Kristel Valencia-Savage joined FIFA in August 2024 as Head of Communications for the FIFA World Cup 2026, following a distinguished 17-year career at Major League Soccer. In her role, Kristel leads corporate communications for FIFA's Club World Cup 2025 and World Cup 2026 efforts, managing key relationships with clubs, member associations, commercial partners, and other stakeholders.

She also oversees corporate content production across FIFA's official channels, ensuring cohesive and strategic messaging.

Jessica Davis is Vice President of AI Product at USA TODAY Co. and founder of its AI Council, leading the responsible adoption of AI across the organization to create value for employees, customers and shareholders. She is a recent graduate of CUNY's Executive Program in News Innovation and Leadership, where her research focused on AI evaluations for media to help newsrooms unlock AI's potential at scale.

Julie Delazyn '07 is Vice President, Head of Brand Image for L’Oréal Paris US, where she leads the brand’s image, communications, influence, cultural partnerships and purpose strategy.

A global brand builder and communications leader, Julie has spent nearly two decades across beauty, media, technology and entertainment. Previously, she led Brand Communications and PR for Maybelline New York, helping shape the image and cultural relevance of one of the world’s largest beauty brands. Her work included the Clio Award-winning relaunch of the iconic “Maybe It’s Maybelline” jingle, the signing and global launch of Miley Cyrus, and the expansion of Maybelline’s Brave Together mental-health initiative from one market to 37 countries.

Julie began her career as a journalist at the Miami Herald and later The New York Times in Paris, before bringing a storyteller’s perspective to marketing and communications across entertainment, technology and beauty.

A graduate of Florida International University, where she studied Journalism and French Literature, Julie later earned a master’s degree from Sciences Po in Paris. Fluent in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish, she believes enduring brands are built on a strong sense of purpose, a distinct identity and the ability to remain culturally relevant.

Stacy-Marie Ishmael is a Senior Executive Editor at Bloomberg News and the Global Head of Training for the newsroom. She has held editorial and product leadership positions at organizations including BuzzFeed News, The Texas Tribune, Apple and the Financial Times. She is a graduate of the London School of Economics and grew up in Trinidad and Tobago.

As both an editor and adjunct instructor, Liz mentors emerging journalists and empowers non-journalists to tell their own stories. She believes every great story—whether told through sound, text, or visuals—centers on people showing resilience, courage, and humanity. For her, helping others tell those stories is an enduring honor.

Christina Boomer Vazquez is an Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Award-winning field journalist with more than two decades of experience in the broadcast journalism industry.

Christina is Cuban American and a Miami native. After earning a political science degree at Boston College, Christina began to pursue her passion for journalism. Her career has taken her to London, Boston, Rhode Island, California, Texas and Arizona.

She has covered some of the biggest stories of our time to include The Station Nightclub Fire, Hurricane Katrina, and the George Zimmerman trial. Christina was also the creator of the Emmy Award-winning Local 10 investigative consumer protection segment “Call Christina.”

She earned a regional Edward R. Murrow award for her coverage from Honduras exploring the political, economic and security reasons underpinning a surge in unaccompanied migrant children at the US-Mexico border. While working at the ABC affiliate in Phoenix, Arizona, Christina was awarded a USC Annenberg Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism.

She was also the recipient of several Associated Press awards for her work "Behind the Border," a series covering immigration policy and border issues from Juarez, Mexico, El Paso, Texas, and Columbus, New Mexico. In 2011, Christina decided to return to Miami, Florida to raise her daughter with family.

While covering the pandemic from the frontlines for WPLG, Christina also earned a Master of Science in Communications with a journalism innovation specialization from Syracuse University. Christina’s digital journalism has also been recognized, winning Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Florida Chapter digital award categories to include "New Media Engagement."

In 2021, Christina was honored for her public service reporting as an Esserman-Knight Journalism Award finalist. Christina is an advisory board member of World Affairs Council of Miami and a member of Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE), National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ), and Global Ties Miami.

Christina is also a proud Girl Scouts mom and serves on the board of the Girl Scouts of Tropical Florida.