MLT LA Alumni Holiday Mixer: Connect, Reconnect & Celebrate

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February

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12:00pm

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2:00pm

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Network, Connect,

and Take the Lead

Join your fellow MLT Alumni in Los Angeles for an afternoon of community, connection, and celebration!

Come reconnect with old friends, meet fellow MLT alums in the LA area, and expand your network as we close out the year together. Whether you’re a longtime LA Alum or new to the area, this is a chance to build relationships, catch up with the MLT community, and enjoy a relaxed afternoon together.

🍴 A food truck will be available with food for purchase. The first 50 guests to arrive will receive discounted $10 entrees.

🚗 Parking: Limited street and surface lot parking is available. Rideshare is encouraged.

Come for the community, stay for the connections. We hope to see you there!

Featured Speakers

Amy Yip

Somatic Life Transformation & Mental Fitness Coach, Keynote Speaker, Author

Amy Yip is a Somatic Life Transformation and Mental Fitness coach, keynote speaker, author, and self-confidence trainer. She works with women of color leaders to strengthen their mental fitness, heal intergenerational wounds, find their voice and the courage to speak up, and have agency to let go of all the ‘shoulds’ so that they can be the authors of their own life stories. Her mission is to empower AAPI women to be seen, to be heard, and to f-ing rock the boat.

Amy is an International Coach Federation Professional Certified Coach, a Certified Hudson Institute Coach, a Certified Strozzi Institute Somatic Coach, and a pioneer Mental Fitness Coach certified through Positive Intelligence.

Amy received her MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, and her BS in computer science and BA in communications from the University of Maryland.

Amy resides in Maryland with Greg, her best friend and husband, and her son Logan, the cutest kid ever.

Daria walls torres

lecturer, wemba program, the wharton school

managing partner, walls torres group

Daria Torres is a tech-savvy, proven strategist with over 20 years of global, cross-sector executive
experience. As founder and managing partner of Walls Torres Group, Daria has led her firm in serving
an extensive portfolio of esteemed clients, including blue chip Fortune 500 businesses, multi-national
philanthropic organizations, leading academic institutions, and pioneering technology companies.
Across her consulting career, which began at McKinsey & Company, Daria has played a defining role in
a host of ground-breaking deals and market advancements, primarily within the most heavily regulated
sectors of the economy. As a former Lockheed Martin Systems Engineer with Top Secret SCI Clearance,
Daria also has signature strengths in digital transformation, cyber/information security, and risk
management. Altogether, Daria is known for channeling vast interdisciplinary knowledge to foster
sustainable growth and added value across an extraordinary range of industries and contexts.

Daria is also a top-rated, award-winning faculty member affiliated with multiple universities. At the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, she has consistently garnered impeccable reviews while lecturing in progressively more advanced levels of the program. During her 10-year tenure with the Rutgers University School of Business at Camden, she was twice recognized at Commencement with a Teaching Excellence commendation, an extremely rare honor for adjunct professors. In
similar fashion, courses Daria has designed for EMBA Electives Week at Drexel University are repeatedly among the most popular and highest ranked across the catalog.

Brandon Procak

Adjunct professor, baruch college

chief executive officer, rentcity

mlt alumnus, mba prep/pd 2011

Brandon Procak has over 15 years experience working in financial services, half of which was spent as a Management Consultant at EY. His role within EY was in the Strategy, Innovation, and Large-scale Transformations space, having led multiple $10M - $60M projects consisting of hundreds of global resources (overseeing/ managing up to 550 people) to transform global operations. Brandon is also the CEO and cofounder of RentCity, a proptech platform focused on apartment ratings and reviews with over 200,000 users since inception. Brandon also co-founded Artemis Academy, a premier web3 education platform focused on upskilling web2 developers to code in the languages of web3.

Brandon is an Adjunct Professor at Baruch College, Hunter College, and Yeshiva University teaching undergraduate Strategy and Entrepreneurship courses and graduate (MBA) Management Consulting courses.

Denise Adusei

Founder of Peartree Preschool

Co-founder of BlackCreatorsInKidlit & LatinxPitch

Denise Adusei is the founding director of Peartree preschool. Her direct experience with educators and children has inspired her to write children's stories that tap into early-childhood experiences. Her multicultural and international perspective often slips into my stories.

As a founding member of both #BlackCreatorsInKidlit and #LatinxPitch, she has a passion for social entrepreneurship and children's literature. To support emerging writers of color and increase diverse representation in children's literature.

12:00 pm ET

Introductions

12:05 pm ET

Panel discussion

12:45 pm ET

Q&A

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