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Yusuf Young

Yusuf imagines a world where everyone lives in a safe, peaceful community where conflict is resolved without violence. Drawing from his experience as a public school teacher, he plans to spend his year supporting schools and working with adolescents who have been suspended or expelled and teaching them conflict resolution skills and emotional regulation practices.

Yusuf imagines a world where everyone lives in a safe, peaceful community where conflict is resolved without violence. Drawing from his experience as a public school teacher, he plans to spend his year supporting schools and working with adolescents who have been suspended or expelled and teaching them conflict resolution skills and emotional regulation practices.

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Susannah Staats

Imagine a world where gender non-conforming kids thrive and unleash their super powers through the unwavering, empowering support of their parents, caregivers, and the adults around them. This year, Susannah will focus on researching how she might create the vision, find a national partner, and build out a set of tools to help parents help their kids become their authentic selves.

Imagine a world where gender non-conforming kids thrive and unleash their super powers through the unwavering, empowering support of their parents, caregivers, and the adults around them. This year, Susannah will focus on researching how she might create the vision, find a national partner, and build out a set of tools to help parents help their kids become their authentic selves.

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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 envisions a healthy housing system. In the US, this is intrinsically tied to our transition to a more extreme climate -- to successfully adapt as a society, we must start with our homes and our economy. To this end, Tasha recently founded HomeVitals, which couples building information with climate models to ensure a more resilient built environment. In the next year, she will validate initial assumptions, clarify initial product-market-fit, and set the foundation for HomeVitals to scale successfully in the future.

Tasha envisions a healthy housing system. In the US, this is intrinsically tied to our transition to a more extreme climate -- to successfully adapt as a society, we must start with our homes and our economy. To this end, Tasha recently founded HomeVitals, which couples building information with climate models to ensure a more resilient built environment. In the next year, she will validate initial assumptions, clarify initial product-market-fit, and set the foundation for HomeVitals to scale successfully in the future.

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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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