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 […]

Samuel Diaz

Samuel A. Diaz Pulgar is currently a senior at Universidad Metropolitana in Caracas, Venezuela, majoring in Estudios Liberales (a combination of History, Philosophy, Politics and Economics). Samuel aspires to pursue a Masters Degree in Public Policy and is the Co-Founder and Director of “Nutriendo El Futuro,” an organization that hopes to alleviate the humanitarian crisis […]

Nutriendo El Futuro

Samuel and Laura are creating community run dinning halls in the municipality of El Hatillo of Caracas, Venezuela. Through their venture, they will provide nutritious and calorie-rich meals for children at risk of malnutrition as well as provide treatment for those with intestinal parasites.

Laura Morey

Laura is a 23-year-old senior Economics student of Universidad Metropolitana from Caracas, Venezuela. She did community service throughout her high school years and has always been passionate about creating positive impact in what she does. She was a member of her university’s Harvard Model United Nations Team for 4 years, being Head Delegate in 2016 […]

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. […]

Cobby Amoah

Born in Ghana, Cobby Amoah is passionate about healthcare delivery around that world. This drive led him to found Peach Health, a mobile electronic medical records company dedicated to using health data to diagnose disease and predict outbreaks. Peach is currently operating in Ghana. In the U.S, Cobby runs Obaa Inc, a telemedicine platform that […]

Peach Health

Peach Health utilizes a mobile and web platform to collect important maternal health records, detect high risk pregnancies, and refer such cases to doctors miles away for remote diagnosis.  Having secured approval from the Ghana Ministry of Health, Cobby will launch his venture in Accra, Ghana, and then scale it to the surrounding region.

Christelle Kwizera

Christelle Kwizera, 21, is a young Rwandan activist and aspiring social entrepreneur. Currently a senior in Mechanical Engineering at Oklahoma Christian University, Kwizera works full time to promote youth-led initiatives and help fellow young people achieve their full potential.  Kwizera is the CFO of Emerging Leaders and Entrepreneurs of Rwanda, a platform for youth innovation, creativity and […]

Ingabo Safe Sites

Christelle’s venture is a program for the youth by the youth, working to provide access to sexual and reproductive health (“SRH”) services to a community in Kigali, Rwanda.  The SRH services will be equitable, affordable, confidential, and free of stigma and discrimination.  Launching on university campuses, Christelle will focus on basic SRH education to empower […]