YF Innovators Directory | Young Futures

Executive Director

Carolyn Gan

California Partners Project

Lead Director of Learning

Andy Neilsen

Urban Initiatives

Founder

Jennifer Chiou

CodeSpeak Labs

Founder & Director

Regisha “Reggie” Rijkaard

Pause4Peace

Fund Development Director

Melissa Dunning

Code Girls United

Director, Division of Library Development

Dawn La Valle

Connecticut State Library

Davida Padi

Founder & CEO

Maddie Freeman

NoSo Connection Collective

Founder & Executive Director

Valerie Grison-Alsop

Give Us The Floor

Chief Operations Officer

Kat Eves

Give Us The Floor

AISES PK-12 Program Officer

Cheyenne Skye Branscum

Advancing Indigenous Science and Engineering Society (AISES)

Co-founder & CEO

Samin Bhan

Lookupp

Lead Digital Producer

Rawan Elbaba

PBS News Student Reporting Labs

Chief of Staff

Samantha Ng

Letters to Strangers

Alyssa Goldberg

Founding Director

Dr. Lynn E. Fiellin

play2PREVENT Lab

Sarah Gardner

Chief Operating Officer

Julie Chelovich Perconte

Urban Initiatives

Rameen Sajjad

Administration and Communications Specialist

Suzanne Kiss

Connecticut State Library

Managing Director

Sam Lee

Screen Sanity

Executive Director, Televisa Foundation

Alejandro Villanueva

Televisa Foundation Inc.

Oliver Huang

School Partnership Coach

Brandon Wiley

Challenge Success

Co-Chair

Zamaan Qureshi

Design It For Us

Founder

Tony Weaver

Weird Enough Productions

Executive Director

Leah Clapman

PBS News Student Reporting Labs

Executive Director

Michelle Parker

KQED

Ariana Soto

Chief of Research and Development

Emily Love

Colorado Education Initiative

CEO and Founder

Marianne Smith

Code Girls United

Research Engineer

Dr. Kathryn Youngblood

Debris Tracker Junior (University of Georgia)

Chief Program Officer

Alise Dixon

Boys & Girls Club of Greater Detroit

Founder

Michelle Culver

The Rithm Project

Dr. Alfiee Breland-Noble

Product Lead

Darryl Hutchinson

Joy Education

Chief Executive Officer

Tazin Khan

Cyber Collective

Alice Lassman

Jennifer Siebel Newsom

Beck Tench

Founder and CEO

Lauren Buitta

Girl Security

CEO and Co-Founder

Tracy Foster

Screen Sanity

Ava Smithing

Katherine Myers

Program Manager

Samira Kamal

Cyber Collective

Nora Sun

Head of Responsible AI and Digital Wellbeing Strategy

Mariel Emanuel

NoSo Connection Collective

Education Administrator

Daniel Merin

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

Co-founder & Executive Director

Jake Stika

Next Gen Men

Co-Founder and Executive Director

Dr. Jennifer Chace

The Source School

Managing Director

Randy Depew

KQED

Co-founder & Executive Director

Mike Fauteux

GiveThx

Tara Mandrekar

Founder & Executive Director

NyRee Clayton-Taylor

HipHop N2 Learning (HHN2L)

Andrew Brennen

Founder and CEO

Demetrius Lancaster

Joy Education

Chief Program Officer

Amanda Slavin

Learning Economy Foundation

Policy Implementation & Grants Manager

Lindsay Butrum

The Policy Project

Joon Baek

Director of Programs

Kimberly Tsai

Challenge Success

Maddox Guerilla

Arielle Galinsky

Founder & President

Lewis Bernstein

Sesame 3G

Founder and Executive Director

Neha Shukla

Innovation For Everyone

Chief Executive Officer

Alex LeeNatali

Health Connected

CEO & Co-Founder

Josh Thompson

Civics Unplugged

Founder & CEO

Trisha Prabhu

ReThink Citizens

Program Lead

Amulya Panakam

Girl Security

Lennon Torres

Executive Director

Diana Chao

Letters to Strangers

Director of Research, Translation, and Dissemination

Andrew Pool

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

Alexis Williams

Executive Director

Luke Wall

Only7Seconds

Director of Development

Abby Binder

Civics Unplugged

Co-founder

Diana Turner

Be Loud Studios

Alex Edgar

Co-founder

Niobe Way

agapi

Senior Director of Implementation and Partnership

Marcus Bratton

Colorado Education Initiative

Executive Director

Domenico "Dom" Ruggerio

We Are Family

Ramiro Hernandez

Former Co-Chair

Arielle Geismar

Design It For Us

Margaret Garcia

Jay'Shun Matthews

Assistant Professor

Dr. Erin Truesdell

Skyscraper Games (Entrepreneurial Game Studio at Drexel University)

Founder & President

Emily Bell McCormick

The Policy Project

Pratika Katiyar

Co-founder & COO

Atiksh Bhan

Lookupp

Director, Technolochic@s

Astrid Viveros

Televisa Foundation Inc.

Dan-Mircea Mirea

Dr. Claudia-Santi Fernandes

Apuroopa Kavikondala

Oleksandr Sharlai

Co-founder

Anahita Dalmia

Agents of Influence

Chief Learning Officer

Charlotte Dungan

Mark Cuban Foundation

Managing Director of Programs

Tesia Zientek

Advancing Indigenous Science and Engineering Society (AISES)

Founder & Executive Director

Beth Rosenberg

Tech Unlimited

Co-founder

Alex Owens

Be Loud Studios

Founder

Larissa "Larz" May

#HalfTheStory

Founder & Executive Director

Juliana Lozano

Despierta

Interim Superintendent

Pat Ross

Holmes Consolidated School District

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