Draft:Gabriel Saruhashi
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Comment: I suggest an article about the app rather than him as most of the coverage is centered around the app. S0091 (talk) 18:49, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
Gabriel Saruhashi | |
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| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Employer(s) | Google Ameelio Emerge Career |
Gabriel Saruhashi is a Japanese-Brazilian civic technologist and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CTO at Ameelio, and the founder and CEO of Emerge Career. He was listed in Forbes 30 Under 30 and Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business.
Career
Gabriel is the co-founder and CTO of Ameelio.[1], a technology nonprofit building free communications and educational tools for incarcerated communities and their loved ones. Ameelio serves families in Iowa, Colorado, and Maine at no cost.[2][3] . Ameelio was named a Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas in Social Justice [4] and received a New York Times Good Tech Award [5]. They received funding from Jack Dorsey, Eric Schmidt, [6], Reid Hoffman[3], among others.
He is also the co-founder and CEO of Emerge Career, a public benefit corporation that aims to create a prison-to-employment pipeline.[7]
University
Gabriel was a student at Yale University, where he studied computer science and psychology and received the Clara Lionel Foundation Global Scholarship [8].
Awards and honors
- 2016 WISE Learner's Voice Fellow
- 2017 Ashoka Young Changemaker [9]
- 2021 Ozy Genius[10]
- 2021 Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business[11]
- 2021 Forbes Next 1000[12]
- 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30[13]
References
- ^ "Ameelio About Us". Ameelio. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
- ^ Coldewey, Devin. "Ameelio's free video calling service for inmates goes live at first facilities". TechCrunch. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
- ^ a b Zabasajja, Jennifer. "Can a Nonprofit Disrupt the Pricey Prison Phone Industry?". Bloomberg.
- ^ Peters, Adele. "This app is making it free for incarcerated people to make video calls". Fast Company. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
- ^ Roose, Kevin. "The 2021 Good Tech Awards". New York Times. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
- ^ Au-Yeung, Angel. "The Prison Communications Nonprofit Backed By Twitter's Jack Dorsey And Former Google Chief Eric Schmidt". Forbes. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
- ^ Caffrey, Jane. "Emerge Career Creates Pipeline From Prison to the Workforce". NBC. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
- ^ Alden Branch, Mark. "Sending a message". Retrieved 2022-12-23.
- ^ Fallender, Claire. "A common passion for changemaking unites two Brazilian teens from different backgrounds". Ashoka.
- ^ Jamieson, Kiam (2021-07-26). "HE'S TAKING ON THE FOR-PROFIT PRISON TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY". Fast Company. Retrieved 2022-12-23.
- ^ Shi, Diana (2020-08-10). "These two founders are breaking the prison industrial complex one letter at a time". Fast Company. Retrieved 2022-12-23.
- ^ "Forbes Next 1000". Forbes. Retrieved 2022-12-23.
- ^ "Forbes 30 Under 30 2021: Social Impact". Forbes. Retrieved 2022-12-23.