Leah Powell is a senior at Princeton University majoring in Economics with minors in Philosophy and History. She is deeply involved in Princeton’s investing and entrepreneurial ecosystem, holding leadership roles in Tiger Investments, Girls into VC, and Princeton Student Ventures, the university’s student-run venture capital fund. Leah co-founded and directed the first Jewish Leadership Summit in 2025 and the Female Founded Conference in 2023, both of which brought together students, entrepreneurs, and investors to foster community and collaboration.

Leah also serves as the President of Chabad at Princeton, where she has worked to build a vibrant intergenerational Jewish community that bridges students and alumni. This past summer, Leah interned at Blackstone in New York City. She is passionate about building community, asking good questions, and creating spaces where ideas and people connect.

lp7449@princeton.edu

Julia Birdwell is a junior at Princeton University studying Public Policy with concentrations in Computer Science and Chinese. On campus, Julia serves on the student board of Chabad.

Partnering with Visa, Julia co-founded and built Uplift Israel, an humanitarian aid organization which utilizes an infrastructure of direct-aid to support families and pregnant mothers in countries at war. After raising over 500k in the past year, Uplift has distributed the money through prepaid debit cards, helping Israeli families to keep food on their tables and connect vulnerable populations to immediate financial aid support structures.

Alongside with interning at Susa Ventures in San Francisco, Julia spent a summer working at Palantir, building software for energy grid optimization and natural disaster emergency response.

jbirdwell@princeton.edu

Mika Bardin is an Israeli American student completing her junior year at Yale University, majoring in Cognitive Science. She is a semi-professional squash player competing on the Yale Women's Squash team, a former USA National Champion, and currently the Israeli National Champion, training to compete as Israel's first female squash representative in the LA 2028 Olympics. Off the court, she is the founder of Play for Equal Pay, a nonprofit dedicated to closing the gender pay gap, having raised over $200,000 to achieve pay parity for one of the largest professional squash tournaments in the world. Over the past year, Mika has founded and led Yale’s Jewish Students Standing for Israel group with over 200 members. Her advocacy has included hosting events and vigils to unify the Jewish community following the events of October 7th, fundraising for and shipping tactical gear during the first few weeks of the war, and representing the Yale Jewish community on national news stations in both the U.S. and Israel.

mika.bardin@yale.edu

Robbie Khazan is a senior at MIT studying Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, and Business. He serves as President of MIT Chabad Student Board and leads community building at Camel, a Jewish entrepreneurial and social club on campus at Harvard and MIT. Robbie has co-founded and advised several startups, and participated in Prod Cohort 3. He also spent his past summer working at Decart, a hyperscale AI company in Tel Aviv.

Robbie is also a Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Award recipient and multi-year invited speaker at the Diller Global Leadership Conference. He was recognized for founding Kiddo Byte, a nonprofit making computer science education accessible worldwide. Robbie led a team of over 60 volunteers and worked with schools in Kenya, orphanages displaced by war in Ukraine, and in shelters across Boston.

bobert@mit.edu