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Oye Owolewa Oye is a proud child of Nigerian immigrant parents who pushed him to achieve academically and give back to the community. Subject to early aged bullying, Oye resorted to fighting to deal with childhood torments. Getting suspended from school and more trouble, Oye received timely guidance from role models and nearby professionals that helped him constructively resolve problems and turn his life around. Soon after, Oye was inspired to help his community's public safety where he eventually became a pharmacist. As a health professional, Oye's been able to improve lives around him. Since 2014, he's been able to inspire DC elementary school kids with similar early inventions that helped shape his life. Oye's background keeps him aware of the opportunities that continue to escape minorities and those from underrepresented communities. His commitment to the underdog and community service has led him to be elected ANC Commissioner (by 1 vote margin) and later US Representative of Washington, DC. In becoming US Representative in 2021, Rep. Oye became the first Nigerian American elected to American federal office. As DC's US Representative, Rep Oye focuses on the fight for DC statehood, improve our local public health and safety, empowering DC's youth and develop minority and women owned businesses. Robin T. Kelley, PhD Robin T. Kelley currently is an Evaluation Fellow in the National Center for HIV Viral Hepatitis STD, and TB Prevention at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Prior to this, Dr. Kelley was a grant subject matter expert contractor within the Epidemiology Laboratory and Capacity Building section of the Center for Policy, Planning, and Evaluation of the DC Department of Health. Her responsibilities involved monitoring and ensuring the performance measures were recorded for various projects, including but not limited to COVID-19, Monkey Pox, and Ebola cases. There she became acquainted with the REDCap software, Grant Solutions, Grant Notes, and ELC Basecamp. Dr. Kelley worked with the Howard University Medical School on a Gilead Sciences award to serve as the program manager on their Minority Serving Institutions HIV/HPV Prevention project using technology to reach students at Trial Colleges, Hispanic Serving Institutions and HBCUs with IRB approved HIV prevention messages. In 2023, she volunteered with other researchers to examine health outcomes for minorities and vulnerable communities, particularly those with preexisting conditions along the Gulf Coast region after natural disasters. She has a long history with evaluation. She was a part of the development and evaluation team at NMAC (formerly known as the National Minority AIDS Council) for almost ten years. In 2020, she continued her evaluation work as a contractor with the University of the District of Columbia where she used her knowledge of implementation science and qualitative evaluation to develop evaluation reports on the Science division's STEM program for minority students. Robin Kelley holds a baccalaureate in Education degree from Vassar College, an MSW from the Columbia University School of Social Work, and a doctorate in Public and Community Health from the University of Maryland, College Park.

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