They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director
of The
Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder
of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director
of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties
of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director
of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author
of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator
of Rockin» 1000, co-founder
of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx
team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO
of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits
of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder
of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap
of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers
of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated
individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.