<p>The young disruptors, innovators and entrepreneurs on our annual listing of the 30 under [the age of] 30 are impatient to change the world. In each of 15 categories, ranging from technology to Hollywood to social entrepreneurs, FORBES editors and reporters worked with panels of expert judges to choose the fields brightest stars under the age of 30. In sum they represent the entrepreneurial, creative and intellectual best of their generation. Individually, they are surprising, engaging, and hard working. . . . (continued)</p>
<p>30</a> Under 30: Meet The Innovators, Disruptors And Brightest Stars Of 2012 - Forbes</p>
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<p>This year 15 of these young honorees had done their undergraduate work at Princeton. (There were others on the list who had done graduate work at Princeton as well.) </p>
<p>Carter Cleveland 09 </p>
<p>In 2009, while studying computer science at Princeton, Cleveland co-founded Art.sy, which uses collectors' preferences to match them with artworks online. Backers include Wendi Murdoch, billionaire Peter Thiel and mega-art dealer Larry Gagosian.</p>
<p>Jeremy Johnson 07 </p>
<p>2U, which until October had been called 2tor, is a pioneer in offering for-credit graduate level coursework, beginning with master's degrees from the likes of the University of Southern California and Georgetown. The company, which Johnson cofounded with Princeton Review founder John Katzman and former Hooked on Phonics CEO Chip Paucek, has raised $96 million in venture capital and recently announced its first ever undergraduate courses offered by a consortium of top-tier universities including Duke, Northwestern and Vanderbilt. "</p>
<p>Catharine Bellinger 12
Alexis Morin 12 </p>
<p>Founded SFER while they were undergraduates at Princeton in 2009. They set out to mobilize college students to advocate for K-12 education reform in the voting booth and in state capitols, a mission that has grown to 136 chapters in 33 states. SFER is scaling so quickly that its founders put their own educations on hold for a year; they are now balancing a senior year courseload and leading the organization.</p>
<p>Jefferson Pestronk 05 </p>
<p>For the past three years, Pestronk has focused on policy and programs in educational research and development at the U.S. Department of Education (ED). His work included overseeing the design and execution of the Investing in Innovation program and leading the ED's efforts to create the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Education.</p>
<p>Eden Full 15</p>
<p>Invented low-cost solar tracking system to be deployed in developing countries and is a Thiel Foundation fellow.</p>
<p>Daniel Ahn 04</p>
<p>Ph.D in economics from Harvard at 22 and worked for John Nash at Princeton. Teaches at Columbia University, testified before Congress in 2012 about the job-creating implications of the shale gas revolution. Daniel graduated from Princeton in three years and then did his PhD in three years after that.</p>
<p>Jonathan Berger 90</p>
<p>Played basketball at Princeton, where he studied economics. Now runs an equity derivatives portfolio at a $4 billion Chicago hedge fund. Grew up in Philadelphia and learned to trade at Citadel.</p>
<p>Mathe Mosny 06</p>
<p>Born in Manhattan, but partly grew up in Austria. Co-runs an event-driven trading book, one of the largest portfolios at Neil Chriss' hedge fund. Graduated from Princeton with a degree in operations research and financial engineering.</p>
<p>John Locke 06</p>
<p>Venture capital investor focussing recently on payments business. Helped lead growth-stage investments in companies like Braintree, Rovio and LightSpeed. Princeton politics major from Cleveland.</p>
<p>Schuster Tanger 08</p>
<p>Used to work for Dan Loeb and Goldman Sachs; now chief investment officer of $65 million New York hedge fund he started with backing from his family, which made its money in outlet shopping malls, and other investors.</p>
<p>Joel Alicea 10</p>
<p>Summa cum laude Princeton grad heads Harvard Law's Federalist Society, activist for intellectual diversity, clerking on Ninth Circuit next year.</p>
<p>Michael Fragoso 06</p>
<p>Widely published on the issue of bioethics, law, and public policy. Served as an accredited lobbyist to the United Nations for the Family Research Council's Center for Human Life and Bioethics.</p>
<p>Uzoamaka Maduka 09</p>
<p>Starting a literary magazine that encapsulates the spirit of the age is the sort of thing precocious young Ivy League types love to do, but The American Reader has caught the attention of a notable number of heavy hitters in the world of letters. Maduka, a Nigerian-American Princeton grad, is its editor in chief.</p>
<p>Jason Aramburu 07</p>
<p>Aramburu uses biochar to help farmers in East Africa fight climate change and grow more food. Biochar is made from crop and animal waste; for a $60 investment, a farmer saves $200 annually, boosts crop yield 26%, and reduced chemical fertilizer consumption by 80%.</p>