If you were to change the world, which five people would you pick?

Bunmi is a Senior Director at Ashoka and leads strategic institutional partnerships in North America with universities, government, unions and the media, towards a movement that creates an enabling environment for young people to feel, act and thrive as changemakers. Globally, he leads knowledge production for peer networks for movement building.

Bunmi co-founded Generation Enterprise, then Africa’s largest network of business incubators for marginalized youth, and served as a research scholar at Princeton University’s Innovations for Successful Societies covering political economy, firm incentives and innovation (future-of-work) for low-income countries.

Prior to his entrepreneurial pursuits, Bunmi was a management consultant advising Africa’s largest companies in manufacturing, telecoms and banking across Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and South Africa. He holds degrees in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Public Policy from Baylor University and Princeton University.

Bunmi lives in Washington, DC practicing Shudokan karate, browsing vinyl records or enjoying nature.

Dani Matielo has been working in the field of technology and social change for more than 20 years – having coded, led and co-founded several initiatives that leverage the potential and reach of the internet to increase access to knowledge, social capital and civic participation.

She was the leader of the Acessa São Paulo digital inclusion program, at São Paulo University‘s School of the Future lab, which had more than 600 internet points that served more than 1M users. She was also a co-founder of Repórter Brasil, with Ashoka Fellow Leonardo Sakamoto, and RedeHumanizasus, the largest online network of users of the public health system in Brazil.

At Ashoka since 2011, she leads the Changemakers.com program, which leverages open social innovation and online learning to illuminate and inspire changemakers from all around the world.

She has a BA in Journalism and was a PhD candidate at the IN3 - Internet Interdisciplinary Institute, of the Universitat Oberta da Catalunya, Spain.

Tia has been at Ashoka for almost two decades. She is the Executive Director of Youth Years US where she is working towards creating an “everyone a changemaker world”- a world in which we all feel powerful enough to create change day to day.

Grounded in early experience in the Middle East, Tia has pioneered the expansion of programs in twenty countries including creation of franchise and licensing models. Innovative strategies spark youth to develop skills in the area of problem solving, team building, and entrepreneurial skill sets, creating the workforce and life skills required for the rapidly changing world.

Core to her work has been partnership development and management including companies such as Starbucks, Adobe, Nike and T-Mobile along with public organizations ranging from teachers unions to university campuses.

Teresa is trained in Human-Centered Design and Social Entrepreneurship, with a global work experience in social innovation over 13 years.

She founded a social and ethical brand in 2011, working with artisans isolated from markets, fusing their work with design and mapping traditional crafts, connecting bridges between isolated rural areas in Portugal with urban areas. She is an expert in designing programs for impact, has worked with social entrepreneurs in America, Africa and Europe.

Currently she is the Associate Director of the Experience Design team within Ashoka Changemakers, where she focuses on engagement journeys design for impact and program design.

Charline Prazen Chikomo is a passionate educator on a mission to transform education and leadership in Africa by raising a generation of highly impactful leaders and bridging the gap between schools and communities. Before joining Ashoka and at the age of 17, Charline founded DUCE Leadership Initiative, shifting education from mere certificates to skill development, producing job seekers to job creators, and most importantly, leading conversations and debates around reimagining education to meet the demands of our fast and ever-changing communities and the world at large. The organization has expanded to other African countries, including Rwanda, Zambia, and Mozambique, with approximately 5000 members.

Charline Prazen Chikomo is one of the 100 changemakers selected across Africa for the fully funded Nelson Mandela Centennial Scholarship to study and continue working on their missions to solve Africa's most pressing challenges. He graduated from the African Leadership University with a First Class Degree in Global Challenges with a multi-disciplinary mission in education, governance, and economics, "bridging the gap between education and economic development in developing nations ." Charline served as a member of parliament in the Zimbabwean Junior parliament. He has also won several awards, namely the Africa Opportunities Award, UNPGC Excellence in Leadership and Sustainability Ambassadorship Award.