Maritza Alarcon is possibly the happiest Millennial Train rider ever. Currently focused on writing, Alarcon’s MTP project was all about developing her book, I Am Happiest, a field guide to happiness.
Alarcon has been featured on BuzzFeed as one of “21 Amazing Role Models for Ambitious Twentysomethings” and was honored at Carnegie Hall for Glamour Magazine’s “20 Amazing Young Women” ceremony.
Former soldier and Bronze Star Veteran Maceo Keeling boarded the Millennial Train as a means to collaborate with his peers and learn their collective needs.
Keeling founded Citizens of Culture, a media platform that seeks to inspire young people to take an active role in shaping the future and changing the world. The site encourages contributions from poetry to social commentary, and there is a non-fiction book club offshoot that culminates in real-time Twitter chats in which users can critically analyze and discuss the reads.
Maceo believes we all have an obligation to better ourselves and society through art and entrepreneurship. His overall goal is to determine, by any means necessary, how to engage millennials in a nationwide dialogue with one another.
Kalimah Priforce is Headmaster and CEO of Qeyno Labs, which seeks to harness the interests of high-potential, low-opportunity youth in areas of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM).
Priforce’s Qeyno Labs is a leading provider in youth hackathons and seeks to empower youth of low-opportunity environments by providing access to technology and education. His Millennial Trains project was to launching a new form of Hackathon—The Gathering of Nations Hackathon that focuses on Native youth on and off reservation communities.
Priforce has been recognized by the White House as a Champion of Change and started the “My Brother’s Keeper” Hackathon that strongly aligned with President Obama’s call-to-action for organizations and communities to work together to improve the lives of men of color.