Keynote Speakers
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Tibisay Hernandez
Breaking Barriers: Operationalizing DEI in Career Services
Wednesday, June 12, 3:45-5:00 pm
This keynote explores how to embed DEI into career services strategies, focusing on rethinking employer partnerships, creating guidelines for effective diversity recruitment on your campus, and collecting DEI-focused first destination data. This proposal emphasizes the importance of understanding diversity gaps and goals in specific industries. It underscores the significance of aligning recruitment efforts with diverse talent needs. Moreover, it highlights career professionals' capacity to identify effective diversity programs across industries. Finally, it stresses the necessity of ensuring robust support mechanisms for diverse candidates entering into the workforce.
Keivyn Reyes
The Well-being Imperative: A Strategy and Responsibility as an Organization and Individual
Thursday, June 13, 8:45-10:00 am
Keivyn (pronounced Kave-in) is a first-generation student turned first-generation professional. As a graduate of Binghamton University, Keivyn started his career in Deloitte US, as an operations consultant supporting enterprise transformation projects driven by operational, regulatory, and technical changes. He now supports the development of innovative workplace well-being strategies across Deloitte's large professional services firm. Aside from his well-being role, he supports various Association of Latino Professionals For America (ALPFA) initiatives, serves as a local mentor for local high school students through various programs, and is an active pickleball player.