Adil Trehan

Adil Trehan

Social Innovation Film Fellow

Adil Trehan is a climate storyteller creating narratives on the urgency of climate justice. He experienced the power of stories to drive social change while developing PSAs and a short documentary around climate disasters, clean energy, and community power at CNN and Sierra Club.

Elizabeth Burton, Steff Sanchez, Jeremy Sample, Joseph Schroeder

Elizabeth Burton, Steff Sanchez, Jeremy Sample, Joseph Schroeder

Social Innovation Film Fellows

The CHOKE team comes together with backgrounds in documentary film, journalism, theater, and stunt work. Our experiences - whether organizing protests against the Iraq War in high school, or feeling helpless in the face of police profiling/brutality in everyday interactions naturally push us to use art as a way to not only document the issues we see around us, but to use documentary as a force for education and change.

Robert Strand

Robert Strand

Social Enterprise Fellow

Robert Strand is a philanthropist, environmental advocate, filmmaker and the Executive Director & CEO of global non–profit, World Water Film Festival (WWFF). Dedicated to highlighting ongoing water crises around the world, Robert launched WWFF in partnership with UN Water’s International Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre (IGRAC) and the Youth for Global Health & Social Justice.

Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University

Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University

Social Enterprise Fellow

Professors and Students in the Department of Communicative Linguistics and Translation at Chernivtsi National University: This year has encouraged successful collaboration between students and teachers of the Department of Communicative Linguistics and Translation at Chernivtsi National University and Cecily Tyler, founder of the New York-based non-profit docutribe, Inc.

Sophia Duart

Social Innovation Film Fellow

Sophia is an alias for an 18-year-old Afghan girl who, despite the severe restrictions imposed on girls' education in Afghanistan, remains steadfast in her pursuit of knowledge. She is currently enrolled in Brave Generation Academy, an online institution based in Portugal