EDEN Conference

Maria Harmon is the incoming Executive Director of Boston Fellows, where she carries forth the organization's mission to equip workplace leaders. Throughout her career, she has studied and worked under electricians, engineers, teachers, academics, museum staff, event managers, businessmen, spiritual directors, and clergy, building a background that spans vacuum repair, high school education, physics research, catering, finance, administration, communication, and chocolate arts.

But beyond the titles, Maria is, in her own words, a jack-of-all-trades who believes that anything is possible with God's insight and the right tools. Earlier this year, she was called, both through personal discernment and Fellows leadership, to step into this new role, and she believes deeply in the value of equipping leaders wherever they find themselves.

Maria loves to sing, whether in a praise team or a cappella, and can often be found watching improv comedians compete in game shows or playing Dungeons & Dragons.

Rachel Moore Best is a lecturer at MIT Sloan and MIT's School of Engineering, where she teaches Power & Negotiation and Negotiation & Influence for Technical Leaders. With a background in qualitative research and design, Rachel has developed custom case materials used in graduate courses, government agencies, and corporate training for clients like Google, Comcast, and the US Department of Defense.

Beyond the classroom, Rachel is a sought-after consultant who mediates multi-stakeholder negotiations, helping organizations engage resistant stakeholders and build lasting coalitions. Her work has supported clients such as Disney, Boston Children's Hospital, BMW, Nestle, and NASA Aeronautics, and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal. She believes that strong negotiation and influence skills, done well, can create real and lasting change.

Outside of work, Rachel is a musician. And these days, she's putting her specialized skills to good use at home, working on winning negotiations with her husband in his native language, Portuguese.

Selamile "Sela" Dlamini-Sutherland is a business strategist who has spent her career guiding corporations and nonprofits. Along the way, she has learned that the hardest strategy questions are usually about people and purpose.

But beyond the titles, Sela is a daughter of Swaziland whose home has traveled with her, through California, to Nairobi, and now to Cambridge. She is a poet and a storyteller at heart. She shares encouragement through her newsletter, A Year of Letters, and recently launched her podcast, Sitting with Selah. Most days, she is still working out how to hold a career and motherhood in the same two hands.

Sela lives in Cambridge with her husband, Theo, and their two little ladies.

Betsy Neptune is the co-founder, with her husband Anthony, of Neptune Coaching, an organizational development and executive coaching firm that partners with nonprofit and public sector leaders to build healthier teams and navigate change. She is also the Regional Executive Director of BUILD Northeast, where she leads programs that help young people discover their potential through entrepreneurship.

Before starting Neptune Coaching, Betsy led city and regional economic development initiatives, including running the City of Boston's small business assistance programs. Her work centers on adaptive leadership, organizational development, and helping leaders grow into the people their organizations need. She holds an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School and is a Prosci Certified Change Practitioner and certified in the Fearless Organization Scan, a tool for measuring psychological safety in teams.

Betsy and Anthony live in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, with their son Sol, 4, and daughter Helene, 2. She believes ministry isn't confined to the church but happens everywhere, whether she's coaching a Cabinet member at the City of Boston, speaking on a panel, or changing a diaper.

Toritse David is a strategy and finance professional with more than eight years of experience across management consulting, investment banking, and investment management. She is currently a consultant at Bain & Company in Boston, where she works with senior leaders on growth strategy, go-to-market, post-merger integration, and commercial due diligence across consumer, technology, financial services, and infrastructure.

Before Bain, Toritse worked in investment banking at J.P. Morgan in New York and Standard Bank in Lagos, supporting transactions including a ~$1B cross-border divestiture across five African markets, and began her career in investment management at African Capital Alliance.

Toritse holds an MBA from MIT Sloan, where she was named one of Poets & Quants' 2025 Best & Brightest MBAs and received the Miriam Sherburne Award for her contributions to the school community. At Sloan, she led the Africa Business Club and co-authored a working paper on innovation ecosystems with MIT's Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program.

Outside of work, Toritse was previously a co-founder of Velocity Digital, a venture syndicate that has invested over $750,000 across 44 startups with women in leadership, and serves as a director at The Leadership Farm, a nonprofit empowering young African women through technology training. Earlier, she served as a youth leader with UN Women on ending child marriage and FGM across Africa.

Danielle Allan is a stay-at-home mom, or, to put it more professionally, COO of the Allan household, where she manages the beautiful chaos of raising a three-and-a-half-year-old son, Joshua, while pregnant with twins due in December.

But beyond the title, Danielle has walked a road that wasn't always easy. While pregnancy, labor, and delivery came easily for her, actually becoming a mom did not. She is passionate about the belief that motherhood is a holy role that God calls us to, one with far more impact than we often realize, despite the forces that tempt us to believe otherwise.

These days, hobbies have taken a bit of a back seat, but Danielle still considers herself a homebody at heart. She loves naps, drawing, soaking up the sun, and a good book.

Daphne is a mission-driven creative, entrepreneur, and follower of Christ passionate about helping people discover who they are, what they're called to do, and the courage to pursue it. Through Kingdom Come Co., she creates practical tools and experiences, primarily rooted in journaling, prayer and meditation, that encourage people to dream boldly, live intentionally, and take meaningful steps toward the life they envision.

Rooted in her faith, Daphne believes that every person carries unique gifts, dreams, and potential, and that discovering and pursuing them is a journey worth taking. Kingdom Come Co. exists to help people reconnect with their dreams, find purpose, and build lives that reflect what matters most to them. Daphne previously worked in nonprofit and philanthropic consulting at McKinsey & Company, where she supported organizations with increasing impact through their funding strategies. Prior to that, Daphne graduated with her undergraduate degree in Sociology from Spelman College, and a graduate degree in Human Rights from Columbia University.

Christina serves in a split role at the Emmanuel Gospel Center (EGC), a Dorchester-based nonprofit that equips churches in the Greater Boston area to minister to their communities' most pressing needs. Half of her time is focused on day-to-day operations, ensuring efficiency and effectiveness behind the scenes. The other half is spent as project manager for EGC's storytelling project, a creative endeavor producing short YouTube documentaries that capture the positive impact of the Church across the country, with its first release scheduled for early 2027.

But beyond the titles, Christina is someone with a long history of investing directly in people. Prior to joining EGC, she served as a campus minister with Cru at Cornell, MIT, Harvard, and Tufts, and she still carries a huge heart for college students today. She's passionate about the local church's ability to tell honest, hopeful stories, and believes those stories matter far beyond the screen.

Outside of work, Christina is a freelance photographer, an avid illustrator, and a coffee enthusiast. She and her husband, Mojo, love hosting guests at their home.

Tlhologelo Mabelane is an entrepreneur, dancer, and consultant, and the founder of MabuTribe, a hair-care business that celebrates identity through hair. With years of experience in banking and management consulting, Tlholo now focuses her expertise on building MabuTribe while contributing to the enterprise development space.

But beyond the titles, Tlholo is someone who bridges strategy with creativity. Through movement, mentorship, and business acumen, she helps others celebrate their journeys.

Her life is a tapestry of culture, faith, innovation, and heart. She is a mother of four and a partner in life's adventure with her husband, TK.

Sarah Galatoire is an aspiring physician and co-founder of Vessels, a startup that has taken many forms, all aimed at connecting people through storytelling. Over the past several years, her work has taken her into many spaces: caring for pediatric patients at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, conducting neuroscience research in Lisbon, leading a Christian campus ministry at Northeastern University, and building a company. She holds a B.S. in Behavioral Neuroscience from Northeastern.

Sarah's pursuit of medicine grew from a love of learning and a desire to serve people in some of life's most vulnerable moments. Studying the brain and seeing the realities of illness, inside and outside hospital walls, led her to deeper questions about human worth, suffering, and purpose. She believes medicine cannot be separated from the ultimate Healer, and she hopes to become a physician who pairs rigorous science with deep respect for each patient. For Sarah, medicine is a vocation through which she participates in God's work of caring for a broken world.

Today, Sarah's time is divided between medical school applications, work as a home health aide, caring for children at Aletheia Church, retail, and building Vessels. Holding all these forms of work has drawn her to the relationship between work and rest. She is learning to see Sabbath not simply as a pause from work, but as a reminder that her worth is not measured by what she accomplishes. She is passionate about stewarding her gifts wholeheartedly while trusting God enough to rest.

Outside of work, Sarah loves international travel, dancing, and jam sessions with friends. She is also known for stopping to pet essentially every dog she passes.