Stories from Ashoka Fellows and Entrepreneurs

Jane Goodall shares her story on how she developed a passion for nature, and how this passion eventually led her to becoming an instrumental contributor to both the science and wildlife conservation activist communities.

As a serial social entrepreneur in poverty alleviation and mindset shift, Runa is constantly pioneering new ways of learning, working, and living together. Runa's journey starts with her upbringing and the influential role of her parents in cultivating a lifelong philosophy for social transformation...

Achraf Aouadi, a leading social entrepreneur fighting against corruption, has been guided by a constant commitment to experimentation, failure, and inclusion. His journey to changemaking began when he was in his teens, discovering innovative ways to change his school culture for the better.

Through finding her own power to create change at a young age, Nazma is redefining success for women across Bangladesh.

Durukan’s journey to discovering how people live in balance with nature through regenerative agriculture began in his teens when he began to mobilize his peers to build an eco-community. These early experiences while young were prescient to Durukan’s career as a leading social entrepreneur.

Starting in grade school, Ioana found her voice for standing up and speaking out for girls and women to live lives with dignity, choice, and power.

The story of how Ali Khan took an unexpecting job that led him on a journey to transforming the way children and young people grow up with a changemaking mindset across Pakistan.

Ashoka turned to Ashoka Fellows Gonzalo Muñoz and Ximena Abogabir to understand what it takes to raise a family of changemakers.

Sixto Cancel is redesigning foster care by putting young people's voices and choices at the center.

At the age of 17, Gino Tubaro received a letter from a desperate mother. “Please make my boy, Felipe, a hand,” it said. “We cannot afford a prosthetic.” Gino had been inventing things since the age of 13. His own mother had taken him to science fairs and invention workshops, pushing him to follow...

Jeroo, une entrepreneure sociale connue pour être à l'origine d'immenses coalitions mondiales, a fait ses débuts à Bombay, en travaillant avec les enfants des rues. Elle leur donnait sonnuméro de téléphone, en cas d'urgence. Il se mit bientôt à sonner toutes les nuits. De cette bienveillance, et...

S’il y a bien quelqu’un qui comprend la profonde transformation sociétale que nous vivons actuellement, c’est Robin Chase (référez-vous à son livre admiré, Peers Inc.). Elle la voit non seulement très bien, mais elle met également en place sa nouvelle architecture à l’aide d’un enchaînement de coups...

Anshul Tewari was dismayed that cultural taboos are producing “a culture of silence that is pushing an entire generation away from changemaking.”

Alors qu'il n'était âgé que de 6 ans, Eli Beer et son frère assistèrent à l'explosion d'un bus dans Jérusalem en revenant de l'école. Eli entendit quelqu'un appeler au secours au milieu du chaos, mais il ne savait pas quoi faire et s'enfuit en courant. Cette expérience changea sa vie à jamais. Le...

Lorsque Dario Riccobono atteint l'âge de 13 ans, son petit village natal de Capaci en Sicile, en Italie fit soudainement la Une des journaux internationaux. Une explosion massive orchestrée par la mafia fit exploser toute une section d'une route à proximité et avec elle le fameux procureur anti...

La corruption a longtemps été un sujet tabou. Les pots de vin dans certains pays étaient déductibles d'impôt. Cet état d'esprit a changé lorsque Peter a constaté les dégâts incalculables que cela créait, en particulier dans ses premiers travaux de développement de Transparency International...

Temple Grandin, diagnostiqué autiste quand elle était petite, a révolutionné l'industrie de l'élevage. En s'imaginant elle-même à la place du bétail, elle développa une série de modèles d'équipements et un simple système de classement qui permit à l'industrie d'adopter de nouvelles pratiques...

Kevin spent his adolescence in an institution. Upon graduation, he realized that his experience could be useful to others. Together with his peers at Guía Egreso, a group of youth which arose from Doncel NGO, Kevin is transforming the lives of 15,000 young people from Argentina who, just like him...

As a new graduate from veterinary school, Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka invented her first job

Forming global communities to protect the environment.