Aeo
In summer 2017, Xiaoyue Gong founded Aeo to safeguard the health of Chinese urban residents against ubiquitous particulate air pollution by raising awareness of invisible indoor air pollution and empowering people to take informed actions to protect themselves. Aeo wearable air quality sensors not only inform people of the air quality of their exact location […]
Xiaoyue Gong
Xiaoyue is a PhD Candidate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is founder and CEO of Aeo, a social venture that protects people from severe indoor air pollution in cities through smart IoT design. Her current research is in algorithms and machine learning for supply chain optimization. Since a very young age, Xiaoyue has been working […]
Brinda Penmetsa
Brinda Penmetsa grew up in Katy, Texas and is currently pursuing a degree in Finance, with a minor in Policy and Ethics in the Honors College at the University of Houston. At UH, she is involved in Student Government, and the Bonner Leaders Program. Through Bonner, a four year commitment, Brinda performs 10 hours of […]
Ton La, Jr.
Ton La, Jr. (TJ) is a first-year MD/JD student at Baylor College of Medicine and a Summa cum laude and Collegiate Honors graduate of the University of Houston. Since high school, he has volunteered over 1000 hours at Texas Children’s Hospital and the Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center. Currently, he is a Editorial Advisory Board […]
Campus Kitchen at the University of Houston
Campus Kitchen at the University of Houston volunteers will collect leftover food from university dining facilities in Houston, Texas. They will then transform recovered food into meals and make daily deliveries to the neighboring Third Ward community. The Third Ward is considered a food desert and is highly-distressed. The venture also aims to educate residents […]
Nicol Chinchilla Cordero
Nicol Chinchilla Cordero grew up in La RIbera, small village in Southern Costa Rica. At the age of 17, Nicol attended the United World Colleges in New Mexico. In this two years International Baccalaureate high school Nicol was inspired to study Environmental Studies. Nicol is studying at Earlham College were she is double majoring in Environmental […]
Maria Daniela Castillo
Maria Daniela Castillo is a graduate student pursuing a Master’s in City Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 2015, upon being awarded a Resolution Project Fellowship, Maria and her co-founders, Nicol Chinchilla and Sasha Drumm, founded UpTica, a social venture where women in rural Perez Zeledon, Costa Rica, upcycle materials to make […]
Samuel Diaz
Samuel A. Diaz Pulgar is currently a senior at Universidad Metropolitana in Caracas, Venezuela, majoring in Estudios Liberales (a combination of History, Philosophy, Politics and Economics). Samuel aspires to pursue a Masters Degree in Public Policy and is the Co-Founder and Director of “Nutriendo El Futuro,” an organization that hopes to alleviate the humanitarian crisis […]
Nutriendo El Futuro
Samuel and Laura are creating community run dinning halls in the municipality of El Hatillo of Caracas, Venezuela. Through their venture, they will provide nutritious and calorie-rich meals for children at risk of malnutrition as well as provide treatment for those with intestinal parasites.
Laura Morey
Laura is a 23-year-old senior Economics student of Universidad Metropolitana from Caracas, Venezuela. She did community service throughout her high school years and has always been passionate about creating positive impact in what she does. She was a member of her university’s Harvard Model United Nations Team for 4 years, being Head Delegate in 2016 […]
