Marie-Claire Kuja
Marie-Claire is the Founder and CEO of KujaEcoPads, an innovation that uses banana stem agro waste and technology to manufacture and distribute Cameroon’s first 100% biodegradable and compostable sanitary pads made from highly absorbent banana fiber. She is a women […]
Manu Chopra
Manu is working on tackling extreme poverty by providing dignified digital work to rural Indians. He’s currently the Co-Founder and CEO of Karya, a transformative AI collective that is enabling dignified livelihoods. In the last three years, his work has […]
Teresa Njoroge
Teresa Njoroge is the Founder & CEO of Clean Start Africa. She founded it after being wrongly imprisoned with her then 3 month old daughter. Her firsthand experience and the plight of women in prison together with their children inspired […]
Sunday Silungwe
Sunday Silungwe is the Co-Founder & Director of Communication at Good Nature Agro, a social enterprise that works with Africa’s small-scale farmers to move them from poverty and into the middle-class. The ‘Good Nature Seeds’ brand, is a new premium […]
Kate Bezar
Kate Bezar is Co-Founder of the Better Packaging Co. Since 2018, the company’s visionary leadership has transformed the industry by championing circular economy principles to use packaging as a positive force against pollution, poverty, and climate change. With a commitment […]
Anthony So
Anthony, a Hong Kong native, overcame poverty to become a management trainee for a property conglomerate. He is a HKJC & Sir Edward Youde Scholar, advisor, and mentor for university student associations. As a bootcamp moderator and co-host of Startup […]
Meseret Haileyesus
Meseret (Mesi) is a multi-award-winning executive leader, ambassador, and social entrepreneur and the first recognized Canadian to call for national and international responses to economic justice policies to address economic harm in the Canadian Parliament. She wears many hats, advocating […]
Cheryl Kiser
Cheryl is the founding Executive Director of the Institute for Social Innovation, formerly The Lewis Institute for Social Innovation at Babson College, which amplifies college’s mission to educate entrepreneurial leaders to create social and economic value simultaneously. The Institute has become […]
Ayo Roach
Ayo Roach is currently Vice President and Head of Grant Programs at Comic Relief US. In this role, she oversees a $30 million high-impact grants portfolio spanning 40 countries that takes a systems and multigenerational approach towards achieving Comic Relief […]
Priya Naik
Priya Naik is the Founder & CEO of Samhita, an impact catalyst and alliance builder. Samhita and its non profit, Collective Good Foundation (CGF), its execution partner, have impacted 16 million individuals and aim to double incomes of 10 million […]