Neha Dalal
Neha, a graduate of Harvard University, is the Program and operations coordinator, The Institute for College Access & Success. She is the daughter of Leenam and Mukesh Dalal of Massachusetts.
Dalal's quickly-developed expertise in the intersection of economics and education got her on the staffs of both President Obama and Trump, shaping initiatives like the 2018 Child Tax Credit expansion and the College Scorecard database. The first-generation Indian American and native New Yorker now works with TICAS on federal policy research and advocacy and she co-leads a team for the U.S. Commission for UNESCO that promotes youth civic engagement.
Devika Raj
Devika Raj, is the co-founder of CrowdAI. After Hurricane Michael wrecked the Florida Panhandle, Wide Open West, a telecom, turned to Devaki Raj to get a map of affected buildings in the area. Her CrowdAI had one ready in 20 minutes. CrowdAI uses artificial intelligence to produce quick and accurate cartography by studying satellite imagery; it can outline everything from industrial construction projects to natural disasters. CrowdAI, which has raised $2.6 million from Y Combinator and others, has been used to map wildfire damage in California and Hurricane Harvey's destruction in southern Texas. Raj was born into a highly educated family (father and sister are geneticists) and earned a master's in statistics at Oxford before throwing up her hands at the slow pace of academia. ?I wanted to see things move a little bit faster,? she says. ? So I took the nonacademic path.? Off to Google she went, where she handled projects like analyzing satellite imagery to determine ideal areas for solar energy in Africa.
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