Ari Alexander
Some have called Ari Alexander an idealist, a dreamer and an optimist. Others believe him naïve and irrational. However you describe the activist and his mission to facilitate dialogue between the Muslim and Jewish youth, Alexander’s organization, Children of
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Harris Beber
Harris Beber’s entrepreneurial instincts developed while hustling lemonade on the streets of his hometown in Long Island as a tyke. Soon enough, he was hustling corporate clients as a salesman for 1-800-Flowers and founding Giftback.com, a company that gives
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Molly Crabapple
Molly Crabapple’s award-winning illustrations capture both burlesque and Victorian influences. In 2005, she channeled her passion into an artists’ club, Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School. The school is a both a burlesque café and a life-drawing class. Dr.
Jeff Kaplan
The green gravy train is getting longer and Jeff Kaplan wants on. Kaplan, a 29-year-old Houston real estate broker with a penchant for cleaning up the environment, recently opened a “green general store,” which he dubbed New Living. The store sells
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David Karp
Impatient with the dearth of short-form blogging platforms, David Karp decided to make his own. Enter Tumblr, the ultraeasy blogger’s tool that encourages users to be as succinct or as thorough as they like. Unlike some other web innovators, Karp cares more
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Melanie Notkin
Thanks to Melanie Notkin, women can have it all: the joy of children without the excruciating pain of childbirth. Notkin—an online guru who cut her teeth as a beauty editor and executive for Fortune 500 companies—is the brains behind SavvyAuntie.com, a site
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Lauren Reskin
To say Lauren Reskin wears many hats would be a gross understatement. The 26-year-old Miami native is a DJ/club promoter/writer/graphic designer/event coordinator and was recently appointed to the city’s Council of Arts & Entertainment by the mayor. And those
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Tammy Smulders
In 2002, Tammy Smulders co-founded the British branding firm SCB Partners. She serves as managing director and is one of the leaders in influencer marketing. Through trend planning and brand strategy, SCB’s stable of clients—which includes Burger King,
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Adam Werbach
Adam Werbach is famous for a lot: He was the youngest and first Jewish president ever elected to the Sierra Club (he was 23), in 2004 he wrote a speech about the death of environmentalism that people still argue about, and he became the pariah of the ecomovement
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Nate Westheimer
If unraveling the concept of a next generation wiki platform is a struggle for you, Nate Westheimer will bring you up to speed. An Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Rose Tech Ventures in New York City, Westheimer has come a long way from his first business venture in
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