Four MBAs Receive 2025-26 Skip and Carrie Gordon Scholarships
Business+Impact (B+I) is pleased to announce that Nate Fisher (MBA/MURP ‘26), Felipe Sahb Furtado, MD (MBA ‘26), Sunny Huang (MBA/MPP ‘26), and Jasmin Lopez (MBA ‘26) are the recipients of the 2025-26 Skip and Carrie Gordon Scholarships for outstanding commitment to solving complex social challenges. The award comes with $7,500 for each recipient. Gordon Scholars serve as B+I Student Ambassadors for the 2025-26 academic year.
Learn more about each of them by reading highlights about them:
Nate Fisher (MBA/MURP ‘26) is a Michigan and Ross supporter through and through. Five years after receiving a BBA from Ross, he took on the Ross MBA and Masters in Urban Planning. In the interim, he was a consultant at Deloitte in Detroit, with a focus on mobility, sustainability, and economic development. Since starting his Masters degrees, he has interned at the Kresge Foundation in Detroit and has begun working for the City of Detroit, and he took the Impact Studio Course. He is also Co-President of the Detroit Initiative at Ross, and he served as a Board Fellow at COTS in Detroit, where he worked with American Cities on evaluating social enterprise opportunities amid federal funding cuts. Nate resides in Detroit with his wife, where he’s also involved in leadership roles at his local church and neighborhood association. After graduation, he will join Deloitte Detroit as a Senior Consultant, focused on ESG, infrastructure and transportation, and supporting nonprofits.
Felipe Sahb Furtado, MD (MBA ‘26) Felipe began his career as a physician in Brazil, because he wanted to make a direct difference in people’s lives. But, believing he could drive more systemic change through prevention more than treatment, he moved to Massachusetts General Hospital to work on medical innovations for cancer diagnosis. Felipe moved back to Brazil to join an early-stage startup focused on disrupting the telemedicine market and making quality care more accessible to everyone, including remote and underserved indigenous communities. There, he built and scaled a platform that grew to serve over 3 million patients. Now fully engaged in entrepreneurship, he moved his focus to an MBA at Ross. While here, he was selected as Applebaum Impact Design Fellow in the Impact Studio and served on the research teams of the Urban Entrepreneurship Initiative and the UM Center for Entrepreneurship. After graduation, he will join McKinsey & Company in Detroit and contribute to efforts that improve healthcare delivery and equity. He plans to continue work with the Urban Entrepreneurship Initiative.
Sunny Huang (MBA/MPP ‘26) is a dynamic professional and former Fulbrighter with 6 years of international entrepreneurial/intrapreneurial experience in the social impact and community development space. She received a BA in Sociology from Lehigh University and studied Chinese Language and Literature at the National Cheng Kung University. While at Lehigh, she was a tutor for incarcerated students and a founding member of the Council for Equity and Community. While a Fulbright Taiwan Scholar, she taught English in two remote indigenous countries during Covid. In the next few years, she pursued social impact consulting with Sorenson in Utah. Here at UM, Sunny has been involved with Ross’ ESG Concentration, and her entrepreneurial spirit has continued as she became an Impact Studio co-Founder with Sinnoya Hope Farm, an Indigenous-led eco-farm empowering Atayal youth to regenerate farmland and livelihoods through regenerative agriculture and eco-tourism, recently securing Harvard funding. After graduation, Sunny will return to Sorenson, advising organizations across strategy and capital mobilization for economic empowerment. Outside of work, she is excited to deploy the strategic and financial acumen she has gained by continuing to fundraise for and advise for Sinnoya Hope Farm as part of the Land Back Movement to ensure sustainable scale.
Jasmin Lopez (MBA ‘26) After earning her BA in International Business and Italian Studies from Dickinson College in 2019, Jasmin Lopez built a multifaceted career at Johnson & Johnson, where she served in roles across sales, talent acquisition, and training. As an MBA candidate at the Ross School of Business, she is focused on blending her heart for impact with the tools of business to champion more inclusive, consumer-centered solutions. At Ross, Jasmin serves as Co-President of the Hispanic Business Student Association and is deeply involved in supporting first-generation and underrepresented students through the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management. Her leadership extends beyond Ross as a Board Member with Playworks Michigan and as a Weiss Senior Fellow with Business+Impact. Through her experiences, she has strengthened her belief in marketing as a vehicle for access, dignity, and opportunity. After graduation, she plans to continue working with consumer-focused organizations while supporting mission-driven efforts that expand confidence, opportunity, and belonging for the next generation.