson Jackie Jenkins-Scott President President Cambridge College Wheelock College J. Keith Motley Nitin Nohria Chancellor George F. Baker Professor of Administration University of Massachusetts Boston Dean of the Faculty, Harvard Business School

M. Lee Pelton Joan Reede President Dean for Diversity and Community Partnership Emerson College Harvard Medical School

Paul Watanabe Director, Institute for Asian American Studies and Associate Professor of Political Science University of Massachusetts Boston

Academia The GK Arts & Entertainment 100

Jose Barriga Susan Chinsen Founder, Boston Latino Director International Film Festival Boston Asian American Film Festival

Junot Diaz David France Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Executive Director Revolution of Hope / Roxbury Youth Orchestra

Lois Roach Lisa Simmons Playwright & Director; Lecturer in Founder and Director Theatre Studies, Wellesley College Roxbury International Film Festival Arts & Entertainment The GK Business & Innovation 100

Joanne Chang Wayne Chang Founder/Owner Founder of Crashlytics; Flour Bakery Director of Product Strategy, Twitter

Sheila Marcelo Quincy Miller Founder, Chairwoman & CEO Vice Chairman & Chief Banking Officer Care.com Eastern Bank

Valerie Mosley Hector & Nivia Pina Chairwoman Founders and Owners Valmo Ventures Merengue & Vejigantes Restaurants

Darryl Settles Niraj Shah Pres./Managing Partner, Catalyst Ventures Dev. Chief Executive Officer Proprietor, Darryl’s Corner Bar & Kitchen Wayfair Raj Sharma Navjot Singh Founder and Managing Director Director, Boston The Sharma Group, Merrill Lynch McKinsey & Company

Corey Thomas Sushil Tuli President & Chief Executive Officer President & Chief Executive Officer Rapid 7 Leader Bank

Clayton Turnbull Beth Williams Founder and CEO President & CEO The Waldwin Group Roxbury Technology

Teri Williams President and COO One United Bank Business & Innovation The GK Communications & Media 100

Josefina Bonilla Richard Chacon Founder and Publisher Executive Director of News Content Color Media Group WBUR

Liz Cheng Callie Crossley General Manager for Television Host, “Under the Radar with Callie Crossley” WGBH WGBH-FM

Latoyia Edwards Marcela García Morning Anchor Editorial Writer NECN Karen Holmes Ward Shirley Leung Dir. of Public Affairs and Comm. Services Business Columnist WCVB-TV Boston Globe

Jose Masso Alberto Vasallo, III Host/Producer, “Con Salsa” President, CEO and Editor-in-Chief WBUR-FM El Mundo Newspaper

Adrian Walker Columnist The Boston Globe Communications & Media The GK Diversity & Inclusion 100

Javier Barrientos Marques Benton Sr. Director, Global Diversity & Inclusion Vice President & Chief Diversity Officer Biogen Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Sadie Burton-Goss Lisa Coleman Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer Chief Diversity Officer & Babson College Special Assistant to the President

Beverly Edgehill Paul Francisco Vice President Managing Director - Head of Diversity TJX Companies Inc. Consulting and Sourcing Office State Street Dawn Frazier Bonhert Jackie Glenn Sr. Vice President and Vice Pres., Chief Global Diversity Officer Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer EMC Liberty Mutual Insurance

Su Joun Kenneth Turner Vice Pres., Talent, Inclusion & Diversity Director of Diversity & Inclusion/Compliance Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Massport

Diversity & Inclusion The GK Health & Human Service, Life Sciences 100

Joseph Betancourt Tony Coles Co-Founder of Quality Interactions; Founding investor, Chairman and CEO Director of the Disparities Solutions Center Yumanity Therapeutics and Director for Multicultural Education Massachusetts General Hospital

Ralph De la Torre Rakesh Jain Founder, Chairman and CEO A.Werk Cook Professor of Radiation Oncology, Steward Health Care System LLC Harvard Medical School; Director, Edwin L. Steele Laboratory for Tumor Biology Massachusetts General Hospital

Paula Johnson Myechia Minter-Jordan Professor, Harvard Medical School; Executive President/CEO Director, Connors Center for Women's Health The Dimock Center & Gender Biology, and Chief, Division of Women's Health, Brigham & Women's Hospital Oz Mondejar Inez Stewart Sr. Vice President Mission & Advocacy Vice President Human Resources Partners Healthcare Children’s Hospital

Frederica Williams Damian Wilmot President & CEO Vice President, Litigation Whittier Street Health Center Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Susan Windham-Bannister President & CEO Biomedical Growth Strategies Health & Human Service, Life Sciences The GK Law & Social Justice 100

Ferdinand Alvaro Michael Curry General Counsel, Company Secretary President Jazan Gas Project Company Boston Branch NAACP

William Gross Ivan Espinoza-Madrigal Superintendent-In-Chief Executive Director, Lawyers’ Committee Boston Police Department for Civil Rights and Economic Justice

Winston Henderson Paul Lee Vice President, General Counsel Of Counsel C2Sense and Nano Terra Goodwin Procter

Stephanie Lovell Charles Ogletree Exec. Vice Pres., Medicare, & Chief Legal Officer Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Founding Director, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice Harvard Law School Carmen Ortiz Diane Patrick United States Attorney Co-managing Partner of Boston office District of Massachusetts Ropes & Gray

Walter Prince Steven Tompkins Partner Sheriff Prince Lobel Tye, LLP Suffolk County

Darnell Williams Steven Wright President/CEO Executive Partner Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts Holland Knight Law & Social Justice The GK Philanthropy & Non-Profit 100

Phyllis Barajas Vanessa Calderon–Rosado Founder and Executive Director CEO Conexion Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción

James Canales Desh and Jaishree Deshpande President and Trustee Founders Barr Foundation Deshpande Foundation

Sylvia Ferrell-Jones Carol Fulp President & Chief Executive Officer President and CEO YW Boston The Partnership Charlayne Murrell-Smith Joan Wallace-Benjamin VP, External Relations & Corp. Development President & Chief Executive Officer Boston Children’s Museum The Home for Little Wanderers

Leverett Wing Executive Director The Commonwealth Seminar

Philanthropy & Non-Profit The GK Politics & Public Sector 100

John Barros Sonia Chang–Diaz Chief of Economic Development State Senator City of Boston Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Linda Dorcena Forry Charlotte Golar Richie State Senator Commissioner Commonwealth of Massachusetts Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination

Tito Jackson City Councilor City Councilor-at-Large City of Boston City of Boston Jabes Rojas E. Denise Simmons Deputy Chief, Office of Access & Opportunity Mayor Commonwealth of Massachusetts City of Cambridge

Ronald L. Walker, II Setti Warren Secretary of Labor & Workforce Development Mayor Commonwealth of Massachusetts City of Newton

Michelle Wu City Council President and City Councilor-at-Large, City of Boston Politics & Public Sector THE Get Konnected!

CELEBRATING THE PIONEERS & TRAILBLAZERS

CELEBRATING THE 50 EMERGING LEADERS

Founder’s CELEBRATING 25 CITIZEN ACTIVISM & Choice SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP The GK 50

Felix Arroyo, Sr. Royal Bolling, Jr. Wayne Budd Former City Councilor, Boston State Representative (Retired) Senior Counsel; former United States Register of Probate, Suffolk County Commonwealth of Massachusetts Attorney for the District of Mass.; Goodwin Procter LLP

James Cash Frank Chin Phillip Clay James E. Robison Professor of "Mayor of Chinatown" (Retired) Professor of Urban Studies and Business Administration, Emeritus Community Social Justice Advocate Planning; former Chancellor and Associate Dean Mass. Institute of Technology Harvard Business School

John B. Cruz, III Priscilla Douglas Jane Edmonds President & CEO Founder & Principal Vice President for Governance Cruz Companies PHDouglas & Associates Babson College

Carmen Fields Atsuko Toko Fish Jovita Fontanez Producer/Host, "Higher Ground" Co-Founder Business Manager, City of Boston WHDH-TV Fish Family Foundation Business Development; 1st Latino Appointed to Election Commission Hon. Joyce London Ford Gloria Fox Frieda Garcia Chief magistrate judge (Retired) State Representative Former President & CEO United States District Court Massachusetts House of United South End Settlements of Massachusetts Representatives

Ken Guscott Leslie Harris Michael Haynes Founder, President & CEO (Retired) Judge Pastor Emeritus; former State Rep- Long Bay Management Massachusetts Trial Courts resentative; Twelfth Baptist Church; Commonwealth of Mass.

Roderick Ireland Clarence "Jeep" Jones Hubie Jones Chief Justice (Retired) Deputy Mayor; Chairman (Retired) Founder Supreme Judicial Court City of Boston Massachusetts Advocates of Massachusetts Boston Redevelopment Authority for Children

Kathy Jones Joyce King Mel King Founding Member Community Social Justice 1st Black Mayoral Candidate; State Rep.; Metropolitan Council for Advocate Community Fellows Program Founder & Educational Opportunities (METCO) Adjunct Professor; City of Boston Commonweath of Massachusetts; MIT

Wendell Knox Howard Koh President and CEO (Retired) Former United States Assistant Secretary for Abt Associates Health; Prof. of the Practice of Public Health Lead- ership, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services; Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Joanna Lau David Lee, Pres. & Managing Partner Tunney Lee Founder and CEO Donald Stull, Founding Partner Professor Emeritus and former Head, Lau Technologies, Inc. Stull and Lee Incorporated Department of Urban Studies and Planning; MIT

William Lee Ralph Martin Jose Mateo 1st Asian American Former District Attorney Founder & Artistic Director Managing Partner Suffolk County Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre WilmerHale

Indira Patel Andre Porter Deborah Prothrow-Stith Former CEO Former Executive Director, Office of Former Commisioner of Public Office Supply, Inc. Small Business and Entrepreneurship Health; author and consultant Commonwealth of Massachusetts Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Spencer Stuart

Jorge Quiroga Mary Reed Marita Rivero Reporter Founder & Former President Executive Director WCVB-TV Bessie Tartt Wilson Initiative The Museum of for Children African American History Marta T. Rosa Byron Rushing Helen Chin Schlichte Senior Executive Director, Dept. of State Representative Community Activist Government & External Affairs, & Commonwealth of Massachusetts Board of Directors, Beth Israel Community Impact/Chief Diversity Deaconess Medical Center Officer, Wheelock College

Sarah-Ann Shaw Gail Snowden Richard Soden Reporter (Retired) Principal Of Counsel WBZ-TV Gail Snowden Consulting Services Goodwin Procter LLP

Valerie Stephens Charles Stith Richard Taylor Performer, Artist and Arts Educator Former United States Ambassador to Former Secretary of Transportation Valerie Stephens Group Tanzania; Founder, African Presidential Commonwealth of Massachusetts Archives and Research Center; Pastor U.S. Dept. of State; Boston University

Alberto Vasallo, Jr. Liz Walker Benaree Wiley, Principal Founder and Publisher Pastor Fletcher Wiley, Attorney, Partner El Mundo Newspaper Roxbury Presbyterian Church The Wiley Group

Anthony Williams Victoria Williams Marti Wilson-Taylor Janet Wu Founder & Executive Director Former Director Chair Reporter BalletRox, Tony Williams Ballet, City of Boston Hyams Foundaton WCVB-TV Tony Williams Dance Center Office of Civil Rights The GK 25

Alicia Adamson Evelyn Barahona Shaun Blugh Founder and Director of Vice President of Membership Director of Growth Strategies Strategic Initiatives Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce City of Boston The Young Black Women’s Society Inc.

Hodari Cail Nurys Camargo Andrea Joy Campbell Community Affairs Director Founder City Councilor, District 4 Office of Governor Charlie Baker Chica Project City of Boston

Bithiah Carter Christina Chan Yasmin Cruz Founding President Assistant Attorney General Program & Grants Manager, New England Blacks Commonwealth of Massachusetts Corporate Social Responsibility in Philanthropy John Hancock Financial Services

Vicky Wu Davis Stevie DeGroff Herby Duverne Executive Director Global Brand Solutions & Innovation, Principal and CEO Youth CITIES YouTube/Video Taino Consulting Group Google Naisha Bradley Forrester Yvonne Garcia Gregory Janey Director Senior Vice President, President Harvard College Women's Center Investment Manager Services Janey Construction Management State Street Corporation and Consulting, Inc.

Peniel Joseph Justin Kang Daniel Koh Professor of History and Founding Founder and Executive Director Chief of Staff Director, Center for the Study of Race City Awake Office of the Mayor of Boston and Democracy at Tufts University

Malia Lazu Giles Li Juan Lopera Executive Director & Co-Founder Executive Director Vice President of Business Diversity Future Boston Boston Chinatown Tufts Health Plan Neighborhood Center

Diego Portillo Mazal Greg Shell Aditi Taylor Financial Services Professional Managing Director, Boston Principal NYLIFE Securities LLC. Bain Capital Deloitte

Jay Tuli SVP Corporate Development Leader Bank The Founder’s Choice

Tina Chery Joe Chow President and CEO Board Trustee/Director Louis D. Brown Peace Institute Delaware Investments Family of Funds

Selina Chow Denella Clark Board President Chief Development Officer Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Bottom Line

Betty Francisco Regla Gonzalez Founder and President Vice President FitNation Ventures LULAC Darrin Leverett Robert Lewis, Jr. Founder President & Founder American Color Network The BASE

Juliette Mayers Nam Pham President and CEO Assistant Secretary of Business Development Inspiration Zone LLC Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Executive Office of Housing & Economic Development

Jeanne Pinado Mary Truong Chief Executive Officer Executive Director Madison Park Development Corporation Commonwealth of Massachusetts Office of Refugees & Immigrants