Latanyua Robinson
Founder + President, LATROBE LLC
Latanyua Robinson is the founder & president of LATROBE LLC, a consulting firm focused on the career readiness, commercial readiness, and community readiness for individuals, businesses, and institutions. LATROBE LLC has provided management consulting in industrial manufacturing and transportation for over a decade. In 2019, the business evolved into a consulting firm that operates transactional businesses to provide livable wage job opportunities. LATROBE uses transportation as a vehicle to drive culture and employee engagement for coaching essential skills development among the team.
Robinson has served on the Arkansas Workforce Development Board during Governor Asa Hutchinson's time in office, since 2004 has been on the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation Board and has been recognized as a distinguished alumna by the University of Arkansas College of Engineering. In 2002, her company LATROBE LLC was named the Arkansas Minority-Owned Small Business of the Year.
Latanyua is married to James E. Robinson and is the mom of an adult son, Quincy.
Jessie Wilson
Partner & Senior Trainer, Dale Carnegie Training Mid-South
Jessie Wilson is a senior trainer for Dale Carnegie Training of the Mid-South, offered by Howard, Franks, Wilson & Associates. Wilson is also a partner of the Dale Carnegie Mid-South office which services Arkansas, west Tennessee, north Mississippi, south Missouri, as well as parts of Oklahoma and Texas.
As a certified Dale Carnegie senior trainer, Wilson is responsible for collaborating with organizations to provide world-class training to their workforces. She has been acknowledged by Dale Carnegie and Associates as being in the top consultants in North America for the past several years.
Wilson has worked with companies in the manufacturing, engineering, financial services, technology, oil and gas, real estate, business services, customer service, healthcare, construction, and information technology industries. She has expertise in several key competencies including, but not limited to, sales, communications, all levels of leadership, conflict resolutions, personality styles, public speaking, strategic planning, coaching, complaint resolution, generational gaps, and interpersonal skills.
Alycia Cox
HR Associate Manager, PepsiCo/Frito Lay
Alycia Cox is a human resources associate manager for PepsiCo Frito-Lay in Jonesboro, Arkansas. She oversees HR operations for manufacturing and maintenance teams, supporting more than 500 hourly employees and 50 salaried managers.
Cox is passionate about removing barriers to success and advancing PepsiCo’s people initiatives and Inclusion for Growth strategies. She also serves as capability lead for the Southeast region, partnering with stakeholders across Arkansas, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida to design strategies that promote career growth for frontline and salaried employees.
As site lead for the Women of Color and Mosaic employee resource groups, Cox helps foster a culture of diversity, inclusion and engagement. Prior to PepsiCo, she worked in operations and HR management at Target Corp., where she led diversity and community initiatives.
Cox earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Alabama State University and an MBA in human resources management from North Carolina A&T State University. Outside of work, she enjoys traveling, glamping, hiking and relaxing with a good book.
Debisree Ray
Data Scientist & Machine Learning Engineer, Big River Steel
Debisree Ray currently works as a data scientist and machine learning engineer in the manufacturing industry at Big River Steel (a subsidiary of U.S. Steel) applying AI, machine learning and optimization techniques to solve problems in steel manufacturing.
Ray holds bachelor and master of science degrees from the University of Calcutta, India, and a Ph.D. in computational nuclear structure physics from Mississippi State University. Ray’s interest lies in fostering a collaborative environment among women working in machine learning, data science and AI.
Shawn Ducré-Jackson
Market Business Director, Optimum
Shawn Ducré-Jackson is the market business director for Optimum’s mid-central region. In simple terms, if it involves strategic planning, market analysis and community engagement across a six-state territory, Ducré-Jackson is the driving force behind those decisions. Whether it’s beginning her career in retail or navigating her way through Fortune 500 companies, Ducré-Jackson has devoted the entirety of her career to managing people, projects or markets, and often all three at once. It has been quite the ride and a story worth telling.
Ducré-Jackson embraces the duality of growing up in a small town, but comfortably settling in a big city — specifically, Houston, Texas. Both environments have cultivated and sustained the fully realized, but evolving woman who exists today. She is also a graduate of Prairie View A&M University, an HBCU, and she carries that legacy with pride and honor.
When she’s not making it happen at work, she’s a loved and loving wife who’s getting it done at home, too. Among many diverse interests, Ducré-Jackson is an avid collector of books, vintage fashion, coffeeshop self-care dates and passport stamps.
Brittany Goings Marsh, Pharm.D.
Owner, Cornerstone Pharmacy & Compounding
Brittany Goings Marsh, Pharm.D., is an entrepreneur, innovator and advocate for women’s health. In 2008, Marsh began working at Cornerstone Pharmacy while earning her doctorate and a decade later made the bold move to purchase the business. Since then she has transformed it into a thriving, patient-focused, multi-location enterprise. Today Cornerstone Pharmacy & Compounding is known for its personalized approach to compounding, hormone replacement therapy and wellness services, creating a safe, trusted space for patients to share their health journey.
During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Marsh emerged as a statewide leader, spearheading vaccine distribution and driving community education. Marsh was recognized as a trailblazer in STEM by the Museum of Discovery in Little Rock and received their prestigious Spark! Star Award.
Marsh’s entrepreneurial spirit extends beyond the pharmacy. As co-founder of Miller Marsh Cosmetics, she and partner Rachel Sims Miller developed a clean, medical-grade skincare line crafted entirely in-house at Cornerstone’s Little Rock facility.
In 2025, her influence reached the national stage when the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis appointed her to its Health Care Industry Council. From pioneering women’s health initiatives to shaping the future of health care policy, Marsh continues to prove that leadership, innovation and compassion are the most powerful prescriptions of all.
Barry C. Tedder, MD, FACC, FNLA
St. Bernard’s Longevity Center
After 33 years as an interventional cardiologist, Dr. Barry Tedder has shifted his primary focus to his true passion: proactive, preventive care for cardiovascular disease, along with risk reduction for diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease and general longevity medicine. Much of what he and his team do for heart disease risk also applies to other diseases of aging.
His primary passion and expertise is helping people with complex cholesterol-related problems, such as familial hypercholesterolemia, high triglycerides and insulin resistance. His goal is to help people live healthier lives as they age by assessing and treating risk factors for heart disease through advanced lipid and genetic testing, exercise and diet modifications, medications, and supplements.
Sarah Thomas, APRN
St. Bernard’s Longevity Center
Sarah is a board-certified adult gerontological acute care nurse practitioner who earned her graduate degree from Vanderbilt University.
She has more than 15 years of experience in hospitalist medicine at St. Bernards Medical Center before transitioning in the last two years to St. Bernards Heart and Vascular, where she focuses on lipid disorders, cardiometabolic health and preventive care.
Sarah is passionate about working alongside her patients to develop individualized treatment plans that include not only medications but also diet and lifestyle changes to achieve long-term goals.