Marsheila J. Hayes currently serves as the Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion for Fox Corporation. In this role, she leads the company’s inclusion initiatives and develops recruiting, retention, and engagement strategies for diverse talent.

In addition to providing governance to the company’s eight employee resource groups, Marsheila oversees the company’s enterprise-wide internship program and manages FOX’s external partnerships with diverse journalism associations and talent partners. In her dual role as an HR business partner, Marsheila also provides strategic partnerships to people managers and interns across the company.

Marsheila believes in the power of mentorship and the importance of community service. She is a member of the New York Urban League of Young Professionals and serves on the Morgan State University School of Global Journalism and Communication Board of Visitors.

A Memphis, TN native, Marsheila is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. She holds a master’s in Strategic Human Resource Management from Georgetown University, as well as a Bachelor of Science in Communications from Tennessee State University.

Amalie joined Gannett in 2011 and currently serves as the senior vice president for local news, overseeing the USA TODAY Network’s more than 200 local newsrooms. In her role, Amalie is deeply involved in digital subscription strategy, audience development, network-wide projects and recruiting and talent retention. She also serves in a cross-functional role reviewing budgets and products to ensure financial goals are being met. She started with Gannett as an editor at the Detroit Free Press, where she helped supervise coverage of Detroit’s historic bankruptcy filing and the federal extortion and bribery trial of the former mayor. In 2014, she became the executive editor of The Des Moines Register, which produced award-winning coverage of the 2016 Iowa caucuses and helped to launch “Harvest of Change,” one of the industry’s first virtual reality projects. She moved to the corporate news staff in late 2016.

Nathalia Ortiz is a bilingual journalist with experience in English and Spanish-language media. She has worked as a reporter and anchor at local Telemundo and NBC stations in New York City and South Florida. She is presently a contributor for NBC Latino and a host for Comcast Newsmakers in Florida and Washington D.C. Nathalia recently launched Natush Media–a company that creates documentaries for English and Spanish-speaking audiences.