“Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.”

Tomi Fadeyi-Jones is an HR leader and practitioner with over 20 years in the field. She has worked with a myriad of companies, in multiple industries with varying organizational structures. In 2018, she launched My HR Consultant, LLC, a boutique firm founded on the belief that HR works best as an integrated part of business operations. Tomi brings years of experience and her unique business forward perspective to each client engagement. Tomi holds a graduate degree in Business Administration (MBA), and undergraduate degrees in Human Resources and Marketing. She also holds executive certificates in Strategic Change Management; Leading Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; and Employee Wellness and Stress Management. Her areas of expertise include organization design and structure; performance and talent management; compensation; diversity, equity, and inclusion; process improvement; learning solutions; and workforce planning. Tomi is actively engaged in her community and works to advance social action. She currently serves on the board of Patients for Affordable Drugs, the only independent national patient organization focused exclusively on achieving policy changes to lower the price of prescription drugs. She just recently ended her term as President of the Board of Directors for Horizons Greater Washington, a nonprofit organization designed to empower economically disadvantaged students to realize their full potential. Tomi is a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., and stays engaged through her local alumnae chapter. When she’s not behind a laptop, she can be found officiating regional swim meets, exploring her newly discovered artistic interests, working through her k-drama watchlist, and spending time with her family.

Andre Hill is a serial entrepreneur whose career has been dedicated to the founding of innovative companies that develop groundbreaking software solutions. He is the founder and CEO of Treno.io, a venture-backed startup whose software delivers observability for the software development life cycle. Andre is an alumnus of the University of Maryland, where he was recognized as a distinguished scholar and majored in Physical Sciences with degree concentrations in Engineering, Computer Science, and Physics. In addition to his work in the world of high tech, Andre is also the founder of Elevate International, a multi-platform, international non-profit organization. Elevate runs programs that actively address homelessness in the Washington, D.C. area while also providing educational opportunities to underprivileged children residing in the impoverished communities in and around Nairobi, Kenya. In his spare time, you can find Andre riding his bicycle for hours on end and rooting for the University of Maryland basketball team.

Brendan McElroy is the Head Coach of the USA Swimming Team JCC Barracudas (of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Baltimore), as well as the Head Coach of MD Metro Swim Team. Prior to entering the world of swimming, Coach McElroy earned his economics degree from the University of Virginia and upon graduating, worked in sales for a prominent chemical manufacturing company in St. Louis, Missouri. While his job as a highly paid executive had its benefits, Coach Brendan yearned for something more meaningful and found that by giving back to the Baltimore community in the form of coaching.  Coach McElroy began his coaching career with the Baltimore City Swim Club (BCSC) in the late 1990s and now, in addition to being the Head Coach of JCC and MD Metro, coaches for several different venues and organizations, including the Naval Academy Swim Camp in Annapolis, MD. McElroy is the former president of the Swim Dreams Youth Program, the former Diversity Chair of Maryland Swimming, and has been the Co-Director of Baltimore’s All God’s Children Camp for more than 25 years.

Tiffany Monique Quash, Ph.D. earned her BA in Political Science and swam competitively at Randolph Macon Women’s College; earned her M.Ed. in Physical Education from Springfield College; and earned her PhD in Leisure Behavior from Indiana University's School of Public Health’s Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Program. Her research focuses on the intersectionality of race, gender, class, and one’s historical relationships with swimming and higher education. As a researcher and scholar, Dr. Quash is committed to the sport of swimming and the silenced voices in the sport of swimming and in higher education. As an Unapologetic Black Queer Womxn, she understands the complexities of her existence within academia and the sport of swimming; it is because of her experiences as a swimmer, coach, and academic, that she understands the importance of the representation of marginalized voices. Outside of her academic schedule, Dr. Quash was an assistant swim coach with Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, Massachusetts), served as an assistant coach for several teams (including the Rose Bowl Aquatics Center, Bloomington Swim Club, Nation's Capital Swim Club, and DC Wave), and was head swim coach of 3 teams in California. In 2020, Dr. Quash delivered a TEDx talk that examined the roots of our swimming history and the preventable pandemic of drowning. In it, she addressed water safety education, collaborating with the International Water Safety Foundation, and encouraging participation in International Water Safety Day on May 15th. To watch her TEDx talk, go here: “Learning to Swim is a Human Right.”

Yolanda Young is the President & CEO of Lawyers of Color (LoC), a nonprofit that provides news and publications of import to minority attorneys. LoC, which has been mentioned in Bloomberg News and The New York Times, is celebrating its 10th Anniversary this year. Yolanda has testified before the United States Congress regarding domestic violence and Head Start; addressed audiences at Harvard Law School, Vassar College, and Dillard University; and served as the keynote speaker for the National Black Pre-Law Conference. As an author and journalist, her work can be seen in a variety of venues. Her memoir, On Our Way to Beautiful, was published by Random House; articles and editorials have appeared in a number of esteemed publications such as The Washington Post, The Guardian and USA TODAY; and she has contributed to several news outlets such as NPR and CNN.