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Building Back Stronger Summit Speakers

Dr. Carmen Ayala

Superintendent, Illinois State Board of Education

Sindy Benavides

LULAC National CEO

Dr. Joseph Carroll-Miranda

CS4LatinX Director, LatinxDLN

Luis Chavez

Education Chair, LULAC National; Senior Director, Career Ladders Project

Dr. Frances Contreras

Associate Vice Chancellor, Faculty Recruitment & Retention in Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion & Professor in Education Studies, UCSD

Angie Cooper

Chief Program Officer, Heartland Forward

David Cruz

Communications Director, LULAC

Pedro Espinoza

TED Speaker, entrepreneur, investor, and author

Julia Flores

Co-Founder & Principal Consultant, CS for Success; CEO, Ascension, Inc.

Domingo Garcia

LULAC National President

Dr. Ana Gil-Garcia

Education Committee Vice Chair, LULAC

Leonard Gonzales

Military & Veterans Committee Vice Chair, LULAC National

Bibi Hidalgo

Associate Administrator, SBA

Dr. Christopher Hoadley

Associate Professor, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development

Francella Ochillo

Executive Director, Next Century Cities

Dr. Patricia Ordóñez

Associate Professor, University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras

Roberto J. Rodriguez

Assistant Secretary of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development, U.S. Department of Education

Caroline Sanchez Crozier

Innovation & Tech Committee Chair, LULAC National; CEO/Founder, CSC Consulting Group & LatinxDLN

Dr. Allison Scott

CEO , Kapor Foundation

Matt Schmit

Director, Illinois Office of Broadband

Dr. Deborah Streeter

Bank of America Institute for Women's Entrepreneurship Professor

Abril Vela

CS4LatinX Change Agent, LatinxDLN and Co-Founder & Principal Consultant, CS for Success

Letty Velez

Innovation and Technology Committee Vice Chair, LULAC; CEO, Velez Global Enterprises

Joe Wall

National Director, Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Voices