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  • About Divinity

    Divinity is a creative entrepreneur, thought leader and career mom who is passionate about the destigmatization and decriminalization of cannabis, racial equity, gender equity, reproductive justice, startups, tech and social impact. She is a creative problem solver and independent thinker with an entrepreneurial spirit and dynamic leadership skills. Currently, she works as a Director & Social Impact Strategist at Impactual, a consulting firm that helps individuals, nonprofits, and brands #MakeAnActualImpact

    Divinity began her career as a community organizer working on the 2008 Presidential campaign and local city council and school board campaigns in California. She spent 4 years as a social impact entrepreneur focused on youth development serving under-resourced teens in Uganda. She gained valuable corporate experience as an intern at SC Johnson and Goldman Sachs, and as a Program Manager at Lyft where she worked with cross-functional stakeholders to make technical improvements to the app, run marketing campaigns, increase driver earnings, and improve safety protocols for drivers.

    She is a Wisconsin native who has lived in various cities including Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco and internationally in Mombasa, Kenya and Kampala, Uganda. She is a devout USC Trojans, Lakers and Packers fan who enjoys cooking, traveling, swimming and all things Beyoncé.

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    Creative Entrepreneur

    From 2010 - 2024, Divinity was the sole owner of Matovu Consulting, a boutique consulting and business strategy firm. In 2021, Divinity launched Exodus Edibles, a health and wellness cannabis infusion brand that manufactures gourmet Southern-style desserts infused with high quality medical grade cannabis and CBD oil. She also founded Watotolly in 2016 to provide busy parents with affordable, convenient, and trustworthy childcare. She made the difficult decision to sunset Exodus Edibles and Watotolly after failing to secure venture capital funding.

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    Motherhood

    Divinity is a mother to two children: her adopted son Shafiq who lives in Uganda and her biological daughter Nyah. She is an advocate for career moms and the empowerment of women globally. She created the MBA Mama blog in 2015 to increase the visibility of MBA moms and help women navigate family and career planning. Divinity is a 2010 recipient of Glamour Magazine’s Annual Woman of the Year Awards where she was recognized as one of twenty women in their 20s changing the world.

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    Education

    Divinity is a 2017 MBA graduate of The Wharton School where she focused on finance and entrepreneurial management. As a Wharton student, she led a team that advocated for the installation of lactation rooms at The Wharton School's Jon M. Huntsman Hall. She completed her undergraduate studies Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude at the University of Southern California in 2008, becoming the 1st person in her family to graduate from a four-year college. She spent a semester in Kenya and Tanzania studying post-colonial history and KiSwahili. She is a proud alum and 2004 graduate of The Prairie School, an elite private school founded by Sam and Imogene Johnson in her home state of Wisconsin.

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    Social Impact & Sustainability

    Since April 2024, Divinity has worked as a Director & Social Impact Strategist at Impactual, a consulting firm that helps individuals, nonprofits, and brands #MakeAnActualImpact. Her work with Impactual builds on more than 15 years experience in the social impact sector. After a transformational experience studying in Kenya and Tanzania, Divinity co-founded the Amagezi Gemaanyi Youth Association (AGYA) in Uganda in 2008 to address issues facing urban youth. Under her leadership, AGYA provided outreach, education, and services to more than 2,000 youth living in urban poverty.

  • Divinity’s Jesus Year: A Memoir of Renewal, Redemption and Resurrection

    Divinity is currently completing the manuscript for her memoir tentatively titled "Divinity’s Jesus Year: A Memoir of Renewal, Redemption and Resurrection.' The book is a story of survival, redemption and resurrection. It is a story about how one woman can lose everything — family, career, sanity, even the will to live — and still fight her way back to wholeness.

    At age 33, Divinity faced a complete unraveling. Just two and a half months into her self proclaimed Jesus Year, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and PTSD after a manic episode that landed her in a Los Angeles psychiatric ward. She lost custody of her beloved daughter Nyah, her consulting business faltered, and she hovered on the edge of homelessness. Through that season of loss, trauma, and stigma, Divinity chose to fight her way back.

    This memoir chronicles not only her descent into chaos and crisis but also the slow, painful, and ultimately hopeful journey of reclaiming her identity, rebuilding her career, and learning to live fully with mental illness. It is a story of survival, faith, resilience, and the radical possibility of renewal when everything else falls apart.

    Divinity's Jesus Year is about the stigma of mental illness, especially for Black women in America. It is about the crushing weight of intimate partner violence and the quiet, invisible damage of generational trauma. It is about the false promises of perfection, success, and achievement, and the deep relief of finally letting go, telling the truth and doing the work to heal.


    At its core, this is a book about resilience. About how we rebuild after our most devastating losses. About how faith, vulnerability, therapy, medication, and community can create a new kind of life worth living.

    What makes Divinity’s Jesus Year unique is the intersection of trauma, race, gender, and achievement. This is not just a story of illness but of ambition colliding with survival. Divinity was a rising star — a Wharton MBA, a successful consultant, an entrepreneur — living her dreams in Los Angeles and still, her life unraveled in what felt like an instant. Her story proves that mental illness and trauma do not discriminate, and that resilience is possible even when the world measures you by your failures.

    This book will be both raw and redemptive. It will break hearts and stitch them back together. It will speak to the women who have been silenced, the survivors who have been shamed, and the dreamers who believe they can only be defined by success. It will say to them: your breakdown is not the end of your story. Resurrection is possible.

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    MBA Mama

    MBA Mama is an online platform that provides ambitious women with tools and resources to leverage an MBA and strategically navigate family/career planning. Founded by Divinity in 2015, MBA Mama is now the world's largest professional network dedicated exclusively to MBA moms.

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    Barbara Goss Gonzalez Memorial Fund

    Divinity set up the BGG Memorial Fund in 2015 to honor the memory and legacy of her mother, Barbara Denise Gonzalez (Goss). The fund provides scholarships to mothers pursuing a degree at any level from trade school to community college to PhD programs. Currently, the fund is undergoing a strategic brand refresh.

    Stay tuned for the relaunch in 2026.

  • Book Divinity

    Booking speakers for your organization? Organizing a conference at your company or university? Book Divinity for topics like: living with bipolar disorder, mental health awareness and advovacy, being an ambitious career mom, social impact, cannabis wellness, herbal remedies and plant medicine, racial and gender equity, consumer tech, women in business/tech, and entrepreneurship. Complete the inquiry form to contact Divinity and receive her availability and speaker fee rate card.