Nealin Parker leads Common Ground USA as its inaugural Executive Director. A leader in identifying solutions to polarization and political violence in America, Parker brings to this new role decades of experience in senior domestic and international positions dealing with conflict, poverty, and social change.
Manu Meel is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of BridgeUSA, a national student-led movement dedicated to fostering responsible dialogue across political and ideological divides.
Children who grew up in an environment where they feel loved and secure, safe, and valued will continue to promote that in their community with their own children. It's healing generations, too.
Rajiv Vinnakota is the President of the Institute for Citizens & Scholars. He co-founded The SEED Foundation, led youth engagement at the Aspen Institute, and has earned accolades like the Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson Award and Oprah Winfrey’s Use Your Life Award.
Rabbi Michael Holzman is the spiritual leader of the Northern Virginia Hebrew Congregation and the founder of the Rebuilding Democracy Project, a winner of the 2019 Lippman Kanfer Prize for Applied Jewish Wisdom.
Veronika Breton and Fanta Diop are rising seniors at Middlebury College and Summer 2024 interns at Einhorn Collaborative.
Khin Mai Aung is the Executive Director, Mid-Atlantic at Generation Citizen.
There is nobody with whom I would not break bread, because more important to me than our respective positions are our underlying interests, which spell out the story of our shared humanity.
Scott Shigeoka is an internationally recognized curiosity expert, speaker, and the author of Seek: How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life and Change the World.
Though we never exchanged more than a few words, even a decade later, I still carry an immense gratitude for a ten-year-old boy named Danilo. He helped me to remember how important shared experience and play can be to forging human connection.
