Meet the 2018 Candidates

Read about each individual applicant, or dive into all their pitch videos on our YouTube playlist.

Zahra B. Majid
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Joshua Pearson
Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Dennis Billups
San Francisco, California, USA
Sharmese Anderson
Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
Michael McCulloch
Houston, Texas, USA
Brendan Patrick
Ferndale, Michigan, USA
Dario Sorgato
Berlin, Germany
Nicole Schultz-Kass
Woodbury, Minnesota, USA
Edward Babin
New York, New York, USA
Divyanshu Ganatra
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Sharyl Brockett
Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Joy Mistovich
Boardman, Ohio, USA
Zeljko Bajic
Sarajevo, Bosnia
Vincent Otyang
San Francisco, California, USA
Katie Corbett
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Red Szell
Red Szell, UK
2018 Holman Prizewinner
Becky Andrews
Bountiful, Utah, USA
Christopher Sacca
Longwood, Florida, USA
Jeri Cooper
Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Sandeep Kumar
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Nelida Torres
Orlando, Florida, USA
Johnny Tai
Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
Kürşat Ceylan
Istanbul, Turkey
Robert Jaquiss
Missoula, Montana, USA
Alieu Jaiteh
Banjul, Serrekunda, Gambia
Georgina Hollinshead
Matlock, Derbyshire, UK
Nathan Gibbs
Clifton Springs, New York, USA
Anna Laura Gastaldi
Padova, Italy
Mary Mammoliti
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Kellsea Phillips
Beverly, Massachusetts, USA