LEDA 2021 ANNUAL CELEBRATION - Wednesday, May 26, 2021
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LEDA 2021 ANNUAL CELEBRATION Wednesday, May 26, 2021
PROGRAM
LEDA 2021 ANNUAL CELEBRATION
May 26, 2021 • 6:00–7:30 PM
WE LCOM E
Shenaille Beckley, LEDA Cohort 6 | Anthony Guyton, LEDA Cohort 1
CK Swett, Lot 1 Auctioneers
OPE N I NG R E MAR KS
Dr. Lamont Gordon, Executive Director
VI DEO: “WHY LE DA MAT TE RS”
LE DA COM M U N IT Y PE RSPECTIVES
Anna Eggers, LEDA Cohort 15 | Demitrious Matus, LEDA Cohort 15
Adiela Vasquez, LEDA Cohort 13
PLE D G E DR IVE
CK Swett, Lot 1 Auctioneers
VI DEO: “TH E FUTU R E OF LE ADE RSH I P: TH E N & NOW”
HONOR E E’S R E MAR KS
Ken Bouyer, Americas Director of Inclusiveness Recruiting, EY
Lisa Osborne Ross, U.S. Chief Executive Officer, Edelman
ALU M N I HONOR E E’S R E MAR KS
Dr. Garland Castañeda, LEDA Cohort 2, Hospitalist, Alameda Inpatient Medical Inc.
SPECIAL G U EST
Sade Baderinwa, Anchor, WABC-TV
CLO SI NG R E MAR KS
Ilana Goldman, Chair, LEDA Board of Directors
M E E T AN D G R E E T
Meet some of your fellow guests this evening!
ABOUT LEDA
Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA) empowers a
community of exceptional young leaders from under-resourced
backgrounds by supporting their higher education and professional
success in order to create a more inclusive and equitable country.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Ilana Goldman Eric Mendez
Chair Treasurer
Arun Alagappan Lamont Gordon
Vice President Executive Director
Eden Abrahams Holly Ash Greenwald
Lawrence P. Bascom Warren H. Haber
Anders C. H. Brag Yelka Kamara
Jordan Dickson Piotr Kaminski
Alexandra P. Engler
Hilary Parker
Andrew Fisher
Frederick H. Fogel John C. Roberts
Lucy N. Friedman Elizabeth Salinas
Jesse M. Furman Lois Severini
Enrique Foster Gittes Edward M. Strong
Gustavo Gonzalez Anthony Yoseloff
LEADERSHIP COUNCIL
Carolyn N. Ainslie George Logothetis
Maxine Clark Anthony W. Marx
Nan A. Rothschild Cooper Daniel R. Porterfield
William R. Fitzsimmons Shirley M. Tilghman
CORPORATE ADVISORY COUNCIL
Ken Bouyer, EY Rosanna Durruthy, LinkedIn
Erika Coleman, Goldman Sachs Charley Gray, Egon Zehnder
HONOREE
Ken is the EY Americas Director
of Inclusiveness Recruiting. In this
role, he is responsible for developing
and implementing the global EY
organization’s recruiting strategy to
build and attract diverse and inclusive
talent pools for member firms in the
Americas.
KEN
Americas Director
of Inclusiveness
BOUYER
Recruiting, EY
Ken has served in a variety of roles since joining the Assurance practice of Ernst & Young LLP
in 1990. Prior to his current role, Ken was a Director in the firm’s Advisory Services practice,
supporting various global internal audit clients. He continues to serve the firm’s clients in Advisory
Services today.
Ken is a member of the Executive Leadership Council. He serves on the Board of Trustees for
his alma mater, Manhattan College and is a member of the Audit Committee. In addition, he is
on North Carolina A&T’s Dean’s Advisory Council and Arizona State University’s Accounting
Advisory Board. He is a current Corporate Advisory Board Member of the National Association
of Black Accountants, Association of Latino Professionals for America and ASCEND (Pan-Asian
organization for business professionals in North America). Moreover, Ken is the past Chair and
current member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ (AICPA) National
Commission on Diversity & Inclusion.
Ken has a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Manhattan College in Riverdale, New
York. He is a Certified Internal Auditor and member of the American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants.
Ken currently resides in New Jersey with his wife, Shorn, and their daughter, Kelsie.
HONOREE
Lisa Osborne Ross serves as Edelman’s
U.S. Chief Executive Officer. Prior to this
role, Lisa served as U.S. Chief Operating
Officer, where she oversaw day-to-day
operations and strategy for the U.S.
region and led Edelman’s Washington
D.C. office as President where she was
responsible for overseeing the firm’s
U.S. operations and providing strategic
oversight to its Washington D.C. office.
LISA
U.S. Chief
Executive Officer,
ROSS
Edelman
She is known as an in-demand counselor to senior executives at Fortune 500, higher
education, and government institutions.
Prior to Edelman, Lisa served as Managing Director of APCO Worldwide’s flagship office
for over two years, arriving there after a 15-year career at Ogilvy Public Relations. Over her
tenure at Ogilvy, she held several titles, including Founder of the Multicultural Practice, Head
of the Public Advocacy Group and Practice, and Head of the Public Affairs Division.
Prior to public relations, Lisa served in the first two terms of the Clinton Administration,
specializing in policy development and issues management. During this time, she was
communications director for the Department of Labor’s effort to create and promote high-
performance workplaces, deputy director of the bipartisan Federal Glass Ceiling Commission
and chief of staff of the White House Office of Women’s Initiatives and Outreach.
Lisa devotes considerable amounts of time to her philanthropic endeavors, particularly her
efforts to build a better Washington and to empower women. She has served on numerous
school boards and commissions. She is a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Lisa has
received several awards including PRWeek Agency Professional of the Year (2021), PRWeek
Hall of Femme & National Capital Area Public Relations Hall of Fame (2020).
ALUMNI
HONOREE
Dr. Garland Castañeda was born in
Modesto, California. He grew up playing
soccer and the saxophone and painted
houses with his father during the summer.
At age 16, he was hospitalized twice for a
large blood clot in his leg. The experience
was jarring and painful but inspired him to
pursue a career in medicine.
GARLAND
LEDA Cohort 2
Hospitalist,
Alameda Inpatient
CASTAÑEDA
Medical Inc.
As a member of LEDA’s second Cohort, he got a chance to walk the halls of elite colleges and soak in
the Aspects of Leadership curriculum. LEDA inspired him to dream big and he enrolled at Princeton
the following year. After four tough but rewarding years, he graduated from Princeton University with a
degree in molecular biology and minors in neuroscience and environmental studies.
He attended medical school at the University of Colorado. While there, he joined and eventually became
co-president of the student-run nonprofit, Comunidades Unidas Peru. He spent two summers helping
CU Peru further its goal of training community health workers (promotores) in the Peruvian Amazon. He
graduated in 2015 with a certificate from the Global Health program.
Highland Hospital in Oakland put him through the trials of an internal medicine residency. He got the
chance to learn from both doctors and patients who represented the Bay Area’s rich diversity. He also
published three journal articles including studies on racial disparities in colon cancer and ulcerative colitis.
He has worked at Alameda Hospital since 2018 as a hospitalist. Over the past year, he has spent most
of his time running the hospital’s COVID team and managing the ebb and flow of COVID-19 patients. He
encourages everyone to get their vaccine as soon as possible.
When he is not in the hospital, he is most often found at his home in Oakland with his wife, Jackie, and
rescue dogs, Xena and Chloe.
SPECIAL
GUEST
Sade Baderinwa is an anchor of WABC-
TV’s top-rated Eyewitness News at 5:00
and 11:00. She joined the Eyewitness News
team in 2003 as a reporter and anchor of
Eyewitness News at Noon.
SADE
Anchor
WABC-TV
BADERINWA
Sade came to Channel 7 from Baltimore’s WBAL-TV, where she anchored the morning and
noon newscasts and hosted a weekly community affairs show. Earlier in her career, she was a
reporter for WSLS in Roanoke, Virginia; a reporter trainee at WUSA-TV in Washington, D.C.;
and a production assistant for ABC News’ This Week with David Brinkley, Nightline, World
News Tonight, and ABC News NewsOne.
Sade is a big believer in giving back to her community. She has worked with numerous Tri-
State area organizations, community leaders and students. After being struck by a hit and
run driver while covering a story for Eyewitness News, Sade championed efforts to deal with
the growing problem of hit and run accidents. For her efforts, she was recognized with the
NJ Governor’s Representative Award for Traffic Safety.
She has also created and developed a successful mentoring program called “Get ‘Reel’ With
Your Dreams: The Inside Track.” It exposes high school students from New York, New Jersey,
and Connecticut to top professionals in film and television. Her partners in this initiative
include The Walt Disney Company, WABC-TV, Lincoln Center Institute, and New York Women
in Film and Television.
Sade is a native of Baltimore and a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park.
FEATURED
LEDA COMMUNITY MEMBERS
Shenaille Beckley
LEDA Cohort 6
Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
University of Pennsylvania ’15
Anthony Guyton
LEDA Cohort 1
Hometown: Hayti, MO
Princeton University ’10
Anna Eggers
LEDA Cohort 15
Hometown: Indianapolis, IN
Columbia University ’24
Demitrious Matus
LEDA Cohort 15
Hometown: Mesa, AZ
SMFA, Tufts University ’24
Adiela Vasquez
LEDA Cohort 13
Hometown: Fairburn, GA
Emory University ’22
OUR SPONSORS
DEAN LEVEL SPONSORS
JESSE FURMAN AND ARIELA DUBLER
ANDREW AND CAROLINE FISHER
NAN ROTHSCHILD COOPER
ANTHONY AND NANAR YOSELOFF
PROFESSOR LEVEL SPONSORS
JIM AND DIANE ROBERTSOUR SPONSORS
G R A D U AT E S C H O L A R L E V E L S P O N S O R S
ALEXANDER COHEN • FRED AND SYLVIA FOGEL
WILLIAM AND LUCY FRIEDMAN • TIMOTHY AND JENNIFER KINGSTON
ZEGAR FAMILY FUND
SENIOR SCHOLAR LEVEL SPONSORS
Eden Abrahams
Anders Brag and Amy Leeds
The Citron Family
Alisa and Dan Doctoroff
Douglas and Susanne Durst
Ilana Goldman and Jordan Goldstein
Marti Meyerson and Jamie Hooper
Deborah McManus
Hilary Parker
Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
Selendy & Gay PLLC
Claire Silberman
JUNIOR SCHOLAR LEVEL SPONSORS
Galia Gichon Clemens
Jonathan Crystal
Jeffrey and Ellen Katz
Libra Group
Mary and Dan Riew2021 ANNUAL CELEBRATION
SUPPORTERS
Eri Andriola Denise Gellene Bates Meghan O’Sullivan
Christopher Angell Tara Gellene Edgar Orozco
Sunil Arora Nancy Ginsberg Nicole LaFortune
Holly Ash Greenwald Enrique Foster Gittes Michelle Peluso
Toya Barnes-Teamer and Lois Severini Daniel Porterfield
Lawrence Bascom Paul and Anne Grand Paul Radvany
Brenda Baty Jay Grimm John Roberts
Julie and Roger Baumann Joscelyn Guzman Katherine Roberts
Jennifer Glueck Bezoza Julie Harnik Robert and Elizabeth
Michaël Bijaoui David Hess Rodgers
Michael Bosworth Peggy Hoover Michael Rothbaum
Beth Breger Kristin Hultquist Scott Ruskay-Kidd
Hailey Bruner Donald Ingham Elizabeth Salinas and
Garland Castañeda Ethan Jamnik Jason Makhouta
Julie Castelbaum Michael Jaffe Judy and Mark Sarvary
Susan Cates Michele Kahn Lauren Brandt Schloss
Melanie Clarke Yelka Kamara Art Schwartz
Alexander Cohen Tal Kastner Loretta Stanish
Erika Coleman Elai Katz Stanley Stillman
Kendall Coleman Michael Katz Christian Tanja
Jason Copeland Max Keilson Cathy Taylor
Lara Couturier Dorothy Lacher Mary Ann Tungate
Shanaya Deboo Michael Lubansky Kennedy Turner
Kathleen Demarest Joseph Lucarelli Andrew Udell
Jordan Dickson David McNellis Richard Verville
Brianna Eastridge Nick McMahon Daniel Vislocky
Jeremiah Erby Eric Mendez Skip Wiemeyer
Irene Fayn Monica Mendez Vang Xiong
Lynette Fernandez Emily Moniz Lori and Brett Zbar
Sonia Gardner Perla Patricia Mora Nan ZhengYEAR-LONG PARTNERS
SPECIAL THANKS
EVENT COMMITTEE
Eden Abrahams
Tobias Citron
Jordan Goldstein
Yelka Kamara
Emily Moniz
Mary Riew
Diane Roberts
Jim Roberts
Joseph Wehle
OUTREACH COMMITTEE
Beth Breger
Kendall Coleman
Jordan Dickson
Irene Fayn
Nancy Ginsberg
Shamanata Islam
Suren Jamiyanaa
Melissa Kalt
Wendy Levey
Elisa L. Liang
Shola Oyedele
Matt Parodi
Gary Prado
Bert Rosenblatt
Elizabeth Salinas
Judy SarvaryYEAR IN REVIEW The past year has been a challenging time for all of us, with the COVID-19 pandemic forcing us to rely on new ways of teaching, working, and building community. We have kept our distance from family and friends, and we have endured a looming uncertainty about our livelihoods and, indeed, our very lives. The LEDA Community has demonstrated incredible resilience, compassion, and creativity as we banded together to face this crisis. The community spaces we create have provided a way to reflect on a collective sense of loss, but also to celebrate our hard-won successes. We would like to share some of the highlights from an unprecedented year.
A NEW
LEADER
AT LEDA
LAMONT
Executive Director
LEDA
GORDON
In June 2020, LEDA welcomed Dr. Lamont Gordon as our new Executive Director. Lamont
came to LEDA with over 20 years of youth development and nonprofit leadership experience
at organizations including the Jackie Robinson Foundation, the Posse Foundation, and Brown
University. He quickly became ingrained in the fabric of our community – attending virtual events,
hosting a Leadership Chat series, and meeting with students and alumni.
Lamont’s leadership has helped LEDA successfully weather the most difficult parts of the
pandemic and served as an inspiration for us all. We are grateful for his contributions thus far and
excited to see how LEDA will continue to grow during his tenure.
Leadership Chat with Dr. Lisa M. Coleman of Leadership Chat with President Suzanne
New York University Rivera of Macalester CollegeVIRTUAL PROGRAMS... LEDA’s 2020 Aspects of Leadership Summer Institute and Career Institute both transitioned to a virtual model. The Summer Institute and Career Institute staff rapidly and thoughtfully transformed programs known for their in-person enrichment opportunities and community-building atmospheres into online versions. They ensured that our LEDA Scholars and Career Fellows would have a true LEDA experience while observing public health guidelines. The community spirit of our Scholars, Fellows, and alumni was also a key factor in the success of our virtual programs. Older students stepped up during the SI to recreate the on-campus environment of past years that celebrates inclusion, belonging, and self-expression, helping our newest Scholars connect with one another and with the larger LEDA network. They also joined with LEDA alumni during the Career Institute to mentor students in college on exploring career options and to share their experiences as professionals from underrepresented backgrounds. LEDA Cohort 16 Scholars showing their LEDA pride on social media; caption on the right: “LEDA merch came in
...REAL-LIFE COMMUNITY
Summer Institute Community Impact Project presentation
LEDA also developed a brand-new slate of online sessions to not only adapt to the
global pandemic, but also to respond to feedback on topics that would interest
our students. We worked closely with partners like Standard Chartered to offer
an updated set of virtual opportunities that gave Scholars and Fellows a chance
to learn more about specific industries, hone their job search, interviewing, and
networking stills, and have direct conversations with professionals in various
stages of their careers.
In addition, LEDA is preparing to launch a law school summit in June and a
medical school summit later in 2021 to help students interested in these highly
specialized fields.
Q&A session with Elaine Chin
Career Institute alumni panel of Standard CharteredCONTINUING LEDA’S
TRADITION OF EXCELLENCE
Despite the extraordinary hurdles to learning
created by the pandemic – and exacerbated
in under-resourced communities – LEDA
Scholars and Career Fellows once again
found outstanding success in pursuing their
educational goals.
98% of LEDA Cohort 16 Scholars were admitted
to at least one Barron’s “Most Competitive”
college, and nearly half of the Cohort was
awarded prestigious scholarships from
organizations including the Gates Foundation,
the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, the Horatio
Alger Association, and the Ron Brown Scholar
Program.
In addition, more than 200 Scholars and
Fellows graduate from college this spring, with Narizza, Honolulu, HI;
at least 20 heading to graduate school, joining LEDA Cohort 12,
more than 75 current graduate students. Columbia University ’21
Tarrin, Detroit, MI; Mohamed, Lawrenceville, GA; Will, Winnfield, LA;
LEDA Cohort 16, LEDA Cohort 16, LEDA Cohort 12,
Brown University ’25 MIT ’25 University of Richmond ’21
Congratulations to the high school and college Class of 2021! Your hard work
and perseverance in an unprecedented time are just two of the inspiring qualities
you demonstrate as young leaders!DEAN
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and Lisa Osborne Ross.
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