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Yusuf Young

Yusuf imagines a world where everyone lives in a safe, peaceful community where conflict is resolved without violence. He is working with adolescents who have been suspended or expelled and teaching them conflict resolution skills and emotional regulation practices through unique, one of a kind programming that exposes students to outdoor adventures while also enforcing reading comprehension skills.

Yusuf imagines a world where everyone lives in a safe, peaceful community where conflict is resolved without violence. He is working with adolescents who have been suspended or expelled and teaching them conflict resolution skills and emotional regulation practices through unique, one of a kind programming that exposes students to outdoor adventures while also enforcing reading comprehension skills.

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Susannah Staats

Susannah imagines a world where gender non-conforming kids thrive and unleash their super powers through the unwavering support of their parents, caregivers, and the adults around them. She is building out a cohort-based program to support, inform, and empower parents of trans and nonbinary youth so that they can help their own child navigate their unique gender journey.

Susannah imagines a world where gender non-conforming kids thrive and unleash their super powers through the unwavering support of their parents, caregivers, and the adults around them. She is building out a cohort-based program to support, inform, and empower parents of trans and nonbinary youth so that they can help their own child navigate their unique gender journey.

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Pomy Singh

Pomy envisions a world where patients have more power in their own healthcare. She will spend the year speaking with industry leaders, building alliances with healthcare providers, and prototyping her solution that gives patients more control in their healthcare choices and costs.

Pomy envisions a world where patients have more power in their own healthcare. She will spend the year speaking with industry leaders, building alliances with healthcare providers, and prototyping her solution that gives patients more control in their healthcare choices and costs.

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Tasha Russman

Tasha is building HomeVitals, which treats your home like your health -- because your future depends on both. HomeVitals is an applied AI startup with the mission to help homeowners and insurers work from the same data, plan for the same risks, and act before small issues turn into overwhelming crises.

Tasha is building HomeVitals, which treats your home like your health -- because your future depends on both. HomeVitals is an applied AI startup with the mission to help homeowners and insurers work from the same data, plan for the same risks, and act before small issues turn into overwhelming crises.

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Anne Hamilton

Anne envisions a world where no one is afraid of death because they have the rituals and framework to give it meaning and make it enlivening. Her goal during the fellowship year is to design and pilot a 5 Day retreat -- a modern "Garden of Epicurus" experience -- centered around death anxiety and informed by ancient wisdom, existentialism, psychotherapy, and mysticism.

Anne envisions a world where no one is afraid of death because they have the rituals and framework to give it meaning and make it enlivening. Her goal during the fellowship year is to design and pilot a 5 Day retreat -- a modern "Garden of Epicurus" experience -- centered around death anxiety and informed by ancient wisdom, existentialism, psychotherapy, and mysticism.

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Sikander Bizenjo

Sikander envisions a world where indigenous communities have the agency to bring their own ideas into action. Continuing his work as the co-founder of the Balochistan Youth Action Committee (BYAC), a youth-driven grassroots organization in southwestern Pakistan, he will work with young people, empowering them to become change agents for their communities.

Sikander envisions a world where indigenous communities have the agency to bring their own ideas into action. Continuing his work as the co-founder of the Balochistan Youth Action Committee (BYAC), a youth-driven grassroots organization in southwestern Pakistan, he will work with young people, empowering them to become change agents for their communities.

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