Rose Wang
Rose is the CEO/co-founder of Six Foods, a company that is normalizing insects as a more sustainable protein. Rose worked in strategy and marketing at Nutraclick and Microsoft. In college, Rose managed HSA Cleaners and The Harvard Shop through Harvard Student Agencies, managing an annual budget of $1.5M. She also has a passion for education […]
YouSeeClear
Babur Jahid is the founder of YouSeeClear in Afghanistan. Babur is launching a program to provide vision testing and affordable prescription glasses for children and women (which will be 90% cheaper than the closest option) in Kabul. His venture aims to reduce illiteracy unemployment caused by vision impairment.
Babur Jahid
Born and raised in the city of Kabul in Afghanistan, Babur is an award-winning social entrepreneur based in Ottawa, currently completing his honors bachelors degree in Biology with a concentration in Health Sciences at Carleton University. He has many years of experience in non-profit work and has coordinated numerous charity events not only in Afghanistan […]
Six Foods
We use crickets milled into a flour to make tortilla chips (Chirps) that are familiar to Americans. We want to normalize insect foods, starting with snacks to meat. The goal is to substitute animal protein with insect protein, thus converting livestock farming to insect farming. By doing so, we will reduce land & water usage, […]
Ashley Tritt
Ashley is currently studying Medicine at McGill University. Ashley’s interest in advocating and public speaking began after founding the first international chapter of Project HEAL, an international organization that provides funding for individuals affected by an eating disorder who can not afford treatment, and that promotes healthy body image. She was the Youth Lead and […]
Kristina Saffran
Kristina Saffran is the cofounder and current development director of 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 and inspires people to believe that full recovery from an eating disorder is possible. To date, Project HEAL has sent 42 applicants […]
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 […]
Aeo
In summer 2017, Xiaoyue Gong founded Aeo to safeguard the health of Chinese urban residents against ubiquitous particulate air pollution by raising awareness of invisible indoor air pollution and empowering people to take informed actions to protect themselves. Aeo wearable air quality sensors not only inform people of the air quality of their exact location […]
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 […]
