8th Annual Scholarship Gala: Advancing Equity Through Education (virtual)

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Panelists:

  • JuanJo Duran, Head of Media and Entertainment, Multicultural US and Latam at Google
  • Nicol Turner Lee, Director, Center for Technology Innovation at The Brookings Institution
  • Denny Tu, Chief Marketing Officer, IMAX
  • Kanyatta Walker, Vice President Digital, Global Product and Technology at ADP

Co-Hosts:

  • Angela Gardner, Partner, Media, Entertainment & Digital Practice at Heidrick & Struggles
  • Thomas Phelps, Vice President of Corporate Strategy & CIO at Laserfiche

We were honored to have Frank Mottek, the award-winning voice of business news in Los Angeles, as Emcee for our annual Gala. Frank is the Senior Money Anchor on CBS all-news station KNX 1070 Newsradio anchoring the morning drive business updates. He also hosts Mottek On Money. 

Thank you to everyone who helped us exceed our goal!  We netted over $225,000 in STEM Advantage scholarship funds from generous sponsors and individual donors. 

Sponsors

Diamond: Farmers

Platinum: CloudBees, Inphi, Southern California Society for Information Management (SCSIM), Zscaler

Gold: Adobe, Cognizant, Static1, Watson Land Company

Silver: Laserfiche, Magenic, Quantum, Salesforce, Simeio, Teradata, Workday

Bronze: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Okta, ServiceNow, Snowflake

Friends of STEM: Kinecta Community Foundation