8 Under 30

Tsechu Dolma
Tsechu Dolma

Tsechu Dolma ’13BC, ’15SIPA 
Social Entrepreneurship

Dolma founded the Mountain Resiliency Project, which addresses poverty and hunger in her native Tibet. 

 

Kendall Tucker
Kendall Tucker

Kendall Tucker ’14CC 
Law & Policy 

Tucker is the CEO and cofounder of Polis, which is working to improve mobile canvassing and campaign analytics.

 

Emma Cline
Emma Cline

Emma Cline ’13SOA
Media

Cline’s first novel, The Girls, which follows a Charles Manson–like cult, spent twelve weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.

 

Xiyin Tang
Xiyin Tang

Xiyin Tang ’09CC
Law & Policy

Tang is an intellectual-property lawyer who has represented Google, Spotify, and Amazon in copyright and digital-streaming cases. She also teaches at Yale Law School.

 

Matthew Lovett-Barron
Matthew Lovett-Barron

Matthew Lovett-Barron ’14GSAS
Science

Lovett-Barron is a neuroscience researcher at Stanford, where he focuses on how brain cells produce alertness, motivation, and emotion.

 

Sabrina-Natasha Habib
Sabrina-Natasha Habib

Sabrina-Natasha Habib ’16SIPA
Social Entrepreneurship

Habib is the cofounder of Kidogo, which provides early-childhood care and education in East Africa’s urban slums.

 

Lishan Az
Lishan Az

Lishan Az ’12SEAS
Gaming

Az designed On the Safe Side, a game that helps new students navigate the USC campus, where she is an MFA student.

 

Nicole Moskowitz
Nicole Moskowitz

Nicole Moskowitz ’15SEAS
Health Care 

Moskowitz is the cofounder and CEO of IntuiTap, which uses imaging technology, pressure sensors, and predictive analytics to make spinal taps more accurate and less painful.