A graduate of Spelman College and Columbia Business School, Chanel Tyler is a dynamic leader within the Tech and Beauty industries. Known for her passion as an advocate centered around community and inclusivity, she always pushes excellence in everything she touches. As the Lead for the Beauty and Communities verticals on YouTube's Large Partner team, Chanel oversees partnerships and strategies that directly impact endemic Beauty Creators and Diverse Creator Communities. She recently co-led and executive produced YouTube's first-ever virtual Beauty centric event, Beauty Festival, this past May which celebrated top Beauty Creators, Celebrities, and Founders. Prior to joining YouTube in 2020, Chanel was the Director of Local and Cultural Relevancy at Estée Lauder Companies (ELC) for the North American region.

Chanel's experience expands beyond her professional career, as she also dedicates time advocating for representation, diversity, equity and opportunity via social media and other creative platforms. With a specific focus on skincare and skin health, Chanel has curated a safe space for a highly engaged community of beauty lovers, where she approaches important, inclusive, and engaging topics through meaningful content. Chanel's contributions to the Beauty industry have been featured in People Magazine, Coveteur, Good Morning America, and BET Networks.

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Bozoma Saint John is the Global Chief Marketing Officer at Netflix, the world’s leading streaming entertainment service with 200 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, documentaries and feature films across a wide variety of genres and languages. Over the course of her career, Bozoma has earned a formidable reputation as a trailblazing marketing and advertising executive. She has also held executive positions at Uber, Apple Music and iTunes, Pepsi-Cola North America, Ashley Stewart, Arnold Worldwide and Spike Lee's SpikeDDB.

Bozoma has been recognized for her breakthrough work by both the industry and her peers. She has been inducted into Billboard’s Women in Music 2018 Hall of Fame and in 2014, she was inducted into the American Advertising Federation Hall of Achievement, where she currently sits on their Executive Committee. She was named to The Hollywood Reporter’s 2018 Women in Entertainment Power 100 list and 2016’s Executive of the Year by Billboard Magazine; she has been featured in Fortune Magazine’s Disruptors, Innovators & Stars 40 Under 40 feature, Billboard’s Top Executives 40 Under 40 and Power 100 lists, Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People, Ad Age’s 50 Most Creative People, Ebony Magazine’s 100 Powerful Executives, Black Enterprise’s Most Powerful Women in Business, Fortune Magazine’s 2018 list of Most Influential CMOs, and made the cover of Adweek as one of the most exciting personalities in Advertising. In 2021, Bozoma was named #1 on Forbes’ World’s Most Influential CMOs list and the Harvard Business School published a case study about her career and leadership,“Bozoma Saint John: Leading with Authenticity and Urgency”.

In spite of all of her professional success, Bozoma considers her greatest accomplishment to be mothering her 12 year old daughter, Lael. After the death of her husband, Peter, to cancer in 2013, Bozoma also took on the efforts of raising funding for cancer research and has been recognized by the TJ Martell Foundation for her devotion to the cause. Bozoma’s other philanthropic efforts include representing Pencils of Promise as a Global Ambassador to Ghana and serving on the boards of Girls Who Code and Vital Voices.

Bozoma was born in Middletown, CT, but spent her early childhood in Nairobi Kenya, Washington DC, and Accra Ghana, before immigrating to Colorado Springs, CO when she was 12 years old. She received her Bachelor’s degree in English and African American Studies from Wesleyan University (at which she currently sits on the President’s Advisory Council). After many years in New York, she currently resides in Los Angeles, CA.

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Black women are taking over the world of entrepreneurship. And for this 'Black Woman to Watch', that's nothing new!

Jasmine Lawrence currently serves as a Product Manager on the Everyday Robot project at X, the moonshot factory. The Everyday Robot project is building a new type of learning robot—one that can eventually learn to help everyone, every day. She's previously held positions at top companies including Facebook, SoftBank Robotics America, Microsoft and Xbox.

At the age of 13, after attending a NFTE BizCamp, Jasmine founded EDEN BodyWorks to meet her own need for affordable natural hair and body care products. After over 16 years in business, her products have become a household name and are sold at Target, Wal-Mart, CVS, Walgreens, Amazon.com, HEB, and Sally Beauty Supply Store just to name a few.

She's a scientist, product leader and a business owner?! Okay, Disney ... I think we have the subject for the next Disney Princess!

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