Speakers

Laura A. Maristany, Director of Policy and Legislative Affairs, NALEO Educational Fund. Laura Maristany is the Director of Policy and Legislative Affairs for the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund, where she serves as the organization’s chief federal advocate and Director of the Washington, D.C. office. NALEO Educational Fund is […]

Pablo Manriquez is a political operative with a decade of media experience on national campaigns.  As Hispanic Media Director for the Democratic National Committee, he appears frequently in national and local print, digital, and television coverage in English and Spanish of the 2016 election cycle.  Born in Santiago de Chile, Manriquez immigrated as a child

Mr. Steger grew up in Phoenix Arizona and attended Glendale college. He has been married for 31 years and have two grown children. He moved to Colorado in 1978 and spent the next 28 years in the technology fields in various management capacities. Prior to coming to Advance GSA he was with a company called

Ms. de Armas is Vice President of Strategic Initiatives & Consumer Engagement within Nielsen’s Global Corporate Communications group. Stacie currently serves as the lead for the development of multicultural consumer and industry strategic initiatives, and multicultural consumer engagement. Stacie is a Hispanic/Latino market expert, with more than 16 years of experience in diversity marketing, communications,

Uriel Saenz is a celebrated leader who is credited as fashion designer, Military (USMC) and media man. He is currently the Director of Multicultural Development for the Los Angeles Times where he is tasked with developing projects to connect with multicultural audiences (Latino, Asian, LGBT, Black, Women etc.). In this role he has managed to