Keynote Speaker

Megan Castles

Lead Facilitator

Professionally, Megan is a risk manager, working as a State Farm agent in Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana. She provides her clients with exceptional service and makes insurance simple. Megan credits the leadership opportunities, experiences and network provided by her lifetime Alpha Chi Omega membership for her success today.  

After high school, Megan moved from her hometown of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma to Fayetteville, Arkansas to study human resources and workforce development at The University of Arkansas. Eager to find her place in the world through the sorority experience, she participated in sorority recruitment, falling in love with Alpha Chi Omega on Philanthropy Day. She set her eyes on becoming a member and one day vice president of philanthropy. Blessed to serve in this role as well as many others in college, Megan became inspired to continue her commitment to Alpha Chi Omega as an alumna volunteering as membership programming advisor for Psi (The University of Oklahoma), various board positions with Rho Rho (Oklahoma City) alumnae chapter, as a facilitator for InTune, and serving multiple times as a small group facilitator with Capstone Leadership Program and Leadership Academy. She has been honored as the Alpha Chi Omega Young Alumnae in 2023 and as Oklahoma City Alpha Chi Omega Woman of the Year in 2024. As an avid volunteer with a passion project for women’s leadership development, Megan is active in various organizations and energetically serves on multiple nonprofit boards.  

Personally, Megan calls Oklahoma City home; is dog mom to Castle, a spicy salsa aficionado and an avid reader; loves to workout at Pure Barre Edmond, and is surrounded by the most incredible family and friends. 

Makenzie Neves

Lead Facilitator

Kenzie graduated from California State University, Sacramento, where she was initiated into the Epsilon Theta chapter. After graduation, she served as a traveling chapter consultant for Alpha Chi Omega. She holds a master's degree in agricultural communications from Texas Tech University and currently works in marketing for the California Beef Council. 

In her previous volunteer roles, she has served on establishment interview teams for the University of Mississippi, Chapman University and Mississippi State University. Additionally, she has been the advancement specialist for the Alpha Chi Omega chapter at Texas Christian University and the chapter relations and standards advisor for Texas Tech University. 

Residing in Hilmar, California, with her husband, two golden doodles, and a flock of chickens, Kenzie enjoys spending her free time gardening, going to the gym and working on their fixer-upper home. 

Christine Licata-Hoang

Lead Facilitator

Christine has been in higher education and student affairs for 14 years, working in fraternity and sorority life, student conduct, orientation and transition programs, enrollment management, and strategic partnerships. She currently works at the University of Maryland Global Campus in corporate and academic partnerships, helping higher education become more accessible to working adults. She also manages two federal research grants with three teams and teaches graduate courses at Morgan State University, based in Baltimore, MD.

Her entire journey in higher education started because an alumna member of Alpha Chi Omega encouraged her to apply to be a chapter consultant after graduating college! She completed her bachelor's degree at The Ohio State University in political science and economics, a Master of Education degree at the University of Georgia in college student affairs administration and a doctor of philosophy from the University of Maryland in student affairs, higher education, and international education policy. Her research interest focuses on state- and federal-level Title IX policy and how to leverage research to make widespread changes to address campus-based sexual violence.  

Christine has also been involved with Alpha Chi Omega since her collegiate membership in Alpha Omicron, first as the Panhellenic delegate then the chapter president. She traveled the west coast as a chapter consultant in 2011-12 and began volunteering as an ASTP presenter shortly after coming off of the road. She has served as positional advisor to Alpha Omicron and Gamma Theta, served on a couple of collegiate experience volunteer teams supporting chapters all over the country, and been involved with local house corporations. She currently serves as PCC to the Maryland and Washington, D.C. area. She can't say no to her sisters!  

She is based in Columbia, MD with her spouse and resident pittie princess, Kennedy - her four year old pitbull who they rescued in June 2020. She and her husband foster dogs as their way of giving back to the organization that rescued Kennedy and helping other families find their forever fur-children. She is an avid reader, semi-enthusiastic Orangetheory Fitness member, and decent home cook and baker.  

Melissa Perez Ramirez

Lead Facilitator

Melissa Perez Ramirez (Beta Omega, University of Toledo) is a non-profit professional with over 10 years of experience working in various leadership roles for organizations such as the YMCA of Greater Cleveland, Alpha Chi Omega Foundation and Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio. Melissa has extensive executive experience and specializes in building relationships with community leaders, teams and funders. She is currently the vice president of development for a state-wide health care provider. 

Melissa currently resides in the Cleveland, Ohio area with her husband and their two teenage children. When she’s not cheering on her kids at their various games and performances, she’s reading, watching movies or coddling her very senior St. Bernard, Leia.