Speakers Showcase

Guy Garcia is a prize-winning author, multimedia entrepreneur, and futurist whose career spans journalism, fiction and non-fiction books, as well as a co-founder of Internet start-ups and a producer of immersive virtual reality projects.

Jane Park joined C+R Research in 2021 as a Quantitative Analyst.

Emma Gepner has been an Online Qualitative Research Analyst at C+R Research since 2021.

Kai Fuentes is the President and Founder of Ebony Marketing Systems, Inc. (EMS), a multilingual, multicultural market research firm.

Laura Westraad is a qualitative bilingual moderator with over 10 years of advertising, marketing, and research experience. ​

Anna Rossi, a Senior Research Analyst at C+R Research, manages a variety of projects including shopper research, awareness, and usage research, tracking research, and CopyIQ. Anna was involved in C+R’s first big data initiative.

Ana is a Senior Qualitative Director who joined C+R in 2021. She manages research initiatives across industries and consumer segments. She also supports CultureBeat, the multicultural division of C+R Research, where she works on research initiatives emphasizing the U.S. Hispanic consumer.​

Adriana Waterston is Executive Vice President of Insights and Strategy for Horowitz Research, which in 2023 became a division of M/A/R/C Research.

Lauren Wesley Wilson is an Award –Winning Diversity and Inclusion Strategist. Lauren currently serves as Founder and CEO of ColorComm Media Group and ColorComm, Inc. In 2011, Lauren founded ColorComm, Inc., the nation’s leading women’s platform addressing diversity and inclusion across the communications, marketing, media, advertising, and digital arena.

Lisa Skriloff is the founder and president of Multicultural Marketing Resources, Inc. (MMR), established in 1994, a public relations and marketing firm representing the leading experts in marketing to Hispanics, Asian Americans, African Americans, women business owners and other ethnic and lifestyle groups. Her company publishes Multicultural Marketing News; a multicultural e-newsletter; an annual directory, The Source Book of Multicultural Experts and Multicultural Travel News.

Karen has extensive knowledge and experience in Multicultural Marketing as well as broad-based Direct Marketing. She has worked with clients at Ethnic Technologies for ten years, helping them to reach critical multicultural markets.

Liz Castells-Heard is CEO and Chief Strategy Officer of INFUSION by Castells, a full-service Multicultural agency that provides Fortune 500 Clients best-in-class strategic leadership and consistent results, known for their analytics, marketing strategies, first-in-kind thinking, and cultural narratives that compel ROI-Powered Ideas.