Meet the Team

Senior Lecturer Harvard Business School, Board Member, Advisor to Emerging Tech Companies

Director of Student Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives at Boston University Questrom School of Business

SGO Co-CEO Felicia Jadczak is a recognized speaker, strategist, and voice in the field of diversity and inclusion. She has deep, extensive and personal experience with leadership, innovation, women in the workforce, multiracial concerns, and disability. She has worked in the technology industry for over ten years before moving on to the startup and consulting life. She holds an MBA and a Masters in Information Systems from the Questrom School of Business at Boston University and is also the recipient of Georgetown University’s Certificate in Strategic Diversity and Inclusion Management.

Chris founded True Change Associates in 2015 after 20 years of working with academic institutions, corporations, and nonprofit organizations focusing on diversity and inclusion, social justice, leadership development, and team building. TCA’s mission is to work in community with others in helping people and organizations move through personal growth to creating lasting institutional and systemic change around equity and inclusion.

Karina is a facilitator specializing in leading training workshops that help promote heightened self-awareness, engagement and learning in the workplace with a diversity and inclusion lens. Originally from San Antonio via Mexico City, Karina Becerra is a Boston University graduate and current MBA candidate at Babson College, F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business. She has used her 10+ years in client management/marketing to drive success within cross-functional teams.

Nadia Butt is a consultant specializing in Organizational Development, Change Management, and Lean Leadership. Nadia has developed, led and managed complex strategic and operational initiatives within a Fortune 100 diversified global insurance company.

For over 10 years, Nadia launched global learning and talent solutions for diversity and inclusion programs, lean management projects, and coached senior managers and executive to become more effective leaders.

Nadia holds a MBA from Suffolk University and a Diversity & Inclusion certificate from Cornell University. Outside of work, Nadia loves yoga, kayaking and indoor row. She has traveled to over 35 countries.

Sarah is the founder of The Uncomfortable Conversation, a campaign to bring sexual violence out of the closet and lift survivors to their full potential. She advises and consults with leaders and organizations on truth-telling, resource development, and social impact. Sarah graduated from Brown University, and has an MBA from Boston College.

Originally from San Antonio via Mexico City, Karina Becerra is a Boston University graduate and current MBA candidate at Babson College, F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business. She has used her 10+ years in project/account management to drive success in cross-functional teams. A proud geek, Karina loves fostering innovation, diversity and women inclusion in technology. In her free time, you can find her cooking at home with her husband, enjoying a cocktail with friends, or acting as an Instagram stage mom to her newly svelte 15 lb. cat, Santiago.

Lorin Bond is a California girl who lived in Boston and is now back out in the San Francisco Bay Area, still spreading the SGO love! She earned her MBA at Boston University and is passionate about helping small organizations mature in a healthy way. She currently works at npm, Inc. and geeks out for anything related to human behavior, music or the Golden State Warriors.

Melissa Carlson is an Emmy Award-winning Senior Digital Producer at WGBH Educational Foundation. She leads the development of digital games and experiences for children’s educational properties including PBS KIDS’s Design Squad and Plum Landing.

Juliana is a former craft beer journalist, current flavored seltzer enthusiast, and digital marketing professional. She focuses her after-hours energy on building up the city’s creative community via Boston Content, and telling everyone she meets about how awesome SGO is. Juliana has been featured on Jay Acunzo’s “Unthinkable” podcast, and her writing has appeared on Social Media Today, iMedia Connection, and LinkedIn Pulse. You can find her musings on Twitter @attackofthetext.

I am a mental health advocate, gamer nerd, singer, kitchen witch, and cat mom. If you want to talk about music, puzzles, psychology, ethical tech (what’s that?), writing, or just really good cheese, then I’m your lady.

Leslie Coles is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Moms as Mentors, a non-profit dedicated to helping develop the next generation of influential female leaders, with an emphasis on helping moms foster girls’ confidence in STEM, entrepreneurship and politics. Leslie also serves as the Director of Programs at VentureLab, a non-profit organization that is helping today’s youth to become tomorrow’s innovators and changemakers through experiential entrepreneurship education.

Suzi is a front-end web developer at Cinch Financial. She used to work from home, alone, for a teeny-tiny, family-owned UI design agency, but then she went to the Startup Institute and fell in with the right crowd. They taught her how to be a person and talk to people. She knits a lot, plays board games, and is a newly-minted Star Wars fan. This is not her chicken.

Marlene is a visual communicator, driven by improving the human experience. She loves to create engaging digital experiences that connect with customers and satisfy business objectives within an agile inspired process. As a Product Designer for ThirdChannel in Cambridge, she enjoys working collaboratively with her team building interactive solutions grounded by solid qualitative and quantitative research, user-centered design principles and industry best practices. Marlene is a Canadian, an artist, world traveller, and a mad cookie baker…… she geeks out about throwing parties with epic cheese board spreads and living it up in East Boston.

With over 15 years in product management, Tracy has helped launch and create breakout products in industries ranging from healthcare to legal services to education for both b-to-b and b-to-c customers.  Tracy’s expertise is to extract business and product design from the ambiguity and morass of the marketplace through detailed research and contextual inquiry.  Working together with developers and user design teams, she translated requirements into a viable end-user friendly products that  contributed significant value and revenue to the organizations at which she worked, including athenahealth, Wolters Kluwer, and Harvard Business School.

Kelly McStay is a software product manager with experience in both consumer and enterprise products. She credits She+ Geeks Out with helping build her confidence while transitioning into a career in product management — and as a California native, for introducing her to a group of truly inspiring women in Boston. Talk to her about awesome software (and hair) products, travel bucket lists, and all things West Coast/Best Coast at an SGO event.

Laurel Ruma is a Strategic Content Director at O’Reilly Media in its Boston office. She has worked at the company for 10 years in various roles, including as an editor, open government evangelist, and most recently Director of Acquisitions. Laurel originally hails from Maine, brews her own beer, and geeks out over European noir fiction and cooking.

Zoe’s interests include dogs, Beyoncé, and playing with dogs while listening to Beyoncé. She’s been in the Boston tech scene since 2010, currently leading Yesware’s People Operations. Before entering the real world, Zoe graduated from the University of Richmond with degrees in Leadership Studies and Sociology and a concentration in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. That was where she first started getting involved in diversity and inclusion efforts, and she’s thrilled to continue that mission through this partnership with SGO.

Russian-born, Brooklyn-made, Boston-redesigned. Yanina Wolfe is a geek who loves tech, innovation, and social enterprise. Yanina loves serving as everything from Chair of Acumen+Boston to Speaker Trainer at TedxSomerville to co-founding City Awake. In her day jobs she’s doing everything from optimizing operations and project managing at two startups. She excels in building movements that galvanize people. Yanina graduated magna cum laude from Hobart and William Smith Colleges with a double major in Political Science and Critical Social Studies. After graduating, she bought a one-way ticket to Bangkok for a solo five-month trip to Southeast Asia. At home in Cambridge, Yanina is a foodie who enjoys live music and yoga.