LARISA TERKELTAUB

Leonard N. Stern School of Business

Master of Business Administration, May 2011

Bio and Resume (.pdf)

Larisa Terkeltaub will leverage her Stern education and Reynolds fellowship to develop successful, for-profit endeavors that link commercial success with social good. As a Reynolds fellow, Larisa will continue to leverage valuable partnerships between the public and private sectors to promote social good.

Larisa graduated from Yale with a Bachelor of Arts in Humanities and was awarded distinction in her major. Her thesis examined the interplay between legal interpretation and art criticism. Outside of the classroom, she co-led a mentoring organization and served as a translator in French and English for political asylum seekers. Frustrated by the lack of non-legal support services for clients, she co-founded an organization which provides for immigrants' non-legal needs such as housing, health and education. For her commitment to community service at Yale and New Haven, Yale awarded Larisa its Pro Bono Publico prize.

Larisa's interest in social entrepreneurship flows from these experiences in public service and further developed at the Robin Hood Foundation, where she worked as a Program Officer. She helped manage the organization's charitable investments in workforce development programs, with a focus on health, technology and green-collar jobs. Additionally, she helped develop and manage new initiatives to conduct market research on non-traditional, creative industries as possible new areas for workforce development. Larisa also led Robin Hood's efforts to launch a new training initiative in green-collar jobs, the goal of which is to connect low-income New Yorkers with viable employment in clean energy.