Lalah Delia is a spiritual writer, wellness educator, certified spiritual practitioner, founder of VibrateHigherDaily.com’s School of Vibration, and bestselling author Vibrate Higher Daily: Live Your Power. Her work, writings, and bestselling book are guiding readers around the globe on a journey back home to their empowered, higher-potential, whole selves. Through her lyrical and organic writing and teaching style and experiences, Lalah enlivens spiritual seekers looking to live with more intuition, empowerment, purpose, confidence, high vibrations, and grace.

Lalah, her work, and her story are featured on film, documentaries, and by a variety of media, including television, podcasts, and magazine. She has spoken at panels across the country such as SXSW, In Goop Health, Girlboss Rally, and has been featured in and by VOGUE, Harper's Bazaar, Instyle, PBS, Yoga Journal, Glamour magazine, goop, New York Magazine, The Cut, mindbodygreen, Essence, Girlboss Radio, Well+Good, Black Girl In Om, Zoe Report, Expanded Podcast, i-D, Hollywood Reporter, and more. Lalah has been interviewed by and seen on CBS Mornings, Entertainment Tonight, ABC News, PBS, and Good Morning America.

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During my internal medicine residency, Dr. Lester felt like she was missing a vital piece of the puzzle. She learned about how to treat every possible disease with medication and/or surgery, then she started asking herself questions she could not find the answer to. What about the effects of a poor diet on disease? What about high stress levels? What happens when you exhaust all your conventional medicine resources and you're still sick? As she searched for answers, she found integrative/functional medicine in 2008 and knew she found her place in the medical community.

For the last 12 years Dr. Lester has immersed herself in learning medicine from an entirely different perspective and she has since helped hundreds of people heal their chronic health conditions.

In her time as a physician, Dr. Lester has received numerous honors including:

• SXSW Panelist @ Wellness Expo 2018 and International Women’s Day 2019
• Selected as 33 Self-Care Sistahs That Helped Redefine Wellness in 2017 by ESSENCE Magazine
• Chosen as 26 Women of Color Changing the Face of Wellness by Thoughtfully Magazine 2017
• Voted Cincinnati's Best Doctors 2015-2016
• Elected one of the YWCA's Rising Stars in 2014
• Chosen as a Young Professional Emerging Leader by Cincinnati Magazine in 2013
• Selected as a Bravewell Clinical Integrative Medicine Fellow in 2011

Shevon Jones is the founder & CEO of the Mental Wellness Collective. The Mental Wellness Collective is designed specifically to meet the needs of Black Women & Women of Color. As the CEO, Ms. Jones creates a safe space for Black women to be vulnerable, to let go of their “super woman” cape and to breath again. Through her practice she empowers women and teens and provides them with tools and support to help resolve mental health issues, build their confidence and change negative thought patterns. Her background involves serving youth and families in suicide prevention, psychiatric hospitals, residential facilities, child welfare and in home therapy settings. Ms. Jones has over 10 years in the mental health field with specialized training in youth suicide prevention.

Shevon holds a master’s degree in Social Work and is a proud graduate of Clark Atlanta University, in Atlanta, Georgia.

Francheska Medina is a wellness advocate based out of Harlem, New York. After years of battling a painful chronic illness and then healing herself through studies of alternative medicine, nutrition and fitness, she became a spokesperson for more conscious day-to-day living.

In hopes of aligning with others on a similar quest, Francheska founded HeyFranHey.com in January of 2011; curating accessible, affordable and comprehensive holistic living resources. Since launching, HeyFranHey engages via monthly discussions spanning from DIY recipes for naturally glowing hair and skin, to introspective journal prompts and personal audits for mental and emotional hygiene.

Francheska has since followed up with the HeyFranHey YouTube Channel, the Loud Speakers Network wellness podcast, The Friend Zone and her own 12-city wellness tour, The Supernatural Pop-Up. HeyFranHey has been featured in Ebony, Essence, Nylon, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Lucky Magazine, Better Homes & Gardens, Refinery29, Vibe, Buzzfeed and The Huffington Post. Francheska has worked with Marriott International, Levi’s Jeans, Bose, Clarks and Target. Francheska hopes to continue to expand and spread her message of optimum living for all.

Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett is a research fellow and the scientific lead for the Coronavirus Vaccines & Immunopathogenesis Team at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Vaccine Research Center (VRC). She received a B.S. in Biological Sciences, with a secondary major in Sociology, in 2008 from the University of Maryland–Baltimore County, where she was a Meyerhoff Scholar and an NIH undergraduate scholar. She then enrolled at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she obtained her Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology in 2014.

A viral immunologist by training, Corbett uses her expertise to propel novel vaccine development for pandemic preparedness. Appointed to the VRC in 2014, her work focuses on developing novel coronavirus vaccines, including mRNA-1273, a leading candidate vaccine against the virus that causes COVID-19. In response to the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic, the vaccine concept incorporated in mRNA-1273 was designed by Corbett’s team from viral sequence data and rapidly deployed to industry partner, Moderna, Inc., for U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved Phase 1 clinical trial, which unprecedently began only 66 days from the viral sequence release. Following promising results in animal models and humans, mRNA-1273 is currently in Phase 3 clinical trial. Alongside mRNA-1273, Corbett’s team boasts a portfolio that also includes universal coronavirus vaccine concepts and novel therapeutic antibodies.

Additionally, Corbett spent several years working on a universal influenza vaccine, which is slated for Phase 1 clinical trial. In all, she has 15 years of expertise studying dengue virus, respiratory syncytial virus, influenza virus and coronaviruses. Along with her research activities, Corbett is an active member of the NIH Fellows Committee and avid advocator of STEM education and vaccine awareness in the community. Combining her research goals with her knack for mentoring, Corbett aims to become an independent principal investigator.

Dr. Mae C. Jemison is an American astronaut and physician who, on June 4, 1987, became the first African American woman to be admitted into NASA’s astronaut training program. On September 12, 1992, Jemison finally flew into space with six other astronauts aboard the Endeavour on mission STS47, becoming the first African American woman in space.

When she graduated high school in 1973, she entered Stanford University on a National Achievement Scholarship.

She received a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from the university in 1977. Upon graduation, she entered Cornell University Medical College and, during her years there, found time to expand her horizons by studying in Cuba and Kenya and working at a Cambodian refugee camp in Thailand.

After Jemison obtained her M.D. in 1981, she interned at Los Angeles County/University of Southern California Medical Center and later worked as a general practitioner. For the next two and a half years, she was the area Peace Corps medical officer for Sierra Leone and Liberia where she also taught and did medical research. Following her return to the United States in 1985, Jemison made a career change and decided to follow a dream she had nurtured for a long time: becoming an astronaut. After completing her training, Dr. Jemison spent eight days in space conducting experiments on weightlessness and motion sickness on the crew and herself.

In recognition of her accomplishments, Jemison received a number of accolades, including several honorary doctorates, the 1988 Essence Science and Technology Award, the Ebony Black Achievement Award in 1992 and a Montgomery Fellowship from Dartmouth College in 1993. She was also named Gamma Sigma Gamma Woman of the Year in 1990. In 1992, the Mae C. Jemison Academy, an alternative public school in Detroit, Michigan, was named after her.

After leaving the astronaut corps in March 1993, Jemison accepted a teaching fellowship at Dartmouth. She also established the Jemison Group, a consulting firm that integrates critical social-cultural issues into the design of engineering and science projects.