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The best ideas come from the American people. Everyone has a story to tell, everyone has a part to play. Together as Americans, we do big things.
All across the country, ordinary Americans are doing extraordinary things in their communities to out-innovate, out-educate and out-build the rest of the world. Every week we will invite these Champions of Change to the White House to share their ideas to win the future.
Champions of Change: Connecting the Americas
The White House, along with the U.S. State Department and U.S. AID, honor leaders who have exemplified extraordinary successes and efforts toward the development of – and diplomacy with – their countries or communities of origin.
Dr. Claire A. Nelson is the Founder and President of the Institute of Caribbean Studies, the leading Caribbean American diaspora advocacy organization. Under her leadership, ICS has paved the way...
Elmer Arias is a Salvadoran-American citizen who leads the Futbol Positivo (Positive Soccer) project in Fairfax County, Virginia. Futbol Positivo began three years ago when the Fairfax Police...
Greivis Vasquez, a native of Caracas, Venezuela is a professional basketball player for the NBA’s New Orleans Hornets. After receiving his degree in communications from the University of Maryland...
David R. Ayón helped found and develop the Mexican American Leadership Initiative (MALI), a program of the U.S.-Mexico Foundation that enlists bi-national support to strengthen civil society in...
A. Patricia Janiot is the President of Fundación Colombianitos. She is one of the founders of the organization, which is dedicated to helping Colombian kids who are living in poverty. With more...
Alvaro Maldonado is a professional concert dancer and an entrepreneur. A survivor of El Salvador’s civil war, Maldonado is the founding Director of Ballet Teatro Internacional (BTI), a non-profit...
At age thirteen, Ana Moraga Archila immigrated to the United States from Guatemala City. She worked with several youth and human rights organizations in San Francisco, California before attending...
Professor Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda is an Associate Professor in the Division of Social Sciences and the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Los...
Champions Blog Posts
- July 30, 2012 at 6:08 PM EDT
The Nation's First High Speed Rail
Dan Richard, chair of the California High-Speed Rail Authority, explains the work that has gone into establishing California's High Speed Rail over the past four years.
- July 30, 2012 at 5:58 PM EDT
Committed to American Innovation, American Jobs, and Environmentally-Friendly Mass Transportation
As Chief Executive Officer, David Bennett leads Proterra as it continues to highlight the growing market for zero-emission solutions in the transit industry.
- July 30, 2012 at 5:53 PM EDT
Improving Efficiency through Simple Technology
Through David Barger's personal commitment and committee stewardship a policy-level Federal advisory committee tasked with developing a common understanding of NextGen priorities in the context of overall NextGen capabilities and implementation constraints, with an emphasis on the near- and mid-term. The NAC provides a venue where the FAA can solicit a consensus-based set of recommendations on modernizing the air traffic control system and other issues that are critical to the successful implementation of NextGen.
- July 30, 2012 at 5:43 PM EDT
Telling the Big Story of America’s Rivers
RiverWorks Discovery is an innovative outreach program that tells the big story of America’s rivers – Commerce, Culture, and Conservation. Created in 2004 by then-AEP River Operations president Mark Knoy and continuing under current AEP River Operations president Keith Darling, RiverWorks Discovery brings towboat pilots as well as environmental educators to learners across the country to show how important river commerce is to our nation’s economic and fiscal security. An RWD national exhibit will soon be traveling the United States.
