Redefine Success
All of Us: Acumen Fellows at TED
At TED, Acumen Foundry members highlight bold solutions and show that creating lasting change takes all of us.
April 17, 2026
This year at TED, Foundry members of the Acumen community take part in a global stage of ideas and action. Learn more about these Fellows, who are leading innovative solutions across sectors and showing that it takes all of us to transform the world.
Juliana Uribe, Colombia Fellow, 2021
Juliana is the Founder and CEO of Movilizatorio, a civic engagement and social innovation lab working across Colombia and Latin America. Through Movilizatorio, she and her team combine strategy, communications, technology, partnerships, and research to mobilize diverse actors and strengthen collective leadership as a driver of social change.
Among her flagship initiatives is El Avispero, a platform that connects over 183,000 change agents to drive civic action. An organizer of organizers, Juliana leads hyper-local movements while building global networks that connect grassroots action with high-level influence. Through her work, she has designed and scaled participatory strategies that empower communities to defend democracy, fight climate injustice, counter misinformation, and shape narratives for peace.
Haroon Yasin, Pakistan Fellow, 2017
Haroon is an education entrepreneur from Pakistan who is transforming how children learn through technology and storytelling.
Once a disengaged student himself, Haroon began teaching at 19. In the 11 years since, he has built Taleemabad (Urdu for City of Education), an organization that uses technology to scale engaging, effective learning to over 10 million children across Pakistan. Third-party evaluations show that more than half of these learners live below the poverty line, and 87% report improvements in their quality of life after using the platform.
Haroon’s work has been recognized by Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai and by the late Queen Elizabeth II for its impact on education.
Krupa Patel, East Africa Fellow, 2015
Krupa is the co-founder and CEO of Silverleaf Academy, an organization redefining access to high-quality, affordable education by equipping students with future-ready skills. Through its newly launched Talent Academy, Silverleaf adapts Taleemabad’s open-source training platform to the Tanzanian context and integrates AI tools to deliver a scalable, government-recognized teacher training program, producing job-ready educators.
As a serial entrepreneur and impact-driven leader dedicated to transforming lives across East Africa, Krupa previously founded Anza, an enterprise support organization that has helped more than 3,000 entrepreneurs grow their businesses, expanding access to essential products and services for 1.4 million Tanzanians.
Beyond her ventures, Krupa mentors the next generation of impact innovators and collaborates with the Tanzanian government to strengthen the ecosystem for social enterprises.
Jocelyn Wyatt, Acumen Fellow
Jocelyn is a social innovation thought leader and an entrepreneurial executive with more than 25 years of experience. She currently serves as the CEO of the global humanitarian organization, Alight, whose purpose is to inspire and unleash the abundance in every person. In her role as CEO, Jocelyn leads Alight’s 3,000-person team across 10 countries. Prior to Alight, Jocelyn was the co-founder and CEO of IDEO.org, a nonprofit design studio with a mission to design a more just and inclusive world. Jocelyn grew IDEO.org to become a 75-person, global organization with studios in Nairobi, New York, and San Francisco.
A keen community builder, she co-founded Design Vanguard, a community of design leaders driving diversity in design, and founded the Social Enterprise Jobs Group, which has a membership of 20,000 people around the world. In 2012, she was named a Top 100 Global Thinker by Foreign Policy Magazine. Jocelyn also served as an Aspen First Movers Fellow for social intrapreneurs.
Nitesh Kumar, India Fellow, 2018
Nitesh is closing the divide between elite medicine and last-mile delivery. As a DeepTech engineer and inventor, he does not simply build "low-cost" devices; he engineers high-performance medical systems designed for contextual resilience. His work challenges the assumption that advanced healthcare requires fragile infrastructure. Through his companies, InnAccel and Coeo Labs, Nitesh has developed FDA and CE-certified innovations like Saans (neonatal respiratory support) and VAPCare (intelligent ICU secretion management). These systems deliver gold-standard clinical efficacy whether deployed in a top-tier academic hospital or a remote tribal health center. These devices are enabling treatment for over 200,000 care seekers every year.
Recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer and a Forbes 30 Under 30, Nitesh holds more than 16 patents and leverages technology as a tool to unlock accessible healthcare.
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