Connecting with venture builders around the world. — Recently, the Praxis team has enjoyed intentionally building relationships with founders, funders, and builders across the globe and listening for ways to come alongside them. We are thankful to learn from and collaborate with others who have shared imagination and practices of redemptive entrepreneurship. Celebrating venture building in East Africa

Increasing access to higher education for African students. — About the Founder After his sophomore year at Princeton, Ryan spent a summer in Uganda teaching the SAT to three gifted Ugandan students. These students were smarter than many of Ryan’s Princeton peers, yet there was a good chance they would not get to go to university at all (and would instead spend…

Rewards-based app for teens to develop life skills. — About the Founder Born and raised in Portland, OR, to parents committed to community activism and educating underprivileged youth, Remi Sobomehin has always known that education was the field in which his life would be committed. After Stanford, Remi spent his career devoted to the community of East Palo Alto, as a school…

Closing the tech divide and cultivating innovation in Jackson, MS. — About the Founders Dr. Nashlie Sephus is a principal scientist in artificial intelligence and machine learning focusing on fairness and identifying biases. She formerly was CTO of AI startup Partpic based in Atlanta which was acquired by the Amazon Visual Search team. After then joining Amazon as an Applied Scientist she led many…

Helping Christians in tech find community and steward their skills. — About the Founders James Kelly founded FaithTech in 2016 with 35 people in a coffee shop. Today, FaithTech is a global tech community for Christ with presence in over 25 cities worldwide. The work of FaithTech has been mentioned in The New York Times, Wired Magazine and Christianity Today. James comes with a…

Training and infrastructure for Malawian farmers. — About the Founders Dee is a seasoned farmer, founder, and agronomy buff. Before becoming an architect for respectful and sustainable farmer-family-focused development solutions, Dee studied Business Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom, graduating in 2010 and moving back home to do things differently. Dee’s passion for design and women…

Developing empathic leaders who transform polarized environments. — About the Founder Christy Vines is an empathy expert, thought leader, social commentator, and the President & CEO of Ideos Institute, a research and practice organization dedicated to understanding the theological roots and neuroscience of empathy. With more than 20 years of experience, she has served as an expert and advisor on issues…

Prioritizing human dignity in the mission to transform American policing. — About the Founder Nicholas Sensley is the Founder & CEO of the Institute for American Policing Reform. Nicholas is a former California Police Chief with 25 years of diverse policing services in three California cities. For 25 years, he has also served as a consultant and developer in the United States, Africa, Asia…

Developing and connecting democracy entrepreneurs worldwide. — About the Founder Yordanos Eyoel is an Ethiopian-American democracy entrepreneur who is the Founder and CEO of Keseb. Previously, Yordanos was a Managing Partner at New Profit, where she led the Catalyze Investments portfolio and the Civic Lab initiative. Yordanos is a 2020 Civil Society Fellow of the ADL & the Aspen Institute…