Sally Ladsaria
Sally is a student at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), majoring in Integrative Biology Honors with a pre-med concentration. She volunteers as a CPR personnel for Illini Emergency Medical Services, and participates in Model United Nations. She is a co-founder of the Isthmus Adaptive Basketball Initiative. Isthmus Adaptive is a wheelchair basketball team […]
Derek Hoot
Derek is a student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign majoring in Political Science and working towards an Arabic minor. He plays wheelchair basketball at a collegiate level and have been a right-leg amputee since he was six years old. Derek began playing wheelchair basketball in 7th grade on a Madison, Wisconsin-based team called […]
Isthmus Adaptive Wheelchair Basketball Initiative
Derek and Sally are launching a junior wheelchair basketball team and a suite of programs for the children to help with their personal and athletic development along with a support network for the families. They will also hold public demonstrations of wheelchair basketball to build awareness and promote the participants as confident and able individuals. […]
Maja Felicia Falkentoft
Maja has previously completed studies and internships in both Montréal and Dakar, and is currently finishing her BSc in Global Studies and International Development Studies at Roskilde University in Denmark. Since very young, Maja has been strongly interested in processes of global social and political change, which to several community involvements in both Denmark and […]
Johan Juul Jensen
Johan is a serial social entrepreneur. Prior to launching Play It On and becoming a Resolution Fellow, Johan founded several other domestic NGO’s. Play It On is an international NGO that works with sports for development and intercultural exchange. Under Johan’s leadership, Play It On has grown from an organization working solely between Denmark and […]
Play it On
Play It On works to improve intercultural understanding through sports. The organization believes that sports and play is the ultimate facilitator of mutual bonds between people giving them a unique opportunity to connect. In the process of creating intercultural exchanges, Play It On also improves the conditions to play for children all over the world. […]
Raquel Granados
Raquel Granados is from a community of about 20 houses in La Teja, Honduras. From an early age she was involved in her community as a leader at church. She studied Environmental Technology at Mt. Hood Community College (MHCC) on a SEED (Scholarship for Educational and Economic Development) scholarship sponsored by US-AID and Georgetown University. […]
Sanitary Solutions – Composting Toilets
Raquel’s venture will reduce water pollution and illness by building composting toilets in La Teja Santa Ana La Paz, Honduras. Raquel’s home community, La Teja houses about 20 families. Not a single house in La Teja has a toilet. The community will participate in constructing toilets in each home and the school, and when successful, […]
Odette Zero
Odette Zero is a junior at Northwestern University majoring in Anthropology and minoring in Global Health. Her plans include attending medical school, focusing on public health and pursuing medical anthropology research. Past research experience includes work on osteoblast migration (published in the Journal of Cellular Biochemistry) and a qualitative research project translating, transcribing and coding […]
HIRCULES Health Hub
Odette Zero and Udita Persaud founded the HIRCULES Health Hub to provide health information desks at local public libraries. These hubs will offer culturally competent, holistic health information and resources targeted to Chicagoland communities in Evanston and Skokie, IL. The founders aim to empower community members to take ownership of their health by providing previously […]
