November 10th, 2026

Malou Chavez is the Executive Director of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project. Malou received a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Juris Doctor from the Seattle University School of Law. She has also served on the Board of Directors for One Equal Heart, Real Change News, the Latina/o Bar Association of Washington, and has served as a Steering Committee member of the Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network. In addition to her academic and professional accomplishments, Malou has been recognized with several awards including the Washington State Bar Association’s Norm Maleng Leadership Award, the Seattle University School of Law’s Latina/o Law Student Association La Justicia Award, and the Latina/o Bar Association of Washington President’s Award.

Beyond her many accomplishments, Malou is also the first immigrant woman of color to lead NWIRP as Executive Director, and brings her invaluable lived experience into her daily work and decision-making.

October 27th, 2026

Dr. Joshua C. Walter is a prominent nuclear engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur based in Kirkland, Washington. With over two decades of expertise at the intersection of nuclear energy innovation, intellectual property, and sustainability, he is best known for his long-term leadership at Bill Gates-backed nuclear innovation firm TerraPower.

Entrepreneurship & Current Ventures

• EnerLaunch & Western Tilth and Power: Co-founded in 2024, these sister ventures focus on developing clean energy infrastructure and agricultural carbon-sequestration projects throughout the US and Canadian Pacific Northwest.
• Nucleose LLC: Founded in July 2025, Nucleose serves as his primary vehicle for specialized consulting and technical advisory services, helping organizations evaluate, license, and deploy advanced nuclear and energy technologies.

October 20th, 2026

Stephen Prochaska is a PhD candidate in the Information School working with the Center for an Informed Public (CIP) at the University of Washington. His expertise focuses on understanding how digital collective sensemaking is manipulated to disseminate and reproduce propaganda and disinformation around U.S. elections. He examines how online audiences collaborate with political elites and digital influencers to assign meaning to ambiguous events, and how initial interpretations are guided and interrupted by propagandists who leverage historical narratives of online communities. Outside of academic publications, his work has been featured in MSNBC/MSNOW, the Spokesman Review, HuffPost, and Deutschlandradio, among other outlets.

October 6th, 2026

Devin heads RethinkeryLabs.com and the Workable Futures Initiative at IFTF.org. He enjoys regularly working with organizations to lay the foundations today to lead in tomorrow’s talent landscape. His interests center on applying foresight to strategy, with an emphasis on the impacts of emerging technologies and shifting approaches to organizational design. He sees organizations as systems designed to activate workforce know-how in the right places and at the right times. From this perspective, he argues that in a post-globalization world, all management is knowledge management.

Devin is a frequent speaker at gatherings of business leaders and others interested in the transformation of work and organizations. He approaches projects from a strongly international perspective, having lived and worked in several countries throughout his career.

August 11, 2026

Born April 2, 1977, in Steilacoom, Nick grew up in a family of public servants—his father an Army veteran and his mother a nurse and healthcare administrator. He attended Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA, for his undergraduate degree and earned a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. After law school he was commissioned as an attorney in the Army JAG Corp where he served in Bagdad, Iraq, earning the Bronze Star, and at Fort Bliss, Texas, where he was legal assistance attorney and tax officer for the Army Air Defense Artillery Center. After his military service Nick served as lead counsel to Governor Jay Inslee, was an attorney with the Pacifica Group from 2017 to 2021, became U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington from 2021 to 2024, and was elected as Washington Attorney General in 2024.