Mayra Olivares-Urueta, Ph.D. leads cross-sector regional strategies across North Texas to increase postsecondary enrollment and completion at the Economic Mobility Center. She brings more than 20 years of experience in community college leadership, student affairs, and enrollment management, including senior executive roles at Tarrant County College and Dallas College. Her work centers on equity-minded practice, student basic needs, and supporting Latinx and parenting students through systems-level change. She has been an active NASPA contributor as a presenter, proposal reviewer, and participant across multiple annual conferences and Community Colleges Institutes.

Brenda Ice leads Residential and Community Living at Brown University, overseeing residential education, housing operations, orientation, Greek Life, graduate housing, and capital planning. She brings more than 25 years of student affairs experience, with prior roles at Scripps College, UC Riverside, and several other institutions. She currently serves on the ACUHO-I Executive Board and co-chairs the Mentoring Committee for the NASPA Black Diaspora Knowledge Community. She earned her M.Ed. from Salisbury University and is completing her Ed.D. at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.

Chris "Topher" Ndiritu provides strategic leadership for residence education, student conduct, and holistic student development at the University of New Orleans. He began his career in student affairs at the University of Tennessee and has held roles at Davidson College and Old Dominion University, where he also served two terms as Student Body President. He is a NASPA NUFP alumnus, a 2022 NASPA Region III Outstanding New Professional Award recipient, and has been selected as the 2026 Director of the Dungy Leadership Institute. He currently serves as Vice President for Marketing for SACSA.