Theresa is one of Atlanta's best known performance poets, capable of articulating the intangible expressions of the world with a stenorian clarity. She has gone on to forge an impressive career as a solo performer and is the 2011 Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion.
Gokul is a classical South Indian violinist. He has performed for All-India Radio, the prestigious Madras Music Academy, and in numerous concerts across the US and India. He's currently pursuing his PhD in Electrical Engineering at Georgia Tech.
Travis is currently VP of External Affairs at TOHL (Tubing Operations for Humanitarian Logistics), a startup aiming to provide innovative fluid transport infrastructure solutions for a variety of industrial and humanitarian applications. Travis is also currently a Graduate student at the Enterprise Innovation Institute in the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Todd is a young leader aiming to help define the new burgeoning field of "stem cell engineering" via a combination of research, education and policy efforts. His scholarly activities have won him the title of the 2010 Young Investigator Award from the Society for Biomaterials. He is currently the Director of the Stem Cell Engineering Center at Georgia Tech.
Luma is first and foremost a coach and mentor. But she's also the founder and director of Fugees Family, Inc., a non-profit devoted to working with child survivors of war through the structure provided by organized soccer. Her soccer team, the Fugees, was the subject of the national bestseller, Outcasts United.
Sanjay is a technologist and proponent of the Atlanta startup scene. He was the founder and CEO of Digital Envoy, recognized as a Technology Pioneer with the World Economic Forum in 2002 and 2003, and named in 2004 as an Outstanding Young Atlantan. Currently, he's the organizer of the national Startup Riot conferences.
Jeff Spence, President and COO of Innovolt, has years of experience in executive and corporate development roles, growing worldwide companies in energy, finance, telecommunications, and technology sectors.
Hammad graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in chemistry and is currently a third year medical student at Georgia Health Sciences University. He was in an automobile accident on May 23, 2009 that caused, among other things: a traumatic brain injury, a C5 brachial plexus injury, and a T3 complete spinal cord injury - none of which has held him back.