Gender Matters

Kim Roxie is the Founder & CEO of LAMIK Beauty, a clean beauty brand that caters to multicultural women. After opening her own brick and mortar makeup shop at age 21, in Houston, TX on a $500 investment, Kim ran that store for 14 years and was the youngest African-American woman to have her products carried in a major department store. In 2019, Roxie pivoted her business and launched LAMIK as an e-commerce beauty company. In 2020, Roxie secured a partnership with an augmented reality company to launch an innovative tech-enabled website that allows consumers to digitally try on cosmetics.

Diana Mao, President of Nomi Network, is an abolitionist whose mission is to eradicate human trafficking in her lifetime. A leader in the global movement to abolish slavery, she co-founded Nomi Network, a non-profit organization that raises awareness about human-trafficking and creates economic opportunities for survivors and women at risk. Diana recruited the Nomi Network Board of Directors and Advisory Board. She also established strategic relationships with large corporations while developing Nomi Network into a prominent international organization.

Nationally acclaimed multi best-selling author, award-winning filmmaker and executive producer, transformational speaker, and success coach Cheryl Polote Williamson is a global leader who has successfully ushered 435 individuals into entrepreneurships. Williamson is the CEO and Founder of Williamson Media Group, LLC, and Cheryl Polote Williamson, LLC, where her knowledge, expertise, and resources connect others to their purpose.

Judy Treviño serves as the Executive Director for CCVI Ministries, Inc., an international nonprofit organization sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word. She has extensive management, governance, and board experience in nonprofit, governmental, and foundation institutions. Her experience includes managing the day-to-day activities of administration, accounting, operations, strategic planning, and board development.

Revati “Rani” Puranik is the co-owner and global CFO of Houston-based Worldwide Oilfield Machine (WOM). Rani thrives at leading innovation, empowering others and inspiring collaboration. She directs financial controllership, strategy, investments and enterprise growth for WOM, a privately held, family-owned oil and gas equipment manufacturing firm with more than 3,000 employees operating in 11 locations around the world. Over the course of 15 years, she has developed and implemented the framework for communication, standardization, operations and business development at WOM. Puranik, along with her father, have led WOM, the privately held corporation, to grow to more than $350 million in annual revenues.

Jin-Ya Huang is a social impact, community building, and creative innovator - with a focus on the intersection of social justice, gender equity, and human rights. She is the founder of Break Bread, Break Borders (BBBB), a culinary training social enterprise, empowering refugee women economically through the storytelling of cooking, food and culture. Jin-Ya is an expert in sustainable global supply chain, and has over a decade of extensive background in marketing for the Fossil Group, JCPenney, and Neiman Marcus.

Trisha Cunningham is President and CEO of the North Texas Food Bank (NTFB), a $200 million nonprofit focused on eradicating hunger in a diverse 13-county service area. It is estimated that almost 900,000 in the North Texas area do not know where they will find their next healthy meal. Through direct and feeding partner programs, Cunningham and the NTBF team of 180 employees and thousands of volunteers provided access to 97 million meals in their most current fiscal year. This was 20 million more than their prior year and it exceeded their 2025 goal of 92 million meals five years ahead of schedule.