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LAW & POLICY Cofounders, Govern for America
OCTAVIA ABELL, 28;
KYLEIGH RUSS, 28

JELANI ANGLIN, 27;
GABE LEADER-ROSE, 29
Cofounders, Good Call
YASSAMIN ANSARI, 27
Advisor, United Nations
MATTHEW ASIR, 22
Founder, The Legal Bullet
JESSICA CISNEROS, 26
Congressional candidate
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ALEXANDER DIAZ, 27
Head of crisis response and
humanitarian aid, Google.org
TOM DOWLING, 23; GEOFF SEGAL, 24
Cofounders, taxProper
RITIKA DUTT, 28
Cofounder, Botler AI
KATIE EDER, 20
Executive director, Future Coalition
KARTHIK GANAPATHY, 28
Partner, mvmt communications
JULIAN GLUCK, 29
Captain, United States Air Force
SOFIA GROSS, 26
Global public policy manager, Snap
ANDREW LEON HANNA, 28;
DAVID DELANEY MAYER, 27
Cofounders, DreamxAmerica
WILL HASKELL, 23
State senator, Connecticut legislature
AUDREY HENSON, 29
Founder, College to Congress
LINA HIDALGO, 28
County judge, Harris County
AMANDA MATOS, 28
Director of constituency campaigns,
Planned Parenthood Action Fund
JOHN MCCARTHY, 28
Deputy national political director,
Joe Biden for President
TASNIM MOTALA, 29
Fellow, Howard University
MATT NGUYEN, 26
Supreme Court chambers attorney,

Supreme Court of California
NADYA OKAMOTO, 21
Founder, PERIOD. The Menstrual
Movement.
BRITTANNY PERRIGUE, 27
Fellow, Texas RioGrande Legal Aid
BETHANY PICKETT, 28
Deputy associate counsel,
VARSHINI PRAKASH, 26 The White House
WALTER POWELL, 28;
JACKSON WHITE, 27
CO FOU ND ER, S U NR ISE MOVEME N T
Cofounders, Politiscope
“The science is settled. Now let’s talk about the solutions,” says Varshini VARSHINI PRAKASH, 26;

EVAN WEBER, 28
Prakash. She’s cofounder of the Sunrise Movement, a climate-change nonprof- Cofounders, Sunrise Movement

it that rocketed to fame in 2018 after staging a sit-in at Nancy Pelosi’s office JACOB RUDOLPH, 25
to back the Green New Deal. This September, her group organized the Global Executive director , The Pride Network
Climate Strike, mobilizing more than 3 million people in 150 countries to hit KATIE SGARRO, 26

the streets to demand climate-change action. A first-generation college grad- Cofounder, AsylumConnect

uate, Prakash saw firsthand the devastation wrought by floods in her parents’ JULIE SLAMA, 23

State senator, Nebraska legislature
home country of India. Along with cofounder Evan Weber, she launched Sun-
MCKENZIE SNOW, 29

rise to organize legions of young people to fight for climate reforms. With $6.5
Policy director,
million in funding from foundations and grassroots donations, Sunrise has U.S. Department of Education

50 full-time staff and outposts in more than 200 cities. —Marley Coyne, Anne JEN ZHU, 27
Glusker, Christian Kreznar Founder, BMoreLoved.org
JUDGES: CARRIE GOLDBERG, FOUNDER, C.A. GOLBERG LAW; JON HUNTSMAN, FORMER AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA; LAURENCE TRIBE, PROFESSOR, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL; MICHAEL TUBBS, MAYOR
OF STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA (UNDER 30 CLASS OF 2018).
VARSHINI PRAKASH WEARS A L’AGENCE AQUA SILK AND VELVET JACKET, AND OFFICINA BERNARDI HOOP EARRINGS.
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