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An award-winning journalist, auto industry executive, mother, and lifetime change agent, Doyle has been on the front lines of cultural progress for five decades. One of the first female TV sports broadcasters in the USA, she was inducted into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame for her leadership role in opening sports locker rooms to women reporters.  She earned her business credentials at Ford Motor Company where she was named one of the “100 Leading Women in the Auto Industry.” The author of POWERING UP! How America’s Women Achievers Become Leaders and host of the POWER UP WOMEN podcast, Anne has done leadership work on five continents, including for the U.S. State Department in Saudi Arabia, Europe, and the Caribbean. An honors graduate of the University of Michigan, she has studied and lectured at the University of Madrid and done graduate work at Northwestern, Harvard and Duke.

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James W. Raitt, MD Professor of Medicine | Chief, Division of Immunology and Rheumatology | Stanford University 

Dr. Robinson heads a translational immunology lab studying the Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) and its role in autoimmune diseases like systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and multiple sclerosis (MS). His lab developed high-throughput sequencing to identify EBV-infected B cells and understand immune dysregulation mechanisms. They found that EBV reprograms autoreactive B cells into pathogenic cells that drive SLE and MS. Dr. Robinson co-founded the Stanford Human Immune Monitoring Center, holds 23 patents, and has therapeutics from his lab in clinical trials. He is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians, and earned his MD and PhD from Stanford, completing residency at UCSF.

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Dr. Saal was the founder and CEO of Network General Corporation, the first company wholly dedicated to the area of network diagnostics and the creator of the eponymous "Sniffer" network analyzer.

He has served as Director of several private and publicly traded high technology firms. He currently serves on the boards of the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA) and the American Institute of Mathematics. From 1998 through 2003 he served as President of Cultural Initiatives Silicon Valley, a non-profit organization which links a network of public and private cultural agencies and organizations to enhance arts and culture in Silicon Valley.  He has served as Chairman of the Board of the Community Foundation Silicon Valley (from whom he received the 1996 Corporate Community Involvement Award) and Vice Chairman of the American Leadership Forum, Silicon Valley Chapter; in 1995 received their John W. Gardner Leadership Award. In 1997, Columbia University awarded Dr. Saal its highest honor, the John Jay Award.

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Josie Pearce, a trailblazing J.D./M.D. candidate at Stanford, is set to graduate with a law degree in 2026 and a medical degree in 2029. She is recognized as the first female to pursue this dual path at Stanford, a testament to her unique blend of interests in law, policy, and medicine. Josie graduated from Dartmouth College in 2020 with a degree in government and worked as a legal assistant in Boston before her passion for medicine led her to Harvard’s post-baccalaureate Premedical Program. Her journey is deeply personal, driven by her experience living with lupus—a condition she has advocated for since her teens. Through lifestyle changes, Josie has managed her condition and continues to raise awareness. Her story is one of resilience and ambition, weaving together her childhood aspirations and newfound medical pursuits.