Nicole Merhill is the Director of the Office for Gender Equity (OGE) at Harvard University and serves as the University’s Title IX Coordinator. Nicole has more than 15 years of civil rights experience in various protected class statuses, including sex, race, color, national origin, disability, and age. Nicole is a licensed attorney and holds a…

Ami is a patient-focused, innovative and energetic results oriented senior leader with over 20 years of Clinical Data Management Strategy and Professional Services experience spanning MedTech, Life Sciences, Research & Development (R&D), and Consulting. She is passionate about the life sciences industry and improving human health. She recently joined Benchling, a start-up focused on providing modern…

Linda Matzkin was a speech pathologist by profession, and was fortunate enough to have two great jobs in the field at an early age. During this time, however, she frequently found her brain wandering from its intellectual side to its creative side! She started an event planning company, Hopple Popple, Inc, in her garage-turned-office. When she closed…

Suzanne Lowell President and Lead Designer for Suzanne B Lowell Lighting Design, Inc. since 1995. Previously on the faculty and staff of the Boston Conservatory. Breast Cancer Survivor since 2006, a preventative, second mastectomy in 2007 showed cancer in the pathology. Working with Runway for ten years, providing the lighting for the entire event. I…

Tim Llewellyn As a photographer, Tim Llewellyn has shot on location all over the world for major corporations, agencies, and non-profits. With a particular focus on healthcare and lifestyle portraiture, his work combines high production value and a captured moment style, blurring the line between the orchestrated and the candid. He has been included three…

Abby Gordon is Principal and Owner at Two Eight Four Weddings & Events, an event planning firm based in Boston. She was “raised” in the event planning industry by my incredibly talented and successful mother, Linda Matzkin, and spent several years working both for and with her. With a passion for creating unforgettable experiences, Abby…

Kristin Ferrari lives in Bedford, Massachusetts, with her husband of 30 years, Peter Ferrari, President of Shields Health, and their three children: Alex (27), Emma (25), and Ryan (21). In September 2012, at the age of 40, Kristin was diagnosed with Stage II invasive ductal carcinoma. One month later, she underwent a double mastectomy at…

Crystal Davis is currently a nurse in the Neurology Intensive Care Unit at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. She has spent the past seventeen years caring for patients and their families. In 2008 her wonderful husband Ronald became her caretaker for 22 months while she underwent treatment for stage 3 breast cancer. The…

Maggie DeMont stepped into the role of Chair of the Board on July 1, 2023. She is currently the General Manager at Heinemann Publishing. She was previously the SVP of Corporate Strategy at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, where she has held a variety of different roles over 10+ years. Prior to HMH, Maggie was in Strategy…

Emily Cohen grew up in Concord, Massachusetts and attended Nashoba Brooks where she was classmates with Olivia’s sisters, Nell and Kristin. After attending Dana Hall for high school, she graduated from Connecticut College in 2006 majoring in biochemistry. She received her PhD in Genetics from Yale University in 2014 and completed her postdoctoral research at…