Karen Houghton is the CEO and Founder of Infinite Giving, the asset management platform for nonprofits. Their mission is to leverage modern, financial technology to grow the world's giving by helping nonprofits invest reserve funds, create and manage endowments, and receive stock and crypto gifts easily with software that automates their investment strategy.

Jenn McEwen uses more than a 19 years of practical experience, education and expertise to help nonprofits become more effective in fulfilling their missions. Jenn McEwen’s specialty is creating systems and designing tools that empower nonprofit leaders to execute with excellence, based on sector research and best practices.

Committed to living by his personal motto, “Build As We Climb”,change agent, thought leader, entrepreneur and emerging philanthropist, James M. Bailey has dedicated his life to serving others.

James serves as President and CEO of the Russell Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (RCIE). Honoring the great legacy and visionary business leadership of Herman J. Russell, Sr., he will lead the development of the largest center in America, driven by impact, dedicated to empowering Black entrepreneurs and small business owners; over 50,000 square feet designed to inspire ideas, create jobs, grow companies, and increase wealth in the community.

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Staci is a trusted and experienced philanthropic leader with expertise across the nonprofit and foundation landscapes in Atlanta. She has a passion for issues related to racial equity, education, and social impact with proven results in relationship development, program design +implementation, and coaching.

Amy Clarke is the Program Director of the Cousins Foundations in Atlanta, Georgia. In this role, she is responsible for administering the philanthropic initiatives of the foundations established by Tom and Ann Cousins and family.

Ted is the author of the recently published Culture Built my Brand, founder of BrandBoards and co-founder of Historic Agency, a brand strategy, innovation, and culture consultancy that helps ambitious brands do more good.

Peter Greer is the President and CEO of HOPE International. Peter’s favorite part of his job is spending time with the entrepreneurs HOPE serves—whether harvesting coffee with farmers in Rwanda, dancing alongside savings groups in Haiti, or visiting the greenhouses of entrepreneurs in Ukraine.

Dori is the Managing Director of the Institute for Leadership and Social Impact at Georgia Tech. She leads social innovation programming, including an internship program that connects GT students with community partners in Atlanta.

Building on a 15-year career managing interns, volunteers, and educator staff in environmental nonprofits as well as working in employer relations at Georgia State University, Catherine co-developed and currently implements Agnes Scott College’s career community model, connecting employers with diverse, prepared internship and job candidates from the #1 most innovative liberal arts college in the country.

Marcus Hollinger is the Chief Marketing Officer at Reach Records an Atlanta based independent Hip-Hop label. For the past 3 years Marcus has coached at Stanford, teaching design thinking programs such as D.T. Bootcamp and consulting with companies such as Mitsubishi, NEC, Texas Instruments, and Publicis Sapient.

Kristina Jaskyte Bahr has an established record of service, teaching, and productive scholarship in the areas of innovation, change, creativity, design thinking, and governance in nonprofit organizations. Her work cuts across many traditional and innovative disciplines and has been cited in a wide array of journals, among them Public Administration Review, International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations (VOLUNTAS), Nonprofit Management and Leadership, and Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership, and Governance.

As the co-founder and chief storyteller at We Are For Good - a new media company - her dream is to awaken a global Impact uprising where people, worthy missions and communities are inspired to gather, learn, build community, raise funds and cast a ripple of awareness for worthy causes that changes the world.

Dr. Avina Gupta is an Organizational Psychologist and consultant. At Chick-fil-A she advises on Senior Leader development and DEI strategy. Avina is a former consultant with Deloitte Consulting, founder of 2 leadership development firms, and has taught courses on leadership across the globe, from Vienna, Austria to New York City. Avina earned her PhD in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University. Born and raised in Canada, Avina is fluent in Hindi and has working proficiency of German and French. She met her German-born husband Sebastian on a mountain in South Africa and is Mom to their delightful 4-year-old son, Sai and baby girl, Lani Mae.

Blake W. Howard is the creative director and co-founder of Matchstic, a brand identity house based in Atlanta that he started at the age of 22. A Nashville, Tennessee native, and University of Tennessee graduate, Blake has helped build an enthusiastic and focused branding firm, with national recognition, that serves global brands, courageous startups, and ambitious non-profits.

Brittany Thoms is cofounder and president at See.Spark.Go, a mid-size public relations agency, specializing in telling national brand stories through earned, owned and paid media strategy.

As Executive Director of Second Helpings Atlanta, Andrea is building on a successful career in service. She is inspired by the opportunity to create change by helping people think in new ways about food waste and its societal and environmental impact.

Nia Price serves as Senior Coordinator for Chick-fil-A's Service and Hospitality team. As an experienced hospitality and operations leader, she is passionate about using her experience to help Operators and Restaurant Leaders execute hospitality and customer service to their fullest potential. Nia also supports organizations interested in growing and scaling their hospitality impact by providing Hospitality webinars led by Chick-fil-A's Service and Hospitality team. With a bachelor’s degree in Hospitality and Tourism Business Management from Virginia State University, Nia was blessed with opportunities to study hospitality in Europe as well. Prior to Chick-fil-A, Nia worked for leading hospitality companies including Marriott, Hilton, Aramark, and Sodexo where she gained experience in hotel and food service operations. A native of Queens, New York, Nia currently lives in Atlanta.

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David Rissier joined Chick-fil-A in 2004 to take on a new role within the Marketing department overseeing the in-restaurant brand environment.  This included work on programs such as Team Style apparel, menu boards, packaging, music, merchandising, brand signage and store design.  In 2017, he transitioned to the Service & Hospitality team to help support and launch Beyond The Restaurant initiatives such as Chick-fil-A Delivery and third-party delivery.  In 2021, David transitioned again within Service & Hospitality to lead work on Hospitality programs.

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David is a graduate of the University of Illinois with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Advertising.  Prior to Chick-fil-A, he worked for a variety of hospitality-related companies including Walt Disney World, Callaway Gardens Resort, the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games, and the hotel & resort design firm HBA/Hirsch Bedner Associates.   David and wife Amy live in Peachtree City, GA and have two grown sons Tyler and Bennett.

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