Meet Our Mentors & Advisors
Our mentors and advisors bring real-world experience across industries, guiding students with practical insight, leadership, and career-focused support.
Joana Marques
Freelance Media Relations Expert
Why I help students
I love helping students bridge the gap between what they learn about in school and what to expect when they start a career in public relations. I believe true mentorship can make all of the difference.
About Me
I am trilingual professional who has worked in the public relations space for more than 10 years. Throughout my decade-long career, I have represented a variety of clients around the world including hotels and resorts, tourism boards, real estate developments, restaurants, luxury tour operators and non-profits.
Steve Reid
Freelance Media Relations Expert
Why I help students
Why I help students: Having mentors helped me on my path to success and, I would like to pass along the same experience to current students. I'm hoping to be a resource to hear their ideas and offer sound advice.
About Me
I'm passionate about helping students understand workplace dynamics, career development, and how to effectively navigate the job market.
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Nesha Dripchak
Secretary & Mentor
Why I help students
Having freelanced in many different work environments and mediated at the EEOC, Nesha developed a passion for proactively identifying and addressing organizational conflict. She strives to foster and maintain psychologically safe, collaborative, and effective work cultures. She is particularly drawn to promoting DE&I and empowering individuals through facilitated dialogue, which she accomplishes as a Facilitator at Fisher Law Practice.
About Me
I'm passionate about helping students understand workplace dynamics, career development, and how to effectively navigate the job market.
Keith Dore
Human Resources Director
Why I help students
A college education is a very valuable thing, but universities don't always do the best job of preparing students for the "real" world. I volunteer with Commence to help give students considering a legal career advice about law school and insight into what they can expect about life as a practicing attorney.
About Me
I'm passionate about helping students understand workplace dynamics, career development, and how to effectively navigate the job market.
Tim Bristow
Strategy & Operations | Chief of Staff
Why I help students
We ask students to work hard, follow the rules, and trust the system -yet too often, we fail to give them the tools they actually need to succeed in life. I'm proud to share the hard-earned lessons I've learned so the next generation can build happier, healthier, and more secure futures.
About Me
An impact-driven operator, I’ve charted my career to work across functions – including Ops, Growth, Strategy, Transformation, Marketing, and Change & Culture – to forge an end-to-end perspective and skillset that includes the best from each discipline. Leading teams for organizations that range from <10 employees to the Fortune 10, I excel at building and executing strategies that transform ideas into tangible results.
Anthony Caputo
Advisor & Sponsor
Why I help students
I'm passionate about helping students understand workplace dynamics, career development, and how to effectively navigate the job market.
About Me
I'm passionate about helping students understand workplace dynamics, career development, and how to effectively navigate the job market.
Xavier Roliz
Human Resources Director
Why I help students
I consider it a privilege to help students navigate this pivotal time. Just as their decisions during this time can have an outsized impact, so too can the help we extend to them.
About Me
I'm passionate about helping students understand workplace dynamics, career development, and how to effectively navigate the job market.
Nicholas Gregoretti
Global Hr Strategist & Operational Innovator
Why I help students
I'm passionate about helping students understand workplace dynamics, career development, and how to effectively navigate the job market.
About Me
Steering MULTIMILLION-DOLLAR GLOBAL HR INNOVATIONS, I focus on a transformative approach that produces lean and systematic HR operational workflows and continuously optimizes human capital management (HCM). Leaner. Faster. Cost-Effective. Core areas where I’ve broadened the ROI of HR operations have included TALENT ACQUISITION/RECRUITMENT, ONBOARDING, TRAINING, PERFORMANCE DEVELOPMENT, COMPENSATION/BENEFITS, and IMPROVING EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE.
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Human Resources Director
Why I help students
I'm passionate about helping students understand workplace dynamics, career development, and how to effectively navigate the job market.
About Me
I'm passionate about helping students understand workplace dynamics, career development, and how to effectively navigate the job market.