COM DAY 2017.

Babb is the founder of Fairchild Consortium, a company that consists of video game developers, designers, and creatives that utilize VR or AR (virtual reality and augmented reality).

Bellantoni is the assistant managing editor in politics of the Los Angeles Times. She covers politics in Washington, most recently as editor-in-chief at Roll Call.

Bennett is a journalist, editor, designer, zinester and educator. She has written in the LA Times, LA Weekly, OC Weekly, LA Record, Beer Advocate, CNN.com, Thrillist and is also a founder of Beer Paper LA.

Bush is the social media director at the Southern California News Group. She oversees social media strategy for each of the 11 SCNG papers as well as social content creation and sharing for each property such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Nextdoor and Pinterest. She also writes a weekend events newsletter called The Play List, which suggests quirky, fun, local things to do in SCNG's coverage areas.

Jones has served as on-air radio producer at Power 106 and has hosted live television with Revolt Live while serving as an online correspondent. She has experience in marketing, social media, and advertising which helped transition her career as co-founder of Hubwav Media where she is editor-in-chief.

Machado works at the California Institution for Women where she is currently employed as the Classification and Parole Representative.

Natal works for Accurex Measurement Inc., a mechanical and industrial engineering supplier. He is also the founder of Playn Drums, a nonprofit organization geared towards music education for underprivileged youth.

Rosales is a social media producer that has built a graphics team and implemented strategies for audience growth, exclusive content distribution and partnerships with the White House, Disney/Marvel, Television Academy and Samsung.

Sanchez is an activist and scholar who engages with people through projects she works on, and centers social justice in her research, investigation, reflections, and production of stories, essays, talks, presentations, workshops, poetry, and academic writing.

Sanders is the senior director of ballpark operations for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. He supervises ballpark and event operations which include fan experience, client/customer service, catering sales and execution, security, housekeeping, and training and employee initiatives.

Sedillo is a social justice advocate and has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, C-SPAN and All Def Digital, He is a poet and writer, priding himself with creations of slam poetry pieces as well as written and visual content pertaining to social injustice within race and politics in American society.

Silver has 7 years of experience in restaurant marketing and community relations, destination marketing, event management, business development, PR agency work, non-profit management and is now the Public Information Coordinator for the City of Riverside's Utility Department. He has managed an award-winning intern program and can provide insight on internships.

Smith is a Flight Projects Subcontracts Manager for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where she manages procurements of spacecraft systems and subsystems in support of NASA missions. She is a 2010 graduate of Cal Poly Pomona’s Communication Department.

Sumida has spent four years working at the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA), where he is currently the managing editor of the organizations biweekly magazine, NHRA National Dragster. He also manages a team of copy editors that provides editorial support for NHRA’s other publications, including national event programs and the Jr. Dragster magazine, as well as content on NHRA.com.

Sumida has experience in social media marketing, event planning, PR and brand management, and non-profit marketing campaign development. She has worked in the music and beauty industry prior to her current position as communications and social media coordinator at Associated Students Inc.

Xaypraseuth is the Lead Flight System Engineer for the NISAR Mission at JPL, a collaboration with NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization. Xaypraseuth coordinates the technical interface details between the JPL-designed payload and the ISRO-provided spacecraft. He has been with JPL for nearly 20 years, and has participated in numerous missions including the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Dawn and GRAIL.