After graduating from Harvard, Molly went to work in the fashion industry in New York City. She interned at the White House then made a brief appearance on American Idol Season 10, where Randy Jackson accidentally slapped her face. Now she lives in LA, where she has worked with some of the world’s most high-profile individuals on philanthropic strategy.

Academic, author and diplomat who currently serves as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Power began her career by covering the Yugoslav Wars as a journalist. Power joined the Obama State Department transition team in late November 2008, and was named Special Assistant to President Obama and Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights on the National Security Council. Power’s office focused on such issues as the reform of the UN; the promotion of women’s rights and LGBT rights; the promotion of religious freedom and the protection of religious minorities; the protection of refugees; the campaign against human trafficking; and the promotion of human rights and democracy.

Gayle Karen Young is the Chief Culture and Talent Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation. Gayle is passionate about global women’s issues and supporting women in leadership and technology. Born in the Philippines to Chinese parents and raised in the United States, she has a multicultural perspective, an adventurous spirit, and a deep commitment to expanding human freedom.

Since winning election to the United States Senate in October 2013, Cory has been innovative, persistent and put partisanship aside, bringing people together to get things done for New Jersey. Cory has focused on creating new jobs, improving economic opportunity for all New Jerseyans, speeding the pace of Hurricane Sandy recovery and addressing the economic squeeze facing middle class families.

Nadya Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina are Russian conceptual artists and political activists. They are founding members of the art collective Pussy Riot. In August 2012, they were sentenced to two years’ imprisonment following an anti-Putin performance in Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. In March 2014 Tolokonnikova and Alekhina announced the opening of Mordovia office of Zona Prava, their newly created prisoners’ rights NGO. Early September 2014 they launched their independent news service, Mediazona which focuses on courts, law enforcement, and the prison system in Russia.

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Robert is a visual artist who works with illustration, traditional pencil, painting, t-shirt graffiti, digital airbrush and sequential art.  He’s  also a professional photographer specializing in composite photography. In 2013, he was awarded a fellowship with Salzburg Global Seminar Session and was part of the group “The Photographer as Advocate, Awareness- Raiser, and Activist”

Following the footsteps of his grandfather, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Fabien is an aquanaut, oceanographic explorer, conservationist and documentary filmmaker. He spent his youth aboard his grandfather’s ships, Calypso and Alcyone. He continues to fulfill his family’s legacy to protect and preserve the planet’s extensive and endangered marine inhabitants and habitats.

An American actress, model and voice actress who has appeared in a number of television shows and feature films.

Viraj Puri is a 14-year-old Indian American who created a teen blog for bully prevention. The blog uses technology to bring lawmakers and teens together. Bullyvention is the first website to team up with the U.S. House of Representatives’ Congressional Anti-Bullying Caucus.

An open-source software developer since 2000, Chia-liang co-founded the g0v.tw initiative, an online community that advocates for information transparency and develops tools for improving citizen participation. Following the model established by the Free Software community, g0v.tw transformed social media into a platform for social production, with a fully open and decentralized cultural and technological framework.

Gisela Pérez de Acha is a Mexican lawyer who is currently working on her thesis on Internet censorship by private enterprises. She was part of #YoSoy132, a student movement that followed the examples of the Arab Spring by converting online organization into street protests during the 2012 presidential elections. She now belongs to Femen, a topless, feminist, high-impact protest group.

Walid Al-Saqaf is a Yemeni academic, journalist, anti-censorship activist and postdoctoral fellow researching Internet projects to empower activists involved the Arab Spring. He’s the founder of Yemen Portal, a Yemeni news aggregator, and developer of Alkasir for Internet Censorship Mapping and Circumvention, a software solution that allows users in countries such as Syria and Iran to access blocked websites.

Wei Liu-Lin is a social activist and founder of Citizen 1985, a group that organized 250,000 people to protest against the Taiwanese government to change the country’s Military Justice Law. He’s also a major participant in the Sunflower Movement. He currently works as a family physician and the CEO of ” Watchout,” an organization that aims to encourage civic involvement.

Maria A. Ressa is CEO and Executive Editor of Rappler, a social news network that approaches news using a unique mood navigator. She has been a journalist in Asia for nearly 30 years, mostly as CNN’s bureau chief in Manila (1987-1995) and Jakarta (1995-2005). She wrote “Seeds of Terror: An Eyewitness Account of al-Qaeda’s Newest Center of Operations in Southeast Asia.”

Naomi is the Chief Marketing Officer at DoSomething.org, one of the largest organizations for young people and social change in the U.S. She has made speaking appearances at the UN Youth Assembly, the Ad Age CMO Summit, and the 24 Hours of Reality event. Naomi was named a “2013 People to Watch: Rising PR Stars 30 and under” by PR news.

Code for Progress program director Aliya Rahman, 32, won DC Web Women’s first Tech Woman of the Year award. She studied aeronautical engineering at Purdue University, taught coding as a second-semester freshman, and taught high school science in Northern Arizona, where she connected with her Navajo students by relating isotopes to some of the injustices their tribe had weathered.

Mike Kim is a management consultant, author, and inspirational speaker based in Los Angeles, where he works as Managing Director at Ferrazzi Greenlight. Mike pioneered an ongoing multi-agency human trafficking data analytics project for the U.S. Government and authored a Wall Street Journal-featured book “Escaping North Korea,” a memoir about his experiences at the China-North Korea border helping North Korean refugees escape.

After a tornado struck her hometown, Caitria co-founded Recovers.org, a community-driven disaster relief system that helped hundreds of thousands get involved in local recovery efforts. Her work designing crisis-response systems earned her recognition as a Champion of Change at the White House. The Harvard graduate was a fellow at Stanford University’s d.school, a design strategist at Pocketknife.io, and writes science fiction.

Univision and Fusion news anchor Jorge Ramos is considered the most influential and respected Hispanic TV correspondent in the U.S. Ramos, the host of Univision’s “Al Punto” and Fusion’s “America,” is the author of A Country for All; An Immigrant Manifesto. He migrated to the United States in 1983, and at age 28 became one of the youngest national news anchors in the history of American television.

Fusion’s Timothy Pool is an award-winning American journalist from Chicago. His 21-hour marathon reporting earned him notoriety during the Occupy Wall Street protests. Pool primarily reports using mobile technology for social media and live-stream broadcasting.

Alicia Jacobsen Menendez is an American television commentator, host, and writer. She currently serves as the host of “AM Tonight” on Fusion. Prior to that she was a host and producer at HuffPost Live, the streaming video network of The Huffington Post.

A Venezuelan lawyer and civil rights activist in the opposition movement, Goicoechea was one of the main organizers of the Venezuelan Student Movement that helped reject Hugo Chávez’s proposed constitutional referendum in 2007. In 2008, the Cato Institute awarded Goicoechea the Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty.  He has lectured in 15 countries and at universities including Harvard, Georgetown and UNAM.

Shark girl, 20 years old, underwater filmmaker, technical diver, dive-master, shark advocate, free diver, delinquent.

Eileen Guo is an entrepreneur working to empower communities in transitioning environments. As the Founder of Impassion Afghanistan, the country’s first digital agency, Guo is leading the company’s various information and communications technology (ICT) initiatives. She created and led projects developing and managing FieldEx, an innovative field-based civil-military training program for students and practitioners working in conflict and disaster response. Guo is part of the Washington DC II Hub of the Global Shapers Community.

After graduating from Stanford with honors, Michael Tubbs went to work for the City of Stockton. His worked for two years as Chairman of the Youth Advisory Commission. Tubbs is Founder and Executive Director of The Phoenix Scholars, which has helped more than 300 students get into college. He was named a City of Stockton Architect of Peace and a Truman Scholar.

A current Future Tense Fellow at the New America Foundation, Ammori was named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business in 2012 by Fast Company Magazine (#32), one of the top five tech lawyers in 2012 by the World Technology Network, and a recipient of the Nyan Cat Medal of Internet Awesomeness.

Sascha Meinrath is an Internet culture leader and founder of X-Lab, a future-focused technology policy and innovation project. He heads the “Internet in a Suitcase” effort to create ad-hoc mesh wireless technologies. Sascha founded the Open Technology Institute in 2008 and was co-founder and executive director of the CUWiN Foundation, which develops community-owned networks that foster democratic cultures and local content. Meinrath is also an Ashoka Fellow.

David Burstein is the CEO & Founder of Run for America, a disruptive post-partisan initiative to bring a new generation of talent into American politics and break Congressional polarization. He is the author of Fast Future: How the Millennial Generation is Shaping Our World and the founder of Generation18, which registered 25,000 voters in 2008, as well as the director of the documentaries 18 in ’08 and Up to Us.

From her suburban home in Chicago, Syrian-born Basatneh, 22, used Facebook to contact Syrian protesters and joined a revolution from 6,000 miles away. As the subject of the documentary #chicagoGirl, Basatneh has become one of the public faces of social media activism, using YouTube and Facebook to help citizen journalists spread the word of their fight against Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

Nyle Fort is an ordained minister, grassroots organizer, and freelance writer based in Newark, NJ.

Born in Peru and raised in LA, Sofia became involved in the immigrant youth movement at UCLA in 2007. She taught the university’s first “Undocumented Student Experience” seminar and organized for the California and federal DREAM Act. Her group’s efforts were instrumental to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). She chairs United We Dream and is a Master’s student at MIT.

Ben Knight is a co-founder of Loomio, an online tool for collaborative decision-making built by a team of open-source developers and activists in New Zealand. Ben has an academic background in the evolution of collective intelligence, a practical background in grassroots community organizing, and a passion for the potential of technology to spur positive social change.

As president of Brigade, James is responsible for overseeing partnerships, marketing and future monetization. He previously served as V.P. of Revenue at Causes and worked as a corporate lawyer and in international development for the World Trade Organization in Switzerland.

Iris Andrews is a campaigns and communications strategist heading creative outreach for Greenpeace’s flagship Save The Arctic campaign. Iris is passionate about working with leaders in the creative industries on compelling, culturally relevant content to inspire action on our greatest social and environmental challenges.

A former refugee from Sierra Leone, Chernor is a champion of girls’ rights and youth education. He is the co-founder of A World at School, the youth representative on the High-Level Steering committee for the UN Secretary General’s Global Education First Initiative and Chair of its Youth Advocacy Group. Chernor won the 2014 Women’s Refugee Commission’s Voice of Courage Award.

Director of #ChicagoGirl – The Social Network Takes On A Dictator. Piscatella’s screen credits include Disney’s UNDERDOG, OZZY & DRIX for Warner Bros. and STARK RAVING MAD for NBC. He’s written TV pilots for 20th Century Fox and Touchstone Television, as well as production rewrites on animated movies for Dreamworks Animation and Sony Animation. #chicagoGirl is his directorial debut and first documentary.

Cansu Yapıcı is an architect from Istanbul. She has been working with several NGO s regarding urban politics and right to the city. She is an active member of Taksim Solidarity which played a key part in Gezi Protests in the summer of 2013. During the Protests she was in charge of the crisis desk and social media. She is in trial nowadays after being detained for 4 days during the demonstrations and facing 10 years in prison.

Award-winning photojournalist, author and activist Jo-Anne McArthur has been documenting the plight of animals on all seven continents for over ten years. Her documentary project, We Animals, is internationally celebrated and over one hundred animal organizations. Jo-Anne is the subject of Canadian film maker Liz Marshall’s celebrated documentary The Ghosts In Our Machine  and her first book, also entitled We Animals, was published by Lantern Books in 2013.

Director and producer Liz Marshall is an auteur filmmaker who fuses character-driven cinematic storytelling with social and environmental justice issues. Since the 90s she has created a body of award-winning documentaries shot around the world which illuminate a range of significant subjects, including: animal rights; the right to water movement; HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa; sweatshop labour; corporate-globalization; the rights of girls and women; censorship affecting writers and journalists, and war-affected children.

Baglan Rhymes has been instrumental in building and branding some of the hottest technology start-ups in Silicon Valley. She’s a leader in the areas of entrepreneurship and innovation in technology and digital media, with an emphasis on digital advertising, privacy and monetization strategy. Rhymes sits on the Advisory Board, Business Board, and Cybercrimes Malcode Board of Lifeboat Organization.

Dante Barry is the new Executive Director of Million Hoodies Movement for Justice, a racial justice youth organization working to protect and empower young people of color from racial profiling and senseless gun violence. Barry has more than 10 years of experience as a grassroots and online organizer within the racial justice, anti-war/violence, and student movements.

David Keyes is the executive director of Advancing Human Rights and co-founder of CyberDissidents.org. He served as coordinator for democracy programs under famed Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky and assisted a former UN ambassador. Keyes was called a “pioneer in online activism” by The New York Times and is a contributor to Newsweek/The Daily Beast. Keyes spoke on human rights in the US Congress, Italian Parliament, and Google and held meetings with Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President George W. Bush. Keyes created the First Annual Saudi Women’s Grand Prix.

Best known for her role as Rosalie Hale in the TWILIGHT SAGA, Nikki Reed won critical acclaim in her first feature, THIRTEEN, which she co-wrote and starred in. Nikki recently completed independent feature SCOUT and will next be seen in MURDER OF A CAT, the independent comedy INTRAMURAL, and IN YOUR EYES, which will premiere at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival.

A humanitarian and filmmaker, Mooser, co-founder of RYOT News, moved to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake and became country director for Artists for Peace and Justice (APJ), which helped build Haiti’s largest Cholera center. He directed and produced documentary shorts Sun City Picture House and Baseball In The Time Of Cholera. His latest documentary, Rider And The Storm, premiered in April in New York City.

Dubbed the “keyboard freedom fighter” for his pro-democracy work in Egypt, Wael was the Entrepreneur in Residence at Google Ventures. In 2011, Wael was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, named one of Time 100’s most influential people, and received JFK Profile in Courage Award. He chairs “Tahrir Academy” NGO, an online knowledge-sharing platform for Arab youth.