Shameca Brown
Health OK, United States
Shameca K. Brown is a dynamic, faith-driven public administrator and mental health activist who is dedicated to innovating systems of hope and change to create…
Edward Mabaya
Food Security Zimbabwe
Dr. Edward Mabaya is the sixth of 10 children born to a Zimbabwean smallholder family who scraped by growing maize, cabbages, potatoes and yams mainly…
Yetnayet Asfaw Demessie
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Ethiopia
A physician by training, Asfaw has dedicated her professional and personal life to advancing the cause of girls and women for the past 18 years. …
Renard Siew
Environment Malaysia
Renard Siew is an environmental activist and climate leader in ASEAN working with marginalized and displaced communities. He currently acts as climate change adviser to…
Jeffrey Misomali
Food Security Malawi
Jeffrey Misomali spent his youth in the shadow of Africa’s AIDS epidemic, and now he is helping to mount Africa’s counter-attack. A citizen of Malawi,…
Wendo Aszed
Education, Gender Kenya
Wendo is the founder and Executive Director of Dandelion Africa, a grass-roots organization based in Mogotio, Kenya, which focuses on women’s health economic empowerment. A…
Chauntel Norris
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights AL, United States
Chauntel Norris is a DONA trained birth doula, Lamaze trained childbirth educator and a Certified Lactation Counselor. She serves as the Manager of Advocacy, Forward…
Tijani Salami
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Nigeria
Tijani Salami is a physician who has spent more than a decade working on the advancement of sexual and reproductive health and rights in Nigeria…
James Kassaga Arinaitwe
Education Uganda
At a young age, Arinaitwe lost his parents and four siblings to infectious diseases, which included HIV/AIDS in rural western Uganda. As an “AIDS orphan”…
Dr. Christopher McNeil
Economic Empowerment & Entrepreneurship, Health OK, United States
Dr. Chris McNeil, Founder of Youth Medical Mentorship, is an Emergency Medicine Physician and School Board Member who is creating pathways to medical education for BIPOC…
Usman Ali Lawan
Food Security Nigeria
Growing up in the rural town of Kura in northern Nigeria, Usman says he was painfully aware of the difficulties that subsistence farmers, like his…
Naadiya Moosajee
Gender South Africa
Naadiya is a serial entrepreneur by passion, an engineer by training, is Co-Founder at WomHub, a unique ecosystem builder supporting innovation along the STEM value…
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The Aspen Global Innovators Group supports two flagship fellowship programs. These fellowships enable leaders to amplify their voices, visibility and impact. Leaders bring expertise from all sectors and include entrepreneurs, community organizers and local experts who are both proximate to the greatest health and development challenges of our time and also bring lived and learned experience to their solutions.