Mariam Nusrat - Breshna

Mariam Nusrat is a US-based Pakistani entrepreneur with 7 years in the purposeful video games sector and 12 years of experience in the Edtech space, working at the World Bank across 22 countries. For this work, she has been recognized on the Forbes Next 1000 List and received the Clinton Global Initiative University Honor Roll Alumni Award.

Her initiative, GRID, is a tech startup unleashing video games' power for social change. Their platform, Breshna.io, empowers users to create, share, and monetize their educational video games with no code and at lightning speed; think Canva for video games. They are on a mission to empower the next 100m people to tell their stories through video games.