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Jie Chen
Jie Chen, PHD Jie Chen earned the Toffler Scholar Award in 2023 at Florida State University. FIND ME ON Biography Jie Chen is from a small village in central China with only a few hundred people. He was a curious child, always asking questions about how things work and why things are the way they…
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Ashley Carey, PHD Ashley Carey earned the Toffler Scholar Award in 2023 at Temple University FIND ME ON Biography Ashley Carey was born in northern New Jersey and lived there until third grade, when she and her family relocated to Monroe, a large suburban town in the central part of the state. The oldest of…
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Ted Zwang, PHD Ted Zwang earned the Toffler Scholar Award in 2025 and 2023 at Harvard FIND ME ON Biography Ted Zwang was born in Danbury, Connecticut, where he and his family lived for three years before they relocated to Houston, Texas. When Dr. Zwang was in middle school, the family moved once more —…
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Xiping Zhan, PHD Xiping Zhan earned the Toffler Scholar Award in 2023 and 2022 at Howard University FIND ME ON Biography Xiping Zhan was born in Central China near the longest river in China, Chang Jiang (Yangtze River). One of three children, he has two sisters who remain in China today. Growing up near a…
Read MoreJean-Pierre Roussarie
Jean-Pierre Roussarie, PHD Jean-Pierre Roussarie earned the Toffler Scholar Award in 2023 at Boston University FIND ME ON Biography When Jean-Pierre Roussarie was born, his father was studying particle physics at Stanford University, so Dr. Roussarie spent his first two years of life in Northern California before his family moved back to France, just outside…
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Elena Barbieri, PHD Elena Barbieri earned the Toffler Scholar Award in 2023 at Northwestern University FIND ME ON 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…
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Andrew Holbrook, PHD Andrew Holbrook earned the Toffler Scholar Award in 2023 at UCLA FIND ME ON 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…
Read MoreCalina Glynn
Calina Glynn, PHD Calina (Callie) Glynn earned the Toffler Scholar Award in 2023 at Harvard FIND ME ON 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…
Read MoreJeremias Sulam
JEREMIAS SULAM, PHD Jeremias Sulam earned the Toffler Scholar Award in 2022 at Johns Hopkins University FIND ME ON 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…
Read MoreKatie Irwin
KATIE IRWIN Katie Irwin earned the Toffler Scholar Award in 2022 at Johns Hopkins University FIND ME ON 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…
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