
Stephen Kennedy
Health Liberia
With 27 years of experience as a medical doctor, Dr. Stephen Kennedy is the co-principal investigator (Co-PI) of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Vaccine Trial…


Isabelle Kamariza
Food Security Rwanda
Isabelle Kamariza is a philanthropist and social change maker. She is the president and founder of Solid’Africa, a Rwandan social enterprise founded in 2010 whose…


Edward Mabaya
Food Security Zimbabwe
Dr. Edward Mabaya is the sixth of 10 children born to a Zimbabwean smallholder family who scraped by growing maize, cabbages, potatoes and yams mainly…


Megan Cunnigham
Health IL, United States
Megan Cunningham, Managing Deputy Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health, brings partners together to drive policy change, access data and resources, and improve environments…


Akebe Luther King Abia
Health Cameroon
Akebe is a true One Health leader. Akebe fell in love with environmental microbiology in school, curious about the environmental causes of human disease. Akebe…


Julia Corvalan
Governance Paraguay
Dr. Julia Corvalan is an international development expert, academic, and researcher, working to support mission-oriented grassroots organizations and co-create solutions in highly vulnerable communities. She…


Ndidi Nwuneli
Economic Empowerment & Entrepreneurship, Food Security Nigeria
Ndidi is a serial social entrepreneur who has worked in international development for the past 22 years. As founder of LEAP Africa, one of Nigeria’s…


Dr. Christopher McNeil
Economic Empowerment & Entrepreneurship, Health OK, United States
Dr. Chris McNeil, Founder of Youth Medical Mentorship, is an Emergency Medicine Physician and School Board Member who is creating pathways to medical education for BIPOC…


LaBrisa Williams
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights OK, United States
LaBrisa Williams is the Executive Director of the Tulsa Birth Equity Initiative, an organization whose mission is to equip families in Tulsa to have healthy…


Denise Smith
Health CT, United States
Denise Octavia Smith, MBA, CHW, PN is the founding Executive Director of the National Association of Community Health Workers where she currently leads national advocacy…


Regina Agyare Honu
Governance Ghana
Regina Agyare is a young, dynamic, social entrepreneur who is finding new ways to harness technology to promote social change in West Africa. Agyare graduated…


Juliet Otieno
Health Kenya
Juliet Awuor Otieno, the founder of Mwanadada CBO, Mwanadada communication digital communication consultancy, and an alumnus of the Emerging Leaders Foundation, is a Masters student of Development Communication and…

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