Director of Jusoor, an international nonprofit organization working to help Syria through education. Winner of the Academic Freedom Award, Jusoor focuses on higher education, remedial education for children, and entrepreneurship training. Previously, Maya ran Al Makan Art Association, a cultural nonprofit in Syria, co-founded and led the United World Colleges' (UWC) scholarship program for Syrian adolescents, and directed admissions at UWC-USA. She also consulted and taught in the areas of NGO capacity building and youth engagement, including for Maastricht School of Management and UNRWA. Maya has an MSc in Education from Indiana University Bloomington and a BA in Political Science from Damascus University. Recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship and author of several books and articles on cultural heritage, her research on arts-based youth empowerment received the U.S. Society for Education Through Art Master's Thesis Award.

CEO & Chief Innovation Officer of Womensphere which she founded in 2007, and Chair & CEO of the Womensphere Foundation. She leads the Womensphere Innovation Lab and New Champions Womensphere Incubator Network. 

Analisa has been recognized as a UBS Global Visionary and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader where she is founder and global co-chair of the YGL impact initiative New Champions 5050 and the New Champions Womensphere Incubator Network. She serves as a Commissioner of the Women's Refugee Commission, Advisory Board Member of Music Beyond, and Member of the Women's Forum New York.

As the head of the Womensphere Innovation Lab, Analisa is also the creator and curator of the Womensphere Global Codefest, Global Artfest, Global Videofest, and the online Global Leadership Academy focused on empowering women and girls on using leadership, entrepreneurship, innovation, policy, and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts & design, mathematics) for the Sustainable Development Goals.

Cheryl Pahaham works in the New York State Comptroller's Office, where she has performed as a fiscal monitor and an audit planner. Cheryl is also active in local electoral politics in Northern Manhattan, where she served on the local community board, ran for a New York City Council seat, and assisted candidates in other election campaigns. Cheryl earned a doctorate in sociology from the New School, which is where she met her husband and UWC alum Robin Le Baron.

Tamara Morgan works as the Community Partnership Coordinator at the Adaptive Design Association. She previously worked as creative art therapist with at risk teens. She is a graduate of NYU’s Steinhardt School for Art Therapy. Diagnosed at birth with osteogenesis imperfecta, a condition that makes her bones abnormally fragile, Tamara is an avid advocate of diversity, adaptations and the psychosocial well-being of all people.

Carolyn Feenaghty works as a Special Education teacher for the NYC DOE for children with severe to multiple disabilities and provides education services for children with visual impairments and blindness. She is a believer in all students abilities and she embraces the power of diversity in her classroom each day through her teaching techniques. Carolyn is a volunteer at the Adaptive Design Association, Inc. a local non-for-profit that provides custom adaptations, educational, pre-vocation services for individuals with disabilities. She facilitates portions of custom adaptation building with her students in her classroom throughout the school year.

Abigail Hess has been practicing, performing, and teaching improv comedy for over a decade. She performs at the Upright Citizens Brigade and with the "All Tens" at the People's Improv Theater. You catch her next show September 27th at 6pm at the People's Improve Theater (123 E 24th Street).