Richard Graves

Richard Graves is the founder of Fired Up Media, Associate Producer for LinkTV's EarthFocus, and editor for ItsGettingHotinHere.org - dispatches from the youth climate movement. Graves helps over two hundred youth leaders from around the world tell their stories in the fight against global warming and for a more just and sustainable world. He is an International Youth Foundation 2008 Global Fellow and Project Slingshot winner. He graduated from Macalester College in 2006 with a B.A. in Asian and Environmental History.

Chelsea Ricker

As part of the Africa Program of the International Women’s Health Coalition, Chelsea Ricker works to promote sexual and reproductive rights and health and focuses on youth and LGBTQI rights. A specialist in comprehensive sexuality education, Chelsea’s work prior to joining the coalition included the development of a fully interactive online sexuality curriculum for Nigeria, which currently reaches over 50,000 in-school youth in Nigeria as well as being widely available online. Chelsea is a passionate advocate and prolific blogger who holds a BA in Religion and Human Rights from Columbia University in New York and studied Sexuality, Culture and Society at the University of Amsterdam.

Angela Atchison

Angela Atchison is a member of the Global Finance Team at E+Co, a non-profit that makes clean energy investments in developing countries. She has also worked with E+Co on a consulting basis, providing development and strategic marketing support to E+Co’s Vice President. Angela was a Project Assistant with the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment, and prior to that, experimented with her own social enterprise while building a solar oven in Kenya. As she finished her degree, Angela was selected to be an Everett Intern with the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility. She graduated from the University of Michigan with B.A. in Economics and the Environment.

Sean Pfitzenmaier

Sean Pfitzenmaier is one of the co-founders of Sosauce, a site that seeks to build cultural awareness, through the context of travel. Fluent in the worlds of both social media and social enterprise he has served as an advisor to YouGoServe and helped write the original business plan for Shift. Prior to his foray into online media Sean worked as an engineer in the aerospace industry. Sean holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech and an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business where he served as the President of the Social Enterprise Association.

Faith Huckel

Faith Huckel is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Restore, a non-profit organization founded in 2004 to provide aftercare services for internationally sex trafficked women in New York City. Previously before coming on staff with Restore, Faith was the Volunteer Manager at Hope for New York, a Christian non-profit organization dedicated towards serving the poor and the marginalized in New York City. Prior to moving to New York, Faith worked as a Social Worker in Philadelphia where she primarily assisted women and children in need, particularly women coming out of prostitution. Additional populations she has worked with include individuals living with HIV/AIDS, mental health concerns, homelessness and drug addiction. Faith received her Master's in Social Work from Columbia University.

Eyeris

Proving that young emcees have an untouchable energy, Eyeris has mastered the way of bridging the old and new school of hip-hop. In the tradition of hip-hop, she rocks the stage as one emcee and quickly adapts to rock a crowd with any DJ. If you don’t see her on the stage, she is overpowering the cipher with her creative flow and powerful wordplay.

Within the past 4 years, Eyeris has created a following for herself not only in the club and hip-hop scenes in New York and Portland, but also around Europe. She has shared the stage with hip-hop legends such as The Roots and Roxanne Shante but has also helped build a foundation for the new school with other young artists by organizing open mics and parties thus bringing up coming artists together. Her unique voice will draw you in, her lyrics will keep you listening, and her energy will make you never want to leave!