Badruun Gardi

Badruun Gardi is a social innovator, creative strategist, and educator from Mongolia. He is co-founder of the New Nomad Institute, a research and action institute that aims to uncover the enduring knowledge of nomadic societies and apply those learnings towards addressing the climate crisis, particularly in the areas of climate migration and adaptation. Badruun is also co-founder of GerHub, a nonprofit social innovation firm that develops creative solutions to the challenges caused by rapid urbanization in Mongolia. A lifelong fan of film and the performing arts, Badruun was previously creative executive at Salmira Productions. He is a member of the Climate Migration Council and was selected as a 2022 Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and a 2023 Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Badruun holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and communication from Stanford University.

Mike Taubman

Mike is a lifelong educator working at the intersection of AI literacy, career-connected learning, and moral inquiry. As a teacher, instructional leader, and program director at Uncommon Schools, Mike helped lead Uncommon’s network-wide instructional AI strategy to support 20,000 students and 2,000 teachers across 52 schools. During his time as English department chair at Uncommon Schools, Mike also spent a decade as an adjunct professor at Relay Graduate School of Education, training new English teachers from a variety of charter and district schools in New York City and Newark. As a Stanford Digital Education Fellow, he helped develop AI literacy curriculum for high school students. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and leading education texts.

Viria Vichit-Vadakan

Viria Vichit-Vadakan is a co-founder of GSSE: Bachelor of Arts in Global Studies and Social Entrepreneurship, School of Global Studies, Thammasat University and SOL: School of Leadership. SOL develops the next generation of impact leaders through a values-based curriculum designed to cultivate the critical character traits required to address complex social and environmental challenges, delivering leadership training for organizations including the Obama Foundation’s Girls’ Opportunity Network and the New York-based Youth Climate Justice Fund. Prior to SOL, Viria founded a four-year Bachelor of Arts program in Global Studies and Social Entrepreneurship at Thammasat University’s School of Global Studies, graduating close to 500 young changemakers across Southeast Asia, and established a JP Morgan Chase-backed Social Innovation Lab that helped 25 social enterprise organizations scale their impact. She serves as an Advisor to the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI) and co-leads an Educational Action Lab focused on AI, partnering with government schools to equip teachers and students with AI-powered tools that strengthen reading literacy, critical thinking, and a growth mindset.

Greg Watkins

Greg is the former Associate Director of the program in Structured Liberal Education at Stanford University, a year-long, residence-based course in the humanities that focuses on important texts from the Western tradition. He holds PhDs in both Religious Studies and the Humanities from Stanford University. Greg is also the Chief Creative Officer for the educational website, myShakespeare.com. A former filmmaker, Greg has had two feature-film projects premier at Sundance Film Festival and one that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. He is the editor of Teaching Religion and Film, from the Teaching Religious Studies series at Oxford University Press.

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Egshiglen Chuluunhuu

Egshiglen Chuluunhuu is a Program Curator at the New Nomad Institute in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. She is an environmental scientist and cultural researcher. Since graduating from Harvard University, she has worked as an independent environmental consultant for local sustainability initiatives. She also has experience teaching the Shareable World educational curriculum at a high school in Ulaanbaatar.

Jamie Litton

Jamie Litton is an instructional designer and equity specialist at myShakespeare.com, and has served as a course coordinator and instructor for the Shareable World educational curriculum. Jamie has an MA in Social Justice Education, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Philosophy and Religion in the Women’s Spirituality program at California Institute of Integral Studies.

Jessica Robles

Jessica Robles will be graduating from the University of California at Santa Barbara this spring with a major in Philosophy that focuses on Ethics and Public Policy. Jessica has been both a student and a teaching assistant in the Shareable World educational program. She’s looking forward to starting her own career in education after graduation.

Sally Treanor

Sally Treanor is a graduate from Stanford University, with a Masters degree in Creative Writing from the University of Texas, Austin. She is the Chief Content Officer for the educational website, myShakespeare.com. A former high school teacher, Sally has served as an instructor for the Shareable World educational curriculum.