Through a focus on innovation, technology, and research in the understudied field of LGBTQ youth mental health, Paley has expanded the number of staff working to help this vulnerable group and quadrupled the number of youth in crisis the organization serves each month. Since 1998, the Trevor Project has worked to prevent suicide among young queer people via a hotline dedicated just to LGBTQ youth, Fortune notes.Īnd since 2017, when Amit Paley took the reins as CEO of the nonprofit, the organization has dramatically increased the number of young people receiving support. Lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth are more than four times as likely to consider suicide as their straight peers. The group has been filing lawsuits against colleges that bar right-wing speakers from campus.Ī recent lawsuit against the University of Florida, which repeatedly refused to use school funds to pay speaker fees for controversial Republicans, resulted in the university settling with conservative students for $66,000 and changing its free-speech rules.Īmit Paley, 39, CEO and Executive Director, The Trevor Project Kannappan and YAF are also exerting their influence on the legal system. They are bringing speakers to colleges and promoting messages of fiscal and social conservatism historically tied to President Ronald Reagan and William F. With a presence on more than 2,000 college and high school campuses, and nearly $100 million in assets, the group has been quietly funding and supporting campus Republican groups, it says. The Trevor Project led by Amit Paley, 39, has since 1998 worked to prevent suicide among young queer people via a hotline dedicated just to LGBTQ youth, Fortune notes.Īs COO of Investment Banking Division, Goldman Sachs, Akila Raman, 39, is at the heart of the action in a record year of dealmaking and mergers and acquisitions (M&A).Ĭlubhouse Cofounder Rohan Seth, 37, has been going nonstop since early 2020 with his social media startup that’s a cross between talk radio and a group chat, says Fortune.Īs director of the Center for Entrepreneurship & Free Enterprise at Young America’s Foundation, Raj Kannappan is responsible for promoting conservative free-market principles among college students around the US, according to Fortune. Of the four Indian Americans, Young America’s Foundation’s Raj Kannappan, 30, is responsible for promoting conservative free-market principles among college students around the US, according to Fortune. NEW YORK (TIP): Noting “it’s been a monumental year of change in everything from the way we work and travel to how we buy groceries and invest our savings,” the influential business magazine says this year’s list highlights those who “are paving the way for what comes next.”
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |