About Us
Scroll down to learn about our story & meet our team!
Our Story
Hopelessness. Despair. Loss.
We, Gen-Z, have grown up bombarded with a polarized news cycle and social media systems designed to tear us apart.
But rather than give in to pessimism, we have chosen to rise up. We have proven time and time again that we are more than just the generation of the hopeless, but of students, of game-changers, of activists.

By building sustainable awareness on social issues through breaking echo chambers, catalyzing informed and lasting actions, and producing a generation of future change makers, we will create a ripple effect of social impact.
The EP Values

Equity

Sustainability
Positively Charged
Our Team






Leadership


Susie Kim
Fun Fact
I enjoy shows from all around the world: Japanese, Korean, American, British, etc. I'm currently into Spanish dramas and learning Spanish.
What draws you to social change?
I enjoy shows from all around the world: Japanese, Korean, American, British, etc. I'm currently into Spanish dramas and learning Spanish.

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Amy Nguyen
Fun Fact
I enjoy shows from all around the world: Japanese, Korean, American, British, etc. I'm currently into Spanish dramas and learning Spanish.
What draws you to social change?
I enjoy shows from all around the world: Japanese, Korean, American, British, etc. I'm currently into Spanish dramas and learning Spanish.

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Senior Staff



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Board of Directors
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Olivia Dufour
Bio
Olivia’s passion for social advocacy can be traced back to 2008 when she founded two nonprofit initiatives to fight mental health stigma and combat human trafficking. She has served as a Social Protection Ambassador for the United Nations, where she spent significant time over the past decade crafting policy on educational equity and the advancement of women and girls. Olivia has spoken at The Commission on the Status of Women, UN Women, and the Girls Inspire Girls Conference.


Susie Kim
Bio
Susie had never imagined becoming an activist, but would often find herself pouring her heart out in front of a crowd with a coarse voice. That was the case when she was 13, raising awareness on human rights violations in armed conflict as a part of Amnesty International Canada, or at age 17, on a solo protest to protect spoonbill habitat against a private landfill company, or at 23, handing over signatures of 13,000 students to the Korean congress to petition for federal student aid. Then, in 2015, while co-founding Pluto Money, she met Gen Z. The entire generation fired up for social change stole her heart, and it became her personal mission to provide them with the resources and support needed to succeed in their social change journey and implement wide-scale changes around the globe. Today, she is working on that mission as the Founder and Executive Director of Electric Potential.

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Keenan Johnson
Bio
Keenan is the founder of Ribbit Network, a nonprofit building the world's largest crowdsourced network of open-source Greenhouse Gas detection sensors for climate actions. Keenan started his career in space exploration. After 5 years at SpaceX, he co-founded Impossible Aerospace to prove that it was possible to eliminate carbon emissions from aircraft today. After Impossible, he joined the early teams at several startups including a public benefit corporation developing autonomous underwater vehicles to map the ocean floor and a next-generation accelerator for climate innovation. He also serves on the advisory board for several startups and non-profits and has the chance to serve early-stage startup founders and corporations through his personal coaching and consulting practice.

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Tim Yu
Bio
Tim Yu is a mission-driven product leader that has improved economic mobility and access to affordable financial services for millions of underserved Americans. He co-founded Pluto Money (Techstars-backed) as CEO, pioneering financial wellness tools for Gen Z students across thousands of colleges. At TrueML, he led the consumer experience of their flagship digital collections platform, making debt collections more humane for millions. Today, he leads the first credit card to ever be offered by a Public Benefit Corporation at Possible Finance, helping low-income Americans access affordable credit. He serves as a Board member and product advisor at Electric Potential, mentors founders and product managers, and is co-founder of a music community in NYC called Coastal Jams.
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Megan Groves
Bio
Megan Groves brings deep experience commercializing new technology and building companies to create positive change in society. She is a repeat exited founder currently focused on improving environmental health. Her drive for impact has led her to serve as a marketing executive for dozens of venture-backed startups, and play an active role in the growth of several others as a hands-on advisor and angel investor.
She has a strong commitment to health and human rights, and previously participated on the Board of Advisors for the Gluten Intolerance Group (GIG) of North America. She is energized to help Electric Potential in its mission to catalyze Gen Z to become agents of change.

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Katarina Smith
Bio
Katarina is passionate about creating impactful, accessible educational opportunities. She currently supports ambitious teens in building their biggest dreams through entrepreneurship with programs at BETA Camp & Prequel. Previously, she launched, developed, scaled, and ran programs for thousands of students and early-career individuals at On Deck, an EdTech startup, and UBC Geering
Up, a non-profit organization.
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Avriel Epps-Darling
Bio
Avriel Epps-Darling is a computational social scientist, Ph.D. candidate in Human Development at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, M.S. in Data Science from Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Presidential Scholar, and Ford Foundation predoctoral fellow. Her doctoral research focuses on how adolescent racial and gender identity development is influenced by bias in digital products. Her work illuminates the impact of algorithm design and computer-mediated social expectations—communicated through personalized recommendation systems and information filters—on youths’ beliefs and behavior.


Advisors

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Alumni





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