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Alan Ricks
Alan Ricks is the chief operating officer of MASS Design Group, which he co-founded with Michael Murphy in 2010. Alan’s work with MASS spans design, research, and policy, and he most recently gave a TED Talk, which chief TED curator Chris Anderson described as “a different language about what architecture can aspire to be.” Since designing and building the Butaro District Hospital for Partners In Health, MASS has expanded to seven countries, focusing on design innovation and health infrastructure development.
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Ben Bohannon
Liz and Ben Bohannon, created Sseko sandals as a way to bless the makers - bright young Ugandan women who earn money to pay for college. Their stunning sandals have been featured by Martha Stewart, Redbook, Fitness, Shape and People Style magazines. Sseko shares their passion to serve the world’s vulnerable children.
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Elizabeth Scharpf
Elizabeth is an entrepreneur who has spent most of her professional career starting up ventures or advising businesses on growth strategies in the health care industry. She has spent time as a strategic management consultant at Cambridge Pharma Consultancy as well as stints at the Clinton Foundation and the World Bank in Asia and East Africa, respectively. Elizabeth has an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MPA in international development from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and a BA from the University of Notre Dame. Despite all the academic acronyms, she thinks her best education has come from talking with those sitting next to her on buses around the world.
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Kavita Shukla
Kavita is the Founder & CEO of Fenugreen a social enterprise taking on the massive global challenge of food waste with a simple innovation FreshPaper. Kavita holds four patents and has received several international honors as an inventor designer and entrepreneur including the INDEX Design to Improve Life Award the world s largest prize for design. Her work has been featured by CNN The New York Times The Washington Post Bloomberg Oprah Magazine Glamour and The Today Show. Kavita was also recently featured as one of the 7 Entrepreneurs Changing the World by Fast Company and on the Forbes 30 under 30 list.
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Lisa Tarver
Lisa Tarver is the Co Founder Chief Impact Officer at One World Futbol Project.
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Liz Bohannon
Liz is the founder and Co-CEO of Sseko Designs. When she came to learn that many of those incredible young women were graduating from secondary school and struggling to find work to finance their university education, Sseko was born. It seemed so simple. She designed a sandal that she thought was really beautiful. She spent weeks, wandering around the city and the markets looking for the things she needed to make.
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Michael Murphy
Michael Murphy is the executive director of MASS Design Group, which he co-founded with Alan Ricks in 2010. Since leading the design and construction of the Butaro Hospital in Rwanda, Michael has led MASS in expanding into ten countries and three continents. Michael regularly speaks to a variety of audiences on architecture and health care, and sits on the boards of the Clinton Global Initiative Advisory Committee, the Harvard Graduate School of Design Alumni Board, and the Center for Healthcare Design, among others.
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Swaroop Samant
Swaroop Samant is the Co Founder of Fenugreen a social enterprise taking on the massive global challenge of food waste through its simple innovation FreshPaper. He has three patents pending. Swaroop is graduate of Yale University and holds an MD from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Prior to founding Fenugreen Swaroop worked as a strategy consultant in McKinsey & Company's consumer insights practice.
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Tim Jahnigen
After much testing and refinement, the One World Futbol was finally ready for launch. In 2010, Tim and his wife, Lisa Tarver, started One World Futbol Project, a mission-driven, B Corporation that makes, sells and distributes the nearly indestructible One World Futbol. The company’s mission is to make a meaningful impact on youth around the world through the One World Futbol.
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