Featured Guest Speaker : Star Jones

Sponsored by :  Johnson & Johnson and Edgewell Personal Care

Star Jones is an Emmy award-nominated TV host, attorney, best-selling author and former New York City homicide prosecutor. Jones is currently a member of the Board of Directors and President of the Professional Diversity Network (NASDAQ: IPDN), a publicly traded company that sets the standard in business diversity recruiting, networking and professional development for women, minorities, veterans, LGBT and disabled persons nationally. Additionally, Jones is President and National Spokesperson of PDN's subsidiary, the National Association of Professional Women (NAPW) leading a nationwide team dedicated to supporting and advocating for the development, expansion, integration and implementation of the programming strategy of over 10-million member network of diverse job seekers along with providing expanded career and networking opportunities for the more than 775,000 diverse professional women members in the over 200 chapters of NAPW.

A prolific fundraiser for philanthropic causes, Jones, a heart disease survivor herself, has served as American Heart Association's (AHA) National Volunteer and as the face of AHA’s Go Red For Women movement since 2011. 

Jones, a former Senior Assistant District Attorney for the city of New York, began her professional career specializing in victim and family advocacy as a Homicide and Major Crimes prosecutor. She continued on to a 25-year Emmy-nominated career in television, holding such positions as network news legal correspondent, host, commentator, and analyst. From 1997-2006, she was co-host of the ABC network show The View. Jones has written three books: You Have to Stand for Something, or You'll Fall for Anything, Shine: A Physical, Emotional & Spiritual Journey to Finding Love, and Satan’s Sisters. A highly sought after motivational speaker, Jones, frequently lectures on a variety of topics, including law, politics, race, gender equality, networking, women’s empowerment, pop culture, fitness, and heart health.