Nina Archie, Project Manager, and Diversity Tech Policy Advisor of The Commercializer®, LLC, a strategic consulting firm. Ms. Archie is an advocate for diversity and inclusion in the tech ecosystem, encompassing intellectual property, economic development, social justice, small business ownership, and access to resources for innovators in underrepresented groups. Ms. Archie's expertise includes creating initiatives and providing strategies on Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer programs as well as focusing on increasing the participation of underrepresented groups in the patent and commercialization process. The Commercializer®, LLC also recently testified before the House of Representatives Small Business Committee on a legislative hearing titled “Patent Diversity for America’s Innovators” on the obstacles facing underrepresented groups in the patent, commercialization, and small business ownership process. Ms. Archie is the Co-Lead for the Washington DC Chapter of Black Women Talk Tech. 

Dorothy Jones-Davis is the Executive Director of Nation of Makers, a nonprofit whose mission is to support America’s maker organizations through advocacy, resource sharing, and the building of community within the maker movement and beyond. In this role, she is deeply interested in creating connections between a diversity of makers, enabling them to use their collective skills to harness solutions for the world’s challenges – grand and small. 

With a Ph.D. in Neuroscience, Dorothy has previously held roles at the National Science Foundation, the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, and the University of California, San Francisco. 

Dorothy's interest and passion for making began when she was a child (see her Medium post on Why She Makes), tinkering with broken electronics with her dad.  In her spare time, she now enjoys carrying on the tradition of building and making, with her eleven-year-old daughter.

Joey Womack’s goal is to positively impact 1 billion people by the year 2039. Part startup coach, part super-connector, he is the Founder of Goodie Nation, a tech nonprofit that empowers everyone to play a role in using innovation to reduce disparities in education, environmental sustainability, financial access, health, and safety. He also leads WeWork’s entrepreneurship program in Atlanta as Labs Manager, a hybrid physical space and dedicated support program for the city’s most promising early stage startups particularly in social impact, media, sports, entertainment, food, beverage, and consumer packaged goods as well as startups with Black, Latinx, women, and/or global founders.

Joey was bitten by the entrepreneurial bug in 2002 when he launched digitalguestlist.com as a graduate student at Florida A&M University. He grew the site to 80,000 users, and advertised thousands of events for Fortune 500 companies, agencies, and high-profile promoters during special events like NBA All-Star Weekend, Super Bowl Weekend, and Essence Music Festival.

Joey received his MBA from Florida A&M University in the Spring of 2003, where he was also initiated into Alpha Phi Alpha, Fraternity, Inc.