Bie Aweh is a talent developer focused on underrepresented talent development and advancement. With nearly a decade of experience in coaching adult learners, building sustainable partnerships, designing and facilitating training, and driving social change by providing career pathways for underrepresented groups. Bie's passion for creating equitable workplaces where everyone thrives fuels the work she does today at Plaid as an HR Business Partner.

When she is not HRBP’ing, Bie serves as a board member for several private companies and investor.

Kendall Camp is a Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft based in Seattle working on AI video applications such as Clipchamp. He is a cum laude graduate of Morehouse College.

Camp has intensive and extensive experiences ranging from full-time roles, internships and fellowships in Media, Technology, and Venture Capital at companies including NBCUniversal, CNBC, Microsoft, Robinhood, Dorm Room Fund, HBCUvc, and Commerce Ventures. He is from Modesto, California and passionate about storytelling, podcasting, and educational equity.

Ryan Jackson is a 2024 HBCUvc Fellow and a summer associate at Collab Capital. Prior to joining the HBCuvc community, she was an Associate of Blackstone Alternative Asset Management (“BAAM”), where she was involved in new business and product development, as well as servicing existing client relationships. While there, she served on the BAAM Racial Equity and Inclusion Task Force and was a founding Blackstone representative for the Scholars of Finance Howard University Chapter.

Previously, Jackson was a Healthcare investment banking analyst at Goldman Sachs.

She graduated summa cum laude from Howard University where she studied finance and Spanish.

Hadiyah Mujhid is the founder and a CEO of HBCUvc. Under her leadership, HBCUvc has grown to become the largest program in the US that provides paid summer internships in venture capital for university students of color. The organization has secured partnerships with organizations such as the Kauffman Foundation, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and Google. Before HBCUvc, Mujhid co-founded another social organization focused on increasing entrepreneurship in Black communities and worked in technology during her earlier professional years. She brings an intersection of experience as a Black woman, former software engineer, technical founder, and angel investor to her work. Mujhid has written and spoken at conferences on equitable innovation, venture capital, and social entrepreneurship.

Her work has been recognized in Forbes, Blavity, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Black Enterprise, and Handelsblatt. She is a 2019 Echoing Green Fellow and 2019 Praxis Fellow. Mujhid received her MBA from Drexel University and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, an HBCU.

Errol Parker II is a 2024 HBCUvc Fellow and a summer associate at Black Tech Nation Ventures. Prior to joining the HBCUvc community, Parker was an Associate at J.P. Morgan's Private Bank in NY, providing wealth management solutions to ultra-high net worth individuals. He worked closely with founders and C-Suite executives by delivering sound advice and tailored strategies that meet one’s investment, banking, credit, and estate planning needs. This ignited his passion to help early black founders grow their businesses from infancy to success.

Parker graduated from Morehouse College with a B.A. in Finance and holds Series 7 and 66 licenses. He was born and raised in Long Island, NY, and currently resides in Brooklyn.

Maryanna is a Product Director at Meta Inc., where she leads product for Instagram Direct. Her team is focused on helping users to more easily connect over their interests in Instagram. Prior to leading up Instagram Direct, Quigless led a team of entrepreneurs as part of Meta's New Product Experimentation (NPE) organization where she launched 3 new products to support young change-makers. Her team is focused on building new products to support young change-makers. She previously was the Product Lead for the Meta's Ads Manager organization. Quigless is also co-founder of the Black Product Managers Network, a community of some of the strongest diverse product thinkers in the world.

She earned an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she was an Arjay Miller scholar, and a B.A. in Engineering from Dartmouth College, at which she completed an exchange term at Spelman College. Maryanna lives in Oakland, CA with her wife, 3-year-old son, and 1-year-old daughter. In her free time, she loves Peloton, snowboarding, wine-study, and travel.

Denise is the Founder and CEO of Partake Foods, a natural food company that was inspired by her daughter’s experience with food allergies. Launched in 2017, Partake’s first product — delicious, better for you, allergy-friendly cookies — can now be found in more than 14,000 retailers including Target, Kroger, and Whole Foods Market. Partake's offerings have since expanded to include graham crackers, vanilla wafers and pancake & waffle mixes.

Woodard is the first Black woman to raise more than $1 Million publicly for a CPG food startup. To date, the company has raised over $25M from investors including HER, Rihanna, CircleUp Growth Partners, FF2032 and Marcy Venture Partners. Partake was named #151 on the Inc 5000 list in 2023.

Prior to launching Partake, Woodard spent a decade in consumer packaged goods at various Fortune 100 companies. She is also the founder of 501c3, Black Futures Fellowship, an annual program that matches active HBCU students with paid internships in the CPG food & beverage industry. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Jeremy, and daughter, Vivienne. She graduated with her BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MBA from Arizona State University.