Technology for a Better World
Technology 4 a Better World
The entry period is now closed in the Technology for a Better World campaign. Our esteemed panel of judges is reviewing the submissions to select the five grand prize winners.
Check back on May 25th to meet the five grand prize winning youth that will travel to be recognized in Washington D.C. at the Jefferson Awards and spend a day at Youth Venture’s headquarters further developing their ventures.
Christine Webster Moore
Vice President, Strategy and Networking New Business Customer Solutions Group, Best Buy
Christine Webster Moore is a vice president on the New Business Customer Solutions Group for Best Buy Co. Before joining the New Business Team, Moore worked in the BestBuy.com team and as part of the Human Resources. She also worked on initiatives related to organizational design, succession planning, innovation development and change management. Prior to Best Buy, she was a consultant and managing director with RHR International. Moore earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Scripps College in Claremont, California, and she received her PhD in Organizational Psychology from Claremont Graduate University.
Lisa H. Neuberger-Fernandez
Director of Corporate Citizenship Programs, Accenture
Lisa Neuberger-Fernandez is Accenture’s Director of Corporate Citizenship Programs. She has worked in sustainability since 2007. First, she led a team of Accenture volunteers to win first place in the NetImpact Green Challenge competition. She subsequently became the company’s first US Eco Lead and a Sustainability Business Development lead. Prior to that, she spent ten years as a strategy consultant with Accenture. A thought leader, she co-authored ‘New Era of Sustainability: UN Global Compact-Accenture CEO Study 2010’ and was a founding fellow in Accenture’s Institute for Health & Public Service Value. She is active on several nonprofit advisory boards including Art Works for Change, the Fletcher School’s Development Committee, and Net Impact. Lisa has direct public sector experience from working at the White House, the U.S. Senate, and the OECD, and graduate degrees from Wharton Business School and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
Jane Kim
Senior Manager, SuccessFactors Foundation
Jane Kim is the Senior Manager of the SuccessFactors Foundation, the corporate philanthropy program at SuccessFactors, the global leader in Business Execution software with over 1000 employees worldwide. The SuccessFactors Foundation is committed to empowering future leaders around the world by bridging the gap between dreams and achievement. The SuccessFactors Foundation recognizes that today’s youth are the future leaders of tomorrow’s workforce. Prior to SuccessFactors, Jane was Vice President at Thoma Bravo, an investment firm focused on the software industry and a Senior Analyst in the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs. She holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA from Columbia University.
Mike McKay
Software Programmer for International Development, RTI International
Mike McKay likes to hack for social justice. Before figuring out how to actually do that, he worked for the bad guys in big and entertainment in Los Angeles and as a technology consultant for the British government. Mike then served as the Country Director for Baobab Health, a Malawi-based organization, where together with his team of Malawian programmers, they fought HIV in one of the poorest places on earth. Now Mike works at RTI International where he uses technology to improve the human condition all over the world. He received an engineering degree from UCLA.
Phil Shapiro
Educator and Technology Access Activist
Phil Shapiro has been working with technology and social change for the past 20 years. He has received several local and national recognitions for his work. He currently works as a Public Geek at the Takoma Park Maryland Library, is an Adjunct Professor of Education at American University, and blogs. Prior, He also develop educational software and worked as the Washington DC Regional Coordinator for the Community Technology Centers’ Network (CTCNet), a national nonprofit that supports community organizations that are expanding access to technology in underserved communities.
Alexander Lin
Youth Venturer, Project TGIF – Turn Grease Into Fuel
Alexander Lin began his work with social entrepreneurship at the age of 9, founding the Westerly Innovations Network to solve community problems. He and his team have worked on numerous projects spanning a range of issues from animal welfare to electronic waste. His main project, Project WIN ’05 – Recycle and Reuse our E-Waste, created a sustainable system for reusing and recycling electronic waste as well as passed a statewide law banning electronic waste dumping. He now coaches the Jr. WIN Team on Project TGIF – Turn Grease Into Fuel, which recycles and refines waste cooking oil into biodiesel fuel. Alexander is currently a freshman studying Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University and is heavily engaged in entrepreneurship, co-founding a startup with his fellow students.
The Technology for a Better World campaign, sponsored by Best Buy, demonstrates the ingenuity of young people in the United States to improve global sustainability through the use of technology.
Through the campaign, fifty teams of young innovators age 13 to 18 will receive a combination of advisory support, seed funding, fundraising tools, webinars, and networking opportunities to advance their team’s goals. Eligible teams will be contacted by Youth Venture to get started!
If you have any questions, please contact Spectra Myers at smyers@youthventure.org or call toll free 1-866-788-1628.
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