YF Innovators Directory | Young Futures

Lead Director of Learning

Andy Neilsen

Urban Initiatives

Fund Development Director

Melissa Dunning

Code Girls United

Rameen Sajjad

Co-founder & CEO

Samin Bhan

Lookupp

Executive Director

Michelle Parker

KQED

Co-founder & Executive Director

Jake Stika

Next Gen Men

Executive Director

Diana Chao

Letters to Strangers

Founder & President

Lewis Bernstein

Sesame 3G

Founder

Tony Weaver

Weird Enough Productions

Alice Lassman

Chief Operating Officer

Julie Chelovich Perconte

Urban Initiatives

Director of Development

Abby Binder

Civics Unplugged

Jennifer Siebel Newsom

Founder & Executive Director

NyRee Clayton-Taylor

HipHop N2 Learning (HHN2L)

Co-founder

Diana Turner

Be Loud Studios

Founder & CEO

Trisha Prabhu

ReThink Citizens

Founder & Executive Director

Beth Rosenberg

Tech Unlimited

Director of Programs

Kimberly Tsai

Challenge Success

Education Administrator

Daniel Merin

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

Executive Director

Domenico "Dom" Ruggerio

We Are Family

Chief Program Officer

Alise Dixon

Boys & Girls Club of Greater Detroit

AISES PK-12 Program Officer

Cheyenne Skye Branscum

Advancing Indigenous Science and Engineering Society (AISES)

Director, Division of Library Development

Dawn La Valle

Connecticut State Library

Co-Chair

Zamaan Qureshi

Design It For Us

Davida Padi

Founding Director

Dr. Lynn E. Fiellin

play2PREVENT Lab

Co-founder & Executive Director

Mike Fauteux

GiveThx

Dr. Claudia-Santi Fernandes

Chief of Staff

Samantha Ng

Letters to Strangers

Ramiro Hernandez

Managing Director

Sam Lee

Screen Sanity

Beck Tench

Executive Director

Luke Wall

Only7Seconds

Joon Baek

Co-founder

Niobe Way

agapi

Co-founder & COO

Atiksh Bhan

Lookupp

CEO and Founder

Marianne Smith

Code Girls United

Founder and Executive Director

Neha Shukla

Innovation For Everyone

Administration and Communications Specialist

Suzanne Kiss

Connecticut State Library

Product Lead

Darryl Hutchinson

Joy Education

Lead Digital Producer

Rawan Elbaba

PBS News Student Reporting Labs

Co-founder

Alex Owens

Be Loud Studios

Founder and CEO

Demetrius Lancaster

Joy Education

Founder & President

Emily Bell McCormick

The Policy Project

Anika Dugal

School Partnership Coach

Brandon Wiley

Challenge Success

CEO and Co-Founder

Tracy Foster

Screen Sanity

Program Lead

Amulya Panakam

Girl Security

Sarah Gardner

Dr. Alfiee Breland-Noble

Executive Director

Carolyn Gan

California Partners Project

Director of Research, Translation, and Dissemination

Andrew Pool

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

CEO & Co-Founder

Josh Thompson

Civics Unplugged

Chief Learning Officer

Charlotte Dungan

Mark Cuban Foundation

Senior Director of Implementation and Partnership

Marcus Bratton

Colorado Education Initiative

Chief Operations Officer

Kat Eves

Give Us The Floor

Assistant Professor

Dr. Erin Truesdell

Skyscraper Games (Entrepreneurial Game Studio at Drexel University)

Alyssa Goldberg

Head of Responsible AI and Digital Wellbeing Strategy

Mariel Emanuel

NoSo Connection Collective

Oleksandr Sharlai

Co-founder

Anahita Dalmia

Agents of Influence

Director, Technolochic@s

Astrid Viveros

Televisa Foundation Inc.

Interim Superintendent

Pat Ross

Holmes Consolidated School District

Co-Founder and Executive Director

Dr. Jennifer Chace

The Source School

Chief of Research and Development

Emily Love

Colorado Education Initiative

Andrew Brennen

Founder

Michelle Culver

The Rithm Project

Tara Mandrekar

Policy Implementation & Grants Manager

Lindsay Butrum

The Policy Project

Dan-Mircea Mirea

Apuroopa Kavikondala

Ava Smithing

Former Co-Chair

Arielle Geismar

Design It For Us

Chief Executive Officer

Tazin Khan

Cyber Collective

Nora Sun

Program Manager

Samira Kamal

Cyber Collective

Founder & Executive Director

Valerie Grison-Alsop

Give Us The Floor

Founder and CEO

Lauren Buitta

Girl Security

Executive Director

Leah Clapman

PBS News Student Reporting Labs

Founder & Executive Director

Juliana Lozano

Despierta

Pratika Katiyar

Research Engineer

Dr. Kathryn Youngblood

Debris Tracker Junior (University of Georgia)

Founder & CEO

Maddie Freeman

NoSo Connection Collective

Alex Edgar

Margaret Garcia

Katherine Myers

Founder

Jennifer Chiou

CodeSpeak Labs

Jay'Shun Matthews

Ariana Soto

Arielle Galinsky

Chief Program Officer

Amanda Slavin

Learning Economy Foundation

Founder

Larissa "Larz" May

#HalfTheStory

Alexis Williams

Executive Director, Televisa Foundation

Alejandro Villanueva

Televisa Foundation Inc.

Oliver Huang

Managing Director

Randy Depew

KQED

Maddox Guerilla

Managing Director of Programs

Tesia Zientek

Advancing Indigenous Science and Engineering Society (AISES)

Chief Executive Officer

Alex LeeNatali

Health Connected

Lennon Torres

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