Luis Diego Ramírez Hernández

Luis Diego is an International Relations and Economics student based on San José, Costa Rica. After spending several years participating in Model United Nations conferences, one of his main passions through high school and college, he noticed the lack of participants from public high schools and the elitism that was present there. He then decided […]
Iman Masmoudi

Iman Masmoudi is a senior at Harvard University. She grew up in a large Tunisian-American family in Charlotte, North Carolina. After the Arab Spring started in Tunisia, she became dedicated to contributing to the success of democracy in her parents’ home country, which she visited every summer. She founded Munawwara with her sister in order […]
Gift Kiti

Gift Kiti, MPH is a public health specialist who currently serves as a Senior Analyst at the Evidence Measurement and Evaluation department of the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation in London. Previously, was as a Program Manager and Research Analyst at the Institute of Global Health Sciences at UCSF. She served as the lead coordinator in […]
Tanveer Jeewa

Tanveer Jeewa, in her final year as a Mauritian Law student at the University of Cape Town, strikes by her sparkling joie de vivre. Her crystalline laughter hides a deep and engaged mind and soul, equalled only by her untiring drive to make a positive change around her. She volunteers within her field of study, […]
Carlos Vargas

Carlos Eduardo Vargas is a lawyer with a Governability, Public and Political Management Diploma, an MBA Candidate, a social entrepreneur, an innovator, and a strategist. He is the co-Founder & Chair of 1001 Ideas. Through his work, he has become a Global Shaper of the Caracas Hub, One Young World’s Venezuelan Ambassador, Resolution Fellow of […]
Ousmane Ba

A champion for girls education and children’s rights, Ousmane is a student at Columbia University, studying political science and economics with a focus on peace and advocacy. In addition to leading peace-building initiatives in Guinea to promote youth engagement and civil duties in Guinea, Ousmane is a Global Youth Ambassador at A World at School, […]
Leroy Mwasaru

Leroy is a social entrepreneur, inquisitive learner, innovator and prober. He co-founded Greenpact, a social enterprise with his high school friends from Kenya in 2013, offering clean renewable Biogas solutions to institutions and homes in Kenya. His work with Greenpact has been featured in CNN, Upworthy, Grist, Huffington Post, Forbes, Fast Company and national media […]
Asma AlJehani

Asma AlJehani is a student at Georgetown University, majoring in Culture and Politics and is the founder of The Future is Female. She is interested in female and youth empowerment, especially through education. She believes that the only way to ensure a future of equality and justice is by teaching the younger generations to be […]
Mohamed Ali Tourki

Mohamed Ali Tourki has worked for nine years in the area of community development, especially in education, gender equality, health, technologies, and environmental protection. He is a Grant writer and project manager of different projects such as a community center, schools, environment, English promotion and a radio station. Tourki has also worked with UNFPA, UNDP […]
Medha Reddy

Medha Reddy is currently a sophomore at the University of Chicago. Her work has strived to advocate for those underrepresented in government. Medha’s interest in government and politics began upon her visit to the White House in 2009, where President Bush recognized her and her peer’s volunteer efforts at the annual Turkey Pardoning. Since these […]