Our Members

Ivy began her career as a computer programmer with Accenture, designing and developing systems for Fortune 500 companies in telecom, media and entertainment. Since joining Walmart in 2010, she has risen quickly through supply chain and operations to her current role as Head of Store Operations, East. That includes 817 stores in 16 states plus Washington, D.C. As Walmart’s Black ERG chair, Ivy played a key role in shaping the company’s strategy in the wake of George Floyd’s murder.

Melissa grew up in Los Angeles, graduated from Notre Dame, and earned an MBA from The University of Chicago. She started her career in Ecuador at Citi and Grupo Futuro and then spent seven years at Best Buy before joining Sleep Number in 2013. Today, Melissa leads a broad portfolio for the high-tech bedding company, from development through distribution. She also serves on the boards of Pentair and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota.

Robyn grew up outside Boston, studied civil engineering, and early in her career helped build the world’s largest headquarters solar panel installation at Google. She went on to roles at Vestas Wind Systems and with inventor Dean Kamen before founding Blueprint Power, a company that equipped real estate owners with software to manage and sell excess energy. Robyn sold Blueprint to BP in 2021 and stayed on to lead it inside BP’s Gas and Power Trading division until early 2025.  As an Operating Partner at Sandbrook Capital, she’s focused on building businesses that transform the world’s energy infrastructure.

Jemina’s journey has taken her from the South Bronx to Yale to Columbia Business School, where she earned an MBA. She worked at Deloitte, PwC, and the New York Department of Education before joining Teach for America. Jemina left her SVP role there in 2013 to lead ROADS Charter High Schools and the Student Leadership Network, and returned in 2019. She served as Teach for America’s COO, overseeing a 12,000-strong teacher corps in underserved schools across the U.S., until 2026.

Born in Haiti and raised in Brooklyn, Alex earned a BA in biochemistry from Harvard and Master’s degrees in business and law from Stanford. She began her career at Goldman Sachs, later joined the pan-African private equity firm ECP, and then moved to Meta. At Meta, Alex has led major infrastructure investment programs across Africa, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific region. As Vice President, she oversees a global team that designs, delivers, and deploys subsea and terrestrial fiber networks to connect Meta’s data centers and support more than three billion users. Alex also serves as a Commissioner on the Los Angeles Workforce Development Board.

Utaukwa grew up in South Carolina, in a close-knit community that shaped her belief in collective opportunity. She earned a BA from Duke University, a JD from Duke Law School, and a Master’s and Doctorate in Education from Harvard. After working in law firms as a corporate and privacy attorney, Utaukwa moved to Microsoft, then global IT consultancy Kyndryl, and eventually Google. As Global Head of Economic and Community Development for Google’s Data Centers, she leads initiatives across global markets to expand access to technology.

Theonie grew up in France and the UK before immigrating to the U.S. during elementary school. After earning a BS from Haverford and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, she joined Flagship Pioneering in 2018, where she, as an Origination Partner, focuses on founding, building, and growing companies. She co-founded Alltrna to pioneer medicines for rare genetic diseases, and she is the Founding President of Prologue Medicines, building AI-enabled, evolution-optimized therapeutics. 

Sam grew up in Manalapan, New Jersey, graduated from New York University, and worked at skincare startups and Estée Lauder (squeezing in a year at Bridgewater Associates in between) before she co-founded FoodHealth Company to improve the world’s health through food—and help millions of people with food allergies like she has. FoodHealth Company began as a food-as-medicine marketplace for healthcare providers and employers, and then Sam pivoted to build a nutrition technology company. FoodHealth Company provides its trademark FoodHealth Score to manufacturers and retailers so customers can improve and personalize their food purchases.

Born in South Africa and raised in Alaska, Muriel navigated to the intersection of AI and the global workforce. Earning a doctorate in industrial and organizational psychology from the University of Georgia along the way, she is on a mission to enable the underserved. Muriel co-founded Anthill to connect the deskless workforce—frontline workers who often lack access to smartphones and computers—with employee resources on any kind of device and in over 100 languages. In 2026, Muriel sold Anthill to Humanly, an AI recruiting company.