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Sam Chaudhary
CEO and co-founder, ClassDojo
Before Chaudhary, 29, and his roommate-turned-co-founder Liam Don even started building their company, they asked more...
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Dallas Dance
Superintendent, Baltimore Co. Schools
Dance might be the new model for a big-city superintendent. Up at 4:30...
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Aria Finger
COO (incoming CEO), DoSomething.org
Finger takes on a big new job next month, becoming CEO of the largest online youth organization in America. The promotion...
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Elizabeth Green
CEO and co-founder, Chalkbeat
Before becoming a New York Times bestseller with “Building a Better Teacher,” Green, 31, founded an independent...
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Caleb Harper
Director of Open Agriculture Initiative, MIT
Harper’s goals for the future of global food production read like the stuff of a naively optimistic middle-schooler...
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Will Houghteling
North America managing director, Minerva Project
Minerva’s pitch to students goes like this: What would Harvard, Stanford or Yale look like if built from scratch today? Its answer...
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Deray McKesson
Activist and organizer, We the Protesters
About a year ago, McKesson, 30, was a little-known school administrator in Minneapolis. Today, he’s one of the most...
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Michael Silberman
Global director of Mobilisation Lab, Greenpeace
Since Silberman, 35, was hired four years ago from a digital strategy firm to found the Mobilisation Lab, he has helped...
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Sara Thomas
Manager, online marketing, World Wildlife Fund
Thomas, 32, is carving out a name for herself by getting the cautious World Wildlife Fund to be more nimble in how it...
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Max Ventilla
CEO and founder, AltSchool
Before attempting to transform the U.S. education system, Ventilla sold two startups focused on connecting people, one of...
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