Yulkendy Valdez

Co-founder and Managing Partner at Project 99, which supports leading organizations in engaging and advancing millennial of color talent through workforce development programs and events. Yulkendy is a social entrepreneur, writer and public speaker from the Dominican Republic. She has worked with Bank of America, Ernst & Young, Puma and Innosight Consulting. She received numerous fellowships including Resolutions Project, Young People For, Opportunity Nation, PPIA, and Harvard Kennedy School PPLC. By the time she was in High School, she had been on the cover of numbers newspapers and has been featured in NPR and USA Today.