Winners – 2025
Our winners are an extraordinary group of leaders, visionaries, and activists on a mission to solve some of the world’s most critical challenges — at a time in our history when it’s never been needed more.
The prize: $300,000 funding, expert tools, and support to take their world-changing work to the next level — and inspire others to take action.
Learn more about our winners, and join us in championing and supporting their work, and amplifying their impact.
Meet our 2025 Elevate Prize Winners!
Lisa Hunter Romanelli, Ph.D.
The REACH Institute Resource for Advancing Children’s Health
The REACH Institute is dedicated to ensuring that the most effective, scientifically proven mental health care reaches all children and families.
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David Flink
The Neurodiversity Alliance
The Neurodiversity Alliance’s mission is to improve the educational experience and outcomes of students who learn differently, while growing the neurodiversity movement for a more equitable and inclusive society for all.
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Sean Sherman
North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems
The mission of NᾹTIFS is to promote Indigenous foodways education and facilitate Indigenous food access.
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Yordanos Eyoel
Keseb
Keseb is building an ecosystem for cross-country learning, collaboration, and innovation to counter authoritarianism and advance inclusive and resilient democracies.
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Michèle Traoré
Kabakoo – La maison de l’Etonnement
Kabakoo’s mission is to enable West African youth to flourish with mindset and skills
for self-employment through community-driven, AI-powered upskilling.
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Bing Chen
Gold House Foundation
Gold House is a cultural ecosystem that unites, invests in, and champions Asian Pacific leaders to power tomorrow for all.
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Fre Tachea
Essential Impact
Essential Impact, which creates breakthrough innovations in fermentation to generate low-cost, high-quality, climate resilient proteins that tackle malnutrition and build climate-resilient food systems.
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Richard Casper
CreatiVets
CreatiVets empowers wounded veterans to heal through the arts and music.
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Imran Ahmed
Center for Countering Digital Hate
The Center for Countering Digital Hate delivers change by exposing hate and disinformation producers, galvanizing support from the public and advertisers for tech reform, shaping informed debates, and driving policy changes, and collaborating with civil society leaders for social media reform.
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Hannah Fried
All Voting is Local
All Voting is Local is a 501(c)(3) nonpartisan, multistate, on the ground voting rights organization that fights against state and local voting policies that silence voters of color and other historically marginalized communities — not just in election years, but every year.
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