Olakunle Atanda, 30, known as Kay, is a World Bank Program Officer and Acting Team Lead overseeing the Small States Program that supports nations whose fragile economies are particularly vulnerable to external shocks such as climate change. In prior roles

  Kellie Everett, 30, a 2022 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, served six years in the U.S. Navy as a nuclear reactor operator, generating power for the 1,100-foot supercarrier U.S.S. George H. W. Bush at its home port

  Adetomiwa Owoseni, 25, a 2018 graduate of Howard University, is enrolled at Harvard Medical School, where he seeks to increase the number of Black doctors in academic medicine, a topic he wrote about in the New England Journal of

  Camila Feltrin, 24, a 2020 graduate of Dartmouth College, is operations manager of RAM Legal Services, a San Francisco law firm specializing in immigration, where she manages its paralegals and interpreters and organizes filings for asylum cases. Previously she

  Daniel Cooper Bermúdez, 28, a 2015 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, is a human rights defender from Maracaibo, Venezuela. With Venezuela’s authoritarian government having closed the nation’s democratic means of political participation, Cooper Bermudez works to support other

  Alexandra Duffy, 22, a graduate of Tulane University, with a dual degree in international development and finance, has her sights set on a career promoting financial literacy and reforming global lending practices. “I don’t just want to see the

  Swathi Ramprasad, 21, a graduate of Duke University, with a double major in computer science and public policy, founded the university’s Cyber Policy and Gender Violence Initiative and is its principal researcher. Through the university’s Kenan Institute for Ethics,