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    "name": "Kathleen McCartney",
    "bio": "Kathleen McCartney is the 11th president of Smith College. A summa cum laude graduate of Tufts University, she earned both her master's and doctoral degrees in psychology from Yale University. Prior to Smith, McCartney was dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education—only the fifth woman dean in Harvard's history. At Smith, McCartney led a strategic planning process that is resulting in important new academic and co-curricular programs. Under her leadership, Smith promoted women in business through the newly-established Jill Ker Conway Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship as well as the Alumnae Business Network; expanded the Office for Equity and Inclusion to mitigate racial injustice and to promote a sense of belonging for all at Smith; dramatically increased financial aid through the Women for the World and Here for Every Voice campaigns; and engaged architectural designer Maya Lin to re-envision its historic Neilson Library, scheduled for completion in spring 2021. \n \n McCartney is the author of nine volumes and more than 160 journal articles and book chapters on childcare and early childhood experience, education policy and parenting. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Education, the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. She has served as a director of the American Council on Education, the Consortium on Financing Higher Education, Five Colleges, Inc., and Tufts University.",
    "role": "President",
    "company": "Smith College",
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  {
    "name": "Tim Draper",
    "bio": "Tim Draper is a prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist and founder of Draper Associates, DFJ, and the Draper Venture Network, a global network of venture capital funds. The firms’ investments include Baidu, Focus Media, YeePay, KongZhong, Skype, Hotmail, Tesla, SolarCity, Coinbase, Ledger, Robinhood, Athenahealth, Box, TwitchTV, SpaceX, Cruise Automation, Carta, Planet, PTC, and many others. \n \n Tim is a leading spokesperson for Bitcoin, Blockchain, ICOs, and cryptocurrencies. He won the US Marshall’s auction in 2014 (where he bid on 50,000 bitcoins) and invests in over 50 crypto companies as well as leads investments in Coinbase, Ledger, Tezos, and Bancor, among others. He created viral marketing, a marketing method for exponentially spreading an electronic service from customer to customer, that was instrumental to the successes of Hotmail, Skype, and other applications.\n \n Tim is regularly featured on major networks, in publications, and in social media as a proponent for entrepreneurship, innovative governance, free markets, and Bitcoin. He has received various awards and honors including the World Entrepreneurship Forum's \"Entrepreneur of the World.\" He has also been highly ranked on several notable lists includin gone of the top 100 most powerful people in finance by Worth Magazine, the top 20 most influential people in Crypto by Crypto Weekly, #1 most networked venture capitalist by AlwaysOn, #7 on the Forbes Midas List, and #48 most influential Harvard Alum.",
    "role": "Founder",
    "company": "Draper Associates",
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  {
    "name": "Melissa Draper",
    "bio": "Melissa Parker Draper, ‘77 is the creator of the Draper Competition for Collegiate Women Entrepreneurs at Smith College. The Smith College legacy of smart, strong and talented women inspired the idea of allowing students to create a company before graduating from college and have these businesses be judged by an elite group of experts. Now Smith is being recognized as one of the most entrepreneurial colleges the competition one of the best in the nation. Melissa is the mother of 3 venture capitalists and one artist. Her husband, Tim, is a venture capitalist and an artist. She believes in the important connection between the arts and technology.",
    "role": "Board Chair",
    "company": "California State Summer School for the Arts",
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  {
    "name": "Debby Farrington '72",
    "bio": "Debby Farrington, is co-founder and Managing Partner of StarVest Partners a VC firm based in New York City that invests in technology-enabled business services companies with a focus on software-as-a-service, data & analytics and internet marketing. StarVest is one of the largest women majority owned VC firms in the US. She is a director of numerous private and public companies. Debby has been named to several times to the Midas 100 –Forbes’ list of top venture capitalists in the United States and was the top woman on that list in 2008 and 2011. She was honored in 2018 with the Foreign Policy Association Medal for Achievement in Financial Services at their Centennial Dinner.  In addition, she was recently named to the Top 100 Harvard Business School Alumni in Finance & Investing, at #16.",
    "role": "Co-Founder and Managing Partner",
    "company": "StarVest Partners",
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  {
    "name": "Mona Sinha",
    "bio": "S. Mona Sinha is a globally recognized advocate for gender equality. She has parlayed a corporate career to work at the intersection of social justice and women’s leadership. She is co-founder of Raising Change which develops strategies to close the critical funding gap in mission-driven organizations for social change. She founded the Asian Women's Leadership University to bring liberal arts pedagogy women leaders. She is the Board Chair of Women Moving Millions and the ERA Fund for Women’s Equality. She is an Executive Producer of Disclosure, a groundbreaking documentary film on trans representation. To date she has catalyzed close to $1 billion for social change and advised over 87 organizations. \n \n With a focus on governance, strategy and sustainability, Sinha serves on several non-profit boards including Breakthrough USA, the Center for High Impact Philanthropy (UPenn), Apne Aap International, the Museum of Natural History, and three Boards at Columbia University (Columbia Business School Tamer Center Board and investment Committee, Women Creating Change and the Global Mental Health Program). She is a trustee emerita of Smith College, where she was Vice Chair and led the $486MM Women for the World capital campaign. Sinha is an investor in women-led businesses and mentors several hundred people.",
    "role": "Co-founder",
    "company": "Raising Change",
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  {
    "name": "Dawanna Williams",
    "bio": "Williams is a real estate development executive and strategic advisor who brings broad leadership experience to corporate organizations. Williams is currently the Managing Principal at Dabar Development Partners. Previously, Williams served as General Counsel at Victory Education Partners and senior associate in the commercial real estate group at Sidley Austin LLP. In New York City, Williams helms a prolific African-American and woman-led real estate development firm, as she works with public agencies, institutional investors, and major lending institutions. For its public-private-partnerships, the firm has had principal involvement in development projects awarded by NYC’S Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), NYC’s Economic Development Corporation (EDC), and New York City’s Housing Authority (NYCHA). Since launching Dabar 15+ years ago, the total developed and current pipeline has grown to include over 2 million square feet, 3,000 apartment units, and $1B in transaction value. \n \n As a fierce cultural advocate, Williams serves on the Board of Directors of the Apollo Theater, chairing the Real Estate Committee, the Acquisition Committee of the Studio Museum in Harlem, and on the Board of Directors for the New York City Trust for Cultural Resources.",
    "role": "Founder and Managing Principal",
    "company": "Dabar Development Partners",
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  {
    "name": "Hannah Jones",
    "bio": "Hannah Jones is the Vice President of Nike’s Innovation Labs. She leads the vision and strategy across the Nike Sport Research Lab and Nike Valiant Lab in this role. In 2018, Hannah founded Nike Valiant Lab as Nike’s digital services incubator and has since gone on to deliver groundbreaking digital innovations that serve the consumer in new and unimagined ways. Prior to Nike Valiant Lab, Hannah served as Nike’s Chief Sustainability Officer, where she guided the brand’s focus on rethinking materials, production methods, and business models to solve complex sustainability challenges. A 20-year Nike veteran, Jones is passionate about innovating with purpose and building new capabilities and coalitions that make the world a better place. \n \n Outside of Nike, Jones sits on the UCB External Sustainability Advisory Board, is a Mentor for the Unreasonable Group and is an Advisor for Queens Gambit, an all-female SPAC investing in sustainable ventures.",
    "role": "Vice President",
    "company": "Nike’s Innovation Labs",
    "company_link": "",
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  {
    "name": "Ana-Maria Zaugg",
    "bio": "Zaugg’s business career was built on marketing and strategy.  She worked at Merck (international pharmaceutical marketing, both global and South Africa), McKinsey (management consulting in Australia and the US), and IMS (global pharmaceutical services).  For IMS, she had various roles in US marketing/strategy and global marketing, retiring as Chief Marketing Officer -- responsibilities included market planning, branding, company positioning, competitive intelligence, and new product/audience identification.  In retirement, Zaugg travels extensively and does pro bono work for a Guatemalan textile museum.  Recently, she has attended several of MIT’s delta v entrepreneurship program presentations and looks forward to Smith’s parallel.",
    "role": "Chief Marketing Office",
    "company": "IMS Health (retired)",
    "company_link": "",
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  {
    "name": "Arabia Simeon",
    "bio": "Arabia Simeon is an artist, designer, entrepreneur, and storyteller from Brooklyn, NY. She received a dual degree in Computer Science and Studio Art from Smith College in 2019. She’s passionate about documenting culture and creating art and tech-based experiences. She’s the founder of Da Cypher Media Group, a collective, dedicated to telling Black and Brown stories through art, media, fashion, and community. Arabia is currently a 2021 Venture for America Fellow and a Designed by Community Fellow featuring community project, \"From Blocks to Beats\". In her free time, Arabia explores photography, animation, and is a youth council member on the NYC Mayor's Action Plan(MAP) for Neighborhood Safety in New York City Housing Authority.",
    "role": "Founder",
    "company": "Da Cypher Media Group",
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  {
    "name": "Ari Lennox",
    "bio": "Ari Lennox, is an American R&B singer-songwriter from Washington, D.C.. She is the first female artist to be signed to J. Cole's record label, Dreamville Records.",
    "role": "R&B singer-songwriter",
    "company": "Dreamville Records",
    "company_link": "",
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