Featured Speaker(s)

Moderator:

Sara Divyak - Director of Client Services - Bridge
Sara joined the legal field 10 years ago, and has spent the majority of that time helping international employees and their families through all stages of their immigration journeys. Realizing that a tech-enabled solution was the most efficient way to collaborate on complex concepts, she joined Bridge, a company that offers innovative solutions to simplify the immigration process. As their Director of Client Services, she uses a client-driven approach to push the boundaries on how immigration services should support their clients through transparency, education, and proactive strategy. In her free time, (and pre-COVID), Sara enjoyed Chicago's restaurant scene and traveling, but now spends her time cooking new recipes, learning Italian, and braving the winter weather with her husband and pups.

Speakers:

Ginny Cheng - Director of National Recruiting - Zillow Group
With 15+ years of experience designing and executing global recruiting programs while building high-performance teams, Ginny is currently part of Zillow's Recruiting Leadership team where she oversees the company's Technical, Business, and Revenue teams' hiring.  Prior to her current role, she was with Facebook, Microsoft and EMI Music-Digital.  She's had the opportunity to live and work in Asia and Europe where she expanded her skills to include Product Marketing,
Recruitment Marketing, Diversity Recruiting, and Events Management.

Ginny is also a Career Coach with Career Contessa -  a resource designed to support womxn's career paths-where she personally supported hundreds of people's career journey so far.  She is a thought leader that speaks on webinars, panels, keynotes, and podcasts on topics including career happiness, leadership principles, personal branding, and how to creating psychological safety at work. 

Ginny is an avid traveler and is hoping she will get to travel soon to her 49th country with her family and Cosmo, the shelter dog they adopted during the pandemic.    

Ting Ni- Partner Attorney & Co-Founder - ImmiPartner
Ting began her immigration career over ten years ago, working on cases for leading researchers, scientists, and academics. Before co-founding ImmiPartner, she led the High Growth practice of a large corporate immigration firm based in San Francisco. There, she built a dedicated team that directly handled case processing for hundreds of companies and over one thousand international employees at any given time. Her clients ranged from pre-seed startups to large, publicly-traded multinational corporations. She also worked closely with international entrepreneurs and investors, creating immigration strategies for them to grow their companies' corporate presence and market share in the U.S. Ting has been an invited speaker on topics related to immigration strategies at various incubators, accelerators, and VC firms. Ting is admitted to practice law in California and is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.

Pawan Zenda - Visa Coordinator - Netflix Inc.
Growing up as a child of immigrants, Pawan has personally seen her family and friends struggle with immigration issues. These experiences led her to pursue a career in immigration. Prior to joining Netflix, she worked as an Immigration Specialist at Uber, where she confronted issues individuals faced when anticipating approvals, the fear they experienced when receiving requests for further evidence to prove they deserved the jobs they were offered, and ultimately the disappointment and helplessness that came with a denial. Pawan believes that immigration should no longer be treated as a troublesome and undesirable situation that people are afraid to engage with. This led Pawan to become a Co-Lead for the Dream@ Employee Resource Group for immigrant employees at Netflix and works towards actively and openly criticizing, fixing and celebrating immigration and the immigration process, where she can.