Juvenis Leadership comprises Princeton University students and a recent Princeton University alum who passionately believe in the power of the Internet to expand opportunity for young people across America who lack access to reliable information upon which to build their futures.

Federico Baradello, Co-Founder & Executive Director, is a native of Northern California and the son of Argentinean immigrants to the United States. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and a Master in Public Policy Candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School. A graduate of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, he is also a Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) Fellow and a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar. Federico has a track record of connecting ideas with action. As a liaison in Perú for Motorola and the Discovery Channel in Peru, he helped to launch the first Proyecto Plata initiative in 2000. He has also been an instructor at UC Berkeley ATDP's innovative Internet Classroom, and participated in both World Summits on the Information Society as a member of its Youth Caucus. At the London School of Economics, he is a Co-Founder and Chair of the Migration Studies Unit, the only organization of its kind in the City of London that organizes research interest in migration studies across the London University system. In 2004, Federico founded Juvenis, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides an innovative web portal serving disadvantaged U.S. youth.

Shawn Kothari, Co-Founder and Managing Director, is a native of the greater Chicago area and is the son of Indian immigrants. As a sophomore at Princeton University, he intends to major in Economics with a certificate in African-American Studies. His interest in the fields of immigration and community development began in high school when he served as an ESL tutor at a public charter school on the South Side of Chicago. Shawn spent last summer as an intern at The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, where he studied ways to improve ESL education and researched unique methods to finance citizenship applications.

Lucas Baradello, Co-Founder and Managing Director, is a native of Marin County, California and the son of Argentinean immigrants to the United States. He is an undergraduate student at Princeton University, concentrating at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and earning certificates in East Asian and Near Eastern Studies. Lucas has interned for the International Air Transport Association (IATA) in Geneva, Switzerland and Global Action Foundation (GAF) in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Lucas speaks native Spanish, proficient Chinese, and possesses a working knowledge of French and Modern Standard Arabic. He is a National Merit Scholar Finalist, a National Merit Hispanic Scholar, a Presidential Freedom Scholar, and a National Coca-Cola Scholar.