Chandell is a dynamic educator and serial social entrepreneur. She began her career serving low-income students in the Bronx and Harlem as a teacher and school leader with demonstrated results. She simultaneously launched a multi-national volunteer travel and exchange company (Destination Impact) to address education and health disparities across the African diaspora. In 2020-2021, she led the design and launch of Degrees of Freedom- an anti-oppressive higher education program for low-income, first-generation, and BIPOC youth utilizing a reduced residency model, virtual reality, and apprenticeship learning, which was 1 of only 2 non-profits accepted into Y-Combinator W21 batch. Most recently, Chandell spearheaded expansion efforts across LatAm and Africa as Senior Vice President of Programs for global non-profit entrepreneurship organization, 3 Day Startup before launching Chany Ventures.

Chandell is a graduate of North Carolina A&T State University and Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Eleanor Brown is a Co-Founder of DiversiBoard, a Techstars/JP Morgan/Google Tech Equity company that uses AI to enable African and Caribbean technical talent to apply to universities and companies in North America and Europe with minimal hassle. She is also a Professor of Law at Fordham University and an affiliated faculty member at the Rock Ethics Institute of the Pennsylvania State University where she was previously a Professor of Law and International Affairs. and a member of the Dean's Suite at the Law School. She was previously a chair of the Jamaica Trade Board. Brown was appointed by Andrew Holness, the Prime Minister of Jamaica, to the CARICOM Commission. She has served on the boards of several publicly traded Caribbean companies and was the youngest director of two subsidiaries of the Bank of Nova Scotia (Jamaica), one of the largest subsidiaries of the largest Canadian bank (by market capitalization). Brown was the youngest director of JPSCo, the electric utility owned by Korea Electric Power Corp., Marubeni Corp. of Japan, and the government of Jamaica. Brown holds a bachelor’s degree in molecular biology from Brown University and a master’s degree in politics from Balliol College, Oxford where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She earned her J.D. from the Yale Law School and was a Reginald Lewis Fellow at Harvard Law School.

As the co-founder of La Huerta de Elisa, Roxana has helped create the first fresh and healthy children's food brand in Mexico, now available in Walmart stores across the country. A Cambridge University law graduate, Roxana has previously worked in human rights, focusing on gender equality at the EU Delegation to China, and then helped scale a Latam-based ed-tech startup during the pandemic.

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Raven Rodriguez is a New York City-born storyteller, researcher, and educator. A multi-hyphenated strategist, Raven utilizes multiple intersectional frameworks to creatively conduct in-depth research on race, racism, and racial history. Dedicated to the deconstruction of colonial structures, her work explores intersecting systems of oppression and how they became embedded in dominant culture and institutionalized in our structures.

Rodriguez is a Yale-educated, Forbes-featured strategist who has worked within government, on Congresswoman Alexandria Ocosia Cortes’ political campaign, and for noteworthy universities and organizations like Harvard, Princeton, and Planned Parenthood.

Alejandra Rodríguez Navarro graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Integral Design from ITESO and pursued further studies in Marketing at the University of Malaga, Spain. With a passion for technology, interconnectivity, and creativity, she founded two technology-based companies (Krrrunch and iBasto). Currently, Alejandra serves as CEO of iBasto.com, a startup aimed at digitizing the supply chain of corner grocery stores in Mexico, a type of business that is 60% led by women. Beyond her entrepreneurial ventures, Alejandra is a staunch advocate for the inclusion of women in the STEAM fields.

She co-founded Talent Woman, an international movement that seeks to empower and inspire girls and women to pursue careers in science, technology, and business. In addition, she founded Equalitics for Children, an organization that provides advanced education to children in economically vulnerable situations, promoting equality and access to opportunities.