Whether you're a veteran looking for a civilian role that will leverage your skills and prior experience, a military spouse looking for a job that can accommodate your mobile lifestyle, an active duty service member preparing for a big transition, or a company looking to hire veterans or their spouses, we hope you'll join us to hear directly from companies committed to supporting service members and their families!

Learn about programs and roles designed specifically for veterans and military spouses, and get tips from recruiters and hiring managers on how to best showcase your experience. If you are a non-veteran hiring leader, join us to hear directly from experts to improve your application process.

Speakers at our 2021 event included General (ret.) Lori J. Robinson; Marcus A. Williams, Sr. Talent Strategy Leader, Military and Individuals with Disabilities (USN Retired), Kaiser Permanente; Stephanie Brown, Founder & CEO, The Rosie Network; Flossie Hall, Co-Founder, Association of Military Spouse Entrepreneurs; Jennifer Dane, CEO & Executive Director, Modern Military Association of America; Graciela Tiscareno-Sato, President of Gracefully Global Group LLC; Mike Slagh, Founder & CEO, Shift; Cynthia Kao, Director of Communications, Marketing and Program Development at Operation Code; and many others.

The summit will conclude with a free virtual job fair open to veterans, active service members, military spouses, and their supporters!

Join us as we explore the vastness of experiences encompassed by Latinidad, as well as the different ways Latin American heritage and culture influence everything from language to identity in the workplace. With topics ranging from bilingualism to the need for greater representation in the C-suite, you won’t want to miss this free opportunity to connect with your peers, network with top companies, and learn from leaders who’ve been in your shoes!

To uplift and advance the careers of the exceptional Indian tech professionals in our community, PowerToFly is hosting a Virtual Job Fair as part of our July Diversity Reboot Summit, “Tech In India: A Celebration�. If you are an Indian tech professional looking for a chance to work with highly visible, successful brands, they are looking for you, too! As a candidate, you’ll have the chance to explore freelance, remote, hybrid, and in-person jobs with leading multinationals, network with others in your areas of expertise or interest, and maybe even land a job at the next startup unicorn. Come join us!

Pride is not only rooted in the celebration of the LGBTQIA+ rights movement, it also serves as a reflection of the decades of work to overcome prejudice and advocate for equality for this marginalized community. While the world has seen great strides to increase the LGBTQIA+ inclusion, the professional world still has a way to go to reach true inclusion.

As part of Diversity Reboot 2022, our Pride summit series will focus on bringing individuals, leaders, and organizations together to talk about the actions they are taking to increase representation, showcase members of the PowerToFly community who are making an impact, and highlight companies actively hiring and investing in LGBTQIA+ talent.

Speakers from our 2021 "Diversity Reboot 2021: Pride: Championing LGBTQIA+ Leaders and Allies" summit included: Rep. Mark Takano, the first out gay man elected to the US Congress; Reggie Greer, Senior Advisor on LGBTQ+ Engagement under President Joe Biden; Ann Mei Chang, author of "Lean Impact�, and former Chief Innovation Officer at Pete for America; Peter Arvai, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman at Prezi; LaFawn Davis, Group Vice President of Environmental, Social & Governance at Indeed; David J. Johns, Executive Director of the National Black Justice Coalition; Ceyenne Doroshow, Executive Director of GLITS; Christian Fuscarino, Executive Director of Garden State Equality; educator & author Dr. Kryss Shane, LSW, LMSW (she/her), and many more.

Sales leaders from throughout tech, media, and beyond will come together to share their thoughts, plans, and strategies for the new year during this one- day event. Join us!

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) in the US have risen dramatically, with similar worrying trends in Canada, the UK, and New Zealand. This has sparked a worldwide conversation about the long history of racism and discrimination directed at Asians, Pacific Islanders, and the Asian diaspora. Despite these experiences, this resilient community continues to thrive, and PowerToFly is honored to provide a platform to highlight the achievements and excellence of our Asian and Pacific Islander community members around the world.

Join us for a series of interactive talks and conversations as we share how to break what author and strategist Jane Hyun calls the "bamboo ceiling,"; discuss the detrimental model minority theory; learn lesser-known API history; discuss how the pandemic has affected opportunities in India and throughout the Asian continent; and explore ways to uplift and celebrate our Asian and Pacific Islander leaders in our workplaces and communities.

As the President of the Washington Internship Institute, Gregory Weight is motivated to fulfill the mission of Washington Internship Institute. The mission is to foster students' intellectual, personal, and professional development. With WIIDC, you can intern at government offices, nonprofit organizations, and for-profit companies. Calling all eager students looking to invest in themselves and their future.

Ajah L. Amos

Ajah L. Amos is the Director of Strategic Partnerships for the UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Virginia (UHCCPVA) and serves as co-lead for the United Health Group African American Employee Resource Group. She joined UHCCPVA in August of 2017 continuing her tenure in Managed Care Network Management. In her current role, Ajah is responsible for ensuring UHCCPVA’s nearly 200k Medicaid and DSNP members have adequate access to quality network providers and building strong partnerships with those providers. Ajah is also responsible for regulatory compliance across all network teams and vendors.

Prior to this role, Ajah led Provider Relations, Outreach, Contracting, and Pricing and Configuration teams for Humana, Magellan Behavioral Health, Aetna, and Anthem BCBS over the past two decades servicing several thousand providers and members across Virginia and the eastern United States. This included new network builds, new product implementations, system migrations, direct member servicing and community partnerships.

Ajah is active in the community serving as a mentor for Tea Bags of Love, a Sunday School teacher for her local church and is a 20+ year member of the Virginia Air National Guard where she has served as a Munitions Specialist, Paralegal and currently serves as a Commissioned Officer and Equal Opportunity Director. In her current role Ajah champions equity, diversity and inclusion for her local market health plan. Ajah has her Bachelor of Science degree in Business and Mass Communications and Masters of Business Administration.

Married to her “Match Made in Heaven� Anthony (Tony), they share four beautiful children which make up their blended family (Roza-37, Shalonda 27, Savon-24, and Kendall-9). Ajah, Tony and Kendall currently reside in Glen Allen, VA.

Rita P. Mitchell

In a career spanning four decades, Rita P. Mitchell has a proven track record of achievement and success in the highly competitive financial services industry. Rita has 15 years of progressive leadership experience and retired in 2018 as Executive Vice President & Manager of Private Client Services for Middle TN at First Tennessee Bank (First Horizon currently $80 billion in assets). Rita managed Private Banking, Medical Private Banking and the Family Office Services for Middle TN.

Prior experiences include entrepreneurship where from 1986 to 1997 Rita was President of Mitchell Financial, Inc. an insurance and securities brokerage firm. Rita was awarded the U. S. Department of Commerce Regional Minority Service Firm of the Year (8 state region), Dr. R. H. Boyd- Woman Business Owner of the Year, and U.S. Small Business Administration Woman-Advocate of the Year and she also served on the Agriculture and Labor Advisory Council for the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Rita is a founding board member of Purpose Preparatory Academy, a charter school in the African American community in Nashville and past Board Chair of the Women’s Fund of the Community Foundation. In 2018, Rita joined Studio Bank’s Advisory Board, where she has worked on growth strategies for women, The Women’s Collective, and minorities, specifically related to the African American community as Studio Bank continues to gain market share in the Nashville Community. In Rita’s role as board member for the YWCA USA National Board, Rita serves on the Investment Committee, the CEO Search Committee, and will serve as Co-Chair of Development in the upcoming fiscal year.

In 2018, Rita launched her career as an author with her debut book, Own Your Phenomenal Self, a guide on empowering young career women to achieve their desired success and an Amazon bestseller. In 2021, Rita published her 2nd book, Spoken Art, a memoir of art and poetry in collaboration with her daughter, Brittany Mitchell.

Most recently, Rita is building financial service and insurance agencies across the U.S. with World Financial Group which is wholly owned by Transamerica (a subsidiary of Aegon).

Rita is seeking to serve on a corporate board and is actively seeking roles that will provide opportunities for her to contribute to a board, its committees and the broader company’s success. Rita splits her time between Nashville, TN and New York City, providing her convenient access to both domestic and international travel.

As the President of the Washington Internship Institute, Gregory Weight is motivated to fulfill the mission of Washington Internship Institute. The mission is to foster students' intellectual, personal, and professional development. With WIIDC, you can intern at government offices, nonprofit organizations, and for-profit companies. Calling all eager students looking to invest in themselves and their future.

Patricia Espinoza

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Patricia Mota

Patricia serves as the President & CEO for the Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement (HACE), leading strategy, fundraising & development, leadership programs, and expanding impact on a national scale. As an advocate for access and equity, Patricia strives to create a multi-generational, diverse, and inclusive support network to catapult the career growth Latinos across the country. Patricia leads with a diverse industry background, from co-founding a nonprofit, leading in community affairs for local government, marketing for corporate utilities company, to administration in higher education, to circling back to nonprofit at HACE as a Director in 2010, Sr. Director 2012, then CEO in 2015. Patricia has a strong history of serving the community, as reflected by her service on various nonprofit boards and committees, and several accolades, most recently appointed as a commissioner on the Illinois Hispanic Employment Plan Council and named Crain's Business Chicago Top 25 Most Powerful Latinos. Patricia earned a double Bachelor of Arts degree from Indiana University Bloomington in Spanish and Communication & Culture and a Master's in Public Affairs (MPA) in Public Management from Indiana University's School of Public & Environmental Affairs (SPEA)-Indianapolis. Patricia is also a certified leadership coach, Insights Discovery© licensed practitioner, and a proud Leadership Greater Chicago Fellow.

Virtual Job Fair

As a fully remote company, PowerToFly strongly believes that the future of work is one that embraces remote and hybrid models.

We are proud to present a two-day event focusing on the workplace of the future and how companies can plan for the ever-changing. We are excited to hear from leaders who have transitioned their teams to a hybrid or remote model during the pandemic, organizations that have embraced remote work from day one, and solutions platforms that are making it easier for teams to work asynchronously from all around the world.

Additional topics may include:

• The Great Resignation and its effect on the workplace
• What employees want
• Promoting work-life integration and wellness
• The best communication and project management tools
• And much more!

This summit will conclude with a free virtual job fair focusing on companies hiring for remote and hybrid roles around the world.

The job fair will feature recruiters from multiple companies where job seekers will be able to engage, ask questions, and build relationships.

As we move into a post-pandemic era, what lessons can we harness from our experiences over the past two years to create a more just and fair workplace and community, one that values diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging?

Join the PowerToFly team for a five-day, free virtual event exploring the future of work in an increasingly remote world and the role that diversity and wellness play in our ever-changing landscape.

At Diversity Reboot 2022: What’s Working, What’s Needed, we'll be hearing from top leaders in tech, business, DEI, wellness, childcare, media, politics, and finance as strategize our personal and professional plans. The summit will conclude with a virtual career fair to connect diverse candidates with high-visibility jobs at leading brands, an awards show to recognize the most impactful diversity and inclusion champions of the past year, and a weekend global hackathon, sponsored by major hiring companies. We're looking forward to seeing you!

For this free, interactive event we’ll be focusing on:

• Monday, March 7th: Elevating Your Career + Technology
• Tuesday, March 8th: Media Representation + Public Policy
• Wednesday, March 9th: DEI + the Future of Work
• Thursday, March 10th: Virtual Job Fair
• Friday, March 11th: Virtual Job Fair + Hackathon

Previous Diversity Reboot speakers have included Valerie Jarrett, Arianna Huffington, Donna Brazile, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Rep. Val Demings, Rep. Judy Chu, Johnny C. Taylor Jr., Ai-jen Poo, Carla Harris, Angelica Ross, Tiffany Cross, Jacqueline Novogratz, Geraldine Laybourne, Margery Kraus, Joanne Wilson, Aida Rodriguez, Lil Rel Howery, Jill Filipovic, Jonah Peretti, and hundreds more.

As we kick-off 2022 and look towards a brighter, post-pandemic future, many industries and communities are still recovering from the losses of the past two years. For example, did you know that COVID-related job losses pushed more Black women (9.5%) into unemployment than any other group? As we look at 2022 through a new lens, how can we be sure we are supporting our Black leaders and preventing this kind of loss from occurring again?

As we continue to learn from and be mobilized by the Black Lives Matter movement, it's clear we need to gather with leaders at the forefront of elevating Black leaders who can relay their accomplishments as well as the plans they have in-progress.

Join us as we celebrate the voices and achievements of Black leaders in business, and we share how we are holding each other, our work, and our organizations accountable to pledges for creating inclusive workplaces.

Speakers from our 2021 "Diversity Reboot: Elevating Black Women" summit included APCO Worldwide Senior Advisor, Equity and Justice, Charlene Wheeless; Global Head of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion for Thumbtack Dionna Smith; Group Vice President of Environmental, Social & Governance at Indeed LaFawn Davis; CoFounder & CEO of Fundr Lauren Washington, Author & Founder of MoveTheCrowd Rha Goddess, Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer of Randstad North America Audra Jenkins; The Jane Club's Chudney Ross and many more.

Don't miss this free opportunity to connect with your peers, network with top companies and learn from leaders who are looking for community feedback.

Join us as we celebrate the voices and achievements of Black Professionals in business and we share how we are holding each other, our work and our organizations accountable to pledges for creating inclusive workplaces.

Make sure to drop in to hear from leading companies and learn what you’ll need to do to get your foot in the door.

Representatives from participating companies will talk about their hiring processes, who they’re looking for, and company culture.

Gather round with PowerToFly members and other fellow attendees and guests. We look forward to learning more about you!

Gather round with PowerToFly members and other fellow attendees and guests. We look forward to learning more about you!

Being a military spouse could mean constantly changing bases and being in a new city often. This can be a great challenge when starting a career of your own. Michelle Penczak, CEO of Squared Away, understands this. Michelle is here to empower YOU -- as a military spouse, you too can build a meaningful career, be your trusted assistant, and work from anywhere. So, what do you say? Wanna get Squared Away?

Michelle Penczak

Named Marine Corps Base Kaneohe Bay Military Spouse of the Year 2019, Michelle is a virtual assistant by trade and a military spouse by love. Her husband Sean is an MV-22 pilot in the Marine Corps. Through multiple relocations and deployments, Michelle built a vibrant, thriving independent virtual assistant business that became the foundation for Squared Away. Squared Away is a team of 130 remote executive assistants that is composed almost entirely of military spouses. Her own experience as a military spouse gives her unique insight into the multitude of challenges facing other military spouses who want to have a career of their own. Currently based out of San Diego, California, this is Michelle's 4th duty station in her 8 years of marriage. In her spare time, she is also living life dangerously as a boy mom to Sawyer, 5, and Jameson, 2.

Meg Alexander joined the PowerToFly community as a job-seeker in 2014, eventually landing her first remote role working for PowerToFly's Delivery Team. Her professional experience includes roles as a Talent Advocate, Head of Purchasing for a window factory, audiobook publishing, & more than 5 years as a paralegal. She has a bachelor's degree in Art History from Indiana University (mint condition, never been used!), where she also earned a varsity letter for Women's Rowing. She loves DIY projects and will never say no to french fries. She lives in Toledo, OH with her husband Aaron, an engineering technician, and their dogs, Radar & Cake.

Sienna J. Brown is a Global D&I strategist at PowerToFly. As an educator, expat and entrepreneur her mission is to teach driven women how secure remote work opportunities aligned with their bigger mission and provide them with freedom and flexibility. Over the past 6 years, her focus has been working with companies and employees to create more diverse and inclusive workplaces that have a positive impact on their personal and professional lives. When she's not working, she's at home on the Mediterranean coast watering her plants, cooking a good meal or engaging in meaningful conversations with friends.

I'm the Co-Founder and President of PowerToFly, the largest platform companies use to engage women in tech, digital, sales and marketing. I love working with Fortune 50 enterprises to fast-growing startups that are adapting to be more inclusive and diverse. At PowerToFly, we've honed two distinct work streams to build diverse pipelines of underrepresented women in tech, sales, digital and marketing that are creating measurable results for talent acquisition leaders to show their C suites. From events that garner lead lists of mid to senior women in tech to media campaigns for sales roles, we're unlocking how to build truly diverse hiring pipelines. Thanks to the methods we've pioneered at PowerToFly, I was also named as one of Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business.

I frequently write and contribute to The New York Times, Quartz, Business Insider, Fortune and Forbes on how companies can solve their diversity hiring challenges. I also blog frequently at . Before I decided to cofound PowerToFly to tackle gender disparity, I was in media, where I started my career as the sixth employee of the Huffington Post. I left in November 2009 to take a role at The Washington Post as Executive Producer and Head of Digital News Products. Before co-founding PowerToFly, I was the Founding Managing Editor of NowThis.

Milena is the Co-Founder and CEO of PowerToFly - the fastest growing global platform dedicated to fast-tracking economic equity by upskilling and connecting underrepresented talent to roles in highly visible sectors. Milena’s on a mission to partner with top 100 brands to bring them a slew of diversity solutions provided through the PowerToFly platform.

Milena was born in Bulgaria and moved to New York City a week before September 11th to pursue a Masters at ITP NYU. Prior to co-founding PowerToFly, Milena has contributed to numerous startups, and had a blast being the CTO of Avaaz.org where she oversaw the technology to support growth to over 30 million members.

Milena is a frequent commentator on how companies can diversify their teams, especially in tech. Her work for PowerToFly has been recognized in Business Insider and she was named Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business in 2015. Her biggest accomplishments are her four children who constantly push her to rethink what work-life balance means.

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Managing Director, Washington D.C., APCO Worldwide

Licy Do Canto, a veteran of public policy, corporate strategy, health care communications and diversity and inclusion, is managing director of APCO Worldwide's Washington D.C. office headquarters and mid-Atlantic region lead. A well respected expert in public health and health care policy, with nearly three decades of experience at the international, national, state and local levels across the nonprofit, philanthropic, corporate and government sectors, Mr. Do Canto is an accomplished, values-driven leader with unparalleled experience in developing and leading integrated public affairs campaigns combining strategic communications, public relations, political/legislative initiatives, policy, coalition building, grassroots efforts and advocacy.

Mr. Do Canto has held a wide range of positions and has worked across diverse sectors and industries over the course of his successful career, making him uniquely qualified to understand and support leaders and organization to successfully navigate both the opportunities and the diplomatic, technical, and multifaceted industry challenges with which they are confronted. Mr. Do Canto has vast inside knowledge of the Washington political process, and deep substantive experience on a wide range of public policy issues from public health, health care and social impact to immigration, trade and economic development.