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Ashu Desai

Founder

Elizabeth Douglas

President and Chief Operating Officer at WikiHow

Elizabeth Douglas is currently the President & Chief Operating Officer at wikiHow.com, the world's ​leading how-to website. Driven by wikiHow's mission to reach everyone on the planet, Elizabeth collaborates with her teams to create innovative solutions for growing and scaling wikiHow. Under Elizabeth's leadership, wikiHow has grown over 600%, and today is visited by more than than 100 million people every month across 230 countries. Elizabeth holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Stanford, as well as an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business. Before business school, Elizabeth worked as a User Experience Engineer at Apple. While working at Apple, she served as the President of Women at Apple, a group dedicated to supporting women in tech. She also worked as the ProductManagement lead for Yahoo! Answers, a site dedicated to bringing experiential knowledge online. Elizabeth is a strong believer inauthentic leadership.

Jonathan Trent

OMEGA Project Scientist at NASA Ames Reserach Center

With a Ph.D. from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Dr. Trent spent six years in Europe at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Germany, the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and the University of Paris, France. He returned to the USA to the Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine at ​Yale Medical School, Argonne National Laboratory, and then NASA Ames Research Center. Dr. Trent is an Adjunct Professor in the Dept. of Biomolecular Engineering at UC Santa Cruz and in the Dept. of Biotechnology and Life Science at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. Recently, with an international team of colleagues, he has formed the OMEGA Global Initiative (OGI), a non-profit corporation dedicated to creating a sustainable future by expanding the ​availability of alternative energy, clean water, and food from the sea.

Kevin Chou

Student

Lorien Pratt

Global Director at Stratecast

Nina Nelson

Student/Actor/Musician (Vocalist)/Writer

Nina Nelson is a senior at Saratoga High School. She doesn't define herself by one hobby or ​occupation, so here are her many interests: a theatrical and screen actress, songwriter, musician, performer, director, writer, unexpected calculus enthusiast, homemade filmmaker, and an ​a cappella group aspiree. Some of the people at TEDxSaratogaHighSchool have helped her grow in her many directions of interest. Needless to say, she has dabbled in many forms of art and the entertainment industry. She cannot wait to share the eye-opening information she has acquired from her experience of chasing a dream in one of the most cut throat, yet exhilarating businesses ​out there.