Guest Speakers :
Neama Rahmani is a former federal prosecutor and President of West Coast Trial Lawyers, where he represents and advises a broad range of personal injury and employment matters. Twenty years into his legal career, Neama has also become a television legal analyst, spreading awareness and education about criminal trials and legal injustices in our society. With a strong passion for education and law, he also sits on the UCLA Political Science Board of Advisors.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/neama-rahmani-84799874/
Chloe Duckworth is the co-founder and CEO of Valence Vibrations, an AI startup delivering emotional subtitles in real-time conversation to help people better read the room across screens and demographics. In the wake of the pandemic, she also co-founded Hope Hearted, a nonprofit that has provided sanitary supplies and COVID PPE to thousands of unhoused people across California. Prior to entrepreneurship, Chloe worked for BrainMind and did research for the Human Neurome Project.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chloe-duckworth/
Jesse Walker is responsible for working with financial advisors, investment advisors, and wealth managers to help them identify investment solutions for their clients that best address portfolio needs. He is based in California. Mr. Walker joined Lord Abbett in 2008 as a Regional Consultant within Advisor Services, and was promoted to Client Development Specialist in 2010. He provided financial advisors and their clients support within Lord Abbett’s mutual funds, separately managed accounts, and business retirement plans. He earned a BA in economics and French from Hamilton College. All UCLA students are welcome to join!
Amir Shayan shares the latest job-hunting strategies and interview tactics by helping people gain an insiders guide and secure a job in our current economic climate. Amir Shayan is a current headhunter with many years of experience on both sides of the hiring equation. While servicing his clients staffing needs Amir often catches common mistakes many job seekers make. He has seen it all in over 1,000 resumes. He has successfully matched candidates for many of the Nations top hospitals seeking
Top-tier management to fill their most urgent needs.
With his passion for giving back, Amir founded GethatJob as a vehicle to use his profession in giving back to the community. He uses his job search expertise to educate and guide students, job seekers and displaced employees in their employment search. He teaches Job Searching to help people receive better results with focus on finding the hidden job market. Other subjects include on-line job searching, job search technology, professional networking, personal networking, and social media.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirshayan/
Daren Schlecter is a managing partner of a financial law firm focusing on debt, credit, and financial disputes, the Law Office of Daren M. Schlecter assists a variety of business interests in loan or other debt workouts, provides pre-bankruptcy planning, provides bankruptcy assistance to consumers and small businesses to file for bankruptcy or defend their financial interest in bankruptcy, advises real estate businesses in distressed sales, and litigates business matters.
Admitted to California Supreme Court
Admitted to Federal District Court, Central District of California
Admitted to Federal District Court, Southern District of California
Admitted to Federal Appellate Court, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Specialties: FOCUS AREAS:
Bankruptcy - Representation of Debtors, Creditors, and Other Parties. Background in representing Broker-Dealers and Financial Advisors to Negotiate Promissory Notes and FINRA Arbitration Awards
Business Litigation - Collection of Amounts Owed and Defending Collection Actions (Pre-Litigation, Litigation and Post-Judgment)
Real Estate Matters - Representation of Buyer or Seller's in Purchase and Sale Negotiations and Litigation, Broker/Agent Disputes, Including Fee Disputes, Landlord/Tenant Matters
https://www.linkedin.com/in/darenschlecter/
Miguel Dickenson is the co-founder of Poppin, a social-events platform that’s raised millions of dollars from some of the original investors in Doordash, Gusto, Retool and more. He dropped out of college at 19 after cold DMing the former CSO of Snapchat and getting a job as a product manager at his new company. He’s worked in startups for four years and specializes in business development and product strategy. His current focus is scaling Poppin to be a household name at every college across the country and cementing it as the Facebook for this generation.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/migueldickenson/
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