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John Boyega, Jewel Burks, and Nailah Ellis-Brown on Forbes List

Photo from Left to right: actor John Boyega; co-founder and CEO of PartPic, Jewel Burk; and Nailah Ellis Brown, founder of Ellis Island Tropical Tea Photo from Left to right: actor John Boyega; co-founder and CEO of PartPic, Jewel Burk; and Nailah Ellis Brown, founder of Ellis Island Tropical Tea

Star Wars stormtrooper John Boyega and entrepreneurs Jewel Burks and Nailah Ellis-Brown make the coveted Forbes magazine list of Top 30 Under 30

Forbes magazine issued its list of Top 30 Under 30 and the list includes 23-year-old heartthrob John Boyega! Boyega is blazing trails in the new Star Wars film The Force Awakens, as the first black stormtrooper we've ever seen in a Star Wars film.

Also, on the list are several black women--can we say #blackgirlmagic??--including 26-year-old Jewel Burks an entrepreneur within a family of entrepreneurs, she co-founded and is CEO of PartPic which helps people find parts they're looking for their electronics or other machinery. Additionally, 28-year-old Nailah Ellis-Brown is the founder of Ellis Island Tropical Tea. Incredibly, Brown started by selling her old Jamaican family tea recipe out of the trunk of her car!