Kitty Boone is an accomplished executive with significant experience in developing, producing and curating events, most notably Aspen Ideas Festival, a renowned program of the Aspen Institute. Across twenty years, Kitty served as VP, Public Programs at the Institute, adding Aspen Ideas Climate, Ideas Abu Dhabi, Bloomberg City Lab, Unfinished, and smaller forums to its portfolio.  Prior to Aspen Institute, Kitty served as VP , Marketing & Sales, Aspen Skiing Company.  A native of San Francisco,  Ms. Boone currently serves on the board of the Stanford Alumni Association and the Stanford Alumni Board of Governors.  In addition to launching a new entity, Ideas Collaborative, which connects freelancers to projects, Kitty serves in an advisory role to Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.  She is the mom of twins, aged 27.

Sarah Zak Borgman is working on impact-focused convenings, strategic community building and communication functions for organizations including; Ideas San Francisco, CorpsAfrica, GMMB, and The Wellbeing Project.  Directly prior, Sarah oversaw the Skoll Foundation's Community of Awardees and Skoll’s high-profile platforms including the Skoll World Forum, as the Vice President of Community and Convenings for 12 years. Earlier in her career, Sarah served in executive capacities at companies and organizations in the public, private and government sectors such as the X PRIZE Foundation, Girl Scouts, Porter Novelli International, Peace Corps, and the Clinton Administration. 

Corwin Creative helps organizations deepen their impact through messaging, storytelling and media. We focus on work for social good.  Founder Tom Corwin has years of experience as a creative, producer, storytelling consultant & presentation coach. He produces and supports narratives in a variety of mediums; live productions, exhibit design, podcasts and film.  As the co-creative director of COAL + ICE Corwin programmed 25 events over one month in SF including four nights at Symphony Hall.    Clients include: Brady United, The California Academy of Sciences, Common Sense Media, Earthjustice, Human Rights Watch, Intuit, SFMOMA, Emerge and others.

Maria MacDonald Gimenez began her career as a Techstars-backed entrepreneur, starting, scaling, and selling a media company in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Most recently, she held leadership sales roles for more than a decade at Oracle and Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the Bay Area. She's passionate about learning and connecting people in a pursuit to bring people for a brighter future for all.

Genelise Hazen is a UC Santa Barbara graduate with a BA in Economics, passionate about financial inclusion, education, and AI technology. She recently interned at the Aspen Institute, where she played a key role in ensuring a positive experience for both festival sponsors and attendees. Committed to engaging the younger generation in critical conversations that shape our world, she strives to ignite enthusiasm for building a brighter future. Additionally, she is a seasonal ski instructor at Aspen Skiing Company, where she enjoys sharing her love for skiing and the outdoors.

Marlene Saritzky has deep expertise in signature event curation/programming and content strategy, strategic communications and public affairs. Her experience spans work with startups and long-established companies/brands, for profit/non-profit, with stints at in-house positions and as a consultant. She's worked in the fields of publishing/journalism, entertainment, business, food/culinary, technology, climate change, kids/family advocacy, gender-based violence, media, politics and consumer products.  Marlene’s event experience includes curation, production, and/or direction for events/initiatives for Fortune Brainstorm TECH, Human Rights Center, Time Inc., Lucasfilm, Common Sense Media, TheWrap.com, Asia Society/Coal + Ice, Brady United, Futures Without Violence, QCWare, Archetype, Outcast, Sony, Goldman Environmental Prize, Center for Investigative Reporting, Chez Panisse Foundation,  Pivotal Software/VMWare, and Santa Fe Literary Festival, among others.