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BIGGEST NAMES IN
TEEN WELL-BEING
Urban Initiatives
Julie Chelovich Perconte
Chief Operating Officer
Screen Sanity
Sam Lee
Managing Director
Screen Sanity
Tracy Foster
CEO and Co-Founder
KQED
Randy Depew
Managing Director
KQED
Michelle Parker
Executive Director
Cyber Collective
Samira Kamal
Program Manager
Cyber Collective
Tazin Khan
Chief Executive Officer
Center for Parent and Teen Communication at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Andrew Pool
Director of Research, Translation, and Dissemination
Center for Parent and Teen Communication at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Jacques Louis
Director of Strategic Partnerships and Community Outreach
Advancing Indigenous Science and Engineering Society (AISES)
Cheyenne Skye Branscum
AISES PK-12 Program Officer
Advancing Indigenous Science and Engineering Society (AISES)
Tesia Zientek
Managing Director of Programs
Urban Initiatives
Andy Neilsen
Lead Director of Learning
PBS News Student Reporting Labs
Rawan Elbaba
Lead Digital Producer
PBS News Student Reporting Labs
Leah Clapman
Executive Director
Letters to Strangers
Samantha Ng
Chief of Staff
Letters to Strangers
Diana Chao
Executive Director
Televisa Foundation Inc.
Alejandro Villanueva
Executive Director, Televisa Foundation
Televisa Foundation Inc.
Astrid Viveros
Director, Technolochic@s
Mark Cuban Foundation
Charlotte Dungan
Chief Learning Officer
Innovation For Everyone
Neha Shukla
Founder and Executive Director
Connecticut State Library
Suzanne Kiss
Administration and Communications Specialist
Connecticut State Library
Dawn La Valle
Director, Division of Library Development
NoSo Connection Collective
Mariel Emanuel
Head of Responsible AI and Digital Wellbeing Strategy
Joy Education
Darryl Hutchinson
Product Lead
Joy Education
Demetrius Lancaster
Founder and CEO
Girl Security
Amulya Panakam
Program Lead
Girl Security
Lauren Buitta
Founder and CEO
Code Girls United
Melissa Dunning
Fund Development Director
Code Girls United
Marianne Smith
CEO and Founder
Holmes Consolidated School District
Pat Ross
Interim Superintendent
Challenge Success
Brandon Wiley
School Partnership Coach
Colorado Education Initiative
Emily Love
Chief of Research and Development
Jennifer Siebel Newsom
Sarah Gardner
Katherine Myers
Dr. Claudia-Santi Fernandes
Dr. Alfiee Breland-Noble
Andrew Brennen
Beck Tench
Arielle Galinsky
Alex Edgar
Maddox Guerilla
Jay'Shun Matthews
Tara Mandrekar
Lennon Torres
Ava Smithing
Pratika Katiyar
Joon Baek
Anika Dugal
Alexis Williams
Davida Padi
Alyssa Goldberg
Alice Lassman
Oliver Huang
Nora Sun
Oleksandr Sharlai
Dan-Mircea Mirea
Ramiro Hernandez
Apuroopa Kavikondala
Rameen Sajjad
Margaret Garcia
Ariana Soto
The Policy Project
Emily Bell McCormick
Founder & President
Lookupp
Atiksh Bhan
Co-founder & COO
.avif)
Give Us The Floor
Kat Eves
Chief Operations Officer
Design It For Us
Arielle Geismar
Former Co-Chair
Civics Unplugged
Abby Binder
Director of Development
#HalfTheStory
Larissa "Larz" May
Founder
Debris Tracker Junior (University of Georgia)
Dr. Kathryn Youngblood
Research Engineer
CodeSpeak Labs
Jennifer Chiou
Founder
Next Gen Men
Jake Stika
Co-founder & Executive Director
Tech Unlimited
Beth Rosenberg
Founder & Executive Director
play2PREVENT Lab
Dr. Lynn E. Fiellin
Founding Director
Learning Economy Foundation
Amanda Slavin
Chief Program Officer
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Detroit
Alise Dixon
Chief Program Officer
Skyscraper Games (Entrepreneurial Game Studio at Drexel University)
Dr. Erin Truesdell
Assistant Professor
The Source School
Dr. Jennifer Chace
Co-Founder and Executive Director
The School District of Philadelphia - Office of School Climate and Culture
Daniel Merin
Education Administrator
The Policy Project
Lindsay Butrum
Policy Implementation & Grants Manager
Health Connected
Alex LeeNatali
Chief Executive Officer
Colorado Education Initiative
Marcus Bratton
Senior Director of Implementation and Partnership
Challenge Success
Kimberly Tsai
Director of Programs
Pause4Peace
Regisha âReggieâ Rijkaard
Founder & Director
NoSo Connection Collective
Maddie Freeman
Founder & CEO
Lookupp
Samin Bhan
Co-founder & CEO
.avif)
Give Us The Floor
Valerie Grison-Alsop
Founder & Executive Director
Despierta
Juliana Lozano
Founder & Executive Director
Design It For Us
Zamaan Qureshi
Co-Chair
Agents of Influence
Anahita Dalmia
Co-founder
Weird Enough Productions
Tony Weaver
Founder
We Are Family
Domenico "Dom" Ruggerio
Executive Director
ReThink Citizens
Trisha Prabhu
Founder & CEO
Only7Seconds
Luke Wall
Executive Director
HipHop N2 Learning (HHN2L)
NyRee Clayton-Taylor
Founder & Executive Director
Civics Unplugged
Josh Thompson
CEO & Co-Founder
agapi
Niobe Way
Co-founder
Sesame 3G
Lewis Bernstein
Founder & President
Be Loud Studios
Diana Turner
Co-founder
.avif)
Be Loud Studios
Alex Owens
Co-founder
California Partners Project
Carolyn Gan
Executive Director
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