Sally Ladsaria
Sally is a student at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), majoring in Integrative Biology Honors with a pre-med concentration. She volunteers as a CPR personnel for Illini Emergency Medical Services, and participates in Model United Nations. She is a co-founder of the Isthmus Adaptive Basketball Initiative. Isthmus Adaptive is a wheelchair basketball team […]
Derek Hoot
Derek is a student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign majoring in Political Science and working towards an Arabic minor. He plays wheelchair basketball at a collegiate level and have been a right-leg amputee since he was six years old. Derek began playing wheelchair basketball in 7th grade on a Madison, Wisconsin-based team called […]
Maja Felicia Falkentoft
Maja has previously completed studies and internships in both Montréal and Dakar, and is currently finishing her BSc in Global Studies and International Development Studies at Roskilde University in Denmark. Since very young, Maja has been strongly interested in processes of global social and political change, which to several community involvements in both Denmark and […]
Johan Juul Jensen
Johan is a serial social entrepreneur. Prior to launching Play It On and becoming a Resolution Fellow, Johan founded several other domestic NGO’s. Play It On is an international NGO that works with sports for development and intercultural exchange. Under Johan’s leadership, Play It On has grown from an organization working solely between Denmark and […]
Raquel Granados
Raquel Granados is from a community of about 20 houses in La Teja, Honduras. From an early age she was involved in her community as a leader at church. She studied Environmental Technology at Mt. Hood Community College (MHCC) on a SEED (Scholarship for Educational and Economic Development) scholarship sponsored by US-AID and Georgetown University. […]
Nahom Wodajo
Nahom Zeleke is a graduate from Addis Ababa University, with a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is co-founder of Addis Sustainable Life (ASL) – a recycling start-up company and campus-sustainability program. His project engages volunteers in creative campus waste management, markets biodegradable products and executes various campus sustainability campaigns for Addis Ababa University. Nahom […]
Abiy Goshu
Abiy is co-founder of Addis Sustainable Life – a social venture that works on campus sustainability and markets biodegradable paper products to support small local green enterprises in Addis Abeba. He also serves as Partnerships Director at the Youth Negotiation on Climate Change Convention (YNCCC). He was nominated as a youth delegate representing his country […]
Charlene Kormondy
Charlene received a B.S. in Environmental Studies, Summa Cum Laude, from the University of Central Florida in 2014. While at UCF, she conducted undergraduate research on climate change impacts on the Caribbean. As a participant in the President’s Scholars Study Abroad Program, Charlene constructed a shade house on the island of St. Kitts in which […]
Lucien Charland
Lucien grew up spending his summers in Guatemala, experiencing the negative effects of poverty and climate change first-hand. At the University of Central Florida, this exposure led him to study abroad in St. Kitts & Nevis and present and publish climate change impacts research. Also as a student, Lucien interned at the U.S. Embassy in […]
Jessica Laporte
Jess graduated in May of 2014 from Tufts University with a degree in International Relations and a concentration in Global Health, Nutrition and the Environment. One month later she was in Haiti to launch Kouzin Dlo. Jess went to Haiti for the first time in the summer of 2013 and traveled to volunteer with 6 different […]
