unDavos Webinar: The Power of Youth: Driving Innovation in Technology and Activism
Welcome to the inaugural session of our community-hosted webinar series, sparked by the energy of unDavos 2025. We’re continuing the conversation with bold topics—from AI and finance to sustainability, storytelling, and beyond.
Each session is your chance to engage, contribute, and shape what’s next with the unDavos community.
May 28th Session Overview
Title: The Power of Youth: Driving Innovation in Technology and Activism
Description: From supporting emergency food aid in six war zones to bringing men into the fight against breast cancer stigma, GLOW is a youth-led nonprofit leveraging creativity to drive impact across three continents. Embarking on a 3-year journey to redesign mental healthcare access in India, GLOW's young leaders are driving research across urban, rural, and tribal communities, building AI-adaptive journals for peer support groups, and collaborating with grassroots leaders to advocate for policy change. This panel will feature GLOW's Youth President, CEO, Board Advisor, and Youth Leaders discussing the importance of empowering and investing in youth to drive innovation in technology and activism.
Format: Panel
Session Moderator: Brionne Campbell
Board Member, GLOW
Brionne is an interdisciplinary research expert. She has traveled extensively for biological anthropology and environmental fieldwork in addition to studying U.S. prisons, where she interviewed inmates to author a five-book series on life skills tailored for individuals with serious mental illness. As a Board Member of GLOW, Brionne mentors over 40 young leaders studying women's healthcare and developing novel policy and technology approaches to address healthcare inequities.
Speakers:
Youth Health Equity Research Director, GLOW
A 10th grader based in Colorado, Sanika Kanitkar was selected to represent her county as a jourer and attorney representing teens in the judicial system. An accomplished debater, Sanika has traveled across her state to ignite conversations with 950+ young people about policy advocacy and innovation. Sanika serves communities across three continents as GLOW's Youth Health Equity Research Director. Directing youth teams in advancing health equity initiatives, Sanika collaborated with medical doctors and high school students to drive public health awareness research across the US and manages international research into breast cancer stigma. Her research has led to grassroots breast cancer awareness movements impacting hundreds of thousands of women in India. Sanika's is empowering the next generation of youth leaders at GLOW, mentoring a team of 20+ youth interns.
Youth Policy Research Director, GLOW
In addition to serving as GLOW's Youth Policy Research Director, Samarth Khurana leads GLOW's youth internship program, recruiting, training, and mentoring over 50+ young leaders from across the world. Samarth's research bridges ethics and economics, driving innovative approaches to corporate social responsibility fundraising, social venture development, and economic incentives for inclusive healthcare policies. Samarth has supported emergency food aid deliveries across 6 war zones and has developed a sustainable economic model to deliver postpartum depression support to women across rural, tribal, and urban communities. Samarth has established and grown GLOW's partnerships with international nonprofits and co-directs GLOW's research and strategic initiatives. As a rising high school senior, Samarth is committed to creating opportunities for young people and scaling the impact of global health initiatives.
Medical Reserch Director, GLOW
Dr. Meghana Annapureddy is a dedicated physician committed to advancing women's health through grassroots public health initiatives. Across multiple states in India, Dr Meghana drives breast cancer awareness across both urban and rural communities, collaborating with the Ushalakshmi Breast Cancer foundation and the Public Health Advisor to the Prime Minister to leverage social media campaigns that have reached over one million people. Dr Meghana is devoted to fostering collaboration between established global leaders and the next generation of medical doctors and directs GLOW's medical graduate internship program. Dr Meghana leads GLOW's research on postpartum depression, specializing in policy advocacy and training frontline healthcare workers. Passionate about disease prevention and community health education, Dr Meghana aims to empower women and improve health outcomes across the world.
President, GLOW
Trisha Rao is the Founder and President of GLOW (Global Leadership Outreach and Wellbeing), an international nonprofit empowering youth to drive change in health equity, food security, and refugee support. A senior at La Jolla Country Day School, Trisha has led initiatives impacting over 100,000 lives, including AI-driven refugee tools and a breast cancer campaign reaching rural Indian women. Her vision: empathy + innovation = sustainable global change.
Youth Refugee Welfare Director & Policy Advocacy Director, GLOW
Ava Datta brings extensive experience in youth empowerment, having been the Co-Founder of Washington State's Youth4Local, providing job training and internships to 600+ teens. Ava leads two youth teams at GLOW, serving as Youth Refugee Welfare Director and Director of Policy Advocacy. In addition to leading the development of reflective journals for refugees in Lebanon and displaced communities in the US, Ava is directing a team of medical doctors, professionals, and other high school students to manage international research into postpartum depression and spearhead policy innovation to bolster women's postpartum healthcare in India. A rising high school senior from Washington, Ava is committed to empowering the next generation of youth leaders.
CEO - GLOW
Sumana Rao is the CEO of Glow, where she’s reimagining how AI can serve human potential — not just efficiency. A builder at heart and a mentor by instinct, she’s spent her career scaling platforms with soul. Now, she’s focused on using intelligence — human and artificial — to close gaps, grow leaders, and design systems that are not just smarter, but fairer.
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We’re launching a new community‑hosted webinar series, starting with an exclusive preview on April 23 followed by live sessions beginning May 14. This series is your opportunity to attend and share within your community—and even help shape the program, just as you do with the Summit.
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