Dr. Nina Ellis-Hervey is an award-winning tenured and Associate Professor in the School Psychology Doctoral Program at Stephen F. Austin State University. She is a Licensed Psychologist (Clinical & School), Nationally Certified School Psychologist, a Licensed Specialist in School Psychology (Texas and Louisiana) and a Certified Professional Life Coach. She is also the director of the School Psychology Assessment Center on campus. She is soon to be a Certified Personal Trainer in 2020.

Dr. Nina’s YouTube channels BeautifulBrwnBabyDol and BeautifulBrwnBabyDolTV chronicle her more than 100lb. weight loss she has maintained for over 14 years, educational triumphs, healthy psychological tips and beauty tutorials. With over 1 million subscribers on YouTube, millions of video views nationally and internationally, and over 1 million following across networks, Dr. Nina is making her mark on the world. She has been featured and recognized by Rolling Out Magazine, PEOPLE, Essence and Ebony magazines, Buzzfeed, and the TV shows HLN News Live, the Jeff Probst Show, Inside Edition, Extra, The Grio, Refinery 29, Delux Magazine and more! She has also partnered and consulted with power brands such as DevaCurl, Black Enterprise, Pic Monkey, Aveeno and many more!

Kimberly Penn or the ‘High Tech Maven’ founded Webtropolis, a boutique technology consulting firm over 27 years ago.  Webtropolis specializes in technical audits, risk mitigation, disaster preparedness and recovery.   She also founded two corporations specializing in drone technology and audio/video in addition to IoT technology.  Currently, she has clients in greater Houston, thirteen states, Washington-DC, Canada, Mexico, Poland, and Dubai.  She has worked on technology and security-based projects with budgets in excess of $30million+.

Kimberly is also the Entrepreneur In Residence for Houston Community College – HCC SW.  In her role, Kimberly supports students, faculty, staff, community members, small business owners and corporate partners via a variety of entrepreneurial initiatives. 

Kimberly as a business accountability coach and highly regarded maven has advised and consulted with over 32 startups and founders including leading a number of those organizations to major funding cycles. 

Having served on several national Information Technology Curriculum committees she managed a national (English to Spanish) translation technology curriculum project for over 365,000 students. She is a Subject Matter Expert, Content Expert and published author for Pearson Publishing.

 She has spent over 16 years teaching at the college level.  Kimberly has earned several local, state and national teaching awards at the collegiate level.  Kimberly is grateful to serve on several greater Houston non-profit boards and advisory committees as she believes that service is the rent, we pay for the privilege of living on this earth (Shirley Chisholm).   

Christopher Senegal, after 16 years of education and graduating with engineering degree in hand, he quickly realized he wanted more than 40 years in Corporate America. After getting into day trading and watching the volatility in the market take out many traders, he found himself growing a passion for real estate investing. 

Chris is now a Houston real estate developer and entrepreneurship advocate. At 36 he currently has $6M in development going on in Houston’s 5th Ward. 

His life’s mission is to impart knowledge and financial literacy to those who would not otherwise be exposed to the information. Understanding how money works is an important part of life in modern society, however it’s a subject that is not a major part of the curriculum in the school system. He desires to lead by example while bridging the gap for future generations to start on the road to financial independence earlier than the usual 30-40 years to retirement, which is the standard taught to the lower and middle class.

Ty’Lisha Summers, a Kansas City native, resides in Houston, TX with her husband and daughter. As a Chemical Engineer from the University of Missouri-Rolla, TyLisha has rooted her career in the oil and gas industry for the past 12 years. Her work experience includes process engineering, energy optimization, technical sales and supervision of third party operations. For the past 9 years that TyLisha has resided in Houston, she has served as director of a non-profit organization which mentors underrepresented teenage girls, a Junior Achievement volunteer tutoring students in the Greater Houston community and a chartering member of the Houston chapter of Black Girl Ventures, an organization that provides access to social and financial capital to black and brown women founders, as well as a host of other service activities.  TyLisha is also the co-founder of SpenDebt, a fintech company created by her and her husband Kiley Summers, which helps consumers pay off debt with every purchase made!