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Adam "Smiley" Poswolsky

Adam is a writer and lover of life. He recently published The Quarter-Life Breakthrough, a guide for millennials to find meaningful work. He has inspired young professionals and entrepreneurs to have quarter-life breakthroughs and find meaningful work as director of The Bold Academy and emcee/facilitator of the Hive Global Leaders Program. Adam StartingBloc Fellow and a mentor for entrepreneurs at StartingBloc, the Dell Summer Social Innovation Lab, and Coolhouse Labs, as well as a volunteer with The Beat Within–which provides writing workshops for incarcerated youth.

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Amber Rae

Amber Rae creates content, art and experiences that scratch beneath the surface and explore life’s big questions. Using her life as an experiment, and our world as a canvas, she delves into themes such as fear, vulnerability, creativity, purpose, self-expression, legacy and love. She has a reach of over 3 million people through her personal social media platforms and the platforms she writes for.

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Arianna Huffington

Arianna Huffington is the chair, president, and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group, a nationally syndicated columnist, and author of thirteen books. In May 2005, she launched The Huffington Post. In 2012, the site won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. In 2013, she was named to the Forbes Most Powerful Women list. In 2006, and again in 2011, she was named to the Time 100. Originally from Greece, she moved to England when she was 16 and graduated from Cambridge University with an M.A. in economics. Her 14th book, Thrive: The Third Metric To Redefining Success And Creating A Life Of Well-Being, Wisdom and Wonder was published by Crown in early 2014.

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David Arabov

David Arabov has always been driven by an insatiable entrepreneurial spirit. While studying at Pace University, David started his first business: an online publication that “Millennials can’t get enough of,” as Business Insider once described. Elite Daily has quickly become one of the most popular sites on the web, due to David’s understanding of the void in the marketplace for content specific to this generation, written by this generation. His vision for a platform that would provide alternative perspective to the traditional media, give a voice to the diverse people of Gen-Y and rally against any other stagnant content on the web has achieved immediate and immense success. He has managed to create a platform that is disrupting media as we know it. The site reaches over 40 million people a month and employs over 35 Millennials. David is currently both the Managing Editor and CEO of Elite Daily.

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Elle Luna

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Jessica Kane

Jessica Kane is the Director of Millennial Outreach at The Huffington Post. She graduated from Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism with a degree in magazine journalism but has since found her passion for online media. She envisioned and has since executed HuffPost's Editor-at-Large Program on nearly 40 college campuses where she focuses on student wellness and health. She considers herself lucky to work with likeminded people on a daily basis and to pursue a career helping her fellow millennials.

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Kerena Saltzman

Kerena Saltzman, LCSW is a presenter, trainer, and Gestalt therapist. She designs and facilitates group experiences that create authenticity, vitality, and deep connection. At the foundation of her work is the belief that our relationships reveal where we are being asked to develop and evolve. When we develop relational skills relationships become more dynamic, conflict becomes easier, and energy is freed up to be creative and impact the world.

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Kleaver Cruz

Kleaver Cruz, an Uptown, NY native, is a writer and a Dream Director at The Future Project – an organization that aims to unleash young people through the pursuit of their dreams. He is currently based at a high school in the Bronx where he serves 200+ students and faculty every day to take action around their dreams. He has guest-lectured at Fordham University and recently, President Obama acknowledged the “Transitions” program he co-founded at Vassar College to support first-generation and low-income students. Cruz is also one half of the poetic duo, The Delta, which has performed at The Nuyorican Poet’s Café, Bowery Poetry Club and featured at The Local Poet’s Open-mic in Inwood. He is the author of Sketches of a City, a collection of flash fiction stories and his work has been featured on TravelNoire.com as well Kiese Laymon’s blog, Cold Drank. Cruz believes in the power of words because they allow him to write what didn’t exist when he needed it the most.

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Matthew Brimer

Matthew O. Brimer co-founded General Assembly and leads global partnerships and business development. He is responsible for many of the key partnerships General Assembly has created with Fortune 500 companies, including American Express, General Electric, PepsiCo, Viacom, JP Morgan, Facebook, Amazon, and McKinsey. His passion for online + offline education and community-building has helped thousands of talented students develop the mindsets and skills in technology, business, and design needed to succeed in an increasingly digital environment. Brimer was most recently named to Vanity Fair’s "The Next Establishment", Inc Magazine’s "30 Under 30", and Business Insider’s "Silicon Alley 100”. Prior to General Assembly, Brimer founded and managed several startups, including PickTeams and Aloysius Properties. Brimer holds a BA in Sociology from Yale University and currently lives in New York City.

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Miki Agrawal

Miki Agrawal is a serial social entrepreneur. She was a recipient of the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival’s “Disruptive Innovation Award” and named 2013’s Forbes’ “Top 20 MillienialsOn a Mission”. She is the founder of the acclaimed farm-to-table, alternative pizza concept called WILD (www.eatdrinkwild.com) in NYC. She has since partnered with Zappos.com CEO Tony Hsieh to open the concept in Downtown Las Vegas.

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Yael Shy

Yael Shy, Esq. is the Director of Global Spiritual Life at NYU and the founder and Director of the Mindfulness Project at NYU.Yael has been practicing meditation for over 14 years. She is a graduate of the Jewish Mindfulness Teacher Training Program through the Institute of Jewish Spirituality was a co-founder of the Jewish Meditation Center of Brooklyn and has led meditation workshops and retreats for the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, the Selah Leadership Program, NYU Abu Dhabi, NYU Tel Aviv, and beyond. Prior to joining Global Spiritual Life, Shy was the Director of Development and Education at the NYU Center on Violence and Recovery, where she led training sessions in restorative justice for community and government entities from Utah to Taiwan. Shy received her Bachelor of Arts degree from New York University and her law degree from Northeastern University. Shy was named one of the “36 under 36” changemakers transforming the Jewish world by the Jewish Week in 2010. She is a bar-certified attorney and has been published in the Inquiring Minds Buddhist Journal, Sports Lawyers Journal, the Clinical Journal of Social Work, and the NYU Journal of Law and Social Justice.

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