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  • Newsday “Touro University students take apart prosthetic limbs for reuse in other countries”
  • Current Deputy Director Elevated to Lead Penta “Penta Medical Recycling Names Anna Szczepanek as New Executive Director” 
  • Penta Selected as FNL Fellow “National Fellowship Program Announces Second Cohort of Emerging Social Change Leaders”
  • Penta Brings on New Team Member “Penta Medical Recycling Names Jeffrey Woolverton as New Director of Development”
  • Medium| Authority Magazine “Social Impact Heroes: Why & How Henry Iseman of Penta Medical Recycling Is Helping To Change Our World”
  • The Brown Daily Herald “Nonprofit sends used prosthetics to patients in Vietnam”
  • Inc. “Yale Startup Recycles Americans Prosthetics to Help Amputees Abroad”
  • New Haven Register “Yale, Brown students creating a nonprofit to send prosthetics to amputees in Vietnam”
  • Yale News “Prosthetics project wins dean’s prize”
  • Yale News “Dwight Hall chooses social ventures to support”
  • OZY “A solution to Vietnam’s amputee problem?”
  • The O&P Edge “A Push for Recycled Prosthetic Devices, Expertise”
  • The Brunswick Group “Waste that Costs an Arm and a Leg”
  • Waste 360 “Medical Recycler Provides Repurposed Prosthetics to Developing Countries”
  • PIX11 “Amputee ballerina shares her inspiring story after Dance for Mobility Fundraiser”
  • 12News “12-year-old cancer survivor, amputee wins electric bike in dance competition”
  • Voices of Vellore “Scudder Association Foundation Helps Forge Life-Changing Partnership Between CMC and Penta Prosthetics”
  • Executorium “Guide to Donation of Prosthetic Equipment”

Prizes and Recognition

  • Forbes – 2019 Healthcare 30 Under 30
  • Clinton Global Initiative and Clinton Global Foundation one-year grant
    (selected out of 600 applicants worldwide)
  • Venture Launch Award
  • Social Innovation Fellowship from Brown Swearer Center for Public Service
  • Yale Entrepreneurial Institute Fellowship
  • Yale College Dean’s Challenge on Social Innovation
  • Jack Ringer Fellowship from Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
  • First place for ChangeFest Social Impact Hackathon
  • Social Innovation lab at Yale Dwight Hall for Public Service
  • OZY x JP Morgan Genius Award
  • Second Place for Brown Student Agency Social Impact Competition
  • Brown UCS New Initiative Fund Recipient (two time winner)
  • McKinsey Women’s Impact Award
  • Kairos Society Ventures
  • Brown Venture Prize
  • Yale’s Rothberg Catalyzer Prize
  • Bay Area Global Health Innovation Challenge
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