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Keynote Speakers

September 24 @ 9:30 AM MT

Tanzanika Carter

Tanzanika Carter serves as Assistant Sheriff, the third highest-ranking position in the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office. She is the first African American female to hold this position. With 28 years of law enforcement experience, she previously served as Zone Commander for the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Police Department in Contra Costa County. Her diverse roles have included Field Training Officer, Detective, Hostage Negotiator, Chaplain Coordinator, Patrol Sergeant, Lieutenant, and Zone Commander.

Carter is a proponent of 21st Century policing, advocating for procedural and equitable justice. She contributes to the Sheriff’s Office Racial Equity Plan, Community Engagement Team, and Recruitment Team, and chairs the 30×30 Initiative Committee, promoting women’s representation in law enforcement.

She holds a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice and a Bachelor of Arts in Ethnic Studies from California State University, East Bay, and a Master of Science in Law Enforcement & Public Safety Leadership from the University of San Diego. Carter is a graduate of the Sherman Block Supervisory Leadership Institute #365 and the FBI National Academy, Session #282.

She is affiliated with professional organizations including the National Association of Women Law Enforcement Executives, California State Sheriffs’ Association, FBI National Academy Associates, and International Association of Chiefs of Police. A lifetime member and vice president of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE), Carter has served as NOBLE National Chaplain and currently participates in several NOBLE committees.

September 24 @ 12:30 PM MT

Joan M. Mooney

Joan M. Mooney serves as the Department of the Interior’s Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management and Budget (PMB) exercising delegated authorities of Assistant Secretary PMB.

In this role, she is responsible for overseeing a variety of cross-cutting management and operational offices, including budget and finance, public safety and emergency management, human capital, and administrative services. She served as the Secretary’s designee to the Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission, which developed a set of recommendations to Congress to strengthen the Nation’s response to the wildland fire crisis. 

As President & CEO of The Faith & Politics Institute from 2015-2022, Mooney worked closely with lawmakers, federal officials, and Board Chair Emeritus Congressman John Lewis at the intersection of their values and public service to advance constructive collaboration. In 2020, Mooney established the Institute’s John Robert Lewis Scholars & Fellows Program in his memory. 

From 2009-2014, she served as Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Congressional and Legislative Affairs, leading Congressional efforts to secure significant increases in agency funding for veterans and execution of programming. Mooney also served as a Congressional Chief of Staff, including for an Oregon member of Congress from 1997-2009. 

She earned a BA in Government & Politics from George Mason University and Master of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.

September 25 @ 9:30 AM MT

Nina Jankowicz

Nina Jankowicz is an internationally-recognized expert on disinformation and democratization, one of TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in AI, and the author of two books: How to Lose the Information War (2020), which The New Yorker called “a persuasive new book on disinformation as a geopolitical strategy, ” and How to Be A Woman Online (2022), an examination of online abuse and disinformation and tips for fighting back, which Publishers Weekly named “essential.” Jankowicz has advised governments, international organizations, and tech companies, and testified before the US Congress, UK Parliament, and European Parliament. In April 2024 she launched the The American Sunlight Project, an effort to counter the urgent threat disinformation poses to our democracy.

In 2022, Jankowicz was appointed to lead the Disinformation Governance Board, an intra-agency best practices and coordination entity at the Department of Homeland Security; she resigned the position after a sustained disinformation campaign caused the Biden Administration to abandon the project. From 2017-2022, Jankowicz has held fellowships at the Wilson Center, where she led accessible, actionable research about the effects of disinformation on women and freedom of expression around the world. She advised the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry on strategic communications under the auspices of a Fulbright-Clinton Public Policy Fellowship in 2016-17. Early in her career, she managed democracy assistance programs to Russia and Belarus at the National Democratic Institute.

September 25 @ 12:30 PM MT

Lisa Grow

Lisa Grow has been President and Chief Executive Officer of IDACORP and Idaho Power since June 1, 2020. She was appointed to the  IDACORP and Idaho Power Company Boards of Directors in February 2020.

Grow began her career at Idaho Power in 1987 after graduating from the University of Idaho the same year with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering. She received a Master of Business Administration degree from Boise State University in 2008.

She currently serves on the St. Luke’s Health System Board of Directors. In 2021, she was appointed to the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco’s Salt Lake City Branch Board of Directors. In 2022, she was made an honorary commander for the Idaho Air National Guard’s 124th Fighter Wing.

Grow is married to a retired firefighter-paramedic. They have two adult daughters who also work in healthcare.

September 25 @ 3:00 PM MT

Christine Neuhoff

Christine Neuhoff has over 25 years of combined legal and leadership experience. In 2008, Ms. Neuhoff joined St. Luke’s Health System, where she serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer. In this role, she has established, built, and led the organization’s legal and assurance teams.

Ms. Neuhoff is a member of the Cherokee Nation. In 2023, she received the Cherokee Nation’s Community Leader Individual Award for the work she had done leading Cherokee Nation’s Task Force to Protect Women and Families and chairing the Cherokee National Historical Society. The task force’s work resulted in many improvements to address intimate partner and family violence.  Ms. Neuhoff is currently leading the effort to renew and reopen the Cherokee Heritage Center.

Ms. Neuhoff earned her undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College, her Juris Doctor from the University of California at Berkeley, and her Master of Business Administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.