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Madison, Wisconsin, 53715
United States

Christina Olstad

Olstad is the current Dean of Students at UW-Madison. She is passionate about students' success and want to work to make sure all students at UW succeed. Her past work involves areas such as financial wellness, faculty outreach, working with students in distress, and supporting students with food insecurity and she has nearly two decades of experience in higher education administration, residence life, crisis response, and staff development.

Irwin Goldman

Goldman is a professor at UW-Madison, in the Horticulture Department since 1992. He has been serving on the Biosecurity Task Force for six years and the Human Subject Research Protection Advisory Committee for five years.

Jeff Snell

Snell believes in social innovation as a powerful tool to solve social problems—the result of his career path, including leading one of the largest youth development organizations in the country and raising $100 million to build a private foundation with assets projected at $1 billion.

Julie Kratz

Julie is a highly-acclaimed leadership trainer who has experience leading teams and producing results in corporate America. After experiencing her career's “pivot point,” she developed a process for women leaders to build winning plans. Promoting gender equality in the workplace.

LaToya Adkins

LaToya S. Adkins (LA) is a champion of solitude, storyteller, entrepreneur, and Licensed Clinical Social Worker from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She shares the transformative and meaningful power that solitude has in providing healing from loss, shame, and trauma, with hopes that it will help others also improve their relationships with and understanding of themselves.

Lennox Owino

Owino is a freshman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is among 6 young people from Africa and South East Asia who were awarded a King Morgridge Fellowship to the University of Wisconsin-Madison thanks to their individual efforts in poverty alleviation in their home countries. He was selected due to his engagement in bridging the education access gap in his home country, Kenya.

Marilyn Sandoval

Marilyn Rose is a globally recognized Business coach for ambitious women who feel lost and silent with gifts that can help others. As previous UW-Madison alumni, Marilyn has since worked for a 30M dollar startup before branching off to reinvent herself again and creating her company, Wealthy Women.

Muhammad Ibrahim

Ibrahim will speak on the YES Program, which is a United States Department of State funded scholarship exchange program for high school students from all around the world to spend one year in United States. Ibrahim was selected out of a pretty competitive pool of nearly 6,000 candidates from his country.

Patrick Remington

He was the Chief Medical Officerfor Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention in the Wisconsin Division of Health for almost a decade, and joined the Department of Population Health Sciences in 1997. Since, he was the first Director of the UW MPH Program, the UW Population Health Institute, and the UW Preventive Medicine Residency Program; was the first Associate Director for Population Health Science in the Carbone Cancer Center, and was the inaugural Associate dean for Public Health in the renamed, School of Medicine and Public Health.