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Founder & CEO, Honest Jobs

Harley Blakeman is the Founder & CEO of Honest Jobs, a platform to help people with criminal records find better jobs faster. He spent 14 months in prison as a teenager, so the mission is personal. He helps over 1,300 employers nationwide give people with past convictions a fair chance.

Co-Founder/CEO, R3 Score

Laurin Leonard is the President and CEO of R3 Score Technologies, Inc., an alternative background check and credit score built to better assess people living with records or less than prime credit scores. Laurin came to this work by way of her lived experience: the unexpected incarceration of her mother. Choosing to remain committed to their relationship, she soon realized, “people do not go to prison, families do” and they set out to find meaning in this hardship, together. R3 Score is in the market as a Tier Two vendor helping employers and small business lenders assess candidates with criminal records and/or poor credit scores. R3 Score is the only Black woman led vendor in the market at present. Laurin is a graduate of Old Dominion University as well as The Johns Hopkins University. She is a former Visiting Research Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School Carr Center as a Human Rights & Artificial Intelligence Fellow as well as an Echoing Green Fellow.

Director of Community Engagement, Aventiv Technologies

Shamia Lodge currently serves as the director of community engagement at Aventiv Technologies. Most recently a fellow with CEO Action for Racial Equity, serving as the economic empowerment platform lead overseeing the corporate engagement and public-policy strategies. Shamia is passionate about creating fair opportunities for those impacted by the justice system. She holds a bachelor’s degree in human-resources management and is currently pursuing her master’s in legal studies at Arizona State University.