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Inquisitive and Idealistic: Gwendolyn Lee, Co-Founder of Students vs. Pandemics, on the Power of Students and Interdisciplinary Innovation

Gwendolyn Lee, co-founder of Students vs Pandemics, discusses with Summer Journalism Fellow Millie Muroi her vision of bringing people with different perspectives together to tackle COVID-19 through innovative solutions, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and student leadership. Lee also shares her insights on the road ahead for healthcare, policy, and business in the coming decade and how students can actively contribute beyond the academic sphere through civic engagement and public service.

A New Vision of Water Quality with H2Ok Innovations, the Winners of the 2019 Impact Challenge

In the environmental industry, it is extremely difficult to strike a balance between product efficiency and market viability; improvements on one end often require a sacrifice on the other. However, a team of students from Harvard and Brown have successfully transcended this stereotype with their startup H2Ok Innovations, which offers a host of technologies that perform a nearly instantaneous analysis of organic and chemical contaminants in water samples. Their fusion of data analytics with consumer accessibility has already led them to garner several accolades.

Marissa Alden in Creating Sawyer as a Modern Approach to Parenting

Marissa Evans Alden is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and founder with more than a decade of experience in startups. She currently serves as CEO and Co-Founder of Sawyer, which connects children, parents, and providers of the best enriching childhood experiences through a suite of industry-leading technology solutions with a goal to ensure every child has the opportunity to discover their own love of learning.

Worlds Collide: Silicon Valley vs Capitol Hill

With Silicon Valley continually innovating, playing with big data and artificial intelligence, the plausibility of another Cambridge Analytica breach is likely. Despite this threat, Washington DC cannot be farther away, both in geography and understanding, of novel technology developments.