Pomona College, one of the nation's premier liberal arts colleges, is known for its small classes and opportunities for hands on research, community service and leadership. Pomona is the founding member of the prestigious Claremont Colleges located in Southern California.

Harvey Mudd College seeks to educate engineers, scientists and mathematicians well versed in all of these areas and in the humanities, social sciences and the arts so that they may assume leadership in their fields with a clear understanding of the impact of their work on society. Harvey Mudd College is a private, liberal arts college of engineering, science and mathematics, located in Claremont, California. HMC educates engineers, scientists and mathematicians who become leaders in their fields and have a clear understanding of their work's impact on society. HMC has a strong focus on the humanities, social sciences and the arts, exceptional faculty members who challenge students to achieve beyond their expectations and one of the nation’s highest rates of graduates who go on to earn PhDs in the sciences. HMC’s graduates are highly trained scientists, technologists, educators, entrepreneurs and other professionals committed to excellence, integrity, equity and inclusion.

For more than 95 years, Claremont Graduate University has been a leader in transformative graduate education.

Kentucky Public Pensions Authority (KPPA) is a multi-billion dollar retirement system serving 394,940 state and local government employees and retirees. The Commonwealth of Kentucky provides retirement benefits for state and county employees through the KPPA. KPPA consists of the Kentucky Employees Retirement System (KERS), County Employees Retirement System (CERS), and State Police Retirement System (SPRS). State employees, employees of local health departments, eligible employees of regional state universities, and other agencies qualified under state law participate in KERS. Employees of city, county, and local municipalities, along with classified employees of local school boards, participate in CERS. Participants of SPRS consist of all state police officers.

Pitzer College is a nationally top-ranked undergraduate liberal arts and sciences institution. A member of The Claremont Colleges, Pitzer offers a distinctive approach to a liberal arts education by linking intellectual inquiry with interdisciplinary studies, cultural immersion, social responsibility and community involvement. For more information, please visit www.pitzer.edu.

A top-ranked liberal arts college, Scripps College prepares graduates to contribute to society through public and private lives of leadership, service, integrity, and creativity. With purposefully small classes in a collaborative community, Scripps College offers innovative and inclusive learning opportunities, mission-driven outreach, and an emphasis on women’s leadership for the 21st century.

EMCORE Corporation is a leading provider of advanced Inertial navigation products that serve the aerospace & defense, commercial and industrial markets. Our best-in-class components and systems support a broad array of inertial navigation applications. We leverage industry-leading Photonic Integrated Chip (PIC), Quartz MEMS, and Lithium Niobate chip-level technology to deliver state-of-the-art component and system-level products across our end-market applications. EMCORE has vertically-integrated manufacturing capability at its facilities in Alhambra, CA, Budd Lake, NJ, Concord, CA, and Tinley Park, IL. Our manufacturing facilities all maintain ISO 9001 quality management certification, and we are AS9100 aerospace quality certified at our facilities in Budd Lake and Concord. For further information about EMCORE, please visit http://www.emcore.com.

Geo-Logic Associates, Inc. (GLA) is an employee-owned, multidisciplinary consulting firm. Our highly experienced professionals manage projects through 26 US office locations and an office in Peru. Incorporated in 1991, the firm’s areas of expertise include civil and geotechnical engineering; geologic and hydrogeologic services; facility planning and permitting; environmental compliance; specialized water resources engineering; construction support including construction quality assurance and geotechnical laboratory services; and post-closure monitoring.

Founded in 1940 with the purpose of anticipating community needs, HMC creates designs that positively impact communities—through healthcare, education, and civic spaces. We are 100% Employee-Owned with 290 employee-owners across six offices in California driven to design for good.

C.W. Driver Companies is a premier builder serving California since 1919. The company’s distinguished history spans a century. C.W. Driver Companies is a multi-faceted builder providing General Contracting, Construction Management and Design-Build services. The powerful synergy created by C.W. Driver’s technological edge and dynamic management teams is evident in our diverse portfolio of projects within the educational, civic, urban environment and commercial industries. Landmark projects, historical renovations, and occupied campus programs have distinguished us as leaders in our field. The dynamic energy of our management teams, coupled with our technological sophistication, allows us to work collaboratively with all of our clients to achieve the highest level of innovation, quality and value. C.W. Driver Companies has offices located in Los Angeles, Anaheim, Rancho Cucamonga, San Diego, and Carlsbad. C.W. Driver is the parent company of Driver SPG, and San Diego-based contractor Good & Roberts.

With its diversification into non-gaming businesses, the tribe has become the largest private sector employer in the Banning-Beaumont region and is a major contributor to the Coachella Valley economy. The tribe now employs more than 3,000 people. An independent study reported that the tribe's gaming and non-gaming businesses would generate more than $2.8 billion into the regional economy by 2008. The tribe pays payroll taxes, unemployment benefits, employee benefits and provides health programs. More than two thirds of the Morongo workforce is composed of residents from the Banning Pass and desert cities. On both community outreach and social education fronts, Morongo has taken a leadership role. The tribe gives generously on an annual basis to hundreds of local community groups. Today, the region's governments, businesses, community leaders and groups regard Morongo as a friend and partner. The Morongo tribe's progress is a case history that illustrates how combining a pro-active tribal government with sound economic development can enable tribes to turn their lives and communities around and dramatically impact the surrounding economic region. The Morongo Band of Mission Indians is actively working with government and community leaders to explore the best paths of future development and planning that will yield a better quality of life for this generation and for generations to come.