Meet our leaders of today.

Saint John, Canada

Health & Wellness

Abdul Nasan is a university student and combat medic in Saint John. After walking into an overdose that nobody standing around it knew how to treat, he and a few friends started New Brunswick OverDose Prevention.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Immigration & Refugees

Aqeel Ahmed Bhatti fled his home as a refugee. In Kuala Lumpur he is building a refugee-led social enterprise that upcycles batik cotton and linen into products refugees can make from home.

Richmond Hill, Canada

Education Access

Brighton Ng built EC Database, a free platform where high-schoolers browse verified profiles of what university admits actually did outside the classroom. He hand-checks every profile before it goes live.

Pointe-Claire, Canada

Health & Wellness

Chloe Guan was diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis at 14 and started Rheumheroes the same month, a peer-support initiative for the kids about to hear the same words she heard.

Baltimore, United States

Education Access

Eneah Fite teaches English at a Baltimore vocational high school, and built Cypher, her hip-hop pedagogy framework, out of what her own classroom needed.

Victoria, Canada

Academia & research

Jared Qin taught himself to build AI that catches galaxy collisions the big sky surveys have been filing as ordinary. He wants his model pointed at the Rubin Observatory's first flood of data.

Freiburg, Germany

Education Access

Josias P. runs a four-week hands-on STEM program in Petion-Ville, Haiti, where former participants come back as coaches, and he runs it from a scholarship place in Germany.

Kiambu, Kenya

Environment and Climate

Miron Onsarigo and his co-founder Fredrick Kariuki built HewaSafi, a matatu exhaust filter made from maize cobs, coconut shells, recycled battery parts and living algae, priced for the drivers whose fumes their neighbours have been quietly getting sick from.

Bhilwara, India

Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Mrityunjay Gupta built AERIS, a wearable that turns speech into text in real time and turns the emotion behind speech into vibration patterns you can feel on your skin. It costs about $30 to make.

Elkhorn, United States

Economic Empowerment

When her school ended on-campus fundraising, Nandini Bansal started entering anatomy competitions with cash prizes and put the winnings into supplies for an Omaha shelter. Then she built the directory the city was missing.

Montreal, Canada

Youth Leadership

Aleksander Yakimiw-Martin learned to cut hair as a skill he wanted to pick up, used it to raise money for schools in Ukraine, and now wants to carry the chair to youth centres.