Cultural Diversity Roster

Berry founded the DREAMSgirl Summit, a holistic multi-day conference that gives hundreds of middle and high school girls interested in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math the opportunity to shadow STEM professionals in the workplace during an interactive career experience. This work led to her being a nominated Changemaker at the first-ever White House Summit on the United State of Women.

A justice warrior and champion of equity committed to elevating marginalized communities, Berry is a former energy, tech and healthcare consultant and has managed educational and community development projects for Martha’s Table, Inc., KIPP Los Angeles Schools, Communities In Schools and the Children’s Defense Fund.

Nominated by the Governor of Maryland in 2019, she is the youngest sitting member of the Children’s Justice Act committee that helps states develop and operate programs to improve the investigation and prosecution of child abuse and neglect cases. She directs a national policy fellowship, which trains and has empowered formerly homeless youth from four continents to transform domestic and international youth homelessness and sex trafficking policies. In this role, she regularly partners with multinational law firms on children’s rights and juvenile justice initiatives; has facilitated over 100 meetings on Capitol Hill between young leaders and members of Congress; hosted youth-led legislative briefings at the United States Senate; and provides executive coaching and training to equip leaders and organizations, including the American Bar Association, federal agencies and top research universities, to more effectively partner with millennials and Gen Z for social change.

A strategic innovator and Ph.D. candidate at Pepperdine University, Berry attended Spelman College, is a graduate of Loyola New Orleans and Howard University and holds professional certifications from Northwestern and Harvard University. She is an advisory committee member of the National Conference of State Legislatures and Futures Without Violence, a national organization working to end violence against women and children around the world; and serves on the Research Alliance for Child Trends, the nation’s leading research organization focused exclusively on improving the lives of vulnerable children and youth.

An orator, writer and published poet, Berry has delivered a keynote address at Facebook’s headquarters in Silicon Valley, performed spoken word during the College World Series and empowered thousands from the pulpit of the historic Washington National Cathedral where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. preached his final sermon.

She is the writer of In Development—a theatre piece on identity created in collaboration with award-winning actress Suzzanne Douglas and members of the Grammy-nominated group Sweet Honey in the Rock, which debuted in Martha’s Vineyard. Determined to blend art and activism, she wrote and directed community theatre pieces like the Backpack Monologues, performed by middle and high school girls specifically to raise funds benefitting local mentoring programs and educational trips, and founded the Youth Poetry Project—a writing and entrepreneurship program for high school students in the historic Anacostia community in Washington, D.C.

Berry is an NYC-based New Orleans native who grew up with a deep appreciation for Creole cuisine, art, jazz and diverse cultures. She consciously utilizes her diverse lived experience and poetically invites audiences to dive deeper into themselves and the world around them. A vibrant adventurer who has leaped from mountaintops to paraglide in Switzerland, hiked volcanos in Bali, skydived in New Zealand, rode horses through the desert in Egypt and piloted planes on Long Island, she is a travel enthusiast who has explored over 60 countries across six continents, with dreams of witnessing the unique beauty of every country in the world.