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Manyasiri Chotbunwong is the Founder of HER, a feminine health organization providing period products, education, healthcare, and employment to underserved women. Today, they have distributed over 10,000 reusable and sugarcane fiber pads to women in 5 countries (Thailand, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Myanmar, America). They have also run period-awareness campaigns that have reached over 30,000 people across Thailand.A Diana Award recipient, they also founded The Union International -Thailand’s 1st interscholastic student newspaper. Now with 140+ staffers representing 50 schools, and 25 nationalities, the media company raises awareness on issues like burn-out, bullying, and social engagement. Meanwhile their student-led podcast, The Unity shares inspirational stories of teens who are leading change in these areas.

Manisha Meem Nipun Hijra is a trans youth trainer and human rights activist from the southern part of Bangladesh. She identifies as a trans woman and has been working as the representative of the transgender community in the remote areas of Bangladesh including the hill tracts. In 2019, she started working for ‘Pathchola Foundation’ as a founding member. She provides a variety of programmes and emergency aid that have significantly impacted more than 3,000 transgender/Hijra people. The organisation has also rescued ten transgender individuals from sex work in 2020-2021 and helped them build sustainable livelihood.

Maisie Brown is leading an effort to deliver drinking water to residents who can’t make it to the city’s distribution centers. In response to the ongoing Mississippi water crisis, she has delivered more than 50,000 bottles of water city-wide to more than 300 households.

Magda is the Founder of General Intelligences, a non-for-profit which develops students' life skills and social capital. To date, they have helped 20,000+ young adults from marginalized backgrounds to achieve professional and academic success. This includes through programs such as developing resumes, navigating credit cards, and pursuing side hustles. Now a team of 40 volunteers, they even run webinars with Nobel Prize winners, award-winning journalists, and Congresswomen.As part of the United Nations Millenium Fellowship, Magda also Launched Do No Harm. The project empowered over 150 individuals to further their health literacy and learn how to fact check news articles on scientific topics.

Datt started Green the Gene as a student environmental club in 2004 - when he was 8 years old - after learning that India's water table, or the level of water underneath the soil, was falling by almost two feet every year. Now Green the Gene is an environmental nonprofit with more than 7,000 student volunteers who have developed and deployed 8,000 low-cost water-filtration devices to 62 countries. The organization says its devices filter 14.4 million liters of water annually, providing safe drinking water to more than 40,000 people.

Luísa Franco Machado is a digital rights activist and a published data justice researcher from Brazil. Leveraging social media to mainstream their research findings for youth, they have gathered an online community of more than 60,000 young people worldwide. Luísa has facilitated discussions on tech policy, queer rights, and feminism, and their multilingual content has been viewed more than 10 million times. Breaking historical barriers, at age 16 Luísa was the first openly queer person to be elected as the President of the Brazilian Youth Parliament. At the 75th UN General Assembly they publicly advocated for youth participation in tech policy decisions. Luísa has also co-led key youth negotiations on data ethics at the European Dialogue on Internet Governance, and advanced AI and international development policy research at OECD and UN DESA.