Celina Lee is a globally recognized executive and career coach, lawyer, award-winning writer, and podcast host. 

She has coached a lot of lawyers and other corporate professionals to achieve success and fulfillment in their careers.

On her podcast, Live Your Dream with Celina Lee, which has listeners from over 100 countries around the world, she shares lessons learned in her journey as well as interviews from inspirational leaders from diverse industries about what they have learned in life and career.

Celina is the founder of Give One Dream, a global movement that inspires people to pursue and achieve their dreams.

She has been invited to deliver keynote speeches and speak at industry-leading events, universities, and organizations around the world including TEDx, MIT, Stanford University, Princeton University, and Google.

Celina received her undergraduate degree from MIT and law degree from U.C. Berkeley School of Law. She is a certified professional coach and is a graduate of the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC). 

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Domenick Napoletano is a practitioner focusing on complex commercial litigation and appellate work while maintaining a busy general practice. Several of his cases have appeared in published decisions, many involving real property and tenancy and occupancy issues. He has spearheaded state and federal class action lawsuits, including notably against the New York City Department of Finance for its imposition of “vault taxes.” He is admitted in the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as the Southern and Eastern District of New York and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. He has been a member of the New York State Bar since 1981.

Napoletano’s involvement in New York State Bar Association activities are numerous and include being the past chair of the General Practice Section and co-chair of the Committee on Civil Practice Law and Rules. He previously co-chaired the Emergency Task Force for Solo and Small Firm Practitioner. He has served on many association committees, including Finance, Leadership & Development, Bar Leaders of New York State, Animals in the Law, co-chair of the President’s Committee on Access to Justice, the Task Force on the Evaluation of Candidates for Election to Judicial Office, the Task Force on Mass Shootings and Assault Weapons, the Gun Violence Committee,  the Executive Committee,  chair of the Working Group on Facial Recognition  Technology, and as liaison to the Leadership & Development Committee along with the working group on Puerto Rico, the Non-Resident Subcommittee and the Corporate Counsel Section.

Napoletano has served on the association’s Executive Committee, as vice president, from the 2nd Judicial District and the House of Delegates representing the Brooklyn Bar Association. Napoletano was recently appointed by presiding Justice Hector D. LaSalle to the Second Departments Task Force on Artificial Intelligence.

Napoletano has been involved his entire legal career in local and minority bars.  He is the past president of the Brooklyn Bar Association and has served on the Board of Directors of its Foundation. He is the chairman of the Brooklyn Bar Associations Part 137 Attorney Fee Arbitration Committee. He has served as past president and chairman of the board of the Columbian Lawyers Association of Brooklyn. He is the past President of the Confederation of Columbian Lawyers of the State of New York, and President of the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Kings County. He has served as the treasurer and member of the board of directors of the Bedford Stuyvesant Legal Services Corp., as well as past vice president of the Bedford Stuyvesant Foundation for Civil Justice. He has served as a member of the Grievance Committee 2nd, 11th and 13th Judicial Districts.

Napoletano has received awards in recognition of his distinct service, including the Boy Scouts of America, the Stars & Stripes Democratic Club Community Service Award, Kings County Democratic Party Distinguished Honoree, the Catholic Lawyers Guild Distinguished Service Award, the St. Thomas Moore Award, and the President’s Award in addition to Man of the Year Van Westerhout Cittadini Molesi for promoting the welfare of Italian-Americans, the Hofstra Law School’s Alumni of the Month, the Brooklyn Bar Association award for distinguished service twice, and in 1980 the Student Merit award as its first white member of the Hofstra chapter of the Black American Law Student Association (BALSA).

His dedication includes memberships in a variety of other organizations where he will often appear or has been asked to lecture on CLE. They include the Nathan R. Sobel Inns of Court, Kiwanis Club, Hofstra University Law School Diversity Admissions Committee, Lay Advisory Committee Diocese of Brooklyn/Queens and as a past advisory board member for Investors Bank, member of the board of directors for the Volunteer Lawyers Project Board, committee member for the Brooklyn Borough President’s Legal Task Force, and on the American Bar Association Gun Violence Advisory Commission.

Napoletano earned his law degree from Hofstra University School of Law and his undergraduate degree from Brooklyn College.  While in college, and throughout law school, Napoletano worked for then-New York State Assemblyman Michael L. Pesce, retired presiding justice of the state Supreme Court Appellate Term for the 2nd, 11th and 13th Judicial Districts.

Dr. Elaine F. Kung was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to New York City when she was 6. She enrolled at Stuyvesant High School, graduating at the top of her class. Afterward, she majored in biology and graduated magna cum laude from Yale College. She received her Doctor of Medicine degree from Yale School of Medicine, where she discovered her interests in dermatology. 

During her dermatology residency at the University of Chicago Medical Center, she won awards for her tissue engineering research from the Society of Investigative Dermatology (SID), the American Society of Dermatologic Surgery (ASDS), and the World Congress of Dermatology. 

She founded Future Bright Dermatology more than 10 years ago in Lower Manhattan, serving a socioeconomically and ethnically diverse population. She has been an Assistant Professor of Dermatology at NYP-Weill Cornell Medical Center for over 10 years.  

Dr. Kung is a lifelong learner and completed a Master’s in Management from Harvard University during the pandemic. She is now studying cosmetic science in her spare time.

Her insights and experiences have been featured in multiple media outlets, including Forbes, New Beauty, NBCNews, Allure, Town & Country, Buzzfeed, HuffPost, Healthline, etc.

Glenn D. Magpantay, Esq. is a long-time civil rights attorney, professor of law and Asian American Studies, and LGBTQ rights activist. He is principal at Magpantay & Associates: a nonprofit consulting and legal services firm. In 2023, the United States Senate appointed Glenn to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to advise Congress and The White House on the enforcement of civil rights laws and development of national civil rights policy.

Before, he served as Executive Director of the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance. He practiced voting rights law at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF). He chairs the LGBT Committee of the Asian American Bar Association of NY. He inspires new legal minds by teaching at Hunter College/ CUNY. Glenn attended SUNY at Stony Brook, and as a beneficiary of affirmative action, graduated cum laude from the New England School of Law, in Boston.

Joseph Milowic III serves as Director of Well-Being and Of Counsel at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP in New York City.  He is also Co-Founder of the Lawyers Depression Project, a 501(c)(3) non-profit which provides a free, online peer support community for legal professionals (not just lawyers) around the world.  If you know someone who could use support, please share this link:  www.lawyersdepressionproject.org

Precious L. Williams, proud Founder and CEO of the Perfect Pitch Group, is a 13-time national elevator pitch champion, 5x #1 bestselling author and international professional speaker. Besides training entrepreneurs, business leaders, and professionals, she is also a TOP Fortune 100 corporate sales trainer, teaching them how to take their sales, media, or elevator pitches from TRASH to straight CASH!  Having successfully appeared on “Shark Tank” Season 8 in 2016, Precious is a world-class speaker for global brands including BMW, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Blackstone, Verizon, SiriusXM, HubSpot, Conde Nast, Harvard University, Columbia University, Spelman College, Quickbooks, Yelp, and many more.   As a sought-after global speaker, she is also hired to Keynote international conferences, summits, and events.

In 2024, Precious received the following Business awards:  Bada## Women in Herstory (March 2024), The Spectrum Circle Award for “Innovative Women in Small Business,” (May 2024) Black Connect “Business Leader of the Year” Award, (May 2024) and NAWBO National’s Top 3 Finalist for “Women Business Owner of the Year” 2024. (June 2024).

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Sapna has spent over two decades representing clients in patent, trademark, copyright, trade secrets and complex commercial matters, including successfully litigating disputes in a range of jurisdictions. She also has extensive experience with alternative dispute resolution, including arbitration and mediation.

Sapna also counsels and represents a variety of U.S. and international clients regarding U.S. intellectual property by providing them with infringement, validity, enforceability, and clearance opinions and by advising them in licensing and antitrust matters. She has also conducted intellectual property due diligence investigations in connection with acquisitions and licensing deals. Sapna also counsels clients about patent law in Asia, including China and India. 

Sonia Low serves as Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Ethics Officer at the Javits Center and oversees all legal and government affairs, including corporate governance and ethics, litigation management, commercial transactions and government regulatory requirements. Prior to joining the New York Convention Center Operating Corporation, Sonia served as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary to The ONE Group Hospitality, Inc., a publicly-traded, global hospitality company and creator of the international restaurant brand STK® and upscale, high-energy restaurants and lounges with turn-key food and beverage services for hotels and other high-end locations internationally. Prior to joining The ONE Group, she was the first General Counsel and in-house lawyer of the Chinese-American Planning Council, Inc., and was responsible for all legal affairs of a large nonprofit organization serving the Chinese-American, immigrant and low-income communities of New York City. Sonia also spent a large part of her legal career at a major international law firm where she specialized in capital markets, corporate governance and regulatory compliance. Prior to entering private practice, she served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Ronald L. Ellis in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Sonia has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from Barnard College, Columbia University and received her Juris Doctor degree from Brooklyn Law School, where she served on the International Law Review.

Sonia Low serves as Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Ethics Officer at the Javits Center and oversees all legal and government affairs, including corporate governance and ethics, litigation management, commercial transactions and government regulatory requirements. Prior to joining the New York Convention Center Operating Corporation, Sonia served as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary to The ONE Group Hospitality, Inc., a publicly-traded, global hospitality company and creator of the international restaurant brand STK® and upscale, high-energy restaurants and lounges with turn-key food and beverage services for hotels and other high-end locations internationally. Prior to joining The ONE Group, she was the first General Counsel and in-house lawyer of the Chinese-American Planning Council, Inc., and was responsible for all legal affairs of a large nonprofit organization serving the Chinese-American, immigrant and low-income communities of New York City. Sonia also spent a large part of her legal career at a major international law firm where she specialized in capital markets, corporate governance and regulatory compliance. Prior to entering private practice, she served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Ronald L. Ellis in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Sonia has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from Barnard College, Columbia University and received her Juris Doctor degree from Brooklyn Law School, where she served on the International Law Review.

Sonia Low serves as Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Ethics Officer at the Javits Center and oversees all legal and government affairs, including corporate governance and ethics, litigation management, commercial transactions and government regulatory requirements. Prior to joining the New York Convention Center Operating Corporation, Sonia served as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary to The ONE Group Hospitality, Inc., a publicly-traded, global hospitality company and creator of the international restaurant brand STK® and upscale, high-energy restaurants and lounges with turn-key food and beverage services for hotels and other high-end locations internationally. Prior to joining The ONE Group, she was the first General Counsel and in-house lawyer of the Chinese-American Planning Council, Inc., and was responsible for all legal affairs of a large nonprofit organization serving the Chinese-American, immigrant and low-income communities of New York City. Sonia also spent a large part of her legal career at a major international law firm where she specialized in capital markets, corporate governance and regulatory compliance. Prior to entering private practice, she served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Ronald L. Ellis in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Sonia has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from Barnard College, Columbia University and received her Juris Doctor degree from Brooklyn Law School, where she served on the International Law Review.

Yang Chen is the Executive Director of the Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY), a position he has held since August 2009. Mr. Chen is AABANY’s first Executive Director.

He has been active in AABANY for many years, having served on the Board and numerous committees, including the Judicial Affairs (now Judiciary) Committee, of which he was a chair. Mr. Chen served as AABANY’s President in 2008. Before becoming AABANY’s Executive Director, Mr. Chen was a partner in the firm of Constantine Cannon, a law firm specializing in antitrust and complex commercial litigation. He was among the group that founded the firm in 1994, which started as Constantine & Associates.

Before joining Constantine Cannon, Mr. Chen was an associate in the New York office of McDermott, Will & Emery and before that he was associated with Breed, Abbott & Morgan (now Winston & Strawn). Mr. Chen is admitted to practice in the State of New York, the United States District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States.

He is a graduate of the New York University School of Law and Binghamton University. Yang received a Community Excellence Award in recognition of AABANY’s partnership with NAAAP-NY (National Association of Asian American Professionals) as well as his contributions to the AAPI community in New York. He also received a Community Advocate Award at the Forest Hills Asian Association Mooncakes for Mid-Autum Festival.