Elisa Sednaoui Dellal is an Italian, French, and Egyptian social entrepreneur. Raised between Europe and Egypt and now based in the United States, Elisa’s passion for education, cultural exchange, and integration led her to found Funtasia, a global initiative focused on reimagining education through a character-building lens.

Elisa began her career in fashion and cinema at a young age. Having worked with some of the most prestigious brands and professionals in these fields, including Chanel, Armani, Missoni, Buccellati, and Oscar winner Paolo Sorrentino, she became a muse to Karl Lagerfeld and Christian Louboutin, who even dedicated a handbag in her name. In 2015, she was appointed godmother of the Venice Film Festival, before transitioning fully into the world of education and social entrepreneurship. Here, she found her purpose.

In 2013, Elisa chose to focus on social impact by launching Funtasia, which today operates across Egypt, Italy, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and the USA. The organization designs and delivers experiential educational programs for children, parents, and educators, with a focus on social-emotional learning, self-awareness, and expressive communication. These soft skills are essential for helping young people navigate the challenges of today’s world—including the pressures of technology—and to prepare them for the job market of tomorrow, while improving their overall quality of life.

In 2022, Elisa co-authored her first bestselling book, Nobody Can Hurt You Without Your Permission, with linguistic intelligence expert Paolo Borzacchiello. The book supports adolescents and adults in cultivating self-esteem, self-awareness, and more meaningful human connection through accessible cognitive-behavioral tools. It has been translated into French, Arabic, Serbian, with the English edition coming soon.

Today, Elisa continues to expand Funtasia’s global impact and is also completing her first university degree in business psychology.

Dorentina Cakaj is a Creative Director and Visual Artist. Before working in the entertainment and advertising industry she started her career curating. In 2015, she led one of the largest street art galleries in the United States working with artists like Erykah Badu, Carrie Fisher, Tyler Shields, and other global artists focusing primarily on modern and graffiti art. Currently, her study revolves around psychology, sociology, and future trends that push conversations toward action by initiating new waves and tackling to solve problems on better solutions towards how we all live, move, and work.  As a Creative Director, she works closely with celebrity and individual clientele, entrepreneurs, agencies, and brands on a wide range of projects from music, fashion, lifestyle, tech, interiors, and education. Dorentina has worked for companies such as Google, HODINKEE Magazine, Bergdorf Goodman, Nike, New Balance, FILA, Ralph Lauren, and more.

Sara Cravero is a group facilitator, trainer and education professional with a mixed background in both education and technical field. Ph.D. in environmental engineering, with post-degree training in social-emotional learning, she has managed multidisciplinary education, sanitation, gender equality, multi-cultural relations and inclusion programs in Italy, the U.S., Egypt, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, and Kenya for the past twenty years. The range of her experience includes management of in-person and online programs, youth and adult training, creative and community facilitation, project and content designing, technical and strategic planning, and monitoring and evaluation. Passionate about the power of words and thoughts, curious about the world, and madly in love with her three children, she enjoys seeing herself as a long-life learner and a constant life force in motion.

Jared Craft understands the power of content and has spent his career helping organizations tell their stories across media platforms: social, video, web, and TV. As founder of Craft Alan, Jared handles content and business strategy for an array of clients across CPG, beauty, hospitality, and entertainment. His career began managing social content for public figures and evolved to strategy roles at Target, Viacom, Google, and most recently YouTube, where he handled North American content strategy for their Entertainment, News & Sports verticals. Through employers and private consulting, he has developed and executed community, content, and media strategies for organizations such as P&G, Amazon, and World Economic Forum.

Georgina Merhom is an entrepreneur, investor, and startup advisor. Prior to founding financial technology startup SOLO, she was working in global governance on innovation policy and non-traditional security threats. Georgina is ushering in the transition of Funtasia’s financial sustainability model through the introduction of for-profit products that fund non-profit activities and remove dependency on fundraising. 

Cecilia Aburto is a Mexican pedagogue and visual communication designer working at Funtasia as a creative facilitator and graphic content creator. She has experience in the pedagogy of death, life skills, and socio-emotional teaching in childhood through art, play, and design.  Cecilia is passionate about educating through the creation of illustrated books, as well as giving workshops transforming issues of social conflicts, using the different creative tools as a form to put it into practice teamwork, protest, self-awareness as well as giving importance to the voice of children, who through these projects are seen and heard as individuals part of our society, but most important, caring and changing the world for good.

SherryWilliam obtained her law degree from Harvard Law School in 2010 and her Bachelor's degree in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of California Los Angeles in 2006. Ms. William provides legal, business, and strategic advice to companies of all sizes, individuals, governments, and financial institutions, domestically and internationally. She is fluent in Arabic and conversant in Spanish, is licensed to practice law in California and New York, and holds a real estate broker license in both California and New York. Ms. William, her spouse, and two daughters reside in Los Angeles.