Community Leaders
MIT Student Body President
Co-Founder, WorkSchool; Founder, Harlem Tech Summit
Founder, President of The Raben Group
CEO and Co-Founder, Cadre

Talani Goodson
Partner, Starfund

Drederick Irving
Partner, Starfund. Former professional basketball player
Timnit Gebru
Technical co-lead of the Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team at Google

Gil Eyal
Partner, Starfund
Adrianne Gladden-Young
Senior Research Associate, Pardis Sabeti Lab, part of the FAS Center for Systems Biology at Harvard University
Julia Collins
Founder, Planet FWD
Courtney Hall
Co-Founder, Hillcrest Venture Partners

Henri Pierre-Jacques
Managing Partner, Harlem Capital

Jerelyn Rodriguez
Co-Founder of The Knowledge House
Mandela Schumacher-Hodge
Founder & CEO of Founder Gym
Caesar Atuire
Professor - Philosophy, University of Ghana
Luciano Castillo, PhD
Professor - Renewable Energy & Power Systems in Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
Fr. Michael Garanzini
President, AJCU; Chairman, IAJU

Geoff Bartakovics
Partner, Artifact.co
Gary Magnant
General Partner, Formation Venture Engineering
Rocky Bucano
Founder, Universal Hip Hop Museum
Philip Larrey, PhD
Chair of Logic & Epistemology at the Pontifical Lateran University in the Vatican

Karen Bhatia
Senior Vice President, NYCEDC; Co-Founder Stanford Startups

Mariah Lichtenstern
Founding Partner, Diversity Ventures at Founder Institute

Clement Cazalot
Managing Director, Techstars Boston Accelator
Kyrie Irving
Professional basketball player, entrepreneur, philanthropist
Danielle Geathers
John W. Rogers Jr.
Investor, philanthropist and founder of Ariel Capital Management, founded in 1983. He is chairman and CEO of the company, which is the United States' largest minority-run mutual fund firm

Glen Patterson
Fred Wilson
Co-founder of Union Square Ventures, a New York City-based venture capital firm with investments in Web 2.0 companies such as Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare, Zynga, Kickstarter, Etsy, and MongoDB

Robert Raben
Marian Croak
Vice President of Engineering at Google. In 2013, Dr. Marian R. Croak was inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame

Ryan Williams
Community Moderators
Corderro McMurry
Emmy Award Winning Journalist
Andrew Wight
Contributor Forbes Science
Kunbi Tinuoye
Award-winning journalist, Founder and CEO of UrbanGeekz.com
Rosemary Mercedes
Executive Vice President and Chief Communications Officer for Univision Communications Inc.
Sarah Ellison
Washington Post
Desmon Lewis
Co-Founder, The Bronx Community Foundation
Sophie Foggin
The Sociable , Contributor Telegraph, NPR
Betsy Corcoran
Co-Founder of EdSurge

Sovy Azhath
Producer CNBC
Fr. Sam Sawyer
America Media

Jim Glade
Contributor Rolling Stone
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Community Partners
Impact USA Group

Eddie F. Cullen
Founder & Managing Partner
Eddie Cullen is the founder and managing partner of Impact USA Group. He has spent most of his career working with educational institutions and startup companies.
He began his career as a Jesuit Volunteer in Phoenix working at Brophy Preparatory School. He lived on $85 a month working with high school students while participating in a number of community service trips, such as the Kino Border Initiative in Nogales, Friends of the Orphans Program in Guatemala, Habitat for Humanity in New Orleans, Mountaintop Mining Impact in West Virginia, and 15+ more community service oriented projects.
Following Brophy Prep, Eddie spent a year in Australia playing competitive rugby with GPS in the Queensland Premier Rugby League and acting as a Board Master at Marist College Ashgrove.
Then he entered into the startup world founding his first company Bridge-USA creating a game to train students on their portfolio management skills.
Eddie became Director of Innovation for the sole incubator at his alma mater called the Fordham Foundry. He became first employee at Grand Central Tech (now known as Company.co) where he worked with startups and built the GCT Innovation Program for students aged 15-23. After GCT, he opened Bronx.Tech to consult corporations on internal and external innovation.
Eddie founded Impact USA Group in January 2019.
Eddie is a Visiting Scholar in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. He is a graduate of Xavier High School and Fordham University.
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