Speakers

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  Roni Ellington

  Mathematics Education Professor, Inspirational Speaker, Executive Coach, and STEM education scholar and mentor, Dr. Roni Ellington has authored several scholarly articles on STEM education, parental involvement, and successfully navigating the STEM pipeline, particularly for minority students. Her research has been featured in The Negro Educational Review and CBE-Life Sciences Education, Equity and Quality in Mathematics Education and Progress in Education, Volume II and the Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem Based Learning.

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  Caroline Worrall

  Caroline Worrall, CFA, CPA, has recently taken a position as the Chief Financial Officer of SalesWarp, an early stage, high tech venture. She spent the summer as the CFO-in-Residence at the Emerging Technology Centers.. Prior to joining the ETC, she was the Chief Financial Officer at Health Solutions. She oversaw the due diligence process and sale of the company to Interactive Health, a private equity backed corporate wellness services company in Chicago, IL. She has over 15 years as a senior executive in small to mid-sized businesses developing technologies and services for both the private and government sectors. In addition to directing the sales process, Caroline was responsible for the financial strategic oversight, including corporate financial reporting, audit, tax, internal controls and corporate governance.

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  Ellen Miller

  Ellen S. Miller is the co-founder and executive director of the Sunlight Foundation, a Washington-based, non-partisan non-profit dedicated to using the power of the Internet to catalyze greater government openness and transparency. She is the founder of two other prominent Washington-based organizations in the field of money and politics — the Center for Responsive Politics and Public Campaign — and a nationally recognized expert on transparency and the influence of money in politics. Her experience as a Washington advocate for more than 35 years spans the worlds of non-profit advocacy, grassroots activism and journalism.

  @EllnMllr
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  Keisha Reed

  Keisha Reed is a social media strategist, Baltimore technology community member and contributor to Technical.ly Baltimore. She is the founder of K. Reed Digital, a web agency specializing in website strategy and digital media management. Raised in Washington, DC, her commitment to raising the awareness of the digital divide and placing more girls in STEM is a lifelong passion. When she is not settled in with a good book, she enjoys the company of family and friends around the dinner table.

  @IAMKJR
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  Zuly Gonzalez

  Zuly is the Co-founder and CEO of Light Point Security. Zuly co-founded Light Point Security to solve the biggest problem in cybersecurity today – web-based malware. Zuly heads all business development, marketing, sales and customer acquisition efforts at Light Point Security. Zuly has over 10 years of experience in the US federal government as an Information Assurance Engineer, Security Vulnerability Analyst and Program Manager for the NSA. In her technical positions, Zuly was responsible for securing national security information systems. As a Program Manager, she managed multi-million dollar Technical Security Countermeasures (TSCM) government contracts, and headed the Counter-IED (Improvised Explosive Device) mission.

  @ZulyGonz