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Speaker Series

Social Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century


2012-2013 Speakers


# Building Maker Communities: DALE DOUGHERTY, Co-Founder of O'Reilly Media, Founding Editor & Publisher of Make Magazine, and Co-Creator of Maker Faire, in conversation with CHRIS ANDERSON, Editor in Chief of Wired

September 27, 2012, 7:00 - 8:30pm



# Scaling Your Impact + Scaling Your Organization: JOHN WOOD of Room to Read, ANNE MARIE BURGOYNE and CHRISTY CHIN of Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation

October 22, 2012, 7:15pm - 8:30pm








# To Hell With Sustainability: COLIN BEAVAN, Author, Activist, and Executive Director of the No Impact Project

December 5, 2012, 12:00pm - 1:30pm









# Finding Your Path: Lessons Learned from an Investment Banker Turned Social Entrepreneur: GERALD CHERTAVIAN, Founder & CEO of Year Up

February 6, 2013, 12:00pm - 1:30pm









# Best for the World: A Global Movement to Redefine Success in Business and the Role It Can, Must and Does Play in Social Change: A conversation with Andrew Kassoy, Co-Founder of B Lab and Matthew Bishop Business Editor of The Economist

April 2, 2013, 6:00pm - 7:30pm









# What Do You Stand For? An Evening of Moral Courage with Cornel West and Irshad Manji

April 16, 2013, 6:00 - 7:30pm









# Lessons from the World's Classrooms, A conversation with Wendy Kopp, Founder & Chair of Teach for America

April 22, 2013, 12:00 - 1:00pm