Manuel Angel Barrantes Duarte
Manuel Barrantes was born in Managua, Nicaragua, and is 21 years old. He is a senior at Harding University majoring in global economics and Management. He is at Harding with the Walton International Scholarship Program (WISP) for Central America. His goal after graduation is to implement and offer low-income communities from Managua, new opportunities to engage […]
Karina Nur Arumsari
Wetland Furniture was founded by Karina Nur Arumsari and her partner, Irfanda. The venture is about converting water hyacinth (Eichornia crassipes) – an invasive plant that lives in water – into valued goods. They are empowering the women in Desa Bandung, Mojokerto to have a better life. In her spare time, she enjoys going to cinemas […]
Wetland Furniture
Irfanda Odytia & Karina Nur Arumsari founded Wetland Furniture, also in Indonesia, to harvest water hyacinths and empower unemployed women to learn how to build furniture from this freely available resource. The team will provide the women with resources, training, and designs, as well as a generous profit-sharing structure. Wetland Furniture also has a distribution […]
Irfanda Odytia
Irfanda Odytia was born at Ponorogo, Indonesia on 01 May 1997. Irfanda had a very early interest in technology and entrepreneurship. He pursues his passion by studying as a science major at Sampoerna Academy Palembang, Indonesia. Irfanda began to love and appreciate nature and the environment, community and society. During his senior year of high […]
Jennifer Carvel
Jennifer Carvel is an Honors student at the University of Central Florida pursuing a bachelors’ degree in Biomedical Sciences and Psychology. Growing up in Downtown Miami, Jennifer stood witness to the struggle of homelessness and hunger surrounding her community. Even as a child, she tried to alleviate the plight of the homeless by offering supermarket […]
Alexis Ghersi
Alexis Ghersi attends the University of Central Florida to receive a bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Sciences with a minor in Spanish Language. Within UCF, Alexis holds two part-time job positions and presents her leadership with the Pre-Professional Medical Society and Lead Scholars Academy Program. Some of her leadership activities include coordinating events to raise money […]
Hearts For The Homeless Orlando
Hearts For The Homeless Orlando is developing a new hypertension-screening program for the homeless community in Orlando, FL. It partners with local food shares and free healthcare clinics to help reduce incidence of hypertension and cardiac diseases in this underserved community. In addition, this initiative aims to promote awareness for this population by creating needed […]
Andrew Aboujaoude
Andrew Aboujaoude is a United States Air Force Captain and physician at Columbia University currently pursuing a residency in anesthesiology. While he was an undergraduate student at UCF, his experiences with the homeless community in Downtown Orlando deeply impacted him. As a result, he was inspired to do his part as a social entrepreneur to […]
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 […]
