YF Innovators Directory | Young Futures

CEO and Founder

Marianne Smith

Code Girls United

Research Engineer

Dr. Kathryn Youngblood

Debris Tracker Junior (University of Georgia)

Chief of Research and Development

Emily Love

Colorado Education Initiative

CEO and Co-Founder

Tracy Foster

Screen Sanity

Arielle Galinsky

Co-founder

Alex Owens

Be Loud Studios

Maddox Guerilla

Executive Director

Diana Chao

Letters to Strangers

Ariana Soto

Jay'Shun Matthews

Director, Division of Library Development

Dawn La Valle

Connecticut State Library

Director of Programs

Kimberly Tsai

Challenge Success

Product Lead

Darryl Hutchinson

Joy Education

Dr. Claudia-Santi Fernandes

Alice Lassman

Program Lead

Amulya Panakam

Girl Security

Oliver Huang

Ava Smithing

Founder and CEO

Lauren Buitta

Girl Security

Apuroopa Kavikondala

Founder

Tony Weaver

Weird Enough Productions

Joon Baek

Education Administrator

Daniel Merin

The School District of Philadelphia - Office of School Climate and Culture

Director of Strategic Partnerships and Community Outreach

Jacques Louis

Center for Parent and Teen Communication at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Chief Operating Officer

Julie Chelovich Perconte

Urban Initiatives

Lennon Torres

Senior Director of Implementation and Partnership

Marcus Bratton

Colorado Education Initiative

Nora Sun

School Partnership Coach

Brandon Wiley

Challenge Success

Chief of Staff

Samantha Ng

Letters to Strangers

Executive Director

Luke Wall

Only7Seconds

Founder & Director

Regisha “Reggie” Rijkaard

Pause4Peace

Dan-Mircea Mirea

Managing Director

Sam Lee

Screen Sanity

Executive Director

Michelle Parker

KQED

Ramiro Hernandez

Former Co-Chair

Arielle Geismar

Design It For Us

Chief Program Officer

Amanda Slavin

Learning Economy Foundation

Founder & Executive Director

NyRee Clayton-Taylor

HipHop N2 Learning (HHN2L)

Katherine Myers

Managing Director

Randy Depew

KQED

Founder & Executive Director

Juliana Lozano

Despierta

Executive Director

Domenico "Dom" Ruggerio

We Are Family

Co-founder

Diana Turner

Be Loud Studios

Interim Superintendent

Pat Ross

Holmes Consolidated School District

Founder and Executive Director

Neha Shukla

Innovation For Everyone

AISES PK-12 Program Officer

Cheyenne Skye Branscum

Advancing Indigenous Science and Engineering Society (AISES)

Co-founder & Executive Director

Mike Fauteux

GiveThx

CEO & Co-Founder

Josh Thompson

Civics Unplugged

Chief Executive Officer

Tazin Khan

Cyber Collective

Founder & CEO

Trisha Prabhu

ReThink Citizens

Co-founder & Executive Director

Jake Stika

Next Gen Men

Dr. Alfiee Breland-Noble

Chief Operations Officer

Kat Eves

Give Us The Floor

Founder & Executive Director

Beth Rosenberg

Tech Unlimited

Executive Director

Carolyn Gan

California Partners Project

Chief Learning Officer

Charlotte Dungan

Mark Cuban Foundation

Founder & Executive Director

Valerie Grison-Alsop

Give Us The Floor

Director of Research, Translation, and Dissemination

Andrew Pool

Center for Parent and Teen Communication at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Pratika Katiyar

Program Manager

Samira Kamal

Cyber Collective

Alexis Williams

Founder

Larissa "Larz" May

#HalfTheStory

Executive Director

Leah Clapman

PBS News Student Reporting Labs

Administration and Communications Specialist

Suzanne Kiss

Connecticut State Library

Head of Responsible AI and Digital Wellbeing Strategy

Mariel Emanuel

NoSo Connection Collective

Assistant Professor

Dr. Erin Truesdell

Skyscraper Games (Entrepreneurial Game Studio at Drexel University)

Beck Tench

Founder and CEO

Demetrius Lancaster

Joy Education

Sarah Gardner

Policy Implementation & Grants Manager

Lindsay Butrum

The Policy Project

Oleksandr Sharlai

Founder

Jennifer Chiou

CodeSpeak Labs

Alyssa Goldberg

Lead Digital Producer

Rawan Elbaba

PBS News Student Reporting Labs

Chief Program Officer

Alise Dixon

Boys & Girls Club of Greater Detroit

Executive Director, Televisa Foundation

Alejandro Villanueva

Televisa Foundation Inc.

Director of Development

Abby Binder

Civics Unplugged

Anika Dugal

Founder

Michelle Culver

The Rithm Project

Managing Director of Programs

Tesia Zientek

Advancing Indigenous Science and Engineering Society (AISES)

Co-founder & CEO

Samin Bhan

Lookupp

Davida Padi

Co-Chair

Zamaan Qureshi

Design It For Us

Andrew Brennen

Founder & President

Emily Bell McCormick

The Policy Project

Margaret Garcia

Rameen Sajjad

Jennifer Siebel Newsom

Fund Development Director

Melissa Dunning

Code Girls United

Director, Technolochic@s

Astrid Viveros

Televisa Foundation Inc.

Founder & President

Lewis Bernstein

Sesame 3G

Founding Director

Dr. Lynn E. Fiellin

play2PREVENT Lab

Tara Mandrekar

Co-founder

Anahita Dalmia

Agents of Influence

Co-Founder and Executive Director

Dr. Jennifer Chace

The Source School

Lead Director of Learning

Andy Neilsen

Urban Initiatives

Co-founder & COO

Atiksh Bhan

Lookupp

Chief Executive Officer

Alex LeeNatali

Health Connected

Alex Edgar

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