Xiaoyue Gong
Xiaoyue is a PhD Candidate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is founder and CEO of Aeo, a social venture that protects people from severe indoor air pollution in cities through smart IoT design. Her current research is in algorithms and machine learning for supply chain optimization. Since a very young age, Xiaoyue has been working […]
Mwangala Simataa
Mwangala Simataa, a Zambian citizen, is currently a junior at Lafayette College majoring in Economics and Philosophy. Throughout his time at Lafayette College, he has served as a researcher for the Economic Empowerment and Global Learning Project, which is an interdisciplinary team of students and professors that works with distressed communities to find ways to develop and commercialize latent […]
Afritrove Milling
In 2017, Munyaradzi Chifetete & Mwangala Simataa co-founded Afritrove Milling in Zambia to provide a local solution for mealie meal production. Mealie meal is a staple made of maize for which a national monopoly exists—it has pushed down prices for farmers and artificially inflated prices for consumers. The team is using a local approach to source […]
Munyaradzi Chifetete
Munyaradzi is an undergraduate student at Lafayette College from Zimbabwe pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. He is an active member of the Lafayette chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and ASCE Steel Bridge team. Munyaradzi has interned at United Parcel Service (UPS), in the Industrial Engineering division, and at […]
Avishek Sanjel Chhetri
Born and raised in Kathmandu, Nepal, Avishek has grown to realize the health disparity that exists globally in terms of quality healthcare services. Avishek is driven by his passion to bring change to the healthcare sector of Nepal. Avishek is currently an undergraduate student at the University of Rochester studying Biochemistry and International Relations. He […]
Team Gyan
Suman Kumar & Avishek Chetri are co-founding Team Gyan in Nuwakot, Nepal to rebuild schools destroyed by the 2015 earthquake in Nepal. Students from the first school they will rebuild have been taught under temporary shelters; they will use a ‘Portal Shelter’ modular design that will allow for rapid deployment, use of local materials, safer […]
Suman Kumar
Suman Kumar began working as a machinist and welder at an early age. After the Nepal earthquake, he collaborated with non-profits on disaster response and prevention projects that involved designing and manufacturing machines, building 5,365 shelters for over 26,000 earthquake victims. He founded a social venture to rebuild schools destroyed by the earthquake using earthquake-resistant […]
The Rainmaker Enterprise
James Thuch Madhier, from South Sudan, is the founder of The Rainmaker Enterprise. Using a solar powered pump and well, James will build a farm with micro drip irrigation to grow livestock feed and collect water. These will then be sold to family farmers in the northwestern city of Wau at modest prices to help […]
James Thuch Madhier
James Thuch Madhier is a 3rd year student at the University of Toronto studying Peace, Conflict and Justice Studies. James’ social venture, the Rainmaker Enterprise, is aimed at installing solar powered irrigation systems in South Sudan to enable sustainable agriculture in order to reduce poverty, hunger, malnourishment and resolve inter-communal conflicts over limited water and pasture resources. James […]
Brinda Penmetsa
Brinda Penmetsa grew up in Katy, Texas and is currently pursuing a degree in Finance, with a minor in Policy and Ethics in the Honors College at the University of Houston. At UH, she is involved in Student Government, and the Bonner Leaders Program. Through Bonner, a four year commitment, Brinda performs 10 hours of […]
