Mary Beth Tinker is an American free speech activist known for her role in the 1969 Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District Supreme Court case, which ruled that Warren Harding Junior High School could not punish her for wearing a black armband in school in support of a truce in the Vietnam War. The case set a precedent for student speech in schools. Today, Tinker conducts speaking tours across the United States to teach children and youth about their rights. A youth rights advocate, Tinker has a professional background as a pediatric nurse who is active in union activism and holds masters degrees in both public health and nursing.
Deborah Arrindell is Executive Director/Therapeutic Area Head of Safety Oncology at Amgen.
She has been in the pharmaceutical industry since 2000 when she joined Roche Laboratories as Medical Director of Versed. Since that time Deborah has held various positions at Wyeth/Pfizer and Johnson and Johnson.
Deborah Arrindell attended Cornell University where she received a BS in biology. She then attended Yale University School of Medicine where she received her MD-MPH degree. Following two years of training in pediatrics, Deborah completed an anesthesiology and critical care training program at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. After spending a brief time in private practice anesthesia, Deborah returned to join the faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Hospital as an Assistant Professor in Anesthesiology and Critical Care. During this time Deborah also obtained her law degree from the University Of Maryland School of Law. Deborah is admitted to the bar in New York, Maryland, and New Jersey.
Educator and activist, Jill Iscol, EdD, is President of the IF Hummingbird Foundation, a family foundation established in 1989 to support domestic and international efforts to strengthen democracy and reduce the social, economic, and educational inequalities that threaten it. For the past two decades Jill has supported and participated in numerous organizations and has developed an expertise in identifying visionary leaders and programs at early stages of their development. She fosters their advancement by providing seed capital and guidance enabling them to become stable, sustainable and successful organizations, impacting lives around the globe. As a Democratic Party activist, Jill served as Co-Chair for Hillary Rodham Clinton for Senate's New York Finance Committee and as National Vice-Chair of Hillary Rodham Clinton for President's 2008 Finance Committee. In addition, Jill serves as a Trustee of Horizons National, on the Advisory Board of the Center for New American Security inWashington, as a member of the New York State Commission on National and Community Service and was most recently appointed to the US-Afghan Women's Council. Jill received a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from University of Pittsburgh (1967), a doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University (1976), and a Master of Philosophy in Sociology from Yale (1990).
Simone Fojgiel offers a wide variety of services for multimedia projects, especially created for hitting the Hispanic market. Born in Montevideo, Uruguay she is nowadays the most exported voice that her country ever had, and without a doubt, the top Spanish Voice over Female Talent in the US right now. Simone has built a long, rich, successful career over the past two decades, which began while studying Mass & Social Communications at the most prestigious university of her country, Universidad Catolica del Uruguay. After working for 13 years at the #1 FM station, Océano FM, as an On-Air Personality and DJ, Main female Corporate/Commercial Voice Talent, Audio Imaging Director and Creative Copywriter, Simone decided in 2004 to promote her talent on the Internet.
Claire Arrindell is the Director of Sales at Casa de Campo.
Cathy Aronin is involved with Quixand, a company which allows hotels to differentiate their application to their consumers. Cathy Aronin is a student at Cornell University.
Pearl Somboonsong is the founder of InPlace, which allows seniors to convert their house into an in-place community. While in high school, Somboonsong founded and organization called "Focus" to raise money to enable a school in Nan, Thailand to update resources and improve living conditions. She worked with the principal and founded a group that helped raise funds and she developed ways for the students themselves - both at the school in Thailand and her fellow students back in the USA - to be central to the success. Pearl Somboonsong is a pursuing her undergraduate degree at Cornell University.
Lindsay Boyajian is the Founder/CEO of WeareverYouGo, a resource for travelers to figure out what to wear when they're going abroad. Lindsay Boyajian is pursuing an undergraduate degree at Cornell University.
Kristen McClellan is a Senior at Cornell University. For the past three years, McClellan has been refining her product, SnappyScreen. As a freshman, she pitched her idea in a Cornell Elevator Pitch Competition and came in second to a graduate student. From there, the Industrial Labor Relations major has fine-tuned her business and her product in the eLab, Cornell's business accelerator for Cornell Undergraduate entrepreneurs. Last year, McClellan was highlighted on a MTV mini series, "Movers and Changers". As 1 of 3 finalists, McClellan pitched SnappyScreen to established entrepreneurs, winning $5,000. She was able to use that capital to continue to advance her business, launching a trial period this past summer at the Aruba Marriott Resort. McClellan is confident that her course work in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, combined with the many entrepreneurship courses she has completed at Cornell, in addition to her hands-on business development gained in the eLab, will render SnappyScreen a success.