Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton joined The Denver Post in January 2022 as a business reporter, focusing her coverage on social inequities in business. She writes for Smithsonian Magazine, Delish, Eater and other publications. She covers the Hawaiian diaspora for Ka Wai Ola, a Hawaiʻi-based newspaper. She also serves as a faculty adjunct at Arizona State University, teaching Media Issues in American Pop Culture. 

For two years, she chased after lawmakers on Capitol Hill as Bloomberg Government's agriculture and trade policy reporter. Megan has covered the Venezuelan refugee crisis in Peru, parliamentary affairs in England, White House press briefings in Washington, D.C., and the cannabis industry in Colorado.

Deborah is a Well-Being Lead Strategist at Genentech.

Lydia Dishman is Fast Company’s senior editor for growth and engagement. She has also written for CBS Moneywatch, Fortune, The Guardian, Popular Science, and the New York Times, among others.

Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza is a freelance journalist and From Day One contributing editor who writes about work, the job market, and women’s experiences in the workplace. Her work has appeared in the BBC, The Washington Post, Quartz at Work, Fast Company, and Digiday’s Worklife.

Phyllis Stewart Pires is a leader in helping organizations navigate the rapidly changing dynamics
of how people live and work. As AVP of Employee Support Programs & Services, Phyllis is
responsible for the strategic direction, planning, development, implementation, and evaluation
of policies and programs for university-wide human resource functions. Under her leadership
are comprehensive wellness programs, dependent care, and worklife programs, flexible work
implementation, mental health services, and employee experience. Her team oversees one of
the largest and most complex child care systems in higher education, serving more than 900
children across six child care centers.

Before coming to Stanford, Phyllis held a variety of HR, communications, change leadership and
diversity roles at Cisco and SAP. She has extensive experience designing, building, and managing
corporate child care centers and founded the award-winning Family Services programs at Cisco.
While serving as the Global Head of Diversity for SAP, she made significant progress in diversity,
engagement, and values-driven culture alignment initiatives.

Phyllis has served on the Conference Board WorkLife Leadership Council, the Clayman Institute
for Gender Research, Working Group on the Future of Work, Families and Work Institute
Corporate Leadership Circle Advisory Board, and the College and University WorkLife and
Family Association Board of Directors.

Phyllis has an Early Childhood Degree and Elementary Education Credential from the University of the Pacific and her Master’s Degree in Human Development from UCLA.