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Natasha Nath
Vice President, Deutsche Bank

Natasha Nath is head of the U.S. rates gamma book at Deutsche Bank, one of Wall Street's larger market-making desks. She took over the desk at age 27 and maintained a top four market share, with volume often surpassing $10 billion in notional value daily. Nath grew up in a small town in India and spent two high school years in Libya before majoring in math at MIT.
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30 Under 30 - Finance 2020
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AGE29
RESIDENCENew York, New York
EDUCATIONBachelor of Arts/Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technolog

 

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Golde
Cofounders, Golde

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Trinity Mouzon Wofford and Issey Kobori cofounded Golde, a Brooklyn-based superfood health and beauty brand, when they were both 23 years old as a response to the modern wellness movement trending towards the ultra-luxe and often inaccessible. Their first product, a $29 Turmeric Tonic blend with 30 servings, launched in 2017. They bootstrapped the business, never taking on investors, and now sell matcha and cacao flavors, as well as sachet sets with individual packets, at retailers including Urban Outfitters and Goop. When Golde launched at Sephora in 2019, Mouzon Wofford became the youngest woman of color to ever launch a brand at the beauty retailer. The couple then unveiled a line of natural face masks. Kobori is a Japanese citizen.
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30 Under 30 - Food & Drink 2020

 

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Nicole LaPointe Jameson
CEO, Evil Geniuses

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In May 2019, LaPointe Jameson took over as CEO of storied but fading esports outfit, Evil Geniuses. In her first year, she's made significant moves to pull the team back to relevancy, primarily by re-entering two of the top esports, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and League of Legends. The newly acquired CS:GO team quickly made its presence known by debuting with a championship win at ESL One New York 2019 in Brooklyn's Barclays Center. LaPointe Jameson has also opened offices in Seattle and Los Angeles and doubled headcount. Evil Geniuses boasts sponsorships from Monster Energy, Xfinity, AMD and Twitch among others.
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30 Under 30 - Games 2020
STATS
AGE26
RESIDENCESeattle, Washington
EDUCATIONBachelor of Arts/Science, Columbia University in the City of New York

 

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Jasmine Roberts
Adjunct Professor, New York University

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Currently freelancing at Google Creative Lab, Roberts was one of the first to prototype games on Google Stadia. An ex-Unity Technologies XR software engineer, she has taught Unity workshops with Girls in Tech and Girls Make Games. Roberts, who earned a Master's degree from Harvard in 2018, is also creating gaming curricula for Black Girls Code.
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30 Under 30 - Games 2020
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AGE28
RESIDENCENew York, New York
EDUCATIONBachelor of Arts/Science, Columbia University; Master of Arts/Science, Harvard University

 

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Annette Grotheer
Founder, The Shop Docs

Grotheer founded The Shop Docs, a non-profit organization that provides preventive health screenings for predominantly black men while they wait for a haircut. Since its founding in 2016, the organization has been expanded into three other states and getting ready to move into two more.
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30 Under 30 - Healthcare 2020
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AGE30
RESIDENCEFort Collins, Colorado
EDUCATIONMedical Doctor, University of Miami; Master of Arts/Science, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine; Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Colorado, School of Arts and Sciences

 

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Politiscope
Cofounders, Politiscope

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With the goal of cutting through the noise and making politics more accessible, Politiscope provides a one-stop shop where its 30,000 users can register to vote, keep up with polls, digest recent legislation and donate to candidates. Powell played in the NFL for four years before founding the company with White, who takes the lead on editorial direction.
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30 Under 30 - Law & Policy 2020

 

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Johanan Dujon
Founder, Algas Organics

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Johanan Dujon founded the Caribbean's first indigenous agriculture biotech firm to fight invasive seaweed threatening the tourism-dependent economy. Algas Organics converts invasive plant species into organic fungicides, pesticides, and crop fertilizers. St. Lucia-based Algas has processed two million pounds of plants since 2015. Revenue could reach $2 million in 2020.
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30 Under 30 - Manufacturing & Industry 2020
STATS
AGE27
RESIDENCECastries
EDUCATIONDrop Out, Sir Arthur Lewis Community College

 

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Ramp USA
Cofounders, Ramp USA

When Melvin Du became paralyzed from the chest down in a dirt bike accident at age 14, he became driven to cure disability with robotics.The Trinity University dropout and Thiel Fellow started Ramp USA with mechanical engineer Amro Eltayeb in 2018. Ramp USA converts manual wheelchairs into off-road vehicles. Denver-based Ramp plans to begin selling in 2020.
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30 Under 30 - Manufacturing & Industry 2020

 

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Tomi Adeyemi
Author

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Adeyemi is the author of Children of Blood and Bone (Holt Books, 2018), the first novel in a young adult fantasy series, which reached No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list. The book remains on the list nearly two years later and is being developed as a movie by Lucasfilm.
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30 Under 30 - Media 2020
STATS
AGE26
RESIDENCESan Diego, California
EDUCATIONBachelor of Arts/Science, Harvard University

 

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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Author

Adjei-Brenyah is the author of the story collection "Friday Black" (Mariner Books, 2018), which the New York Times called "an unbelievable debut, one that announces a new and necessary American voice." He won 2019's PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and was under consideration for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in fiction.
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30 Under 30 - Media 2020
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AGE29
RESIDENCESpring Valley, New York
EDUCATIONBachelor of Arts/Science, State University at Albany; Master of Arts/Science, Syracuse

 

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Antonia Hylton
Correspondent, Vice Media

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Hylton won an Emmy for "Zero Tolerance," an episode of HBO's "VICE News Tonight" focusing on a Guatemalan family's reunification after being separated at the U.S.-Mexico border. At VICE, she has also covered the protests in Puerto Rico and efforts by Florida lawmakers to prevent former felons from reclaiming their voting rights.
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30 Under 30 - Media 2020
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AGE26
RESIDENCEBrookyln, New York
EDUCATIONBachelor of Arts/Science, Harvard University

 

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Alexi McCammond
National Political Reporter, Axios

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In February, McCammond reported leaked presidential schedules revealing that 60% of President Trump's day is devoted to "executive time." As part of her election coverage, she also conducts focus groups in swing states and appears on Axios' HBO show. She was named NABJ's Emerging Journalist of the Year in 2019.
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30 Under 30 - Media 2020
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AGE26
RESIDENCEWashington, District of Columbia
EDUCATIONBachelor of Arts/Science, University of Chicago

 

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Ernest Owens
Writer at Large, Philadelphia Magazine

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Previously the editor of G Philly, Philadelphia Magazine's bygone LGBTQ news vertical, Owens has written about allegations of racial discrimination in Philadelphia's Gayborhood. His work earned him awards from the National Association of Black Journalists and the American Society of Magazine Editors.
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30 Under 30 - Media 2020
STATS
AGE28
RESIDENCEPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
EDUCATIONBachelor of Arts/Science, University of Pennsylvania; Master of Arts/Science, University of Southern California

 

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Lindsay Peoples Wagner
Editor in Chief, Teen Vogue

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Peoples Wagner started her career as an intern in the fashion closets at Teen Vogue. Seven years later, she became Editor In Chief of the magazine, where she has bolstered coverage of politics, inclusion and health in addition to fashion and culture. Prior to leading Teen Vogue, she won an ASME Next Award in 2017 for her work as the fashion editor of The Cut.
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30 Under 30 - Media 2020
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AGE29
RESIDENCEBrookyln, New York
EDUCATIONBachelor of Arts/Science, buena vista university

 

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CurlMix
Cofounders, CurlMix

When Kimberly and Timothy Lewis started CurlMix in 2015, they wanted to make organic haircare products more accessible to women with curly hair. Today, CurlMix boasts a full line of handmade and organic shampoos, conditioners, moisturizers and serums that they sell primarily on their own website. The husband-and-wife duo have received $1.4 million in funding from the likes of Backstage Capital and are on track to generate $7 million in sales this year.
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30 Under 30 - Retail & Ecommerce 2020

 

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Kenneth Harris
Senior Satellite Engineer, NASA

Harris has worked on five different satellite missions since he started working at NASA at age 16. On the James Webb Space Telescope, he led a team to successfully integrate the main payload of the satellite, four instruments that will detect the light from stars billions of light years away.
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30 Under 30 - Science 2020
STATS
AGE28
RESIDENCEUpper Marlboro, Maryland
EDUCATIONBachelor of Arts/Science, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Master of Arts/Science, Johns Hopkins University

 

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Fadji Zaouna Maina
Postdoctoral Researcher, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Fadji Zaouna Maina is creating an atlas of water by using computational models to better understand how climate change and pollution impacts its availability, enabling researchers to predict future needs. Her research has seen successful application in assessing groundwater pollution in France, ecosystem preservation in Italy and water availability after wildfires in California.
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30 Under 30 - Science 2020
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AGE28
RESIDENCEBerkeley, California
EDUCATIONBachelor of Arts/Science, University of Fes; Master of Arts/Science, University of Strasbourg; Ph.D, University of Strasbourg

 

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Lumka Msibi
Cofounder, AstroFarm Technologies

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Msibi is an experienced aerospace engineer who's worked on a number of different projects, including the Astrobee project, a system of three, free-flying robots on the International Space Station. Now she's turned her expertise to agriculture by founding AstroFarm, which works to empower farmers with actionable data to improve crop yields, utilizing data from satellites coupled with a proprietary AI engine. Her company is currently working on a pilot program with a food retailer to aid its supply chain of small farmers. In addition to this work, she also sits on the board of the South African National Space Agency.
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30 Under 30 - Science 2020
STATS
AGE29
RESIDENCENewark, New Jersey
EDUCATIONBachelor of Arts/Science, University of the Witwatersrand

 

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Derek Platt
Ph.D. Candidate, Washington University in St. Louis

Derek Platt played football in college but now pursues his passion for microbiology. His first project was focused on the then obscure Zika virus. When the recent global outbreak of Zika occurred, Platt ended up in contact with research teams all over the world, and the results of his work are being used for diagnosis and treatment of the disease.
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30 Under 30 - Science 2020
STATS
AGE27
RESIDENCESt. Louis, Missouri
EDUCATIONBachelor of Arts/Science, Tennessee State University