The Future Of Climate Research? Value All Forms Of Knowledge
Melanie Marcel, founder of SOScience, is pushing the scientific community to open up to all forms of knowledge and unlikely alliances.
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What Happens When Young People Lead
WeThrive founder Daquan Oliver is creating a culture where all young people feel trusted to contribute ideas, form student-run companies, and see themselves and each other as powerful and entrepreneurial.
Reviving The Grocery Trade In America’s Food Deserts
Ashoka Fellow Katie Plohocky started Healthy Community Store Initiative in Tulsa, OK. Healthy Community Store Initiative More than 23 million Americans live in places where good food is relatively scarce and expensive.
Reviving The Grocery Trade In America’s Food Deserts
Entrepreneur Katie Plohocky uses a variety of retail strategies, such as micro stores and mobile shops, plus a wholesale distribution system, to reinvent and reintroduce the neighborhood grocer.
What Employers Can Do: How A New Savings Plan Can Rescue Low Wage Workers
Social entrepreneur Ronnie Washington is helping American workers of all income levels build financial security via a new employer-sponsored savings plan.
What Employers Can Do: How A New Savings Plan Can Rescue Low Wage Workers
Ronnie Washington, founder of Onward. Onward American workers were on a tightrope before the Covid pandemic, many surviving by the month, working full time—maybe more than one job, yet unable to save
Is There A Higher Calling For America’s Lawyers?
Ashoka Fellow Purvi Shah, founder of Movement Law Lab. Movement Law Lab Purvi Shah, founder of the Movement Law Lab, learned from years of experience representing powerful movements for change that a
Is There A Higher Calling For America’s Lawyers?
Purvi Shah started Movement Law Lab to support a new generation of lawyers to work alongside progressive movements for change.
The Path To The Covid Recovery Is Paved With Renewable Energy
Social entrepreneur Harish Hande reflects on the democratizing role of sustainable energy in the COVID recovery.
Could Data Transform The Lives Of 500 Million Smallholder Farmers Worldwide?
Regi Wahyu is a data-entrepreneur transforming smallholder farming in Indonesia and beyond. He is the co-founder of HARA and an Ashoka Fellow since 2018.
Could Data Transform The Lives Of 500 Million Smallholder Farmers Worldwide?
Regi Wahyu is a data-entrepreneur transforming smallholder farming in Indonesia and beyond. He is the co-founder of HARA and an Ashoka Fellow since 2018. We spoke to him as part
From Competition To Sharing: How Her Children’s Rare Disease Led Sharon Terry To Revolutionize Medical Research
25 years ago, Sharon Terry learned that her children had a rare genetic disease - and that trying to cure it would mean changing the way research is conducted.
Engage With The Signal: Why We Need To Do More Than Shutting Hate Speech Down
Helena Puig Larrauri, co-founder of Build Up. Build Up Ashoka Fellow Helena Puig Larrauri co-founded the peace-building organization Build Up, which works with NGOs, UN agencies, and multilateral organizations all over the
Engage With The Signal: Why We Need To Do More Than Shutting Hate Speech Down
Helena Puig Larrauri, co-founder of Build Up, on transforming conflict in the digital age.
Behind The Masks: How A Consortium Of Dutch Nurses Is Redefining Care In Times Of Crisis
Jos de Blok, founder of Buurtzorg, speaking to us this week via Zoom. Ashoka Jos de Blok is a Dutch nurse who founded Buurtzorg, a network of over 8,000 nurses who participate