Angelo Vermeulen wears many hats, including one as a crew commander for NASA, another as an artist and community organizer.

Skylar Tibbits is the founder and codirector of the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT and assistant professor of design research in the department of architecture.

Haley Van Dyck is building a startup at the White House and recruiting world-class technology talent to change how government works for the American people.

Paul MacCready, an aircraft designer and environmentalist, is a pioneer of human-powered flight, alternative energy for transportation, and environmentally responsible design.

Eric Dyer is an artist and educator who brings animation into the physical world with his sequential images, sculptures and installations.

Boniface Mwangi is an award-winning Kenyan photographer, artist and activist. He is a TED Fellow.

By blending up to 100 still photographs into a seamless composite that captures the transition from day to night, Stephen Wilkes reveals the stories hidden in familiar locations.

Asher Hasan's social enterprise Naya Jeevan (the name means "new life" in Urdu and Hindi) is the emerging world's first HMO for the urban, working poor.

Kate Darling investigates the relationship between humans and robots -- now, and in the future.

An environmentalist and former minister of the environment, Marcelo Mena is helping Chile make a low emission, resilient and inclusive transition to zero emissions by 2050.

Kelsey Johnson has spent her life in awe of the universe, and she works to inspire that awe in future generations.

Global scholar, University of Pennsylvania civil rights sociologist and law professor Dorothy Roberts exposes the myths of race-­based medicine.

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Sister Norma Pimentel is a sister with the Missionaries of Jesus and a licensed professional counselor.

Former Georgia House Democratic Leader Stacey Abrams made history in 2018 when she earned the Democratic nomination for governor of Georgia.

Sue Desmond-Hellmann leads the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s mission to establish equity for every person.

Katie Hinde is studying breast milk’s status as the first superfood, providing babies with invaluable microbes custom-tailored to their individual needs, via an incredible and unlikely dialogue between the mother’s enzymes and the baby’s saliva.

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