Yasmeen AlFaraj is the CEO and founder of NextSet Materials, a company developing next-generation thermoset materials that enable the separation and recovery of desirable and expensive raw materials from thermoset composites. Hailing from a small coastal oasis in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, AlFaraj completed her B.S. in chemistry at UC Berkeley, and her Ph.D. in chemistry with a specialization in polymers and soft matter at MIT.