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Welcome to Summit Impact’s 2025 Lab landing page!
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The 2025 Summit Impact Lab is an 8-month program for early-stage or inflection-point founders and entrepreneurs, designed to redefine how they build and sustain reciprocal relationships. Rooted in the belief that authentic, generous relationships are the foundation of systemic change, and grounded in ecological and relational science, the Lab helps Fellows evolve their thinking and approach to connection—starting with themselves and expanding to their work and ecosystems. By the end of the program, Fellows will gain clarity of purpose, a stronger capacity for authentic collaboration, and a network activated to support their growth and impact.
Fellows are welcomed into the Summit community and guided through transformative experiences such as the Welcome Retreat and Summit Series Detroit flagship. These immersive touchpoints are paired with personalized coaching to help Fellows develop new relational strategies and move beyond transactional interactions toward authentic, reciprocal partnerships. At the heart of the Lab are Super Connectors, who leverage their unique expertise to make intentional, high-impact introductions tailored to each Fellow’s strategic goals.
Together, these elements ensure Fellows are equipped with the tools, relationships, and mindset to catalyze meaningful change.
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**Miriam Volat. Director of Strategic Relationships, Indigenous Medicine Conservation Initiative**
Indigenous rights · climate
Miriam Volat is an educator, organizer, facilitator and ecologist with a passion for soils and nutrient cycles. She works Nationally and Internationally to increase health in all systems. She is dedicated to the biocultural conservation of Peyote and other medicines supported by the IMC Fund, and works in any way she can to ensure the conservation of these medicines for Indigenous communities and their precious ways of life.
As an Indigenous-led philanthropic vehicle the Indigenous Medicine Conservation (IMC) works to ensure the resilience of their Peoples in the face of cultural appropriation, environmental extractivism, human rights violations and climate change.
🔗 imc.fund
https://www.instagram.com/imcfund/
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Manvendra Singh Shekhawat. Founder, Dhun Jaipur
sustainable agriculture · climate
A quintessential explorer and creator at heart. Manvendra’s work reflects generational thinking and his love for culture, creativity and experience design.
His greatest quest is to innovate on the future of liveability. He lives at his sandbox project, Dhun, where he and his team transformed 500 acres of barren land into a thriving ecosphere, and are now synthesizing traditional knowledge systems and exponential technology in building a regenerative master planned community for 8500 people.
https://www.instagram.com/manvendrasinghshekhawat
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**Cristina Canazares Pearse. Founder & CEO, Protea Foundation**
Mental health · psychedelic therapy
Protea Foundation focuses on three areas: (1) access to individual treatment, specifically for marginalized populations; (2) therapist training; and (3) education supporting resilience and trauma prevention.
As a science-driven foundation, Protea Foundation acknowledges the extraordinary miracle that precedes this moment: you’re here, and we’re so grateful for it. Gratitude leads our mission. Thank you for being exactly who you are, exactly as you are, and tuned in to our mission. Your voice is welcome as we expand awareness of what the world might be like with absolute respect and tolerance for one another despite oppressive structures that persist through human existence.
https://www.instagram.com/proteafoundation/
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**Genevieve Ennis. Co-Founder, Infrastructure Intelligence Lab**
AI · emergency response cybersecurity · risk communication · community engagement
Genevieve is a data ethicist and technologist focused on risk, resilience and complex systems. As Co-Founder of the Infrastructure Intelligence Lab, she cultivates rigorous and practical policy to address the geopolitical and climate impacts of AI.
https://www.instagram.com/genevievehume
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**Sophia Mahfooz. Founder, CEO, Back Humanity**
Human migration · refugees
Like a startup on steroids Back Humanity has responded to two humanitarian crises. What started as a volunteer lead effort from entrepreneurs, engineers and students from Silicon Valley grew to a structured, organization providing on the ground support to families in Afghanistan and again during the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Back Humanity is building a country on the internet for ‘refugees’ stateless people. By building digital solutions that empower you if you suddenly become displaced. This means providing nation state services to people who become stateless.
Putting the power back in the hands of people who become stateless, reducing the time people are displaced and supporting healthy integration is the key focus. Back Humanity believes that technology has the power to impact lives in the humanitarian system and want to build digital solutions that empower the 100m people displaced.
https://www.instagram.com/sophiawmahfooz/
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**Christina Gosnell. Co-Founder & President, Catalyst Cooperative**
Climate · energy · data
Catalyst Cooperative sets energy data free. Public energy data is too hard to access, especially for people working in the public interest. Catalyst was created to help more people bring data and analysis to the fight for clean energy and a stable climate.
Christina Gosnell has spent the last decade researching and organizing to advance climate and energy policy. As the president and co-founder of Catalyst Cooperative, she enjoys working at the intersection of public data, utility policy, and database design.
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**Kevin Cannella. Co-Founder & Executive Director, Thank You Life**
mental health · psychedelic therapy
Kevin Cannella is a MAPS-trained psychedelic psychotherapist with a story woven in transformation. For over 15 years, he has explored the power of non-ordinary states—both personally and professionally—to guide others back to their core values and true selves. Yet, one fundamental truth has become clear: healing should not be a privilege—it should be a right.
As co-founder and Executive Director of Thank You Life, he is dedicated to making these transformative treatments available to all. His mission is simple: to open the doors of healing so that more people can reclaim their lives, find their purpose, and thrive.
https://www.instagram.com/kev.on.purpose/?hl=en
https://www.instagram.com/thankyoulife_fund
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