Damien Peters is the founding Partner at The Victoriam Consulting Group and Founder of Wealth Noir. He has previously worked at Facebook as a Product Manager and has also lead products at Zynga and TinyCo. In a former life, he was an Associate Consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton.

He holds an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, along with degrees in Computer Science and Economics from The University of Maryland. 

After countless years in Silicon Valley and a two year hiatus in Valencia, Spain, Damien now lives in the greater DC area with his wife and son. He's a real estate investor, active proponent of wealth creation and closing the wealth gap, and transforming the tech industry into a diverse environment with representation for African-Americans.

Acquania Escarne is a Wealth Strategist who helps clients across the country build and maintain generational wealth through saving and investing. With more than a decade of experience, Acquania follows a step-by-step system that helps individuals and families maximize their income and leverage money they are already spending to produce residual and tax-free income.

Her Podcast and Blog, “The Purpose of Money,” teaches Women of Color about saving, investing, and building wealth through real estate, investing in the stock market, life insurance, unique savings strategies, and more. She is also the co-host of Millennial Wealth Builder Series: A Women of Color’s Guide to Exponential Wealth.

Teri Ijeoma is a former assistant principal of an elementary school, wanted to find a lucrative way to supplement her income. As someone with an affinity for trading, she enrolled in a course to learn more. She is an experienced trader and investing coach. Last year Terri became the Grand Champion of Teachable’s 2019 Creator Challenge. 

Her winning course, Invest with Teri, lays out the strategies she used to become a successful trader, earn a full-time income, and ultimately reach financial independence.

Shang Saavedra became work optional at age 31. She has a degree in economics from Harvard, an MBA from the University of Chicago. From working on her own side hustles to developing consumer strategy for Fortune 500 companies, Shang has grown her income by multiples and her wealth into 7 figures. She recently decided to take a step back from the rat race to balance life as a full-time management consultant with a new role as a mother. Shang has taught thousands of people through Save My Cents, a non-profit passion project, to manage personal finances with an abundance mindset, and live financially free.

Shang's online video course, Save My Retirement Masterclass, is a beginner's crash course that highlights the key learnings from Shang's 15+ years of experience in saving and investing a retirement, and empowers people to feel confident to do it on their own without formal finance training. Shang also teaches the very abundance mindset technique that she used to be joyfully frugal in Five Weeks to Abundance. 

Cinneah (pronounced: sin-EE-ah) El-Amin is a debt free travel & financial freedom creator, educator, and speaker. In 2019, Cinneah created Flynanced to inspire more millennials to ditch debt, build wealth, and prioritize the things that bring them joy like travel. She has since reached over 20,000 travel and wealth building enthusiasts through her platforms across social media. 

In 2021, after achieving her goal of becoming debt free, Cinneah relocated to Mexico, where she now lives and works remotely. She has taught hundreds of people how to travel for the low and start travel hacking through her online course, Fly Financially Free. Cinneah holds a Master of Science in Management from Wake Forest University School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Africana Studies from Barnard College of Columbia University. 

Danielle Desir has traveled to 27 countries and 4 continents all while maintaining a full-time job. She’s a multi-hyphenate - who uses her travel experience to empower people to become financially savvy travelers. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and a Master’s of Science in Health Care Administration and is certified in Project Management. 

She’s the host of The Thought Card podcast and the co-host of Millennial Wealth Builder Series: A Women of Color’s Guide to Exponential Wealth. She’s a prolific writer - her first book Iceland Nature, Nurture & Adventure is a travel guide sharing how to plan an affordable, adventurous, and culturally enriching trip to the Land of Fire and Ice.

Richard -Anthony is a word traveler to say the least. During his time at FAMU he was a part of a research program that afforded him the opportunity to travel abroad during the summer- which led to an interest in long term travel.

After spending 2.5 years in the coporate world Richard-Anthony decided to take his first work sabbatical. He decided to quit his job and fullfil his desire for long term travel. In that time he backpacked across Europe and Northern Africa and ended in Australia where he lived for four months.

Katrina McGhee is a Career Break & Sabbatical Coach who helps 9-5ers create successful, mind-blowing career breaks. She’s a certified Master Coach with an MBA who left her own corporate career for a 20-month career break to travel around the world. After a successful return to the corporate world, with 5 job offers in just 5 weeks, she later left to embark on career break #2.

As a professional career break coach with years of experience helping clients plan productive breaks of their own, she knows what it takes to ensure you make this life-changing experience a huge success, including a smoother transition once your break has ended.

Libryia Jones and Tanai Bernard-Turner are the founders of Wandering Moms, a community of mothers who have a shared love of travel.

They provide encouragement, information, and support for women who want to travel with and without their children. They also curate trips each year for families and for moms only.

With over 20,000 members, Libyia and Tanai have managed to host over a 100 mothers, fathers, and their children, and more on trips throughout the United States, Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean.