Elena Barbieri

Elena Barbieri

Elena Barbieri  Elena Barbieri earned the Toffler Scholar Award in 2023 at Northwestern University Biography Elena Barbieri was born in Milan, Italy, and grew up in a small town just outside the city. Dr. Barbieri’s parents encouraged her to pursue her education, and she was the first person in her extended family to go to…

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Andrew Holbrook

Andrew Holbrook

Andrew Holbrook  Andrew Holbrook earned the Toffler Scholar Award in 2023 at UCLA Biography Andrew Holbrook grew up in Orange County, California, with an older brother and a younger sister. From early childhood through his teenage years and beyond, he’s always been an intensely curious person. He loved all the subjects he studied at school,…

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Calina Glynn

Calina Glynn

Calina Glynn  Calina Glynn earned the Toffler Scholar Award in 2023 at Harvard Biography Calina Glynn grew up in a small town in Connecticut as the oldest of three children. Dr. Glynn’s father is an engineer, and her mother is a librarian. The two passed their love of learning and knowledge to Dr. Glynn and…

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Jeremias Sulam

Dr. Jeremias Sulam

DR. JEREMIAS SULAM  Jeremias Sulam earned the Toffler Scholar Award in 2022 at Johns Hopkins University Biography Medicine and engineering run in Dr. Jeremias Sulam’s family. His mother is a physician, his father is a civil engineer, and his younger brother a mechanical engineer. In his early years, Dr. Sulam liked hearing about his mother’s…

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Katie Irwin

KATIE IRWIN  Katie Irwin earned the Toffler Scholar Award in 2022 at Johns Hopkins University Biography Katie Irwin grew up 30 minutes outside of Atlanta, Georgia, in a place called Berkeley Lake, and graduated from Greater Atlanta Christian School. She has one brother, Andy, who is almost three years her senior. Irwin’s mother earned a…

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Douglas Storace

Douglas Storace

DR. DOUGLAS STORACE Doug Storace earned the Toffler Scholar Award in 2022 at Florida State University Biography Dr. Douglas Storace didn’t think he was particularly curious as a child. He grew up in Connecticut in what he describes as an average family. He developed an interest in music and studied piano with a classically trained…

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Roch Nianogo

Roch Nianogo

Roch Nianogo  Roch Nianogo earned the Toffler Scholar Award in 2022 at UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health Biography The middle child of three boys, Dr. Roch Nianogo grew up in Ouagadougou (pronounced “Wagadugu”), which is the capital and largest city of Burkina Faso, a country in West Africa. Dr. Nianogo’s father, who is a…

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Elisa Canepa

Elisa Canepa

DR. ELISA CANEPA Elisa Canepa earned the Toffler Scholar Award in 2022 at Temple University Biography Elisa Canepa was born and grew up in Genoa, Italy, a city on the Ligurian Sea. At the age of six, she discovered that she loved playing volleyball. Her passion for the sport carried well into her early adulthood,…

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Julia TCW

Julia TCW  Julia TCW earned the Toffler Scholar Award in 2022 at Boston University Biography Julia TCW was born in South Korea but spent her early childhood in Rockville, Maryland. Dr. TCW’s early interest in science and biology was inspired by her grandfather, who helped raise her. A microbiologist and visiting professor at Duke University,…

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Sudeshna Das

Sudeshna Das

DR. SUDESHNA DAS  Dr. Sudeshna Das received funding from the Karen Toffler Charitable Trust in 2022 at Harvard Biography Dr. Sudeshna Das grew up in India. Her mother was an elementary school teacher, and her father was an engineer. She and her sister spent their childhood in various cities throughout India and Nigeria because of…

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