ECHO Leadership TEAM

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    Jamai Blivin

    Founder & CEO, Innovate+Educate, Founder, The Close It Summit

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    Tiffany Nicholson

    Author, ECHO

  • Yichen Feng

    Investment Director, Acumen America

  • Stephanie Veck

    Principal, American Institutes for Research (AIR)

  • Micaela Pearson

    Chief Business Officer, CareerTeam

  • Josh Davies

    Workforce Futurist

Team & Advisors

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    Jamai Blivin

    Founder & CEO, Innovate+Educate, Founder, The Close It Summit

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    Tiffany Nicholson

    Production Lead, Close It 2027

  • Scott Fast

    Director, Innovate+Educate

  • Stephanie Veck

    Principal, American Institutes for Research (AIR)

  • Daniel Davenport

    Artistic Design and Branding

  • Wendy Brors

    Project Lead SME, American Institute for Research (AIR)

  • Janet Bray

    CEO and Founder, Bray Strategies

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    Cindy Murphy

    Awards Program Coordinator, Human Resources Consultant

We are curating an amazing list of speakers and participants. Interested in sharing your wisdom? Please shoot us an email

contactus@closeit.org