Tristan Walker is the founder and CEO of Walker & Company Brands. Walker graduated from State University of New York at Stony Brook with a B.A. in Economics. From there, he went on to earn his MBA in Business Administration and Management from Stanford University Graduate School of Business. During his last year in school, Walker started his career as... read full bio
Tabata Amaral is a Brazilian political scientist, education activist and politician from Sao Paulo, Brazil. She is a member of the Democratic Labor Party and has co-founder of the political organizations; Movimento Mapa Educacao and Acredito. Amaral was educated in local public schools and when she was 12, she participated in the Brazilian Public School Mathematics Olympiad. She won a... read full bio
Shinjiro Koizumi is a Japanese politician who is the Minister of the Environment and is a member of the House of Representatives of the Liberal Democratic Party. Koizumi grew up in Yokosuka and studied at Kanto Gakuin University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Economics degree. He also went on to earn his Master’s Degree in Political Science from... read full bio
Roya Rahmani is an Afghan diplomat who has been serving as Ambassador of Afghanistan to the United States. Rahmani was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and during the civil war, her family fled to Pakistan. While there, she attended a school for refugees and returned to Kabul after. She later earned a scholarship from the World University Service of Canada and... read full bio
Rafaela Requesens is a Venezuelan activist who is best known for previously being the President of the Federation of the Students Center of the Central University of Venezuela, which was an organization of student protests in Venezuela. She rose to fame as a prominent figure in the Venezuelan protests alongside her brother, Juan Requesens. Rafaela and Juan were both arrested... read full bio
Ayman Odeh is an Israeli Arab politician and lawyer from Haifa, Israel. He has been the leader of the Hadash party, a member of the Knesset and head of the Joint List alliance. Odeh started his political career after he joined Hadash and represented it on Haifa City Council for nearly 10 years before becoming the secretary-general. Odeh has been... read full bio
Vanessa Luna is the co-founder and Chief Program Officer of ImmSchools, an immigrant led non-profit that turns schools into a safe and welcoming space for undocumented students and families. While Luna was teaching in Los Angeles, she found out how hard students of immigrant parents can have it when she said a student’s parent deported. She wanted to make a... read full bio
Jordan Bardella is a French politician who is a member of the European Parliament for France and who has previously served as the Spokesman of the National Rally. Bardella has also served as president of the Front National de la Jeunesse, which was later renamed to the Generation Nation. Bardella started his career when he joined the National Front. Bardella... read full bio
Jesse Klaver is a Dutch politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives and the Leader of GroenLinks. He has also previously chaired the youth union of the Christelijk Nationaal Vakverbond. Klaver started his career as a member of the board of DWARS, the youth organization of GroenLinks. He has studied social work at the Avans University... read full bio
Francis X. Suarez is an American attorney and politician who has been the 43rd Mayor of Miami under the Republican party. Suarez was born in Miami, Florida and he went on to earn his bachelor’s degree in finance from Florida International University. From there, he earned his J.D. degree from the University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law... read full bio
Varshini Prakash rose to fame after becoming the executive director of the Sunrise Movement, which has advocated for proposals such as the Green New Deal. She is a visionary leader who is one of the many fighting for the future. Prakash has been one of the many young leaders who have made climate change an important talk to the nation.... read full bio
Camille Francois has been a fellow in New America’s Cybersecurity Initiative and her research focuses on cyber peace and the intersection of human rights, cybersecurity and cyber operations. Francois has severed as the Research and Analysis Director at Graphika and has previously been the Principal Researcher at Jigsaw. She has also advised governments and parliamentary committees on policy issues related... read full bio
John Edmonds is an American artist and photographer who is based out of Brooklyn, New York. Edmonds rose to fame after the release of his intimate portraits of lovers, close friends and strangers. Edmonds has earned his BFA at the Corcoran School of Arts & Design and has gone on to earn his MFA in Photography from Yale University. Edmonds... read full bio
Njideka Akunyili Crosby is a Nigerian-American visual artist based out of Los Angeles, California. Crosby was born and raised in Enugu, Nigeria and moved to Lagos when she was 10 years old. Shortly after, her mother won the U.S. green card lottery and two years later, at 16 years old, her family moved to the United States. Crosby later graduated... read full bio
Ganesh Padmanabhan is the current Chief Revenue Officer of Molecula which helps enterprises execute on Artificial Intelligence. Ganesh has previously been the Vice President of Global Business Development and Marketing at CognitiveScale where he was responsible for growth through channel sales, business development, strategic partnerships and marketing. Ganesh has previously been a software engineer in product management at Microsemi, he... read full bio
Ariadne Grant is the editorial director at Marie Claire magazine in Latin America and is one of the biggest fashion experts in Latin America. Grant began her career with Marie Claire as an editor of Marie Claire Mexico and Latin America and within months of starting, she was assumed the role of editorial director. Since being the editorial director, Grant... read full bio
Diego Bolson Ruzzarin is the founder and CEO of Foodlosofia, a food design center focused on innovation of the food industry, and Casa Nomo. He is an industrial designer who specializes in food design and has worked for several large companies over the years such as PepsiCo where he was a brand manager and R&D manager. Ruzzarin began his career... read full bio
Steve Fredette is the President and co-founder of Toast, which is an all-in-one restaurant technology platform that was built specifically for restaurants in mind. Fredette woks to build restaurant software, hardware, services and support, and changing the restaurant technology landscape. Fredette began his career as an engineering intern at Precision Optics Corporation. From there, he became co-founder of Klick Mobile... read full bio
Aman Narang is the co-founder and President of Toast, Inc., which is an all-in-one restaurant technology platform that was built specifically for restaurants in mind. Toast works in integrated online ordering, gift cards, loyalty programs, labor and sales reporting on a mobile, cloud-based POS system. Narang began his career as a software engineer in Special Operations and then worked as... read full bio
Eliot Buchanan is the co-founder and CEO of Plastiq which is a company that lets small businesses use a credit card to pay for expenses such as rent, contractors, and inventory for 2.5% fee. Plastiq is currently being used by more than 50,000 small business customers and processes nearly 4 billion dollars in transactions a year. During his time with... read full bio
