Deborah Ahenkorah is the co-founder and executive director of the Golden Baobab Prize, a literary award that inspires African writers to create stories for young readers. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College where she started Project Educate In Africa, a student movement that promotes literacy and education in Africa. Deborah…
Richard Price did a Ph.D at Oxford in philosophy. Alongside his PhD, he founded a few startups, including a Craigslist for Oxford (Liveout.co.uk) and a Facebook app that was the largest on the platform for several months (PeopleRadar). After finishing his PhD, he founded Academia.edu, which is a platform for…
Ryan Cruse is an avid outdoorsman and environmentalist who is constantly trying to blur the lines between fun, work and doing good. He is the co-founder and director of outreach and education for Warm Current, a nonprofit whose mission is to promote fun, learning and sense of place by distributing…
Jon Reifschneider is founder and CEO of 31Projects, an online platform that connects companies with talented students through short-term projects and crowdsourcing-style competitions. Prior to founding 31Projects, Jon assisted in the management of a corporate venture fund and led commercialization efforts for new service innovations in the U.S. and Europe…
Award-winning author of the book, “Anti-Autism,” and National Child Entrepreneur examiner who co-chaired the largest event for preschool administrators in San Diego history, Adelaide “Home Office Mommy” Zindler is the anti-autism coach. With children born 23 years apart, she’s been featured on ABC and Fox News for miraculously restoring peace…
Meet Adelaide Zindler – Award-Winning Author and Anti-Autism Coach
Mike Rosich is the co-founder of MoreThanGrades.com, a website that connects students with colleges, and colleges with students. The website was founded by Mike when he was a freshman attending New York University’s Stern School of Business. He created it after his own experience with the college admissions process. MoreThanGrades.com…
Corinne Dillon is the founder and CEO of Discover Mandarin, which connects professionally trained, Beijing-based Mandarin instructors with Chinese language students for personalized one-on-one classes over the Internet. Corinne is originally from Ridgewood, N.J., and her involvement with China began in the early 90’s when she spent three years living…
Frank Napolitano joined GlobalFit (www.globalfit.com) in 2006 as President and CEO. He plays a key role in helping the company develop health and wellness programs for businesses. Using wellness education, community support, and healthy lifestyle incentives, Frank leads GlobalFit’s charge to motivate large populations to increase their everyday activity levels….
Kathy Pickus is the co-founder of Dot Girl Products, a fast-growing personal care products company on a mission to make puberty for young girls a whole lot better and more joyful. The Dot Girl First Period Kit is a fashionably packaged kit filled to abundance with every item a girl…
Daniel Butt founded NoodleStorm.com because he wanted to help make the world more efficient. When he had the idea for this online student consulting marketplace, he dropped everything he was doing and started working on its development. He knew from his prior work experience and education that many organizations, especially…