Innovators
Read more about these individuals by clicking on their names.Ruth J. Abram
Founder & former President, Lower East Side Tenement MuseumShoji Akimoto
Executive Director, Oka BizYasushi Aoyama
Professor, Graduate School of Governance Studies, Meiji UniversityMarty Ashby
Executive Producer, MCG JazzHiroki Azuma
Author & Cultural CriticKenichi Bamba
President, Bridge for FukushimaCasey Caplowe
Chief Creative Officer & Co-founder, GOODValerie Casey
Founder, The Designers Accord & Head of Design, WalmartAndrea Chen
Executive Director, Propeller: A Force for Social InnovationFlozell Daniels, Jr.
President & CEO, Foundation for LouisianaDavid d'Heilly
Producer, Author, & Facilitator, 2dk Co., Ltd.Cheryl Dorsey
President, Echoing GreenDebra Dunn
Board Member, Skoll Foundation & Faculty, Stanford d. SchoolAtsuhisa Emori
General Manager, Nippon Taberu Journal LeagueMarc Freedman
CEO & President, Encore.orgAyako Fujii
President, Environmental Co-op Union, Shiga & President, Nanohana Project NetworkHideki Fujioka
Officer, Cosmos Initia Co., Ltd. & President, Cosmos Hotel Management Co., Ltd.Tomoko Fujisaki
Founder, HANDSKumi Fujisawa
Co-Founder & President, Thinktank SophiaBankChikara Funabashi
Founder & Chairman, WiLLSeed Company Limited & Project Director, Public-Private Joint Project for Overseas Education Promotion, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, JapanNeil Gibbons
Mentor, Propeller: A Force for Social Innovation & Co-Founder, Adaptation HealthJeanne Giordano
Urban Design Consultant, Jeanne Giordano Ltd.Rosanne Haggerty
Founder, Common Ground Community & Founder & President, Community SolutionsDervala Hanley
Independent Strategist, Dervala Hanley ConsultingKenji Hayashi
Co-President, FoundingBaseScott Heiferman
Co-Founder & CEO, Meetup.comToru Hiji
Director, Kyassen Ofunato & Board Member, Japan Society of Urban & RegionalJohnathan Hladik
Director, Policy Programs, Center for Rural AffairsTomonori Honda
Program Director, Intilaq Tohoku Innovation Center & Co-founder, Marumori SaunaYoshito Hori
President, GLOBIS University & Managing Partner, GLOBIS Capital PartnersKatsuji Imata
Board Chair, CSO Network Japan & Executive Director, Japan NPOHideyuki Inoue
Co-founder & CEO, INNO-Lab International Inc. & Founder, SVP TokyoHarue Ishikawa
Founder, Care Center YawaragiMitsuhisa Ishikawa
President, Production I.G.Satoshi Ito
President, Sanriku Hitotsunagi Nature SchoolGreg Jackson †
Former Executive Director, Brownsville Partnership (New York)Chiemi Kamada
Teacher, high school home economicsMasayoshi Kase
Manager, Social Innovation Projects Division, ETICKoichi Kaneda
Board Member, Japan NPO CenterTaneo Kato
Art DirectorHiroto Kikuchi
Secretary General & Board Member, Iwate NPO-NET SupportLin Kobayashi
School Founder & Chair of the Board, UWC ISAK JapanKeito Kohara
Producer, artcomplex groupYosuke Komatsu
President, Hope for TomorrowHiroki Komazaki
President & CEO, NPO FlorenceYuto Kurosawa
Board Member & COO, NPO wizKaori Kuroda
Executive Director, CSO Network JapanJustin Leach
Producer, 8-bit Pictures, LLCCorinne LeTourneau
Associate Director, City Resilience Delivery, 100 Resilient CitiesLimbon
Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Ritsumeikan UniversityRick Lowe
Artist & Founder, Project Row HousesChawanad Luansang
Co-founder, Openspace Community ArchitectsSavanna Lyons
Principal, May Day Consulting and DesignOsamu Maebashi
AdventurerNadine Maleh
Executive Director, Institute for Public ArchitectureRichard McCarthy
Executive Director, Slow Food USADouglas McGray
Co-founder & Editor-in-Chief, The California Sunday Magazine & Pop-Up MagazineDominic Molon
Richard Brown Baker Curator of Contemporary Art, RISD MuseumKota Niitsuma
Sales and Planning, Okasei Inc. & Onagawa Fukkou MaruChihiro Nishimoto
CEO, Japan Area ManagementKohei Nishiyama
Founder & CEO, CUUSOO SystemJacqueline Novogratz
Founder & CEO, AcumenTomohiko Okabe
CEO, kotolab. LLC & CEOKensuke Onishi
CEO, Peace Winds Japan & Chairman & Founder, Civic ForceKazuhide Oshida
Board Member, Soma Haragama Morning Market ClubJohn Peterson
Founder, Public Architecture & Curator, Loeb Fellowship, Graduate School of Design, Harvard UniversityDaniel Pink
AuthorAllison Plyer
Chief Demographer, The Data CenterMichael Reich
Taro Takemi Research Professor of International Health Policy, School of Public Health, Harvard UniversityConnie Reimers-Hild
Interim Executive Director, Rural Futures Institute, University of Nebraska, LincolnAnn Rutledge
Founding Principal, R&R ConsultingKana Sambe
President, Glowing CloudDai Sato
Anime scenario writer & President & CEO, Storyriders Co. Ltd.Daiki Sato
Senior Staff, Ofunato Station Area Development Office, Bureau of Disaster Reconstruction, Ofunato CityRyoko Sato †
Associate Professor, Ehime UniversityMax Schorr
Co-founder & Executive Chairman, Good Worldwide Inc.Naoko Seki
Member, Fukushima Organic Agricultural NetworkTsuyoshi Sekihara
Representative, Soma Office, Regional Resource and Industry Advisor; Founder & former Executive Director, Kamiechigo Yamazato Fan Club, Joetsu, NiigataKen Shibusawa
Chairman, Commons Asset Management, Inc.Mitsuko Shimomura
Headmistress, Ikikata-Jyuku SchoolCameron Sinclair
Co-Founder, Architecture for Humanity & Lead, Social Innovation, AirbnbMegan Smith
CEO, shift7 & Former Chief Technology Officer, Office of Science and Technology Policy, The White HouseRichard Streitmatter-Tran
Artist & Founder, Dia/ProjectsBill Strickland
Executive Chairman, Manchester Bidwell CorporationTaylor Stuckert
AICP, Executive Director, Clinton County Regional Planning Commission & Co-Founder, Energize Clinton CountyMasahiro Sugawara
Assistant Manager, Project Coordination Division, Construction Department, Kesennuma CityYuji Suzuki
Executive Managing Director & Secretary General, Sanaburi FoundationJunichi Tamura
Chief Director, Next Commons Lab & Director, Tono Brewing CompanyHiroshi Tasaka
President, Thinktank SophiaBankAyumi Takahashi
Regional Coordinator, Fukushima Future Promotion Office, Fukushima UniversityYoshiharu Tsukamoto
Architect, Atelier Bow-WowKeiko Tsuyama
Freelance journalistTomoyuki Wada
CEO, Odaka Workers Base, Ltd.Alissa Walker
Urbanism Editor, CurbedVilly Wang
Founder, President & CEO, BAYCATSayaka Watanabe
President, re:terraAlan Webber
Mayor, Santa Fe, NM & Founding Editor, Fast Company MagazineJay Weigel
Composer, Producer and ConductorMasayuki Yamanaka
CEO, Japan Association for Educational InnovationKeith Yamashita
Chairman & Founder, SYPartnersKazuko Yoshida
NPO Riku CaféGentaro Yui
Co-founder, Sweet Treat 311 & Field Director, MORIUMIUSProfiles reflect the participant’s position at the time of involvement in an Innovators Network project.
† Deceased