2020 Cohort
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jack imagines a world in which diverse, skilled networks of young people connect through shared rituals, experiences, and values, and as they build social capital together they become better equipped to pursue their individual and collective dreams.
Heidi envisions a world in which environmental jurisprudence is strengthened by bringing scientific expertise without bias to justices around the world. She will spend the coming year launching this vision of a better world by meeting with judges, lawyers, and scientists, testing training materials, researching legal cases, and building the institute, SciJ.
Han Yan imagines a world where journalists who work in difficult environments are able to operate without repercussion. Drawing from her years of experience in media and the non-profit sector, she will spend her time with the Mira fellowship to innovate infrastructure that will assist journalists in conflict-zones and repressive countries.
Dart imagines a world in which every workplace is an engine for designing and delivering work that makes employees feel whole and alive. He will spend the year developing management tools and supporting instructional materials, and growing a partner ecosystem for coaching and distribution.