2024-25 Cheng Fellows
The 2024 Cheng Fellows are advancing healthcare, transforming agriculture and climate action, broadening accessibility across sectors, and strengthening our institutions. They are activists, nonprofit leaders, social entrepreneurs, and community change-makers. Representing seven Harvard schools — HBS, HDS, HKS, HGSD, HGSE, HSPH, and Harvard College — this cohort exemplifies the strength and promise of cross-sectoral, cross-community social problem-solving.
Jeph Acheampong
Jeph Acheampong (Ed. M ‘25) is the founder of Blossom Academy, an organization that creates a pathway for underserved communities to develop data skills, empowering them to enter the evolving job market and establish sustainable livelihoods.
Dara Adamolekun
Dara Adamolekun (Harvard College ‘25) is the founder of ReGeneración, which trains underemployed youth in Latin America in land surveying and agricultural technology to help cocoa and coffee producers meet EU Deforestation Regulation requirements. Regeneración creates jobs, promotes sustainability, and strengthens rural agricultural economies.
Hellen Chabunya
Hellen Chabunya (MC/MPA ‘25) is the founder of CHUMA, an agricultural bank that seeks to resource women and youth to utilize climate smart agriculture to tackle food insecurity. As a social enterprise, CHUMA operates as a revolving fund for affordable farm inputs and provides food parcels to ultra poor families through a model that matches idle farming estates with landless farmers on soft-term lease conditions.
Hailey How
Hailey How (MPH ‘25) is the co-founder of CareCorgi, an AI-powered copilot for first-time family caregivers of adults aged 65 and older. This platform effectively scales the expertise of geriatric care consultants, making it accessible to inexperienced caregivers.
Hande Ilhan
Hande Ilhan (MBA ‘25) is the founder of Kykloris helps crustacean processors transform waste into valuable resources with on-site biopolymer extraction, reducing disposal costs and creating closed green loops.
Dominic Mensah
Dominic Mensah (MBA ‘25) is the founder of Dombelfarms, which is making farming profitable for the 100M+ smallholder farmers in Africa, enabling them to grow enough food to feed Africa’s growing population by connecting farmers to reputable farm input suppliers through localized distribution centers and enhancing productivity and market access via data and AI-powered farm management platform.
Adhitya Raghavan
Adhitya Raghavan (MBA ‘25) is the founder of SyncAI, a technology platform that helps factories use their data to improve quality and reduce waste. Starting with pharmaceutical manufacturing, SyncAI makes it easy for teams to connect their systems and spot problems early—saving time, money, and resources. Inspired by his roots in rural India, Adhitya is focused on building practical tools that boost productivity and create lasting impact in critical industries around the world.
David Riveros García
David Riveros García (MPA ‘25) is the founder and Executive Director of “reAcción” (reAction), a non-profit organization working at the intersection of international development, civic technology, and multi-sectoral, grassroots collective action to transform public investment and citizen-government engagement to reduce corruption in the education sector, particularly in school infrastructure and meals.
Ashweetha Shetty
Ashweetha Shetty (MC/MPA ‘25) is the co-founder of The Penn Collective, which aims to create an informed cadre of women politicians in Tamil Nadu, India by building essential political skills and fostering a community of female leaders who can run for office at all levels of government, ultimately increasing the overall representation of women in politics.
Karen Sheu
Karen Sheu (MRPL ‘25) is the founder of Accountable Faith, which aims to tackle the issue of clergy sexual abuse by helping religious leaders build safe, accountable faith institutions and respond to harm in their communities using restorative justice.
Eduardo Vasconcelos Goyanna Filho
Eduardo Vasconcelos Goyanna Filho (Harvard College ‘25) is the co-founder and CEO of Young Peacebuilders in Brazilian Public Schools, a school violence prevention program that supports low-income students in vulnerable public schools through leadership development, mental health enhancement, and co-curricular programming on conflict resolution.
Hannah Wong
Hannah Wong (M.Arch ‘25) is the founder of Remarcation, a social enterprise fostering the autonomy of disabled users in public space through information justice. Through an application that both collects and shares data on public space, Remarcation bridges the gap between objective environmental conditions and subjective access needs.
Joannes Paulus Yimbesalu
Joannes Paulus Yimbesalu (MC/MPA ‘25) is the founder of Nanaade, an AI-driven job matching platform revolutionizing the fight against youth unemployment in Africa by seamlessly matching job seekers with personalized opportunities that unlock their full potential.