It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

Clinical Assistant Professor 

Child & Family Studies

The University of Tennessee Knoxville 

Tanvi Girotra is a Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award recipient who works as an advisor, trainer and coach to social impact organizations and mission-oriented leaders across the globe. Tanvi founded Becoming I Foundation - one of India’s biggest young people’s movement focused on getting young people connected with community development and activism. She is the Vice Chair, Board of Directors of Fora - a center of excellence for young women’s leadership and was the National Advisor for GirlTrek - America’s largest health movement for black women.

Tanvi has been awarded the Karamveer Puraskar for Justice and Citizen Action and her work has been recognized at the UN. She has been invited to speak at the World Economic Forum at Davos, UN ECOSOC, UN WOMEN at the EU Development Days, the Clinton Global Initiative and at various TEDx conferences.

Tanvi holds a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University where she frequently returns to teach and coach various student programs and fellowships on value-based leadership and storytelling.

She calls New York and New Delhi home.

Naseem Khuri is a trainer, consultant, and facilitator specializing in negotiation, influence, and conflict management. He has founded and works with a variety of organizations that help people manage internal and external conflicts, and improve how they negotiate and collaborate with others.

He also teaches international negotiation at the Fletcher School at Tufts University and at Georgetown University.

In the private sector, his clients include leading venture capital firms and Fortune 500 manufacturing and tech companies. In the public and NGO sectors, he works with a variety of clients including legislators from all fifty U.S. states, Israeli and Palestinian officials, and U.S. Navy SEALs.

Khuri has a master in public policy degree from Harvard Kennedy School and a bachelor of arts degree from Bowdoin College. He lives in Silver Spring, MD with his wife and two young, very energetic children.

It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

Quang Do is the President & CEO of Create Birmingham, bringing over a decade of experience in philanthropy, workforce development, and strategic community investment to champion the city’s creative economy. A former Program Officer and a recognized White House Champion of Change and Aspen Institute Fellow, Quang is focused on cementing Create Birmingham’s role as the definitive central hub for all creative industries, from film and design to music and digital media.

A deeply committed arts advocate and spoken word artist, his leadership is rooted in the belief that the creative sector is essential to economic vitality and is working to establish Birmingham as the storytelling capital of the South. Create Birmingam's mission is to translate creative potential into sustainable economic opportunity, ensuring artists, entrepreneurs, and storytellers not only survive but thrive.

It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.