21 Columbians Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 2025

Congratulations to the 21 Columbians who secured a coveted spot on the Forbes "30 Under 30" North America list for 2025!

Education:

• Avalon Fenster ’24BC, Founder, Internship Girl
• Charitie Ropati ’24SEAS, Founder, lilnativegirlinSTEM
• Joon Baek ’21CC, ’28SEAS and Zino Haro ’20SEAS, Co-founders, Youth for Privacy

Media:

• Deja Foxx’23CC, FounderGenZ Girl Gang
• Aija Mayrock  ’24BUS, Author

Marketing and Advertising:

• Eli Cohen ’26SPS, Founder, Osmos

Healthcare:

• Nikita Singareddy ’17CC, Co-Founder Fortuna Health
• Sahir Jaggi ’17SEAS, Founder, Tandem

Finance:

• Jenny (Xiang) Chen ’22SEAS, Trader, Citadel Securities
• Chandana Rao ’19SEAS, Senior Quantitative Researcher, WorldQuant

Art and Style:

• Yuri Yuan ’21SOA, Artist

Venture Capital:

• Zehra Naqvi ’21CC, Investor, Headline Ventures
• Jenny Xiao ’21GSAS, ’23GSAS, ’28GSAS, Partner, Leonis Capital

Science:

• Justin Bui ’19SEAS, Incoming Assistant Professor, New York University

Energy and Green Tech:

• Vignesh Karthik ’26SEAS, Connor Lee ’26SEAS, and Ankit Singhal ’26CC, Cofounders Anthrogen
• Hannah Friedman ’19CC, ’21SPS, Founding Principal, Planeteer Capital
• Gizem Karagoz ’17BC, ’22GSAPP, Senior Project Manager, New York City Economic Development
• Luke Mairo ’22SPS, Cofounder, Voltpost
  
   

*Congratulations to Mariami Maghlakelidze ’22GSAPP, who received the Forbes "30 under 30" for 2024 Georgia in the Science Category.