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
William Hockey is the co-founder, President and CTO of Plaid. Plaid is a company that connects payments apps as well as personal finance apps to users bank accounts to transfer and track funds. Some companies that Plaid has worked with over the years include Robinhood, Coinbase, and Venmo. Hockey has studied at Emory University – Goizueta Business School in systems... read full bio
Zach Perret is the co-founder and CEO of Plaid, a company that connects payment apps and personal finance apps to users bank accounts to transfer and track funds. Plaid has worked with companies such as Venmo, Robinhood, and Coinbase. Perret started his career working as a research fellow on the Duke Board of Trustees and was also a trustee. From... read full bio
Scott Galit is the CEO of Payoneer, which is an Internet-based payment company that establishes viable solutions for payments in prepaid credit cards through the Internet via their own prepaid Payoneer credit card. Payoneer empowers their customers to grow their business by enabling them to pay and get paid easily. Payoneer is currently being used by millions of entrepreneurs, professionals,... read full bio
Yuval Tal is the founder, President, and former CEO of Payoneer, an Internet-based payment company that establishes viable solutions for payments in prepaid credit cards through the Internet via their own prepaid Payoneer credit card. Payoneer allows it’s members to sell products, but pay for their own supplies through an online service. Tal was born in Israel and earned his... read full bio
Jason Gardner is the founder and CEO of Marqueta, Inc. which is a debit card transaction processer that gives companies more control over which transactions are approved for customers or workers through issued cards. Well-known companies that use Marqueta include Square and Instacart. Gardner started his career working as a General Manager at Benattar Marble & Granite Co. From there,... read full bio
Richie Serna is the CEO and co-founder of Finix, a company that gives other companies more control over their payment processing and helps give them a greater share of the processing fee that merchants pay. Finix helps businesses earn 0.4% more on every transaction procession compared to other traditional processors. Finix has over 50 customers one of which includes Lightspeed.... read full bio
