2026 Speakers and Panelists

Amanda is a seasoned media and marketing executive with deep experience driving growth and shaping go-to-market strategy across digital, gaming and entertainment.  She began her career in media and moved into video games 10 years ago at Electronic Arts (EA), where she worked on placing brands inside games.

She later helped grow Enthusiast Gaming, one of the largest gaming media companies in North America, working across sales, partnerships and strategy.  Amanda then became Chief Revenue Officer at Wildfire, helping brands connect with online gaming communities on Discord.

Today, Amanda leads revenue at Frameplay, where she focuses on advertising inside mobile games in ways that don’t interrupt play.  She has built her career in a male-dominated industry by being strategic, tenacious, and willing to challenge how things are done.

Cindy Lan is a violist, composer, and collaborative artist from Queens, NY. Since 2019, she has explored her inner emotional world through the interplay of voice, strings, and electronics in her project ‘Breath & Bow Meditations’. She is a 2025 recipient of the Queens Art Fund New Work grant for the development of a forthcoming interdisciplinary dance piece, “Sadness isn’t any louder than joy”. Her string quartet, Ondine Quartet, is a 2024 Chamber Music America Ensemble Forward grantee.

She performs with Isogram and is a contributing performer for “Antonym: the opposite of nostalgia” by Sugar Vendil, and performed at National Sawdust, Lincoln Center, and Movement Research at Judson with Isogram. She performed as a soloist with Orchestra Northern Arizona in 2021 and 2023. She has served as the Executive Director of the Greenwich Village Orchestra since 2023, and holds an MM in Viola Performance from the Eastman School of Music. 

Elizabeth Schedl is the Executive Director of Hudson Pride Center, where she leads a growing LGBTQ+ organization focused on equity, access, and community wellness. Since joining the organization in 2013, she has helped expand Hudson Pride into two LGBTQ+ community centers providing affirming healthcare, social services, and cultural programming.

Elizabeth serves on New Jersey’s Advisory Council on HIV, STIs, and Viral Hepatitis and is a Council Member of the New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault. In 2025, she was appointed by the Mayor of Jersey City as Co Chair of the Arts and Culture Policy Committee for the Mayor’s Transition Team, helping shape the city’s cultural and equity vision.

Tashawn Nicole Reagon is a Ph.D. student in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland, College Park. She earned her Master's degree in Sociology and Criminology from Howard University and her Bachelor's degree in Sociology from Skidmore College. Tashawn is passionate about studying how race connects to the court system, sentencing, criminal defense, and how families are affected when a loved one is involved in the justice system. Before starting her Ph.D., Tashawn worked as a Senior Investigator and Paralegal at Civil Rights Corps and the Innocence Project, where she helped fight for people's rights and worked to free those who were wrongfully convicted. At Howard University, she helped teach college-level criminal justice courses to high school students across the country. 

A self-taught baker with a degree in Economics, Tina Rivera founded Baking Mama in 2015 after building a career across the non-profit sector, commercial banking and technology. Located in Hoboken’s historic district, Baking Mama is a small-batch bakeshop grounded in care and the joy of sharing baked goods.