Leah Pearlman

Leah Pearlman

Leah Pearlman is the creator and founder of Dharma Comics, a popular web comic series with a rapidly growing online audience of more than 50,000 followers. She started her career as a technologist, working for Microsoft and then Facebook, where she co-created both...
Star Simpson

Star Simpson

Star Simpson builds “hardware with soul”. Currently working on sky machines at SF R&D lab Otherlab, she previously founded PLIBMTTBHGATY series of coding events and is the mind behind the TacoCopter (the original drone delivery concept). Star most...
Amanda Szabo

Amanda Szabo

Amanda Szabo has spent the last six years researching how people organize ourselves into economies. As a PhD candidate in Communication at University of Colorado Boulder she’s seen how social norms, communication, and relationships in different industries,...
Otis Taylor

Otis Taylor

Blues singer/composer/multi-instrumentalist Otis Taylor is capable of exploring any musical mood at any given time, and it’s an important reason why he is considered one of the most talented artists to emerge in recent years.
Mara King

Mara King

Originally from Hong Kong, Mara spent her formative years riding double decker buses, eating fish ball noodle soup and hiking the Maclehose Trail. After a few years of travel and discovery Mara settled on CU Boulder and has lived in Boulder ever since. After finishing...
Ahmed Abukhater

Ahmed Abukhater

A native Palestinian, born and raised in Rafah, the Gaza Strip, Dr. Ahmed Abukhater is an award-winning author, business executive, and record-setting athlete. Ahmed Abukhater grew up in a world of environmental inequity. Raised during the Palestinian Intifada...