Sarah McBride is an American author, National Press Secretary of the Human Rights Campaign, and transgender rights activist from Wilmington, Delaware. McBride gained attention after making national headlines for coming out as transgender in her college’s newspaper while she was serving as student body president at American University. After coming out, McBride was featured in outlets such as The Huffington... read full bio
Garrard Conley is an American author and LGBTQ activist who is best known for his autobiography, ‘Boy Erased: A Memoir’, which has since become a major motion picture of the same name. Conley’s memoir went over his childhood with a fundamentalist family that enrolled him in conversion therapy because of his sexuality. Conley’s family sent him to Love In Action... read full bio
Nic Stone is an American New York Times best-selling author of young adult fiction books. Stone was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, and she graduated from Spelman College with a degree in Psychology. After graduating from Spelman College, Stone moved to Israel for a few years which is when she decided to pursue a career as a writer. Stone... read full bio
Larry Broughton is an award-winning entrepreneur, CEO, keynote speaker, number 1 bestselling author and a former Green Beret. Larry has previously been a US Army Staff Sergeant and he served for eight years on Special Forces A-Teams. During his time served, Larry took the lessons he learned from his time serving to apply them to the business arena attaining extraordinary... read full bio
Marty Snider is an American sportscaster who is currently working for NBC Sports. Snider started his career working as a sports reporter for WYFF as well as WGHP. He started working as an intern before being hired as a sports reporter while he finished his last year of college. Snider began his career as a reporter and associate producer for... read full bio
Kotchakorn Voraakhom is a Thai landscape architect and CEO of Porous City Network, an enterprise that increases urban resilience in Southeast Asia. Voraakhom is also a TED fellow and founder of the Koungkuey Design Initiative which rebuilds public spaces with communities. Voraakhom earned her bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture from Chulalongkorn University and she went on to complete her graduate... read full bio
Mei Mei Hu is the Chief Executive Officer, co-founder and a member of the Board of Directors of United Neuroscience. As CEO of United Neuroscience, Hu works on finding new ways to fight brain diseases like Alzheimer’s. She urges her directors of United Neuroscience to pioneer a new class of endobody vaccines to train the immune system to produce specific... read full bio
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
