Nicole Cardoza is the founder of Yoga Foster, a nonprofit that empowers school teachers with yoga for the classroom. A former yoga instructor in schools, she saw the benefits of the practice first-hand and left a career in tech to pursue Yoga Foster full time in 2014. Since then, it’s reached over 1,500 educators in 500 schools across the country, powered by community engagement and key partnerships with Let’s Move and lululemon. She recently launched dahla, a digital platform to foster money-positivity for women.

A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, TEDx Speaker, and a 2016 Camelback Fellow, she has been featured in SELF Magazine, Paper Magazine, Family Circle Magazine and NowThis News.