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 […]
Rachel McGirt
Rachel is a student at UNC-Asheville where she plays on the women’s basketball team as a full scholarship Division I athlete. Ms. McGirt is involved in several student organizations at UNC-Asheville and is the President of the UNC-Asheville chapter of Healthy Girls Save The World. She helped to found Healthy Girls Save The World with […]
Tristine Johnson
As a varsity Track and Field athlete, Tristine Johnson feels that she never would have achieved her successes without the support and encouragement of the people in her community. She is the co-president of HGSW because she has a deep passion for helping people and wants to give girls in the community the same support […]
Reena Gupta
Reena is an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill studying Public Policy with minors in Spanish and Women’s Studies. On campus, she leads Healthy Girls Save the World, is a co-director of Carolina United, and dances for Misconception Dance Company. She believes in a campus and a world that are committed […]
Love Odetola
Born in Nigeria, Love moved to Senegal with her missionary parents at the age of eight. In rural Senegal, she was exposed to health and socio-economic disparities. She, therefore, decided to devote her life to bridge the disparities. In pursuit of this, she is at St. Olaf College now working towards a bachelor degree in Public […]
Jacquelin Meremable
Jacquelin is from a small town in Haiti called Gros-morne. He is the second youngest of 9 children. He is the first in his family to finish with high school. After high school his parents could not afford to send him to college. So, he applied for a scholarship, and out of 390 applicants was one […]
Katie Guidera
Katie Guidera is a senior at Duke University studying Global Mental Health through Duke’s Program II major. She is particularly interested in the intersections between global health, social entrepreneurship, and human rights. She is a co-founder of One Sun Health, an organization which works in rural HaMakuya, South Africa to create pathways of change through […]
Yulkendy Valdez
Yulkendy is a social entrepreneur, storyteller, and public speaker. She has diverse experiences across the private and public sector. She has worked with Bank of America Student Leaders Program, EY, Puma, and Innosight Consulting. Beyond her experience in the private sector, Yulkendy has worked with top nonprofits in St. Louis, Missouri (her hometown!) including the […]
Forefront
Forefront is a premier training provider helping Fortune 1000 firms and emerging tech companies adapt to the future of work and its diverse workforce. It is vital that today’s talent develops inclusive leadership and cultural competence skills to better manage and lead the evolving workforce. Forefront envisions a world where everybody can see themselves in […]
Marling Garcia
Marling Garcia is a passionate, dedicated, and enthusiastic student from Northcentral Technical College in Wausau, WI. She was born in the community of Las Macias, Teustepe, Boaco, Nicaragua. Since she was a child, she experienced the lack of clean, potable water needed to supply the basic needs in her home. Due to that hardship, she always wanted to […]
