A 33-year veteran, Alice Juarez is the region director for Wells Fargo’s Los Angeles market. In this role, she leads more than 700 Regional Banking employees across 86 branches in Los Angeles County.

During her tenure at Wells Fargo, Juarez has held several senior leadership banking positions, including Service Manager, Branch Manager, District Manager and Area President. She started as a teller in the Los Angeles Main Branch.  

A proven Wells Fargo leader with expertise in working with multiple segments, including high-value customers, and in leading teams to higher performance, she has been the recipient of numerous awards such as Hispanic Lifestyle magazines “Latina of Influence,” an honor it bestows annually to Latinas who are making a difference in their respective industries, and are living role models for the Hispanic/Latino community. In addition to, being recognized as one of the most influential leaders in Los Angeles by Los Angeles Business Journal’s L.A. 500. 

A strong DE&I advocate, Juarez was instrumental in the development and leadership of the Central California region’s Diversity Council whose efforts embrace and promote diversity and inclusion in all aspects of business. 

An active member in her community, Juarez serves on the California Restaurant Association Foundation board of directors,  the United Way of Greater Los Angeles board of directors, and Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce CEO Council.

She is a Los Angeles native and earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Phoenix and graduated with honors from Pacific Coast Banking School at University of Washington in Seattle. 

Linda has been nominated for five Primetime Emmys, winning as a producer for “Key & Peele.” She won an NAACP Image Award for executive producing “A Black Lady Sketch Show” and has also won a GLAAD Award.

A Los Angeles native, Linda began her journey in the entertainment industry as an assistant at the William Morris Agency. Her career took off when she transitioned to her first job outside the agency as a Casting Director for a Fox TV show, where her clients included Culture Clash, a Latino sketch comedy group. While casting and booking bands for the Fox TV show, she forged strong connections in the music industry, paving the way for her next venture. In the subsequent years, Linda worked extensively for Warner Bros Records, Inc. as an International Artist Development Manager, collaborating with numerous acts such as The Deftones, Neil Young, and Van Halen.

Following her years in the music scene, she made a return to television, taking on the role of Production Coordinator for Nickelodeon’s “The Brothers Garcia”. Over the ensuing years, she expanded her portfolio by working on various shows for Nickelodeon, USA, Comedy Central, TV Land, Paramount TV, HBO and NBC, progressing from Production Coordinator to Production Supervisor to Line Producer to Executive Producer.

Linda Morel is a founding partner with Mark Bracero (EP, Queer Eye) and John Lehr (EP, Quick Draw, Ten Items Or Less) at Triple Threat Media.

CRISTINA NAVA  is an award-winning WGA screenwriter and a veteran producer of independent films. The last two comedies she produced and wrote were acquired by HBOMax and Samuel Goldwyn. She got to flex her producing skills with the romantic comedy “Say a Little Prayer”, motivating actors, crew, and investors with her notorious line “Everybody wants to jump on a moving train!” and now the movie can be seen in AMC theaters this Thanksgiving 2024

Trina Calderón is a writer, producer, and director from Los Angeles. A Film Independent Project: Involve Screenwriting Fellow, Trina wrote the feature Down for Life which premiered at the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival. With G4tv (NBCUniversal), she produced and directed TV shows and shot comedy sketches and live shows at E3 and San Diego Comic Con. Trina was the co-executive producer of BBCAmerica’s The Nerdist TV show. A published journalist and author, she’s worked with many incredible visual artists making documentaries, and writing articles, essays, books, and museum and gallery exhibits. She contributes to Juxtapoz Magazine and The Believer, and her essays on the innovators of American graffiti from the late 1960’s to the early 1970’s are published in the book, Wall Writers: Graffiti in its Innocence.

Her first short story collection, Once Upon a Time on Grateful Dead Tour was recently published and she’s currently producing To Print and Die in LA, a documentary about L.A. printmaking legend, Richard Duardo.