The voices shaping the future

Holly J. Mitchell serves on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, where she leads with a deep understanding of the vital safety net LA County provides to millions of people and a commitment to ensuring that all residents can thrive.

Supervisor Mitchell is honored to represent the two million residents of Los Angeles County's Second District – including the neighborhood she grew up in – Leimert Park, along with the cities of Carson, Compton, Culver City, El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Lawndale, Los Angeles (portions), Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach, and a dozen unincorporated communities.

Dr. Rhianna Rogers is a senior executive and scholar-practitioner with over 20 years of experience leading institutional transformation, policy implementation, and cross-sector collaboration across government, academia, nonprofit and private sectors.

She specializes in translating complex research, regulatory frameworks, and emerging technologies into durable operational strategies. Her work focuses on building scalable, cross-sector partnerships that strengthen organizational performance, workforce effectiveness, and public trust, particularly in advancing access to education and leadership pathways.

Dr. Ayanna Davis grew up in Compton, California, in a family with deep roots in public service — her grandfather worked for the Los Angeles Unified School District, her mother served the City of Compton as a member of AFSCME Local 2325, and her stepfather was a Compton fire captain and president of the Firefighters Union. Their example instilled in her a lifelong commitment to helping working families.

Ayanna earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Southern California while working three jobs, then began her career as a teacher, where she developed a passion for early education and became an outspoken advocate for addressing inequities in preschool programs. In 2004, she played an instrumental role in opening an accessible, quality preschool in Watts alongside a workforce development center helping adults build new skills. She went on to serve as Principal of the Maxine Waters Early Education Center and the Ethel Bradley Early Education Center, and as President of the Early Education Principal Organization.

LaVada English is an educator, author, entrepreneur, and community builder who has spent more than two decades helping people and organizations navigate change, leadership, culture, and the future of work.

A proud Philadelphian who now calls California home, LaVada’s story is also deeply personal. She is a mom, a woman who has navigated divorce and reinvention, and an entrepreneur who built her own company while building a new chapter of her life. Those experiences shape how she leads: with the belief that technology should expand human potential, not diminish the humanity, relationships, and communities that make progress possible.

Corbrina Rollins is a senior client partnership and growth executive with more than 20 years of experience helping organizations navigate complex business challenges, strengthen executive relationships, and create sustainable growth. Throughout her career, she has led and expanded large enterprise relationships across technology, professional services, pharmaceuticals, financial services, and employee engagement.

Corbrina currently serves as Vice President of Client Partnerships at Correlation One, an AI workforce enablement company, where she partners with global organizations navigating the rapidly changing intersection of artificial intelligence, workforce transformation, and business strategy. She also helps shape how Correlation One builds and scales strategic client partnerships as the company grows.

Dr. Breann Branch is a distinguished equity practitioner, educator, and innovation researcher with more than 12 years of cross-sector experience advancing organizational change and inclusive practices. Her national work in inclusive innovation and patenting highlights equity gaps in invention, entrepreneurship, and technology commercialization, and she has collaborated with leading institutions to develop innovation dashboards, conduct community-based case studies, and amplify underrepresented voices in the innovation ecosystem.

As the Director of the Center for the Advancement of Women at Mount Saint Mary's University, Breann leads research, advocacy, and leadership initiatives that promote gender equity across Los Angeles and California. The Center works to identify solutions to persistent gender inequities and to eliminate barriers women face in workplaces, communities, media, and beyond, driving meaningful change for women and girls. It also produces public programming, research guides, and training opportunities that engage and empower partners committed to this mission.

Isaiah Mays leads the Future Forum session Headshots in an AI World: Be Unmistakably You — and the complimentary professional headshot experience available to attendees throughout the day.

An AI researcher and strategist, she helps organizations turn AI investment into measurable operational, monetization, and revenue impact. Her work sits at the intersection of research, product, operations, and business strategy, helping organizations identify barriers to AI adoption, uncover opportunities, and build systems that customers will use and businesses can sustainably scale.

At Meta, she led global research across WhatsApp Business, Payments, Monetization, and AI products used by billions of people, informing decisions around product development, customer trust, and investment strategy. More recently, she has led AI transformation initiatives focused on turning emerging technology into practical business functions and revenue-generating workflows.

A global technology and transformation executive with 25 years of experience, she has led innovation across industries and more than 200 countries, including pioneering technology advancements in healthcare and banking.

Driven by the belief that successful transformation depends on human potential as much as technology, she earned a PhD in Humanistic Psychology and founded The Mousai Group. Her work integrates psychology, neuroscience, expressive arts, and organizational strategy to help leaders and organizations strengthen creativity, judgment, trust, adaptability, and performance.

She is a senior researcher with more than a decade of experience leading qualitative research on young people’s experiences with and perceptions of new media, digital technology, and artificial intelligence. Her work centers the experiences of historically marginalized and diverse technology users, including people of color, women and femmes, LGBTQ+ communities, people with disabilities, undocumented youth, low-income families, and English language learners.

Her user-centered research spans a wide range of emerging technologies, including social media and digital platforms, artificial intelligence and robotics, video games, and virtual reality. Through her work, she brings diverse perspectives to the forefront of understanding how technology shapes people’s lives and experiences.

She is a dynamic and compassionate leader committed to advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, intersectionality, and anti-racism. Her work centers on creating inclusive environments where diverse voices are valued and individuals and communities are empowered to thrive.

Drawing on expertise in power analysis, organizational change, and social work, she helps address systemic barriers and develop solutions that foster meaningful, sustainable progress. Throughout her career, she has led transformative initiatives, built connections across diverse communities, and championed greater equity and opportunity.

A native Angelena, Jen García is an AI fluency educator, keynote speaker, and emerging AI and systems engineer. When generative AI arrived for commercial use, her first question was who would train the communities most at risk of being left behind. To answer it, she pivoted from a 20-year career in English teaching and workforce development to become an AI engineer. Now, Jen brings to AI fluency an engineer's discipline and an educator's understanding of how people learn. She founded Ingrained.ai and advises and teaches AI programs at Caltech's Center for Technology and Management Education.

Jen has taught at UCLA and UCI Extensions, USC, and Cal State Fullerton, then founded the nonprofit Employ California, whose training helped more than 1,200 Los Angeles County employees, largely Black and Brown, earn promotions. As AI Executive-in-Residence at the Goldhirsh Foundation, she led the LA2050 AI program, providing complimentary training to hundreds of Los Angeles nonprofits and public agencies, including the Los Angeles Fire Department.