Bobbi Brown is the Founder and former Chief Creative Officer of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, which was acquired by The Estée Lauder Companies in 1995. Today, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics is a global color cosmetics, fragrance, and skincare brand with a presence in more than 73 countries and 68 freestanding stores. In 2017, Bobbi stepped down from Bobbi Brown Cosmetics and launched justBOBBI, a modern lifestyle platform for wellness, beauty, travel and everything in between. Driven by Bobbi Brown’s insatiable curiosity, justBOBBI aims to educate and inspire how you live your life through never-ending exploration and creative storytelling.

In addition to running her new founded company, Bobbi regularly shares her expertise on television, in magazines and newspapers, and online.  A sought after lifestyle expert, Bobbi resonates with diverse audiences and has appeared on high profile shows including Good Morning America, The Today Show, Oprah, and The View. In 2008, Bobbi received an honorary doctorate from Montclair State University.  In 2010, Bobbi was appointed by President Barack Obama to the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiation.

Lora Cooperman is an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley Lora spent 12 years at JPMorgan where she advised highly successful entrepreneurs, founders, and executives of public companies on all aspects of their personal balance sheets and wealth planning. She previously worked for CLSA, an Asian brokerage firm, and Keating & Co, a boutique consulting company.

Lora was born and raised in Surry, Maine and graduated from Bowdoin College in 2004 with a BA in Government and Legal Studies. During college Lora received numerous athletic honors some of which include being named a three-time NCAA All-American and Division III National Champion Finalist in women’s basketball. She was recently inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame and Bowdoin College Athletic Hall of Honor. She is an active supporter of philanthropic organizations that focus on educating children, protecting the environment, and empowering communities of women around the world. She resides in New York City with her husband and twin girls, Dylan and Harper.

Karen Miner-Romanoff is the Law and Society Fellow at New York University and teaches law and society, juvenile justice and criminology, is a Fellow at Bard High School Early College, and works with underserved youth as a nonprofit consultant and researcher. Prior, she held the position of Assistant Dean for Academic Excellence at NYU and led the Center for Academic Excellence and Support. She holds a Ph.D. and Master’s in Public Policy and Administration, emphasis in criminology. An attorney, she clerked for the U.S. District Court and U.S. Court of Appeals, worked with a major law firm, and acted as a Special Assistant to the Ohio Attorney General. Prior to joining NYU, Dr. Miner-Romanoff served as the Associate Provost for Academic Quality and Executive Director for the International Institute for Innovative Instruction at Franklin University. She is certified as an Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences peer reviewer and served as the Executive Counselor of the ACJS section for Teaching and Education. She has received numerous awards and grants in the fields of criminal justice, criminology, leadership and teaching and learning. A Fulbright Scholar, she served with the Human Science Research Council in South Africa and is an NSF Data Consortium Fellow. She chaired the American Education Research Association SIG for Faculty Development, Teaching and Evaluation and sits on multiple educational advisory, editorial boards, nonprofit, and criminal justice commissions. She was also selected as a 2016 Learning Champion by E-Learning Magazine and honored for her research with the Franklin County human trafficking court as the 2017 Ohio Council of Criminal Justice Education Professional Practitioner. Selected conference presentations include the Online Learning Consortium, NYU Tech Summit, E-Learning, Innovation & Social Justice, International Conference of Social Science Research, the American Society of Criminology, International Conference on Justice, Police and Law, and the ACJS. Selected publications include articles in her major research interests, such as International Journal of Online Pedagogy and Course Design, Justice Policy Journal, Criminologists, American Journal of Criminal Justice, International Journal of Restorative Justice, Journal of Correctional Education, Journal of Human Trafficking, Journal of Criminal Justice Education, American Journal of Distance Learning, and South African Journal of Higher Education. Recently recognized for her work in innovative curriculum at the 2017 International E-Learning conference, she received the Outstanding E-Learning Award and was chosen as a 2018 and 2019 Reimagine Education finalist for her team’s Experiential, Problem-Based model of learning.

There’s a whole lot to learn about Liz Murray but let’s simply start with this: she knows why stable relationships matter to at-risk kids because she was one herself. Her life was transformed for the better by mentors who refused to look the other way. Her conviction that these kind of relationships can change other kids’ lives, as they did her own, underpins everything we do at The Arthur Project.

Liz is an inspirational speaker who is notable for having been accepted by Harvard University despite being homeless in her high school years. She was born in the Bronx, New York to poor and drug-addicted parents, both of whom would later contract HIV. She became homeless just after turning 15, when her mother died of AIDS in 1996 and her father moved to a homeless shelter.

Despite her late high school start and lack of a stable home, Murray began attending an alternative high school, graduating in two years. She was awarded a New York Times scholarship for needy students and was accepted into Harvard University. A made-for-TV film about Murray’s life, Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story, was released in 2003. Liz’s bestselling memoir Breaking Night was published in 2010. Liz credits two key mentors in her youth as the needed support and foundation in transforming her life.