Justin Harlan is the Managing Director of Tulsa Remote, a program honored on Fast Company's prestigious list of the World's Most Innovative Companies for 2022, which recognized its unique approach to attracting remote workers to Tulsa and promoting economic development in the city. Under Justin’s leadership, Tulsa Remote, the largest relocation incentive program in the U.S., has grown to more than 2,200 members. Publications such as the Harvard Business Review and the Brookings Institute have looked to Tulsa Remote as a prominent example of how remote work attraction programs are reversing the brain drain in smaller U.S. cities and have confirmed the economic impact of the program.

Economist Byron Auguste is the co-founder and CEO for Opportunity@Work - an organization shaping business practices and public policy to rewire the U.S. labor market. In 2022, Opportunity@Work launched the "Tear the Paper Ceiling" Ad Council campaign with 50+ national partners to connect employers with the 70+ million STARs - U.S. workers who are Skilled Through Alternative Routes (STARs), rather than a bachelor’s degree. Byron also served as White House economic policy advisor in the Obama Administration, and advised Fortune 500 companies at McKinsey & Company, where he led the firm’s social sector practice. He also currently advises the U.S. Secretary of Commerce as an appointed Member of the National Advisory Council on Innovation & Entrepreneurship (NACIE).

Alison Lands is Head of Strategy at SkyHive Technologies, a global innovator in workforce intelligence that combines real-time labor market data with artificial intelligence to provide actionable insight into today’s skills landscape and forecast emerging trends in the future of work.  

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In her role, she partners with diverse stakeholders across the workforce ecosystem to develop strategies for skills resilience and economic mobility, including Fortune 500 employers, higher ed institutions, national, state and local governments, as well as NGOs and philanthropic organizations.

Stephen Moret has served as president and CEO of Strada Education Foundation since January 2022. In his career, he has crafted public-private partnerships and higher education and workforce development programs that have enabled tens of thousands of people to secure better jobs. Moret previously served as president and CEO of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP) where he led Virginia’s successful state-and-local team bid for Amazon’s HQ2. At VEDP, Moret collaborated with university presidents and state leaders to envision, design, and implement Virginia’s $1.1-billion Tech Talent Investment Program to double the number of degrees in computer science conferred each year, as well as create the Virginia Tech Innovation Campus.

Dra. Luz D. Randolph is the Sr. Vice President and Executive Director of City Year Baton Rouge. In this role she leads 11 staff members and approximately 40 AmeriCorps members serving in four partner schools for the 2022-2023 school year. Serve as liaison to the Board and external stakeholders to continue growing the CYBR brand in the community. Providing oversight to a current annual revenue budget of approximately $2.7 million while simultaneously securing the resources necessary to ensure the sustainability, growth, and scale to achieve City Year’s national Long-Term Impact goals.