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GreenTeensJessie
Jessie is a young environmentalist who helped create Green Teens U.S.A., an environmental group in her community. Her group works with Green Teens New Zealand to educate the public on the importance of saving our environment. They do this by holding events and talk to the public about our ideas.

Jestre
Matt runs the team Our World Our Change, a youth-empowerment and networking group designed to help motivated youth get teams started, and the company Worbat, LLC, an online electronics retail company (www.worbat.com coming soon!). He also is about to launch a non-profit art gallery with his youth group, and has multiple other projects in the works. He is currently looking for more team members.

JJ Express
Jenny is the lead venturer for JJ Express, a 32-page children’s magazine geared towards an audience aged 10-15 years old. It is mainly a collection of comics (with accompanying articles, activities, and stories) that are illustrated by professionals, amateurs, and students. These comics and articles strive to entertain as well as inform. Jenny hopes that JJ Express, which puts serious issues, like clinical depression, in a lighter and more digestible format, will help ease the pain that these teens feel and to let them know that change is possible.

Madfusion
Michael is the owner of the madFusion venture. madFusion was started in the summer of 2006 and then officially recognized as a venture in the fall. madFusion now has over 10 people involved in it's mission. The core idea for madFusion was to create a marketing, advertising, and a design company with a mission. That mission was to help people create a name for themselves on a large scale.

sweetbliss27
Linda is currently a student at Bernard Baruch College studying management. In February, she and her friends launched a Youth Venture called Chair Advocates in the Brooklyn area. Their mission is to raise awareness of different types of adaptive and assistive technology available to people with mobility impairments. Chair Advocates also offer financial assistance to families of people with disabilities who has low income.