Courtney Price

Courtney Price is a third year international relations student at the University of Queensland. She has been a part of the Meri Toksave team from the start and now stands as the organisation’s Marketing Coordinator. She is involved in a number of activities and organisations around UQ to make her university experience even more unforgettable. […]

Molly Simon

Molly Simon is a co-founder of One Sun Health. Molly is currently working for The Advisory Board Company, a global health care strategic services firm in Washington DC. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Washington University in Saint Louis in 2013 with a B.A. in Anthropology. Molly was a teaching assistant for Introduction to Public […]

Ayesha Lutschini

Ayesha Lutschini is the Founder and Director of Meri Toksave. She was born and raised in Papua New Guinea and this helped shape her passion towards social justice and international development. Ayesha is in her final year of her Bachelor of Arts (International Relations and Peace and Conflict Studies) and Bachelor of Social Science (Development) […]

Annie Ryu

Annie Ryu is a prolific social entrepreneur who studied Social Anthropology, Global Health and Health Policy at Harvard University. Before founding The Jackfruit Company, she served as the Nicaragua field investigator for a multi-country study on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and the Associate Director for the nonprofit Children of the Border, and she […]

Yangmali Sahadev Rai

An award-winning social entrepreneur, Yangmali Rai is the Founder and President of the Yang-Ward Foundation, an initiative that seeks to empower single women of rural areas by engaging them in revenue-generating activities to gain financial independence. He completed his schooling at the National School of Nepal; Budhanilkantha school. He then went to the United World […]

Derrius Quarles

Born and bred on the south-side of Chicago, overcoming obstacles was a skill that groomed Derrius as a youth. Being the first in his family to attend college has provided him motivation academically and professionally. Among his honors, include a multitude of scholarships and grants totaling over $1.1 million dollars. He is a humble recipient […]

Brett Perl

Brett graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in Architecture in 2015.​ While enrolled at Carnegie Mellon, Brett worked with the local Pittsburgh community as a brother of the Penn Theta chapter of the Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity.   Prior to co-founding the venture, “Building With Bottles,” Brett became involved with STAND, the student-led division of Genocide Intervention Network, as a Regional […]

Harald Oswin

Harald Oswin is an Applied Mathematics concentrator at Harvard University who is based in the Republic of South Africa. His interests are entrepreneurship, statistics, design, technology, finance and politics. He believes entrepreneurship will be the key turbine for development in the developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. For that reason, he would love to […]

Natalie Onyango

Natalie is an International Economics and Spanish major at St. Lawrence University in upstate New York. On campus, the Kenyan native is president of the African Students Union, a senator on the student government and a Swahili teaching assistant. Her academic interests lie in economics (financial & development), international relations and languages. As a social […]

Whitley O’Connor

Whitley O’Connor is a rising senior at Vanderbilt University double majoring in Sociology and Human and Organizational Development. He first got involved in social enterprise at the beginning of his sophomore year when he helped develop and launch Teach Twice, a nonprofit book publisher that takes stories from around the world, publishes and sells them […]