Team 4 Columns
Team
Jill Boyd Myers
Founder
Sameer Ahmad,
CTO
Faiza Ashar
Writer
1st Gen Student, Stanford University
PBS Student News Fellow
Katie Powell
Writer
Virginia Tech Class of 2027 & Former State of VA FFA Officer
Akilah Lewis
Writer
Hamdon University
Juno Le, Writer
Mariyah Williams, Writer
Orion Boone, Writer
Ingrid Ramos-Aranda
Mindy Patterson Antonio, Advisor & Future Chief Mom Officer
Andrew Jimenez, Student Advisor
Advisors
We’re grateful for the support and guidance provided by these incredible experts since 2020:
Founder of Shiso & Former Policy & Patents, Google & Pinterest
Oxford University (Truman Scholar)
Breanna Kalmeta, PhD, Founder of B3 Wellness
PhD in Neurobiology & Neurosciences at Duke University
2024 Coach of the Year, Positive Coaching Alliance
Head Coach at Clark College & Doctoral Candidate at the University of Texas at Austin
Academic Director, Teachers College at Columbia University
Counseling Psychologist
PhD, MFA, Master of Applied Positive Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
VP of Cooperative Strategies, Coastal Credit Union
Former Executive Director, Cooperative Council of NC
Trial Attorney
B.S., Wake Forest University; J.D., Case Western Reserve University
Professor, University of Texas at Austin
Knight Foundation Chair & Excellence in Teaching Award, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digital Research Analyst, Hate & Extremism
Institute for Strategic Dialogue
Relationship Manager, Saint Martin De Porres High School
Mom of Four Amazing Kids Including a U.S. Navy Sailor
Program Manager, North Carolina Community Action Association
Former Assistant Executive Director, National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) - North Carolina
Director of Special Projects, CaLMatters
Former Director of Product, The Markup (Tech Accountability Non-Profit Journalism)
B.S., Computer Science, Rochester Institute of Technology
Chief Strategy & Development Officer, Flourish Agenda
MSW, University of Albany CUNY
Former Director of Sales Engineering & Data Product Manager, Turntide Technologies
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Retired, Human Resources Professional (23 Years)
Saegertown High School (1968)