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Milton High School
13025 Birhmingham Hwy
Alpharetta, Georgia, 30005
United States

Bradley Moore

Bradley Moore is the Founder of Mastering The Mind Coaching which teaches Self-Care for men in order for them to protect provide and follow their purpose. He started this company after over a year as an Accountability Coach helping people reach their big dreams on the TEDx Stage. He is also the Founder of “Atreemovement” a non-profit with the goal of connecting people back to the natural world through education, conversation, and actions.

Divija Anand Kumar

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Ean Wood

Ean Wood is an author published in 3 different languages. As a professional snowboarder, he produced several documentary films that focused on creating less environmental impact. He has spent over 20 years practicing men’s personal work with an organization known as The Mankind Project. He is a life coach and is a certified speaker coach training people all over the world. His passion is to raise the quality of life for all living beings through action and education. For more information visit Eanwood.com

Heet Shah

Heet is a driven individual with a passion for public speaking, programming, and cybersecurity. Throughout his high school journey, he has demonstrated exceptional leadership skills and an unwavering dedication to academic excellence. As a State Programming Competition Winner, Heet has proven themselves to be a top-tier programmer, with an aptitude for solving complex problems and designing innovative solutions. He has a natural talent for coding and enjoys spending his free time honing his skills and exploring new technologies. In addition to his prowess in programming, Heet Shah is also the President of Milton Model United Nations, where he leads a team of talented individuals in developing diplomatic solutions to real-world problems. Through his leadership, Heet has fostered a sense of community and teamwork within the organization, helping to create an environment where everyone can contribute their unique skills and perspectives. Currently, Heet is interning at Solutionz Security as a Cybersecurity Intern, where he is learning about the latest threats and techniques in cybersecurity. This opportunity has allowed him to gain hands-on experience and practical skills that he will be able to apply in the future. Overall, Heet Shah is a talented and dedicated individual with a bright future ahead of him. His leadership skills, programming abilities, and commitment to the world of technology make him a stellar speaker for this event.

Kadhir Rajagopal

The son of immigrants from South India, Dr. Kadhir Raja, was once failing in middle school, until the right mentor and teacher set him on a path to success. This transformation led to a 20-year career as a teacher and principal, in continuation schools and juvenile halls from East Oakland to North Sacramento, CA. As a teacher, Dr. Raja uplifted thousands of students from a history of failure in algebra to success. His students’ stories of success were featured in the documentary, “Beating the Odds.” Dr. Raja’s instructional model, CREATE, was also captured in his book, Create Success: Unlocking the Potential of Urban Youth, published by ASCD. The CREATE pedagogy was shared through the book with over 100,000 educators across the world. Dr. Raja’s instructional approach was also highlighted as a solution to the dropout crisis in the award-winning documentary, “Pushouts,” featuring Dr. Victor Rios. As a result of his success and impact as an educator, Dr. Raja was named, out of 300,000 teachers, by the California Department of Education, (CDE) as 2011 California State Teacher of the Year. Currently, Dr. Raja is the President of Miracle University and is on a mission to end the dropout crisis in every city in America. To learn more about the Miracle University movement to end the dropout crisis please follow https://miracleuniversity.net/

Katherine Lizardo

Katherine comes from a humble background as an immigrant from the Philippines, with English as her second language. She was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult in the United States in 2002. After extensive experience managing her ADHD through therapy, medication, and treatment, she aims to reframe the global discourse about ADHD with compassion. Katherine is the founder of a mission-driven company called ADHD Life Simplified. Their mission: helping mothers worldwide embrace their ADHD by providing simplified information and coping strategies so they can navigate their neurodiversity in motherhood with compassion. ADHD Life Simplified has a free online community dedicated to helping ADHD mothers worldwide play up their strengths and support their efforts to compensate for their weaknesses. The ADHD Life Simplified community is the first of its kind, where people with ADHD co-create a community experience that suits their ADHD needs through connection, communication, and collaboration among members.

Mariah & Byron Edgington

Mariah Edgington retired from a career as Critical Care/ER/Flight Nurse. She is now a Best-Selling Author, TEDx speaker, Contributor: BizCatalyst 360° and Medium Digest. Mariah co-authors the Journey Well, You Are More Than Enough series. Byron Edgington retired from aviation, and is now a TEDx speaker, award-winning author, and featured contributor to BizCatalyst360 and Medium Digest. Byron is co-author with Mariah of the Journey Well, You Are More Than Enough series of uplifting, inspirational books.

Mary Fanaro

Mary Fanaro is the CEO & Founder of OmniPeace Foundation, an organization that builds primary schools and music schools to empower youth living in extreme poverty in Africa. She began her career working as an events producer in Hollywood but soon realized there was more to her story. This led to creating one of the first socially conscious fashion brands in retail called OmniPeace. Two weeks before the launch, Mary was diagnosed with ovarian cancer which changed the trajectory of her life forever. But that didn’t stop her from going on to build seven schools in Africa in Senegal, Mali, and Malawi. The next phase of OmniPeace was inspired by a Gorilla Trek in Rwanda which gave her the idea to build music schools as a tool to impact youth through music education. Today, Mary has built seven primary schools, two music schools, and has educated over 50,000 students.

Mary Ottman

With a nuclear physicist father and concert cellist mother, it’s no wonder Mary Ottman provides a refreshing perspective on leadership. During her time with the Army, Mary earned an MBA and MA in Leadership. She went on to forge a successful 27+ year career transforming from software engineer to successful executive leading multi-generational teams consisting of government, industry, and academia. Mary is a unique combination of a highly trained leader, a fearless adventurer who leaped off the top of a 108-story building, and a former associate director managing 150 rocket scientists! Today, Mary Ottman helps aspiring to mid-level managers become unstoppable high-performance leaders.

Mary Ottman

With a nuclear physicist father and concert cellist mother, it’s no wonder Mary Ottman provides a refreshing perspective on leadership. During her time with the Army, Mary earned an MBA and MA in Leadership. She went on to forge a successful 27+ year career transforming from software engineer to successful executive leading multi-generational teams consisting of government, industry, and academia. Mary is a unique combination of a highly trained leader, a fearless adventurer who leaped off the top of a 108-story building, and a former associate director managing 150 rocket scientists! Today, Mary Ottman helps aspiring to mid-level managers become unstoppable high-performance leaders.

Sara Garg

Sara Garg is a poet, scientist, researcher, programmer, and, above all, someone who loves to learn. She plans to pursue Computational Biology as a college freshman next year and has already written numerous research papers exploring major global problems with interdisciplinary perspectives (including Medical Machine Bias, Dementia Risk Analysis, Social Determinants of Health Theory). She is the co-founder and president of youth nonprofit, Sync Poetry. Sara’s poetry book, Elements, will be released in the Summer of 2023 by Kallisto Gaia Press. She has also been honored as a Young Woman of Distinction in the Greater Atlanta Area for her Girl Scouts Gold Award focusing on bettering youth mental health.

Tanish Karnala

Tanish is passionate about STEM and community service. In hopes of applying his STEM skills to meaningful projects that will positively impact the world, Tanish developed an autonomous drone that uses neural networks to identify and respond to wildfires. Through Debate and Model UN, he's learned about the importance of public speaking and sharing your ideas with the world. Tanish hopes to solve other issues and conduct research using the extraordinary power of Artificial Intelligence.

Tanja Diamond

Tanja Diamond is an autistic polymath Maverick, a Business and Life Strategist. She is a five-time #1 international best-selling author, international speaker, Ghostwriter, Thought-Leader Certified Speaker coach, and animal rescuer.

Yousuf Mirza

I am Yousuf Mirza, a junior at Milton High School who has been involved in the community in terms of Islamic relations since I gained interest in the humanities and political science. With the help of more than 100 students, and more than 1800 supporters across Georgia, I have been able to take a hold on our electoral process and inform our neighborhoods about them through my project and non-profit, GEEO. My next goal is using that platform to reach to my Muslim community which has faced hardship and political discrimination since 9/11. As an upcoming leader in my community, it is my responsibility to make known the issues my community faces, and how I am dealing with the issue. Muslims need a voice in our community and my goal is to be one of the first voices for them.