Liana Rosenman
In 2008, after recovering from anorexia nervosa, she co-founded Project HEAL: Help to Eat, Accept and Live, a 501(c)3 non-profit that raises money for people with eating disorders who cannot afford treatment, promotes healthy body image and self esteem, and inspires people to believe that full recovery from an eating disorder is possible. Liana Rosenman […]
Project HEAL: Family Network
This venture – a totally new program of a successful existing project – will create a network of supportive meetings, moderated by professional psychologists, for the families of young women suffering from eating disorders. The aim of the project is to expand the circle of care from simply focusing on the sufferers of the disorder themselves […]
Knit2Lead
Despina Souroviki founded Knit2Lead to empower socially-excluded women in Greece through fashion design and manufacturing apparel. She is working with women’s prisons, domestic violence victims, and rehab facilities in Thessaloniki to provide these women with the skills to create clothes, along with leadership training and the platform to sell their designs for economically empowering income.
Despina Souroviki
Despina is an undergraduate law student at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She is a fluent speaker of Greek, English, Spanish, German and Arabic. She was the Vice President of Seminars and Conferences of ELSA Thessaloniki for two consecutive terms, while being the instigator of the 1st Winter Law School on Migration Law & Refugee […]
Journey Crowdfunding
Charles Zhang founded Journey Crowdfunding, a social crowdfunding platform based in Sydney, Australia. Journey Crowdfunding—in partnership with shelters and other partner organizations—will share the stories of the homeless and disadvantaged, and raise funds for self-advancement initiatives like occupational training and educational programs. By crowdfunding these “journeys,” community donors will help these individuals achieve important milestones […]
Charlie Zhang
Charles is a student at the University of Sydney in Australia studying a Bachelor of Commerce. Charles spent a semester abroad at Maastricht University in the Netherlands where he developed an avid curiosity for social enterprise. Upon returning to Sydney, he and two colleagues went on to develop Journey Crowdfunding, a social crowdfunding platform that […]
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 […]
Little Dreamers Foundation
Shantel Marekera is launching Little Dreamers Foundation in Harare, Zimbabwe to open a subsidized pre-school in Glen View 8 for low-income young girls whose guardians cannot afford to send them to local pre-schools. This gives young girls access to education despite their parents’ economic status and helps them discover their potential at a tender age.
Shantel Marekera
Shantel Marekera is a Rhodes scholar pursuing a degree in Jurisprudence/Law at the University of Oxford after graduating summa cum laude with a masters degree in Justice Studies at Arizona State University where she was a MasterCard Foundation scholar. She advises UN Women on youth issues in her role as a member of the policy […]
