YF Innovators Directory | Young Futures

Chief Program Officer

Alise Dixon

Boys & Girls Club of Greater Detroit

Managing Director

Randy Depew

KQED

Founder & CEO

Maddie Freeman

NoSo Connection Collective

Education Administrator

Daniel Merin

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

Executive Director

Leah Clapman

PBS News Student Reporting Labs

Chief of Staff

Samantha Ng

Letters to Strangers

Managing Director

Sam Lee

Screen Sanity

Chief Learning Officer

Charlotte Dungan

Mark Cuban Foundation

Executive Director, Televisa Foundation

Alejandro Villanueva

Televisa Foundation Inc.

Senior Director of Implementation and Partnership

Marcus Bratton

Colorado Education Initiative

Co-founder & Executive Director

Mike Fauteux

GiveThx

Pratika Katiyar

Oliver Huang

Arielle Galinsky

Alex Edgar

Co-Chair

Zamaan Qureshi

Design It For Us

Founder & President

Emily Bell McCormick

The Policy Project

Andrew Brennen

CEO & Co-Founder

Josh Thompson

Civics Unplugged

Product Lead

Darryl Hutchinson

Joy Education

Co-founder & Executive Director

Jake Stika

Next Gen Men

Katherine Myers

Founder

Michelle Culver

The Rithm Project

Director, Technolochic@s

Astrid Viveros

Televisa Foundation Inc.

Founding Director

Dr. Lynn E. Fiellin

play2PREVENT Lab

Chief Operations Officer

Kat Eves

Give Us The Floor

Head of Responsible AI and Digital Wellbeing Strategy

Mariel Emanuel

NoSo Connection Collective

Ariana Soto

Chief Operating Officer

Julie Chelovich Perconte

Urban Initiatives

Oleksandr Sharlai

Executive Director

Luke Wall

Only7Seconds

Rameen Sajjad

Program Lead

Amulya Panakam

Girl Security

Co-Founder and Executive Director

Dr. Jennifer Chace

The Source School

Alexis Williams

Dan-Mircea Mirea

Founder & President

Lewis Bernstein

Sesame 3G

Alice Lassman

Co-founder

Diana Turner

Be Loud Studios

Executive Director

Michelle Parker

KQED

CEO and Co-Founder

Tracy Foster

Screen Sanity

Founder and CEO

Lauren Buitta

Girl Security

Founder and CEO

Demetrius Lancaster

Joy Education

Executive Director

Carolyn Gan

California Partners Project

Chief Executive Officer

Alex LeeNatali

Health Connected

Founder & Director

Regisha “Reggie” Rijkaard

Pause4Peace

Founder

Tony Weaver

Weird Enough Productions

Founder & Executive Director

NyRee Clayton-Taylor

HipHop N2 Learning (HHN2L)

CEO and Founder

Marianne Smith

Code Girls United

Lead Director of Learning

Andy Neilsen

Urban Initiatives

Founder & Executive Director

Valerie Grison-Alsop

Give Us The Floor

Joon Baek

Co-founder & COO

Atiksh Bhan

Lookupp

Alyssa Goldberg

Co-founder

Alex Owens

Be Loud Studios

Co-founder

Anahita Dalmia

Agents of Influence

Director of Strategic Partnerships and Community Outreach

Jacques Louis

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

Margaret Garcia

Apuroopa Kavikondala

Founder & Executive Director

Beth Rosenberg

Tech Unlimited

Founder & CEO

Trisha Prabhu

ReThink Citizens

Chief Program Officer

Amanda Slavin

Learning Economy Foundation

Founder

Jennifer Chiou

CodeSpeak Labs

Lead Digital Producer

Rawan Elbaba

PBS News Student Reporting Labs

Executive Director

Diana Chao

Letters to Strangers

Director of Programs

Kimberly Tsai

Challenge Success

Chief of Research and Development

Emily Love

Colorado Education Initiative

School Partnership Coach

Brandon Wiley

Challenge Success

Managing Director of Programs

Tesia Zientek

Advancing Indigenous Science and Engineering Society (AISES)

Co-founder & CEO

Samin Bhan

Lookupp

Ava Smithing

Nora Sun

Dr. Alfiee Breland-Noble

Director of Research, Translation, and Dissemination

Andrew Pool

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

Ramiro Hernandez

Founder and Executive Director

Neha Shukla

Innovation For Everyone

Research Engineer

Dr. Kathryn Youngblood

Debris Tracker Junior (University of Georgia)

Administration and Communications Specialist

Suzanne Kiss

Connecticut State Library

Sarah Gardner

Interim Superintendent

Pat Ross

Holmes Consolidated School District

Co-founder

Niobe Way

agapi

Director of Development

Abby Binder

Civics Unplugged

AISES PK-12 Program Officer

Cheyenne Skye Branscum

Advancing Indigenous Science and Engineering Society (AISES)

Program Manager

Samira Kamal

Cyber Collective

Anika Dugal

Policy Implementation & Grants Manager

Lindsay Butrum

The Policy Project

Lennon Torres

Dr. Claudia-Santi Fernandes

Founder & Executive Director

Juliana Lozano

Despierta

Assistant Professor

Dr. Erin Truesdell

Skyscraper Games (Entrepreneurial Game Studio at Drexel University)

Founder

Larissa "Larz" May

#HalfTheStory

Beck Tench

Jay'Shun Matthews

Tara Mandrekar

Fund Development Director

Melissa Dunning

Code Girls United

Former Co-Chair

Arielle Geismar

Design It For Us

Director, Division of Library Development

Dawn La Valle

Connecticut State Library

Davida Padi

Jennifer Siebel Newsom

Executive Director

Domenico "Dom" Ruggerio

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