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 […]
Nicol Chinchilla Cordero
Nicol Chinchilla Cordero grew up in La RIbera, small village in Southern Costa Rica. At the age of 17, Nicol attended the United World Colleges in New Mexico. In this two years International Baccalaureate high school Nicol was inspired to study Environmental Studies. Nicol is studying at Earlham College were she is double majoring in Environmental […]
Maria Daniela Castillo
Maria Daniela Castillo is a graduate student pursuing a Master’s in City Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 2015, upon being awarded a Resolution Project Fellowship, Maria and her co-founders, Nicol Chinchilla and Sasha Drumm, founded UpTica, a social venture where women in rural Perez Zeledon, Costa Rica, upcycle materials to make […]
Sasha Drumm
Sasha Drumm is an environmental engineering student at Michigan Technological University. She has a strong background in leadership through her experiences with journalism, the Green Club, and Youth in Government. Born and raised in the small town of Quincy, Michigan, she always dreamed of reaching out and helping the world beyond the borders of the […]
UpTica
UpTica empowers women in the rural communities of Perez Zeledon, Costa Rica, by providing them with alternative income sources. UpTica reduces gender inequality by creating opportunities for gender training, cross-gender collaboration, mutual encouragement, and personal growth. It introduces upcycling as an approach to value waste, encouraging a sustainable behavior of reducing the consumption of single use bags. […]
Erzhena Badmatsyrenova
Erzhena is an electrical engineering student in City College of New York. One of the reasons why she decided to become an engineer was her desire to improve the world and exploring using technology for a clean and sustainable environment. Area of interests include energy sustainability, clean and renewable energy, global warming, and how technology […]
Smart Socket Systems
This engineering student has devised a distributed electric metering and management system through plug-in devices for individual homes. These plugs provide customers the appliance-by-appliance real-time information to reduce their energy costs by shifting their usage to off-peak times, powered by a mobile app. These devices would reduce the load on the grid, flatten the demand […]
Darosa Elfrida
Darosa Elfrida is majoring in environmental engineering at the Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Surabaya, Indonesia. She is interested in environmental issues as well as social and international relations issues. Since high school, she has been active in a lot of debate competitions and has won several awards. At that time, she also became the event […]
Open Defecation Free (ODF) Surabaya
Galuh Sekar Arum & Darosa Elfrida will provide education and latrine building in Indonesia to end public defecation and related public health issues, ensuring that every home has basic sanitation infrastructure.
Galuh Sekar Arum
Galuh Sekar Arum was born in Balikpapan, Indonesia. In 2011, she was selected to represent her city in Youth Leadership Forum, and that was the time when she realized young leaders will determine the future of the world; thus, she started to join any activites that would improve her leadership and social skills. In 2014, […]
