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Antón García-Abril

Antón García-Abril, (Madrid, 1969) is a European PhD Architect, International Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects 2013 and full-professor at the School of Architecture and Planning of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.). In 2000 he established the Ensamble Studio leading, together with his partner Débora Mesa, a cross-functional team that balances practice, research and education in Architecture. Their work has been extensively published in both print and digital media, exhibited world-wide and awarded, as the last 2016 NCSEA Excellence in Structural Engineering Award with Ensamble Studio´s project “Structures of Landscape”.

Cameron Mastoras

Cameron is a junior at Newton North High School. He devotes most of his non-school time to his high school’s FIRST robotics team, the Ligerbots, where he is currently the Head of Mechanical Engineering and Drive Team Coach on the team. He also plays trumpet, and has a fondness for jazz music. He plays in the Newton North Honors Jazz Ensemble, and play gigs around his town with his jazz quintet, Upswing. Cameron loves to debate, loves to learn, and he has recently found that he loves to teach.

Cesar Hidalgo

César A. Hidalgo is an assistant professor at the MIT Media Lab. Hidalgo’s work focuses on improving the understanding of systems by using and developing concepts of complexity, evolution, and network science; his goal is to help improve understanding of the evolution of prosperity in order to help develop industrial policies that can help countries raise the living standards of their citizens. His areas of application include economic development, systems biology, and social systems. Hidalgo is also a graphic-art enthusiast and has published and exhibited artwork that uses data collected originally for scientific purposes.

Cheyenne Cochrane

Cheyenne is a Development and Non-profit Management professional with a focus on K-12 education. She is a passionate and results-driven team player and critical thinker with excitement for innovation and project-based initiatives. As Manager of Development at the Achievement Network, she helped ANet’s President, CEO, and fundraising team steward prospective major funding partners and secure committed or projected philanthropic revenue. She helped manage fundraising operations for the Achievement Network while developing compelling written content for funding partners. Cheyenne also developed and strengthened the quality of grant management systems that enable ANet to run an effective and efficient fundraising operation, as ANet scales and managed projects across team, while helping to manage key aspects of grant-funded work.

Eric Schilling

Eric Schilling is a filmmaker, educator, and petter of dogs and cats. He currently works at the MIT Media Lab as the Online Community Manager for Scratch, a creative learning community where millions of kids create and share their own stories, games, and animations.

Ethan Rubin

Ethan Rubin is a “recovering violinist” and an English teacher at Roxbury Prep High School. He has played in bands and ensembles across multiple genres, including punk, soul, metal, jazz, and Middle Eastern folk. Ethan graduated from Boston University with an undergraduate degree in philosophy and Spanish and went on to work at YouthBuild Just-A-Start, where he taught construction and employment skills to at-risk urban youth. He attended the University of Cambridge on a Gates Scholarship, where he obtained an MPhil in Educational Leadership and School Improvement. Ethan also has a passion for the outdoors, and recently spent a summer backpacking and rock climbing in the Wind River Mountains with the National Outdoor Leadership School. He now teaches in a charter network dedicated to social justice and racial equality, and plays his fiddle at every opportunity.

Hunter Henderson

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John Polit

Jon Polit is a Boston-area musician. He's playing in a number of bands in a variety of disciplines and continues to promote folk and improvisational music through his performances.

JP Jofre

JP Jofre, composer and bandoneonist. Native from San Juan, Argentina, “J.P.” Jofre is a award winning bandoneon player and composer. Mr Jofre has been repeatedly highlighted by the New York Times and praised as one of today’s leading artists by Great Performers at Lincoln Center. His music has been recorded by 17 Grammy Winner Paquito D’ Rivera and choreographed/performed by ballet star Herman Cornejo (Principal Dancer of the American Ballet Theatre) among others. A recipient of the National Prize of the Arts grant in Argentina, Mr. Jofre has taken his form of contemporary tango to some of the most important venues in Asia, Europe, America and the Caribbean as soloist and composer.

Liz Powers

Liz is a serial social entrepreneur. Her impact has been featured on the TODAY Show, New York Times, and CBS.

Marco Tempest

Marco Tempest is a cyber illusionist, combining magic and technology to produce astonishing illusions. He began his performing career as a stage magician and manipulator, winning many awards and establishing an international reputation as one of the world¹s most unique performers. His interest in computer generated imagery led him to incorporating video and digital technology in his work and the development of a new form of contemporary illusion. The expansion of the internet and social media provided more opportunities for digital illusions and ways of interacting with audiences and creating magically augmented realities. Marco is a keen advocate of the open source community, working with artists, writers and technologists to create new experiences and research the practical uses of the technology of illusion.

Max Feldstein-Nixon

Max Feldstein-Nixon lives in Brookline, Massachusetts and attends Brookline High School. An avid student, Max enjoys experiential learning as much as traditional classroom learning. A passion for new ideas and perspectives has led him on multiple adventures. IN 2015, Max spent a semester studying in Xi’an, China. While abroad, he met David Wang–the founder of Bamboo Bicycles Beijing and a BHS alumni. Intrigued by David’s bikes, Max quit his sport once back in Boston and dedicated himself to learning about bamboo bicycles. With no prior experience in engineering or business, Max threw himself into the process. Since then, he’s learned how to build his own bike, lead bike building workshops, write grants, and has helped create a community makerspace with other teens. Max is now focused on spreading bamboo bicycles around Boston and enjoying his final year of high school. While he does not know what the future holds for him, it is a good bet that there will be a bamboo bicycle involved.

Salva Dut

After Sudan’s civil war in 1985, many fled. Among those who fled through barren, war-torn southern desert were 17,000 children, mostly boys, some as young as five. They became known as “The Lost Boys of Sudan.” Salva Dut was one of those boys. As an 11-year old Dinka from southwest Sudan, Salva fled first to Ethiopia. Then later, as a teenager, he led 1,500 “Lost Boys” thousands of miles through the Southern Sudan desert to the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya. Only 1,000 survived.

Sebastian Lourido

Sebastian Lourido is a Whitehead Fellow and Parasitologist at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, MA.

Usman Riaz

Usman Riaz is the founder of Mano Animation Studios -- Pakistans first hand-drawn animation studio. Their first project, The Glassworker (شیشہ گر), was created by a team of creatives from Pakistan, Malaysia, Canada, South Africa, the US and the UK.