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About the speakers:

Mojdeh Eskandari

Mojdeh Eskandari is a visionary leader and the Founder, President and CEO of SolveCC, an organization dedicated to expanding access to innovative learning opportunities. Through SolveCC, Mojdeh is equipping students with cutting-edge skills through initiatives ranging from startup incubation to creative projects in AI and film, preparing them for the future while inspiring them to shape it.

With over three decades of experience, Mojdeh has held senior executive roles at high-tech companies such as Oracle, DSV, and Bull across Asia, Europe, and the US. At Oracle, she led a team spanning 93 countries, contributing to $2.8 billion in revenue.

A seasoned advisor and board member for various companies and non-profits, Mojdeh excels in strategic partnerships, entrepreneurial ecosystem design, and growth-oriented mergers and acquisitions.

Her multicultural upbringing has shaped her into a change agent, resourceful leader, problem solver, business mentor, and philanthropist. Inspired by TED conferences, Mojdeh recognized the power of ideas and community engagement, curating over 20 TEDx events in France, Iran, and the US.

Mojdeh's approach combines classroom learning with real-world problem-solving, nurturing socially conscious leaders. Her leadership style, balancing confidence and humility, reflects her deep commitment to empowering future generations. She envisions education that creates engaged citizens capable of driving positive social change.

Her work has led to successful partnerships and increased reach and impact for the organizations she has served.

She is multilingual, fluent in English, French, Spanish, and Farsi, and holds an MBA from ESSEC in France and a Mechanical Engineering Degree from the Iran University of Science and Technology

Huy Nguyen

Huy Nguyen is a visionary entrepreneur and educational innovator with an extensive background in executive management serving in lead roles with technology startups and Fortune 100 companies. As an entrepreneur, he has launched several online consumer brands generating over $30 million in sales and continues to help small-to-medium sized businesses with digital transformation and developing new revenue opportunities through sales channel development, digital marketing, and business strategy consulting.

As the Co-Founder of Solve Community Challenges (SolveCC), Huy has pioneered a transformative approach to higher education, enabling colleges and universities to deeply engage students with their communities through collaborative experiential learning. SolveCC’s partnerships with academic institutions deliver programs that empower students to identify and solve local challenges, fostering essential skills, partnerships with local businesses, and creating an immediate, positive impact on their communities.

Huy extends his impact beyond professional endeavors by leveraging his expertise and experience to empower students to become lifelong learners. He serves as a business and career advisor for the Newport Mesa Unified School District’s Career Technical Education Program and George Washington University’s Digital Marketing Certificate Program. Through these engagements, Huy bridges academic learning with real-world experiences, equipping students with the skills and mindset to thrive in an ever-changing professional landscape.

Huy’s passion for innovation extends to organizing competitions that challenge and inspire the next generation of leaders, including events for TEDxLA, TEDxOC, the TEDxTeenChallenge, and The Young Real Leaders Prize. Through these platforms, he has created opportunities for students and young leaders to develop and showcase their innovative solutions to real-world problems.

Huy Nguyen’s work and experience stands as a testament to his dedication to redefining how we learn and earn, preparing individuals for the future of work, where the jobs of tomorrow, may not exist today.

Caron Sada

Prior to working in higher education, Caron's career experiences included family businesses, non-profits, startups, and Fortune 50 organizations. Caron currently serves as Residential Psychology Faculty and Behavioral Sciences Division Chair at Paradise Valley Community College. Caron is also facilitating the re-design of the Center for Teaching and Learning, and Employee Engagement (CTLEE) for her college and leads Innovation and Entrepreneurship Programming for the Maricopa Center for Learning and Innovation (MCLI) at the district office of the Maricopa Community College District (MCCCD) - a 10 college system in Arizona.

Caron's educational background is multidisciplinary, including degrees in speech and hearing sciences, business administration, and organizational psychology, with specialization in industrial-organizational psychology or "the psychology of the workplace." With integration and synthesis in mind, Caron created The Art and Science of Culture Change (ASCC) and the Z Model (Z). Within ASCC and Z, there are many layers of customizable experiences available to individuals and groups who are ready to Lead and CoCreate for Each of Us and For All of Us.

Chad Redwing

Chad Redwing currently co-directs the Stan State Honors Program and has been teaching honors seminars, colloquia and service-learning projects at California State University, Stanislaus since 2021. He also teaches interdisciplinary humanities at Modesto Junior College, since 2005, and has served MJC as both past Academic Senate President and MJC's Interim President.

He received undergraduate Honors and Humanities degrees from Arizona State University, and completed master's and doctoral degrees at The University of Chicago in the Committee on the History of Culture. His dissertation was completed with a Fulbright-Hays research grant in Latin America, where he studied the cultural consequences of authoritarianism in Chile. He has been the dean of a unique, interdisciplinary Doctor of Arts program in Arizona and he has started several 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations in Arizona, New Mexico and California to confront social issues from homelessness to today’s dearth of literary and creative practices and our human need for productive, civic association and authentic, community-based problem-solving.

Having taught high school, community college, and university undergraduate, master's and doctoral-level classes, advocating for interdisciplinary educational models which integrate and converge in discussion, "glocal" place-based pedagogical approaches and project-based learning. Dr. Redwing has been a founding member of charter elementary, middle and high schools in California and New Mexico; one of which, Cottonwood Classical Preparatory School, has been ranked by "U.S. News and World Report" as one of the top high schools in the country.