Ges 2012 Program Final

GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT SUMMITApril 11-15, 2012 North-western University

What is GES? GES, founded in 2005, is completely student-founded, student-organized, and student-run by a team of over 80 Northwestern under-graduates. Through our annual Summit, yearlong programming, and staff curriculum, we build the capacity of the next generation of global change-makers. Delegates and staff come together to understand the challenges of and opportunities for their engagement; to hone the skills and mindsets that will enable them to better plan, execute, and participate in change-based projects; and to connect with like-minded peers from around the world. GES is the only conference of its kind for students, as it not only provides them with the tangible skills and resources to move beyond good intentions towards action, but also equips them to think more critically about their efforts and ask the right questions when going out and making change in the world.

Contents3 Letter From the Directors 4 Thank You’s5 5 Ways to Maximize your GES Experience6 Summit Schedule8 Workshop Descriptions12 Short Talks and Alumni Panel 13 Small Groups and Mentorships 13 GES Story Slam14 The OpenShutter Project15 Outcomes Opportunities 17 Facilitator Biographies26 Keynote Biographies 27 Delegate Directory 30 Co-Chair Directory33 Staff Directory 34 Life After the Summit

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Dear GES delegates, facilitators, mentors and staff,

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We could not be happier to welcome you to the Global Engagement Summit 2012! We have been eagerly awaiting the Summit, and we can barely believe that this week is finally here. We are beyond excited for each of you to become new members of the GES community, one that will provide you with the opportunity to meet some of the most talented and passionate people you will ever come across.

FROM THE DIRECTORS

This week is only the beginning of your GES experience, and this year, we have prioritized extending the Summit beyond this one week. We have worked to strengthen and establish relationships with old and new Thought Partners – organizations that mirror GES at the professional level. Not only are these orga-nizations represented at the Summit through expert facilitators, but we are also grateful for their support in the form of multiple Outcomes opportunities that we hope delegates will take advantage of. In addition, we have worked to build an experience that is valuable to our Alumni community, which now includes over 700 dedicated individuals. With the official launch of our new Alumni Mentorship Program, as well as quarterly newsletters that feature exciting resources and opportunities, we have worked to connect and integrate all members into our vibrant community. We know that this year’s cohort of participants will be an incredible addition to that community and we hope you will continue to engage with one another after this week.

GES 2012 is the culmination of over 80 undergraduate members’ hard work, innumerable hours of meetings, dozens of Google docs, and heavy caffeination. Our staff is committed to ensuring that all partic-ipants leave the Summit with the tangible skills, resources, connections, and outcomes that will move them beyond good intentions, thereby expanding the Summit experience beyond anything that has come before. This year’s curriculum explores topics that are truly on the cutting edge in the world of social entre-preneurship and international development. Featuring GES Short Talks on innovative topics, panel sessions with experienced GES Alumni, and longer two-hour “Basics and Beyond” workshops, we hope that every participant walks away with an enhanced understanding of who they are, what they are doing, and where they hope to go.

Our involvement as members of the GES community has undoubtedly transformed the course of our undergraduate careers, and we hope this experience does the same for you. Not only has GES provided us with practical tools and resources, but with powerful friendships that will continue to flourish in the future. We invite you to engage in critical dialogue, ask the difficult questions, spark conversations that shift mindsets, and learn from one another as you move forward. You are now a part of a GES family that will continue to support you, challenge you, and inspire you as continue on your journeys. We look forward to meeting each of you and are privileged and honored to host you at GES 2012!

GES Love,Mavara Agha and Sarah FreemanGES 2012 Co-Directors

Northwestern Supporters:Office of the President • Office of the Provost • Weinberg College of Arts and

Sciences • Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies • Office of

Student Affairs • International Program Development Office • International Studies

Department • Initiative for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern • School of

Education and Social Policy • Study Abroad Office

Individual Donors:George and Diane Bajalia • Douglas and Mary Jo Basler • Susan Cooper • William

Cooper • Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Del Rosso • Allen and Jan DaGue • Dr. Daniel

Teitelbaum, MD • Ms. Milinda Teitelbaum • Elizabeth B. Yntema • Ms. Elizabeth

Berkeley • Susan Greene and Kathy Sheridan

Corporate Sponsors:

American Airlines • KLM • Air France • Buffalo Wild Wings • Whole Foods • Einstein’s

Bagels • Panera Bread Company

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THANK YOU’S

We are deeply appreciative of the support we recieve from Northwestern Uni-versity every year. We would especially like to thank the Buffett Center for Inter-

national and Comparative Studies for their continued advising and partnership.


5 WAYS TO MAXIMIZE YOUR GES EXPERIENCE

1Attend all small group sessions - they are valuable!These sessions allow time for you to connect with others with a common desire to engage in global change and facilitate the development of close relationships within the larger Summit framework. They provide a time and space for reflection on the skills, knowledge, approaches and connections you’ve developed in GES workshops, keynotes, breakout sessions, and mentorship time.

Understand challenges and individual potential.To enact change, there must be a recognition of the potential for you to mobilize your passions and personal strengths to be a part of responsible, effective, and sus-tainable global change. We argue that the most successful change-makers are those who understand their own passions and interests, enable those passions by develop-ing critical knowledge and skills, and are able to present themselves authentically to others for effective partnership.

Learn how to utilize opportunities and resources.One effective way to minimize unintended consequences in project planning is to utilize already existing opportunities and assets.

Meet as many people, from as many places, as you can!As a GES delegate, you’ll be surrounded by a dynamic group of people from around the globe. Often, the most rewarding aspects of the summit is the networking and connection-building between individuals and groups. Bounce ideas off of professional change-makers. Take the time to learn what you can from your fellow delegates and facilitators and in turn, share your passions and ideas. Finally, stay in touch! Some of the best GES collaborations have come several years after the initial meeting.

Propel your ideas into action.In order to realize project goals, there needs to be an enabling mechanism. GES should be thought of as a capacity building organization with the potential to trans-form, refine, and channel the potential that exists all around us in the next generation of global change-makers. Whether it be local or global, be a part of the change.

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Wednesday, April 11

Thursday, April 12

11:00 am - 6:00 pm Registration and BBQNorris Center, Wildcat Room 101and Lakefill

6:00 pm Opening BanquetKeynote: Andrew Youn, One Acre FundHotel Orrington

8:30 am - 9:30 am BreakfastNorris Center, 1851 Room

12:30 pm - 1:15 pm

9:30 am - 10:30 am GES Kick OffNorris Center, Louis Room

10:30 am - 11:00 am

9:00 pm GES Social Activity JJ Java, Evanston

Outcomes PresentationNorris Center, Louis Room

11:00 am - 12:30 pm Stories from the Archives: Taking on Challenges as a GES AlumNorris Center, Louis Room Lunch and Performance by ZaminNorris Center, Louis RoomGES Short Talk I: Crowd-sourced: Group Efforts in Social Change Norris Center, Louis Room

1:15 pm - 2:15 pm

Workshop Block ISustainable Funding: Ensuring Long Term Growth for your ProjectNorris Center, Wildcat Room A

Scalability and ReplicabilityNorris Center, Big Ten Room

Harnessing Mobile Technology Norris Center, Wildcat Room B

Doing Good Well: The Social Enterprise Norris Center, Northwestern Room A

Creativity and Communication through DesignNorris Center, Northwestern Room B

2:30 pm - 3:45 pm

Open Shutter PreviewNorris Center, Louis Room

Friday, April 13

3:45 pm - 4:00 pm

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Small Group Meeting Norris Center

8:30 am - 9:00 am BreakfastNorris Center, 1851 Room

9:00 am - 10:00 am GES Short Talk II: Young and Restless in Develop-ment Norris Center, Louis Room

10:15 am - 11:30 am

OpenShutter ShowNorris Center, Lake Room and Schol-ars Room

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

10:00 pm GES Social Activity

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Dinner in Small Groups Evanston

Workshop Block IIThe Who: Internal Team BuildingNorris Center, Wildcat Room A

Business Planning for Social Entre-preneurs Norris Center, Wildcat Room B

Using Technology for Collabora-tion: Stronger Platforms for Inter-action Norris Center, Big Ten Room

Common Cause: Partnering with Nonprofits, Governments, and UniversitiesNorris Center, Northwestern Room A

Utilizing Resources for Effective Community Outreach Norris Center, Northwestern Room B

Development through Faith and Interfaith EffortsNorris Center, Arch Room

Power, Privilege and Posture: De-constructing ‘Leadership’ in Global HealthNorris Center, Arch Room

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SUMMIT SCHEDULE

11:30 am - 12:15 pm

12:15 pm - 1:00 pm

Mentorship Block INorris Center, Louis Room

Mentorship Block IINorris Center, Louis Room

Lunch with Mentors Norris Center, Louis Room

1:00 pm - 1:45 pm

The Basics and Beyond Workshop BlockThe Elevator Speech: How to Ef-fectively Pitch your Story Norris Center, Wildcat Room A

Put a Label on It: Branding and the Social Enterprise Norris Center, Wildcat Room B

Unfiltered: Responsible Visual Me-dia Creation in the Age of Poverty Porn Norris Center, Big Ten Room

Storytelling through Design Norris Center, Northwestern Room A

Storytelling through Social Media Norris Center, Northwestern Room B

1:45 pm - 3:45 pm

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Small Group Meeting Norris Center

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Dinner in Small Groups Evanston

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm GES Mix and Mingle with Facilitators Norris Center, Lake Room

GES Story Slam Norris Center, Lake Room

8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Saturday, April 149:00 am - 10:00 am Breakfast

Parkes Hall., Room 212

Short Talk III: Living an Engaged Life Alice Millar Chapel

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Small Group MeetingParkes Hall

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Structured Lunch Parkes Hall

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

GES Theater: For the Purpose of ChangeAlice Millar Chapel

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm

3:30 pm - 3:45 pm Performanceby BoomshakaAlice Millar Chapel

Closing Keynote Cord Jefferson, GOOD MagazineAlice Millar Chapel

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

7:00 pm Depart for Ethiopian Diamond

Sunday, April 159:30 am - 11:00 am Breakfast and Small

Group Conclusion Norris Center, 1851 Room

GES Wrap-UpNorris Center, Louis Room

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Closing BanquetNorris Center, Louis Room

10:00 am - 11:15 am Workshop Block IIIBeyond Burnout Parkes Hall, Room 224

Confronting Culture Shock Parkes Hall, Room 213

Measuring What Matters: Social Impact Metrics Parkes Hall, Room 214

Best of Both Worlds: Blending Non-Profit and For-Profit Models Parkes Hall, Room 215

Making Yourself Obsolete Parkes Hall, Room 222

Introduction to Environmental Responsibility Parkes Hall, Room 223


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Block 1 Thursday, April 12: 2:30 pm - 3:45 pmNorris

Whether your project is a non-profit organization or for-profit social enterprise, running it sustainably requires the financial know-how of an entrepreneur. Your organization might face limited resources and increased demands for your services, especially in a global recession. How can you ensure stable funding that has the capacity to grow along with your organiza-tion? This workshop will teach delegates to write an effective grant proposal, help them identify creative sources of funding that they can utilize, and give them the skills to apply success-fully for these opportunities. This workshop will examine the pros and cons of different approaches to funding, and will delve into the ethical issues that arise, including ensuring the people and companies supporting your project share your organiza-tion’s core values.

The design-minded have an edge when it comes to idea cre-ation and innovation, but harnessing that creativity to achieve proper execution and control of the idea as they bring it to fruition can pose a problem. How do you begin to understand communication as a system? How do you use this knowledge to create something that is impactful, engaging and sustainable? Finally, how can we continuously maintain levels of creativity while still making sure these results are being achieved? This workshop will reshape how delegates understand communica-tion within their project’s “identity” and cultivate their ability to use this knowledge to take their creativity to greater depths.

A social entrepreneur is part pioneer, part problem-solver, and part visionary. It’s someone who can identify a societal ill and use his or her entrepreneurial spirit and skills to properly address that problem. This all comes together when you realize that social values and good business practices are not mutually exclusive. In this workshop delegates will learn how to identify community development goals that best fit with their business plan and how to create a viable value proposition. Delegates will emerge with the ability to combat the issues that most start-ups face.

Must a project be scalable and/or replicable to be valuable? There is currently a drive not just for individual development projects to succeed, but to create lasting change on a massive scale. Additionally, there is a potential for greater impact when a successful project can be replicated in different communities. This workshop will ask delegates to examine their own poten-tial for scalability and reproducability. Is their project a good candidate for scaling up? If not, why? If so, how? Is their project a model that can be adapted to thrive in other environments? Delegates will identify the appropriate scale for their project, and then identify both the assets and the challenges that meet-ing this scale represents for their project. Delegates will leave the workshop armed with an understanding of why these dual goals of scale and replication are important, how they differ and concrete strategies for accomplishing both.

Mobile phones have the power to connect families separated by disaster, empower health employees to combat disease and epidemic by providing critical information, track the effects of climate changes, and even help in the resolution of conflicts. Mobile technologies provide a general platform that works independent of device and operator to create an environment where viral and very fast distribution of information and servic-es is possible. Despite the overwhelming success of the phone as a tool to inform and communicate, there are limitations of the mobile phone in reaching different groups of people with specific needs and various local restrictions. These challenges can be combated to unleash the innovation of mobile technol-ogy to reach its full potential in various regions of the world. In this workshop, delegates will learn how to increase accessibility, use, and sustain efficient maintenance of mobile technology.

Sustainable Funding: Ensuring Long Term Growth for your Project

Garrett Neiman

Doing Good Well: The Social EnterpriseNathaniel Whittemore

Scalability and ReplicabilityErin Archuleta

Harnessing Mobile Technology Milan Andric

Creativity and Communication through Design

Cheryl Heller

As if working in global change is not complex enough, the world of international health has its own moral and political issues to navigate. Global health involves far more than bring-ing medical knowledge and resources to the places that it is desperately needed. Leaders must understand the environment and culture of their target community, and work within these frames to design and implement an effective health interven-tion. This workshop will give delegates an introduction to the field of global health, focusing especially on the importance of community cooperation and integration. Delegates will explore strategies to create the most effective and culturally accepted projects.

Power, Privilege and Posture: Deconstructing ‘Leadership’ in Global Health

Jon Shaffer

WORKSHOPS


Utilizing Resources for Effective Community Outreach

Kyle McCollom and Chris Cole

Block 2 Friday, April 13: 10:15 am - 11:30 amNorris

A team is the power behind the success of a group. Drive and ideas are essential to the creation of a project, but an effec-tive team is essential to its continuity. This workshop aims to answer the questions: How do you find the right people to work with? How do you ensure manpower is being maximized? Which characteristics predict success? How do you delegate and share work? Teamwork is more than a group of people passionate about an idea, and this workshop aims to help del-egates create a dynamic team, and help this team discover their strengths, admit their weaknesses, and find effective means of building a team that can conquer any situation successfully.

The Who: Internal Team BuildingDesiree Vargas Wrigley

A good business plan can help to make a good business cred-ible, understandable, and attractive to someone who is unfa-miliar with the business. Writing a good business plan can’t guarantee success, but it can go a long way toward reducing the “odds of failure,” as described by The Ernst & Young Business Plan Guide. When starting up a social change project, a busi-ness plan is a critical decision-making tool. Formulating a set of business goals and a clear plan on how to achieve them is a critical step in laying the foundation for any organization. This workshop will teach delegates how to create and implement a successful business plan for social enterprises, and will encour-age delegates to think critically about the goals, strategies and values of their projects.

Business Planning for Social Entrepreneurs

Diana Ayton-Shenker Regardless of where you stand in a community, you may find it difficult to establish the connections and acquire the resources necessary to create positive social change. This workshop will explore outreach strategies that engage the community’s own resources. Is the town fanatic about its high school football team? Does the village have its own popular style of dance? Embracing each of these cultural realities can help you further your mission and better build relationships within the commu-nity. Who is in a position of leadership? Where do people like to congregate? What news or events catch people’s attention? Delegates will learn to identify resources unique and relevant to the community in which they are working, and specifically how various kinds of resources can best be employed.

Even the most innovative and organized new projects can use a little help from the outside. Partnering with established organizations that have access to extensive resources, such as government agencies, universities and nonprofits creates new opportunities to improve and expand a project’s meth-ods and goals. Whether partnering allows you to reach your goal more efficiently, or even to broaden your project’s scope, all depends on finding the appropriate partner and forging a solid and balanced working relationship with the institution. Delegates will learn the best ways to find potential partners, as well as strategies to maintain a beneficial relationship with their chosen organization. This workshop will explore the advantages of partnering, as well as discuss the potential issues of control and compromise that can arise and how to successfully navigate these issues.

Common Cause: Partnering with Nonprof-its, Universities and Governments

Jeff Pinzino

As a high-tech revolution spreads, collaboration is essential to avoid overlap and mismanagement of resources, Connecting with others who share common values and a similar message is most easily done through technology. This awareness of the important role that the development of new software and ap-plications plays in the utility of your project is key. This work-shop will delve into technological collaboration platforms and discuss strategies to partner with other organizations in order to spread your message and your project.

Using Technology for Collaboration: Stronger Platforms for Interaction

Nico di Tada

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Enter a region––be it a town, a village, a neighborhood––and one will find that some of the strongest communities within are organized around religion. Like any community development project, it’s important to establish a relationship with leaders who have critical insight into the lives of the residents. Faith leaders can act as that trusted intermediary between the com-munity and the delegate who helps cultivate a mutually impact-ful relationship. Because communities are rarely homogenous, how can you expand your network and resources and collabo-ration beyond a single faith? Especially in areas of religious con-flict, interfaith coalitions led by delegates, in tandem with faith leaders, can be an effective vehicle for social change. Delegates will learn how to establish relationships in faith-based commu-nities for a more targeted approach to making change.

Development through Faith andInterfaith Efforts

Katherine Marshall


The Basics and Beyond Workshop Block Friday, April 13: 1:45 pm - 3:45 pm

Norris

Of all the needs an entrepreneur has, the greatest need of all is support. There are many ways to solicit support, but sooner or later, every entrepreneur is going to be asked for his elevator speech—the speech you would give to a wealthy businessper-son or investor to sell him or her on your idea—all in the time it takes to ride to his or her floor in an elevator. You must go beyond social media, beyond advertising, beyond images, beyond your “brand”, and sell yourself using your words. This workshop will address this concept of “pitching your idea”. Delegates will be introduced to the basics of pitching—the who, where, why, and how—and will learn the best practices for getting what you want out of your pitch. This workshop will give delegates the skills to pitch their idea successfully to whoever comes their way. This workshop will ask tough questions like when it is ap-propriate to pitch, and when it may not be.

The Elevator Speech: How to Effectively Pitch your Story

Briar Goldberg

How do you communicate precisely what you and your orga-nization stand for? Each project is driven by a compelling story that itself has the power to inspire others to action but how do you make that story and the name of your organization synonymous? This workshop focuses on the most efficient and impactful ways to raise awareness about your projects. A two-pronged approach will tackle the basics of branding at both the micro-level (word-of-mouth, face-to-face, etc.) and macro-level (utilizing the internet, radio, etc.). Additionally, this workshop will delve deeper and confront the ethics of how best to do this when blending for-profit and non-profit models, the “cool” factor, how to turn customers into brand and issue advocates, among others. Delegates should aim to leave this workshop with a solid name for their organization/project with a better idea of main objectives, and with the ability to communicate a story that ties it all together.

Put a Label on It: Branding and the Social Enterprise

Mark Drozd

There are currently over 800 million active Facebook users, or about 12 percent of the global population. Its reach is global, transcending age, location, and language. And it is only one of many forms of social media. For all organizations, both change-based and not, cultivating an online presence is key to success. This workshop will begin by covering the basics, and delegates will identify the best format(s) of social media for their project (blogging, Twitter, Facebook, etc.), what the best practices are for their chosen format, and how to transform an online pres-ence into tangible results for their project. However, as social media has become nearly ubiquitous, this workshop will also go beyond the basics, and delegates will think critically about what ethical questions arise in using social media, such as the line between personal and public, “slacktivism” and social media, and spamming. Finally, no one could have predicted the cur-rent trends in social media, and so delegates will learn to apply their skills not only to existing social media platforms, but also develop a framework to apply to future forms of social media.

Storytelling through Social Media Malaka Gharib

When thinking about storytelling, we typically envision something involving the written or spoken word. However unconventional, human centered design is a viable storytell-ing medium that seeks to empower people by understanding their needs. Armed with a community’s stories, one can utilize that insight to create impact through purposeful design. In this workshop, delegates will learn how social entrepreneurship, storytelling, and design intersect to create social change. Del-egates will be exposed to the ways in which human-centered design can augment their projects. This workshop will walk delegates through the design process—from the idea phase, to prototyping and beyond—to show how delegates’ individual interdisciplinary skills and strengths can be leveraged in each stage.

Storytelling through Design Sami Nerenberg, Daniel Rees

Poverty porn: you know it when you see it. We have all seen photos, commercials and documentaries that use images of children with distended bellies and hollow eyes, living in abject poverty. How do you create an honest depiction of a com-munity or global issue without exploiting those you are trying to help? Whose responsibility is it to combat the compassion

Unfiltered: Responsible Visual Media Cre-ation in the Age of Poverty Porn

Nyla Rodgers

fatigue that is a symptom of our culture of consumption? In this interactive workshop, delegates will learn the basics of photography and videography work with respect to community development. But this workshop will go beyond the basics, ask-ing tough questions like when it is appropriate to take a picture, and when it may not be, and how that picture should be used. Delegates will think critically about these ethical issues sur-rounding visual media creation, and will leave with a thorough understanding of both how and why to leverage visual media responsibly as a tool in developing their projects.


GES is excited to introduce the Basics and Beyond Block, a two-hour workshop block that will expose delegates to various modes of storytelling. This is a departure from our standard workshop blocks in that it is an extended period of time that looks to equip delegates with not only the tangible skills they need to tell their stories, but also the insight to address the ethical and moral ques-tions that undoubtedly arise when telling the stories of others through a specific medium. Regardless of the issue a project concerns or what stage of development the project is in, we want each of our delegates to emerge a storyteller.

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Block 3 Saturday, April 14: 10:00 am - 11:15 amParkes Hall

Working for social change can be both exciting and rewarding, yet disillusionment and the tremendous amount of dedication required by such work can cause burnout in even the most committed workers. The development community depends heav-ily on a small number of dedicated staff, board members, and volunteers. Despite the dedication of these workers, the limited size of the development workforce frequently necessitates that organizations and development recipients put added pressure on these workers, which can lead to mental fatigue and disillusion-ment with development. How does one overcome the challeng-es of burnout to ensure continued success, both on an individual and on an organizational level? In this workshop, participants will discuss the many sources of burnout and ways to approach them. Delegates can expect to leave this workshop armed with a variety of techniques to help them deal with fatigue and other sources of burnout both in themselves and in others. Delegates will also learn strategies to prevent burnout from occurring in the first place.

Beyond Burnout Sean Knierim

It can feel both challenging and disorienting to work in a com-munity whose religious, political, and cultural landscapes are different from what you have previously encountered. This can pose myriad challenges for workers in the field of development, both personally and professionally. Anticipating and preparing for culture shock can help to mitigate these challenges, making them easier to confront. This workshop will teach delegates strategies for navigating a foreign set of political, religious, and social norms responsibly and effectively. Beyond just confronting and dealing with their culture shock, delegates will learn techniques to use culture shock to their advantage, both in advancing their project and in their personal development.

Confronting Culture Shock

Patrick Keane

Missions, visions, and goals are set as guidelines to encour-age organizations to work towards a purpose, but within this framework, the question becomes: how do you measure your progress along the way? The answer falls somewhere between accountability to corporate sponsors, partners, donors and those being served. This workshop aims to identify and develop metrics to measure and sustain progress. Through this workshop, delegates will learn from both corporate and nonprofit exam-ples of how to maximize efficiency, develop metrics of success, and grow the organization—all while staying true to the mission. Delegates will learn to utilize metrics effectively to ensure the long-term sustainability of their project as it grows and changes. Delegates will learn how to incorporate various strategies in measuring the impact of their projects and maintaining their longevity.

Measuring What Matters: Social Impact Metrics

Paul Katsen

Best of Both Worlds: Blending Non-Profit and For-Profit Models

Olivia Khalili Social entrepreneurship is often polarized into two worlds: for-profit and not-for-profit. Each model is distinct, yet there are approaches that can be applied to both sectors. Today, there is a rising trend toward a hybrid business model that blends both for-profit and non-profit values. This workshop will explore the benefits and drawbacks of various social enterprise models and encourage delegates to think critically about their project values, focusing especially on how to strike an appropriate bal-ance between the two models. Delegates can expect to leave this workshop with a better understanding of hybrid business models, a conception of where their current project falls on the spectrum of non-profit and for-profit social enterprise, and possible techniques they can borrow from either model to make their own project more successful.

Many nonprofits revolve around the idea of fixing a problem or changing a situation. But what happens when you accomplish that goal, fix the problem, or accomplish your intended impact? This workshop will examine the life cycle of social impact projects, and will address the “endgame” of these projects. Delegates will define an endpoint for their own project, and will learn strategies to exit successfully and gracefully, with-out sacrificing the impact of their project or jeopardizing the success of future projects. Delegates will think critically about their intended impact, and about why getting out of the field may be just as important as getting in.

Making Yourself Obsolete Gordon Davis

As the global population rises and places a growing strain on scarce resources, it is imperative that projects are not just socially responsible, but also environmentally responsible. The carbon footprint of each social change project must be care-fully considered so that we conserve the natural environment and cur negative human impact. Ensuring that one makes an impact in a sustainable and environmentally friendly manner is critical, but also feasible with the simple inclusion of green products or the use of a carbon-neutral website. Innovative approaches are necessary to develop alternative techniques that reduce waste and pollution. This workshop highlights the importance of incorporating green technology into any proj-ect and examines specific methods that are vital to sustainable development. Delegates will critically evaluate how they can reasonably employ green strategies in their projects and what their stake is in ensuring the sustainability of their project.

Introduction to Environmental Responsibility

Weslynne Ashton


GES delegates are a diverse crowd. They come from every stage of project implementation, from ideation to implementa-tion to evaluation. They come from every corner of the globe, from Pakistan to Portland, from Tanzania to Texas. Their projects are as varied as their backgrounds, from music education in Chile to urban farming in Canada. The one desire they all share is to live a life of meaning and engagement. For some, this will take the form of implementing and sustaining their project after they leave GES, but for others, this will take a more nebulous form––perhaps a greater awareness of the great intricacies of community development, perhaps a desire to go beyond philanthropy, or perhaps a contemplation of what values are most important. This Short Talk aims to expose delegates to the many forms that “living an engaged life” can take. The scope of this Short Talk goes beyond the Summit, asking delegates to think deeply not just about what they want to do, but about who they want to be, now and in the future. Speakers will address strategies for maintaining engagement long after the Summit has come to a close, and will talk about how delegates can build an engaged life for themselves wherever their travels may take them.

This generation is lucky enough to have technology as an effective tool to bring about social change. In this day and age, there is no way the revolution won’t be tweeted and retweeted, blogged about, documented, and mapped. Information—whether that is notices of human rights violations or encyclopedic data for academics—is updated rapidly or in real-time on a number of popular websites. And instead of relying on single person or a single group to be the catalyst for change, we can count on the incredible amount of eyes, ears, and perspectives on the ground to gather and democratize the dis-semination of information. Enabled by technology with this power to collaborate, there is a responsibility for this genera-tion’s changemakers to know the most impactful ways to harness it. Speakers will address the benefits of crowdsourcing and collaborative social change, and will discuss the challenges that technology presents to our increasingly connected global community.

Innovative ideas promoting social change and social justice are increasingly coming from the youth. Youth are especially valuable because when they discover a social ill, they often feel a sense of urgency about solving it and do so with quite a bit of ingenuity. The only drawback is that some people will rush in headlong, without a thorough plan for how to combat this restlessness over the longterm, instead of aiming for a sustainable and constructive solution. How do you begin to deal with donors, other NGOs, etc. on a serious level without losing your youthful zeal? What is the best way to communciate with people who are not globally-minded in order to advance your project? What strategies should you employ to avoid promoting compassion fatigue? This short talk will address being young and in social change is an incred-ible responsibility but ultimately necessary for innovation and what must happen in order to strike a balance between

Short Talk 1: Crowdsourced: Group Efforts in DevelopmentMelissa Elliott and Jake Nickell

Short Talk II: Young and Restless in Development Sarah Berghorst and Nathaniel Koloc

Short Talk III: Living an Engaged LifeElmira Bayrasli and Teju Ravilochan

This year, we are excited to once again present GES Short Talks, given by renowned experts on various topics in interna-tional development. This year, our Short Talk series is designed to complement the skills-building that delegates will do in workshops, and will focus on the personal development the projects.

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GES SHORT TALKS


Stories from the Archives: Taking on Challenges as a GES AlumAllie Bream, Shanika Gunaratna, Sarah Malin, Kyle McCollom, Sahil Mehta,

Garrett Neiman. Sana Rahim, and Nathaniel Whittemore

In this StoryCorps-style event, GES Alumni will have a chance to tap into their personal archives and draw on their own experiences to address the issues that delegates might face. Former delegates and staff members alike will share how they’re working to overcome challenges and how their GES experience influenced them and helped them develop into the change makers they are today. Through the Archives, GES hopes to create a depository of experiences to which our delegates can always return.

MENTORSHIPS

SMALL GROUPS

The GES mentorship program provides each del-egate with the opportunity to meet for a one-on-one mentoring session with an experienced indi-vidual who can help the delegate critically examine his or her project from an outsider’s perspective. This is a flexible time for the mentor to talk with the delegate, ask questions, and offer feedback on their proposals. The ultimate goal of the mentor-ship program is for the delegate to come away with concrete suggestions and ideas about how they might improve their projects and make them sustainable in the long term.

The small group program provides delegates with structured time to discuss what they are experiencing at GES in a more intimate setting. Small groups are composed of six to eight delegates and two staff leaders, and meet four times throughout the Summit. They give del-egates the opportunity to think critically about why they are involved in their projects, discuss the philosophical issues and practical chal-lenges of global engagement, workshop their projects with their peers, and foster relationships with other delegates and staff members.

STORY SLAM

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Lost in Translation: Stories of (Mis)communicationHave you ever said “I have a wife” when you meant to say “I’m hungry.” in Paris? Been unable to understand yourself? Had to explain “swag” to your grandparents? Ventured to the other side of town?Connected with someone in a way that transcends language?

Silly, serious, spiritual, supercalafradulisticexpialadocious or any tone in between––all stories that relate to the theme of be-ing lost in translation are welcome! No prep is necessary, just get excited, get inspired, and get ready to share and learn about other delegates, staff and facilitators!

Friday, April 13: 8:00 pm - 10:00 pmNorris Center, Lake Room


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The OpenShutter Project creates an immersive art space devoted to showcasing works that go beyond simplistic narratives of people, problems, and places. OpenShutter’s fall show, One Lens, Infinite Perspectives, challenged viewers to let go of previously-held assumptions and situate photography and media within its contextual framework. The exhibit showcased 15 photographs taken by Northwestern students across the globe. During the winter, The OpenS-hutter Project hosted The Campaign, a campus-wide initiative to combat stereotyping at North-western University. The Campaign featured black and white portraits of students on North-western’s campus and addressed common labels given to students. These portraits give labels a human face, thus transforming photographs into vehicles for untold stories, inequalities, and common stereotypes. OpenShutter’s spring show will continue to translate global awareness into a visual vocabulary by challenging notions of modernity and questioning what it means to be “modern.” The show, Faces: Characters of Modernity will feature twelve new photos from across the globe as well as the photos from the fall show.


Fast Forward Fund works to promote Next-Gen philanthropic investment in sustainable social venture projects. GES delegates can apply to be included as part of FFF’s portfolio, which is promoted on their website and internally to many of their young investors. All applicants will receive a 30-minute consulting session with a FFF team member on how best to appeal to investors. Delegate applicants must be in the implementation stage of their project, and must have a website. Check out Fast Forward Fund on their website, http://www.fastforwardfund.org.

The mission of GES Outcomes is to connect delegates with tangible resources and opportunities to expand the impact of their projects beyond the Summit.

GlobalGiving is an online fundraising platform that enables individuals and companies to find and support high-impact, grassroots social and economic development projects around the world. GlobalGiving and GES are teaming up again this year to provide delegates the oppor-tunity to compete in the Sixth Annual Project Challenge. The GG team works with you to help you develop an online fundraising strategy to reach out to your network and more importantly, grow these networks to raise funds. Since 2007, over 18 delegates have raised over $350,000.

Cheryl Heller is a communication designer and business strategist with extensive experience in the field of social innovation and market-ing. She will provide two extended consultation sessions to one selected

Pivot Consulting is a volunteer-run organization that pro-vides pro-bono consulting services to non-profits. This year Sum-mit delegates can apply to work with a team of Pivot consultants who will provide in-depth consulting services, by assessing the project’s current development and helping to move the project closer towards meeting its stated goals.

SCNO is a student group at Northwestern University that consults with nonprofit organizations in Evanston and Chicago. Since its inception in 2008, SCNO has consulted multiple non-profits on a variety of topics, including mar-keting, fundraising and capital allocation, information technology, organization strategy, and operational manage-ment. SCNO will choose one delegate for a 10-week long consultation engagement. Delegates are required to stay in constant contact with SCNO throughout this period, beginning in October. SCNO will work with the delegate to determine a problem and then develop comprehensive solutions.

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delegate. The consultations will be focused on designing an effective communication strategy and brand identity for an emerging project. All delegates with implementation-stage projects are encouraged to apply.

Mission Measurement is a consulting and strategy firm that helps clients improve their social impact by measuring performance, by combin-ing traditional market research with corporate strategy. Winning delegates will receive a 30 minute consultation call to discuss how to maximize their project’s social performance. This opportunity will be only open to delegates who attended MM’s workshop, “Measuring What Matters: Social Impact Metrics,” and whose projects are at the implementation stage.

Ashoka Changemakers are excited to partner this year to offer an exclusive partnership with the entire GES extended community through Ashoka Changemakers a global community that connects social innovators by providing them with networks of resources, talent, and support. All delegates

The OpenShutter Project works to represent the mission of the Global Engagement Summit through art. It strives to move beyond simplistic narratives of people, problems, and places by creating immersive media en-vironments based on the principles of responsible media creation. By increasing awareness of the world around us and transcending barriers of language, Open Shutter hopes to inspire positive social change. OpenShutter will donate proceeds from the sale of its images to sponsor one delegate’s project. In addition, updates and photos of the selected project will be featured on the Open Shutter Blog on the GES website throughout the coming year. All international and domestic projects that engage media and/or the arts are encouraged to apply.

Inspire Media is a student-run organization that produces and funds socially conscious media, engaging topics on local, national, and international levels. Believing that all media platforms have the power to motivate and create social change, Inspire Media’s programming provokes discussion, engages audiences, and inspires action in the global community. This year, Inspire is partnering with GES to provide several delegates with professionally made videos. The videos can be used for marketing and awareness purposes. In order to be eligible, delegates must bring some footage of their idea/project with them to the Summit, or have the capacity to do so directly following the Sum-mit. Delegates must also be willing to sacrifice some free time during the Summit to work with the Inspire Crew.

NextBillion is a website and blog bringing together the community of busi-ness leaders, social entrepreneurs, NGOs, policy makers and academics who want to explore the connection between development and enterprise. NextBillion strives to highlight the development and implementation of business strategies that open op-portunities and improve the lives of the world’s approximately 4 billion low-income producers and consumers. Delegates in the planning and implementation stages may apply for a blogging opportunity with NextBillion where they will regularly update the website with content on their project’s development.

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are required to participate in the GES Community Changeshop, an exclusive GES community that will allow all delegates and staff to network and track their growth. Delegates should take advantage of this unique opportu-nity by joining the online community.

826 National • Director of Field Operations and Studies Erin Archuleta

Erin Archuleta is the Director of Field Operations and Strategy for 826 National. In this role she works closely with the current 826 sites, developing policies and trainings to strengthen 826 chapters’ educational and volunteer programs. She plans for organizational growth and replication of the 826 model, responding to requests from educators in the United States and abroad interested in launching after-school tutoring and student writing projects. She was part of the publishing team that received a Moonbeam Spirit Childhood Wellness Award for Children’s Literature forExactly, an 826 Valencia publication with Wallenberg Traditional High School. Her curriculum appears in Don’t Forget to Write: 54 Enthralling and Effective Writing Lessons for Students 6-18. She is a member of the Leadership San Francisco Class of 2012. In addition, Archuleta is also a co-founder of ICHI, an award-winning San Francisco restaurant and catering company.

Workshop: Scalability and Replicability

Analyte Heath • Senior Web Developer

Milan is a web developer with over 10 years of experience and will focus on bringing Medic Mobile to the web. He joins us from Analyte Health, a startup working on patient care and building online clinics. Prior to that he was the lead developer on News21 and KDMC at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He also developed Repsheet and collaborated on WindyCitizen. He graduated from the University of Illinois with a B.A. pursuing an independent major delving into computer science, art and design.

Workshop: Harnessing Mobile Technology

Milan Andric


FACILITATORS

Illinois Institute of Technology • Assistant Professor

Dr. Weslynne Ashton is a Caribbean-American environmental sustainability and social entrepreneurship academic. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Environmental Management and Sustainability at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)’s Stuart School of Business. The idea driving Dr. Ashton’s research and teaching is to build sustainable communities, which involves helping people to start and grow green businesses, as well as to make lifestyle choices that protect the planet’s natural resources. The central framework is the field of industrial ecology. Industrial ecology takes a systems approach to designing and managing production and consumption systems and relies on many analogies with nature to suggest how industrial systems could operate sustainably.

Workshop: Introduction to Environmental Responsibility

Weslynne Ashton

Diana Ayton-Shenker founded social impact consulting firm Global Momenta building on her distinguished career in social entrepreneurship, philanthropy & impact capital, sustainable development and international human rights law. As founder of the start-up Fast Forward Fund, she was honored by President Clinton and selected as a finalist for Social Venture Network’s prestigious Innovation Award. Diana teaches social entrepreneurship at The New School, and is Sr. Fellow in Venture Philanthropy at Bard College. She has also taught at The American Univ. of Paris, and Hunter College where she directed the first undergraduate Human Rights Program in the U.S.

Diana Ayton-ShenkerFast Forward Fund • FounderWorkshop: Business Planning for Social Entrepreneurs

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Bain Company • Consultant

Sarah Berghorst has experience that spans entrepreneurial social and business organizations, and is passionate about driving change in the world. She is currently a consultant at Bain and Company in Chicago, where she has worked with private equity, healthcare, financial services and technology clients. While getting her MBA at Kellogg, Sarah won the Dean’s Service Award for leadership roles which included participating in the Net Impact Club and the Global Health Initiative. Time at Kellogg also deepened her interest in promoting cross sector innovators as she co-chaired the student team of the Kellogg Innovation Network Global Summit.

Short Talk: Young and Restless in Social Change

Sarah Berghorst

Northwestern University • Environmental Policy and Culture Lecturer

G. Gordon Davis is an international environmental policy consultant who has worked in Russia, Mongolia, China, Vietnam, India, and other Asian countries. He was instrumental in forming and launching three international NGOs, the International Consortium of Real Estate Consortiums, the International Housing Coalition, and Ecologically Sustainable Development. Davis teaches courses in the Environmental Policy and Culture program at Northwestern University, and has taught at the University of Chicago and the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. He has published and lectured in Asia, Europe and the United States on civil society, environmental law and policy, land use regulation, international development assistance, democracy building.

Workshop: Making Yourself Obsolete

G. Gordon Davis

InSTEDD • Senior Web Developer

Nicolás spends most of his time as a software designer, developer and project manager, crafting software with a strong technical and scientific background. He founded two other companies in the fields of e-Learning and consumer-end social applications and guided several development teams through a wide variety of projects, ranging from digital photogrammetry and biomedical signal processing to internet research tools and enterprise applications. Working both for small startups and Fortune 500 companies in various countries and cultures, his teams have always proudly delivered usable and effective software on time. Nicolás leads the design and development of InSTEDD’s software platform, coordinating the distributed development team, open source contributors, interns and volunteers.

Workshop: Using Technology for Collaboration: Stronger Platforms for Interaction

Nicolás di Tada

The Peace Dividend Trust • Director of Communications

Elmira writes about global innovations and entrepreneurship on Entreventures on Forbes.com. Over the past several years, Elmira has worked to support start-ups in emerging markets at Endeavor, served as the Chief Spokesperson for the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo and assisted former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, an advisory board member for the Turkish Women’s International Network and Turkish Philanthropy Funds and a mentor for the Women Innovate Mobile entrepreneur incubator. She is a regular speaker on innovation and start-ups and is currently writing a book on the obstacles to global entrepreneurship. She works at the Peace Dividend Trust as the Director of Communications.

Short Talk: Living an Engaged Life

Elmira Bayrasli

Simple Truth • Partner and Executive Creative Director

Mark Drozd is a Partner and Executive Creative Director at Simple Truth, a Chicago-based creative agency that helps clients discover what’s at their core and activate it in compelling ways. Mark is a writer, design thinker and communication strategist. His specialty is working with brands to find and articulate their unique voice. He was previously an integrated marketing creative director with Foote, Cone & Belding, working in Chicago, New York and London. Mark has cultivated the brand voice for Wendy’s, Ace Hardware, Chicago History Museum, Citibank, Sunrise Senior Living, Sunkist, Bermuda Tourism, United Airlines and several non-profit organizations. Mark is active in the Chicago creative community, serving on boards with AIGA, the professional association for design, and EPIC, the creative resource for needy non-profit groups.

Workshop: Put a Label on It: Branding and the Social Enterprise

Mark Drozd

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Standby Task Force • Core Team member

Melissa works to bridge the gap between technology and teamwork. She is a Core Team member of the Standby Task Force and has actively participated in deployments for Al-jazeera, Amnesty International USA, OCHA, UNHRC, UN-Spider & WHO. An avid supporter of the Haitian relief efforts, Melissa was an early adopter of the Ushahidi platform to coordinate aid after the Jan 2010 EQ, and has traveled to Haiti on multiple occasions to assist. Melissa is a member of CrisisCommons and CrisisMappers. She has presented social media techniques used in disaster relief to the American Red Cross during their Emergency Social Data Summit in Washington, DC, to the Canadian Government Dept. of Foreign Trade & International Affairs in Ottawa, ON, and to the US National Academies, National Research Council. In her “spare” time, Melissa is Partner and Executive Producer at Blackbox Communications in Toronto.

Short Talk: Crowdsourced: Group Efforts in Social Change

Melissa Elliott

ONE Campaign • Blogger, editor and Social Media Manger

Malaka Gharib is a blogger, editor and social media manager for the ONE Campaign. She was a social media copywriter for Virilion, a digital media agency, and has worked with public affairs clients from the energy, political and nonprofit sectors. She was a producer at Al Jazeera English, where she contributed to the network’s coverage of the 2008 US presidential election and the War on Gaza. Malaka has written for several blogs, including political humor website Wonkette and Brightest Young Things. Follow her on Twitter at @MalakaGharib.

Workshop: Storytelling through Social Media

Malaka Gharib

Center for Forced Migration Studies • Research Associate

Briar Goldberg is a professional public speaking consultant who, since 2007, has taught communication skills to a variety of clients and students. Briar began her career working as an assistant instructor of public communications in Stanford University’s continuing education program. She is now the sole instructor for the Kellogg School of Management’s public speaking club and is the Director of Presentation Reviews at Quantified Impressions, the leading global provider of performance analytics and expert feedback for evaluating new media presentation skills. Briar’s full time career is in the field of refugee protection and resettlement. She spent the last seven years working as a Board of Immigration Appeals Accredited Representative at the International Rescue Committee (IRC), and is now a Research Associate at Northwestern’s Center for Forced Migration Studies.

Workshop: The Elevator Speech: How to Effectively Pitch your Story

Briar Goldberg


Mission Measurement • Analyst

Paul Katsen is an analyst at Mission Measurement, a boutique strategy consulting firm, where he works with clients to create and implement data-driven strategies that move the needle on social issues. Prior to joining Mission Measurement, Paul worked at ZS Associates, a marketing and sales strategy consulting firm. There, he advised global leaders in the pharmaceutical and medical device space, as well as young biotechs. Paul received his B.S. in finance and B.S. in general engineering from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Workshop: Measuring What Matters: Social Impact Metrics

Paul Katsen

Think Impact • Senior Web Developer

Born in Kenya, Patrick has also lived in Zimbabwe, Indonesia, Thailand, Uganda, the US and Nepal. Patrick is a firm believer that social enterprise can drive local communities to collaboratively design and implement strategies for sustained development. Patrick interned with ThinkImpact’s DC office in 2010 before joining the team as Program Manager in March 2011. As a StartingBloc Fellow, he is an active member of the social entrepreneurship community. Patrick hopes to grow and learn from the ThinkImpact family in order to bond with those who share his goals and feel the spark of our collective creativity. Patrick believes that young leaders can break free of the status quo to nurture innovation, and is delighted to work with you on that process. He earned his B.A. in Writing, Rhetoric and Technical Communication with a minor in Philosophy from James Madison University in Virginia.

Workshop: Confronting Culture Shock

Patrick Keane

Cause Capitalism • Founder

Olivia Khalili works with companies to design, market and evaluate social initiatives. She is the founder of Cause Capitalism, a consultancy and online resource that helps businesses grow by implementing a social mission. Her approach stems from cross-sector experience working with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, tech startups and nonprofits, and in international development in Micronesia. Currently, she is helping Ashoka Changemakers bring new products to market and build partnerships that connect corporations with social innovators and online enthusiasts to drive measurable social change.

Workshop: Best of Both Worlds: Blending Nonprofit and For-Profit Models

Olivia Khalili

Heller Communication Design • FounderCheryl Heller

Cheryl Heller is the Founding Chair of the new Masters Program in Design for Social Innovation at the School of Visual Arts in New York and founder of Heller Communication Design. She is a pioneering communication designer and business strategist who has twice been nominated for the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Communication Design. She has led transformational initiatives for major corporations such as Ford, American Express, Reebok, Mariott International, Cemex, Gap, Bayer Corporation, Seventh Generation, L.Oreal, Hearst and Sappi, non-profits such as WWF, Audubon, IDE, Concern Worldwide and the Girl Scouts of America. She created the Ideas that Matter program for Sappi in 1999, which has since given over $10 million to designers working for the public good.

Workshop: Creativity and Communication through Design


MacArthur Foundation • Chief of Staff

Sean Knierim is the Chief of Staff at the MacArthur Foundation and acts as the primary liaison for the President with both staff and those outside the Foundation. He also works on special projects that cut across the Foundation’s domestic and international programs, manages implementation of the President’s long-term vision, and monitors foundation-wide operations. Sean spent the first part of a career teaching high school Spanish and English, coaching baseball, and managing educational services and sales operations for Commtouch Inc, a technology firm in California. For his PhD, his research looked at urban development in Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro, comparing how cronistas and the World Bank wrote about range of urban development issues, such as natural disaster, transportation, and shantytowns. The project studied how cultural production (in this case, journalism) compared to typical international development practitioners in analyzing challenges facing cities in Latin America.

Workshop: Beyond Burnout

Sean Knierim

ReWork • Co-founder

Nathaniel Koloc is a co-founder and Managing Partner of ReWork, a social enterprise that helps talented young professionals find work that inspires them by connecting them to work opportunities at companies that are focused on social and environmental impact. Before ReWork, Nathaniel worked in sustainability development on projects in Honduras and Tanzania. Nathaniel is a 2011 Unreasonable fellow, a 2010 StartingBloc fellow, and holds a Masters in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability from the Blekinge Tekniska Högskola in Sweden, as well as a B.A. in Global Human Impact Studies from the University of Vermont.

Short Talk: Young and Restless in Social Change

Nathaniel Koloc

World Faiths Development Dialogue • Executive Director

Katherine Marshall

Katherine Marshall is a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs. She served as senior advisor for the World Bank on issues of faith and development for over three decades. Her long career with the World Bank (1971-2006) involved a wide range of leadership positions, many focused on Africa. She has been closely engaged in the creation and development of the World Faiths Development Dialogue (WFDD) and is its Executive Director. She serves on the Boards of several NGOs and advisory groups, including the Niwano Peace Prize International Selection Committee and the Opus Prize Foundation. She speaks and publishes widely on issues for international development.

Workshop: Development through Faith and Interfaith Efforts

Triple Thread •Founders

Kyle McCollom and Chris Cole are young social entrepreneurs based out of Nashville. While seniors at Vanderbilt, they launched Triple Thread–a screen printing social enterprise that offers employment opportunities to former offenders. Kyle is the starter and the strategic lead in the team of two, while Chris handles branding and heads up creative work. They are currently starting their second social enterprise–a startup in the beverage space– and are working with other Nashvillians to strengthen the social enterprise community in the city.

Workshop: Utilizing Resources for Effective Community Outreach Kyle will also speak at Stories from the Archives: Taking on Challenges as a GES Alum

Kyle McCollom and Chris Cole


Design for America • Director of Operations & Segal Design Institute Lecturer Workshop: Storytelling through Design

Sami Nerenberg

As Director of Operations & Segal Design Institute lecturer, Sami’s role is to grow DFA throughout the country while maintaining consistent project quality & student learning. Previously working at Design that Matters and teaching as the youngest adjunct faculty member at her alma-mater the Rhode Island School of Design where she obtained a degree in Industrial Design with a focus on social and environmental sustainability, Sami seeks to organize & empower communities with design as the means of creating change. It is the intersection of design, social impact, & education that consistently fuels her passion for DFA.

College Spring • FounderGarrett Neiman

Garrett Neiman is Co-Founder and CEO of CollegeSpring, the largest nonprofit organization in California offering SAT preparation and college readiness programs for low-income students. 1,300 students have completed the CS program to date, and 1,500 more will participate in 2012. Since graduating from Stanford with a B.A. in Economics in June 2010, Garrett has raised nearly $2 million to expand the program and built a movement for education reform that includes a central office team of ten, over 100 part-time direct service employees during the academic-year, and over 100 full-time direct service employees members during the summer.

Workshop: Sustainable Funding: Ensuring Long Term Growth for your Project

Threadless • Founder

Jake Nickell is Threadless’s young and fearless entrepreneurial leader. Jake has a passion for learning new things, from how to get t-shirts made to figuring out how to design and program an e-commerce website. Currently, he’s focused on running the worldwide, hugely successful business that Threadless has become. He likes to think creatively and unconventionally about how to keep Threadless one step ahead by encouraging nutty employee ideas and staying away from the “business” side of running a business. Jake also continues to keep up his geek cred through a love for programming. When he’s not working, he’s busy hanging out with his wife Shondi, daughter Arli, and son Dash.

Short Talk: Crowdsourced: Group Efforts in Social Change

Jake Nickell

National People’s Action • Development Director

Jeff Pinzino is Development Director for National People’s Action, a national community organizing network, and since 2010 has been principally responsible for raising the organization’s $3 million annual budget. Jeff was Program Officer at the Woods Fund of Chicago for eight years, managing grants in community organizing and public policy advocacy. Jeff worked as a community organizer for seven years in Chicago with the Logan Square Neighborhood Association and Northwest Neighborhood Federation. Jeff is a co-founder and current board member of Food Desert Action, which operates the Fresh Moves Mobile Produce Market on Chicago’s West side.

Workshop: Common Cause: Partnering with Nonprofits, Universities and Governments

Jeff Pinzino


Unreasonable Institute • Co-founder

From a young age, Teju wondered what we could to tackle problems like global poverty. Frustrated that his BA in International Affairs wasn’t preparing him to do so, he obtained a grant from the University of Colorado at Boulder to conduct research about the effectiveness of non-profits in India. He started the SHARED Element, aiming to connect India’s rural poor with business via mobile phone. He joined Paul Polak and began working as his assistant at D-Rev: Design for the Other 90%, eventually leaving to co-found the Unreasonable Institute. The Unreasonable Institute is a mentorship and training program for entrepreneurs tackling social and environmental problems. Each year, Unreasonable unites 25 entrepreneurs from around the world in one house for 6 weeks in Boulder.

Short Talk: Living an Engaged Life

Teju Ravilochan

Design for America • Learing ConsuWorkshop: Storytelling through Design

Daniel Rees

Daniel Rees is currently working as a Learning Consultant and Designer for Design for America, where his role is to research and work with the design team to codify and create instruction for DFA’s innovation and design process. Daniel is also researching advice networks within organizations, In this program, Daniel focused on the learning within organizations, and on creating instruction to help students learn the human centered design process. Daniel has 6 years of experience in designing and delivering adult education, including communication skills, intercultural communication, Design, and English as a foreign language.

Mama Hope • Founding Director

Nyla Rodgers is the founding director of Mama Hope. Nyla interned at the International Peace Bureau and UNESCO’s International Bureau of Education in Geneva, Switzerland where she conducted an independent research project, “Children as Emissaries of Change: Peace Education in Post Conflict Societies.” Nyla then completed a Master’s Degree at the European University of Peace Studies in Austria, where she held a graduate research position at Education for Peace International in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Later, Nyla was employed as the Program Director of the Pacific Rim Foundation (PRF) in San Francisco. In 2007, Nyla was the Africa Program Coordinator for the UN Environment Program’s San Francisco Delegation to Kenya.

Workshop: Unfiltered: Responsible Visual Media Creation in the Age of Poverty Porn

Nyla Rodgers

Sojourn Theatre • Founding Artistic Director

Michael Rohd is founding artistic director of Sojourn Theatre, an ensemble-based company that has made 24 major works around the nation over the last twelve years, many with non-arts sector partners such as State Legislatures, Regional Planning Commissions, a Subaru dealership, a State Department of Education, a City Council, a long term care facility and Mayor’s Offices. Current Projects include: an adaptation of a Sojourn process for three counties in rural Southwestern Virginia to be used as a public engagement tool for community planning; a new work created with NYC’s The TEAM opening at KC Rep in Winter 2013; preparing Sojourn Theatre to be Artists-in-Residence at the 2012 Catholic Charities USA National Poverty Reduction Summit, and leading the newly formed Center for Performance and Civic Practice. Rohd is on faculty at Northwestern University’s School of Communication. His widely translated book, Theatre for Community, Conflict & Dialogue (Heinemann) is in its 15th printing.

GES Kick Off

Michael Rohd


Partners in Health • Community Engagement Coordinator

Jon Shaffer recently began his new role as the Community Engagement Coordinator for Partners In Health. In this role, he will work to build deep communities of solidarity and support for the global health equity movement. Previously, Jon served for two years as the Executive Director of GlobeMed, during which time its national network grew from 17 university-based chapters and 500 students to 46 chapters and more than 1,500 students, all working in partnership with 47 grassroots health organizations on four continents.

Workshop: Power, Privilege and Posture: Deconstructing ‘Leadership’ in Global Heath

Jon Shaffer

Learn Capital • Principal

Nathaniel Whittemore

Nathaniel Whittemore is a Principal with Learn Capital. Nathaniel was previously the founder of the Center for Global Engagement, a multi-disciplinary center at Northwestern University that designs programs for students interested in global development, philanthropy, and social entrepreneurship. Nathaniel writes regularly about education, business and social innovation for publications including GOOD, Inc, and Fast Company. He was the founding editor of the Social Entrepreneurship portal on Change.org, which he grew from launch to the most read website about the topic. He serves as an advisor and evangelist for a number of nonprofits and startups, including Assetmap – a platform for accelerating professional serendipity.

Workshop: Doing Good Well: The Social Enterprise

Born in Costa Rica, Desiree was raised in a suburb of Kansas City, MO. She graduated from Yale with a B.A. in Latin American studies in 2004 and quickly went to work as a specialist in college entrepreneurship at the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City. When she’s not working, Desiree can be found spending time with her husband, newborn son and step-daughter, inventing recipes that don’t always work, or busting a move in zumba or hip hop classes.

One Acre Fund • Administration Associate

Allie Bream is currently an Administration Associate at One Acre Fund. Prior to joining One Acre Fund, she was a Princeton in Africa 2010-2011 Fellow at World Food Program-Ethiopia in the Public Information office. Allie attended Northwestern, where she co-directed the Global Engagement Summit 2010 and studied in Uganda and Oman. Allie graduated in 2010 with a degree in Social Policy and Gender Studies.

Stories from the Archives: Taking on Challenges as a GES Alum

Allie Bream

Chicago Tonight • Production Assistant

Shanika Gunaratna is a production assistant on Chicago Tonight, the evening news show on WTTW, Chicago’s PBS station. There, Shanika produces original segments on topics ranging from transgender rights to Chicago’s literary scene. Before joining PBS, Shanika worked on the foreign affairs show Worldview on WBEZ, Chicago Public Radio. She graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism with a degree in journalism and international studies.


Shanika Gunaratna

Desiree Vargas WrigleyGive Forward • CEO & Co-founderWorkshop: The Who: Internal Team Building

Tony Blair Faith Foundation • Fellow

Sana Rahim is a 2011 graduate of Northwestern University, majoring in English Literature and minoring in Political Science. At Northwestern, Sana served as the Co-Director for The Global Engagement Summit, a committee member on The Undergraduate Budget Priorities Committee, and an Education Coordinator for GlobeMed. Sana spent the summer of 2009 working at the Istanbul Bilgi Human Rights Research Center focusing on women’s rights and NGO approaches towards gender discrimination. She also completed an internship at the Istanbul Policy Center at Sabanci University in the department dealing with US -Turkey relations. In the summer of 2010, Sana received The Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Grant to further explore gender equality in Turkey. Currently, Sana is serving as a Fellow with the Tony Blair Faith Foundation to promote interfaith dialogue and common action towards the Millennium Development Goals.

Sana Rahim


The Third Teacher +, Cannon Design • Designer

Sarah is currently applying her ethnographic experience to the field of architecture at Can-non Design. Primarily a part of The Third Teacher Plus, an education design consultancy within Cannon, she provides the behavioral understanding necessary for its mission to use the design mindset to transform teaching and learning. Sarah provides The Third Teacher + team an attention to the implicit values that drive a community, synthesizing these insights into an inspiring vision and set of design drivers for each project.


Sarah Malin

LEND • Co-founder

Sahil Mehta is a senior at Northwestern University studying Industrial Engineering. He is passionate about building, leading, and understanding organizations that effectively deliver powerful impact. He has worked in organizations large and small, all the way from small grassroots political campaigns to Fortune 50 companies nestled in Silicon Valley. On campus, Sahil co-founded LEND (Lending for Evanston and Northwestern Development), a non-profit that provides business training and affordable lending options to low income entrepreneurs in the community. Sahil was a delegate at the 2011 Global Engagement Summit, and is excited to meet and learn from the new class of delegates this year.


Sahil Mehta


One Acre Fund • Senior Partner, Executive Director

Andrew Youn, Senior Partner / Executive Director, started One Acre Fund in 2006. Andrew graduated from Yale magna cum laude, is a former management consultant, and received his MBA from Kellogg School of Management. Andrew co-founded the program in Kenya with John Gachunga, and lives in Western Kenya where he learns directly from farmers. One Acre Fund provides subsistence farm families with seed and fertilizer loans, training, and harvest market facilitation – enabling them to double their farm profit per acre. In six years, One Acre Fund has grown to serve 75,000 farm families in Kenya/ Rwanda/ Burundi with 700 staff, and is doubling in size ever year. One Acre Fund has been recognized on the Forbes Impact 30 list for top NGOs, the IFC/ FT sustainable banking awards in 2010 and 2011, and by the Echoing Green, Draper Richards, Mulago, and Skoll Foundations for social entrepreneurship. One Acre Fund hires the top entrepreneurial recent graduates with at least one year of work experience in the developing world, and we are building an amazing team in the field! www.oneacrefund.org.

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Andrew Youn

GOOD Magazine • Senior Editor

Cord Jefferson is the senior editor of GOOD magazine, where he likes to focus on issues of race, politics, and animal rights. Originally from Tucson, Arizona, he has since been a soccer star in Tijuana, a kidney donor in Saudi Arabia, and left for dead in Italy. Throughout it all he’s done reporting and writing for the likes of National Geographic, The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, The Root, Filter, GIANT, Jezebel, Wonkette, Nerve, The American Prospect, The Awl, and various other publications. His nonfiction essays have been included in two anthologies, and his comedy writing has appeared on MTV. He’s also been seen and/or heard on NPR, the CBC, the BBC, CNN, RT, and MSNBC. He received his degree in sociology from the College of William and Mary. He lives in Los Angeles and has tremendous hand-eye coordination.

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Cord Jefferson


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Morgan Bober [email protected] Grinnell College

Lauren Abigail (Abby) Hannifan [email protected]

Polytechnic University of New York

Subhash Ghimire [email protected] Tufts University

Seyma Guven [email protected]

Gerald Guevarra [email protected]

Kelsey Barton Henry [email protected] Middlebury College

Alan Hurt [email protected]

Gaurav Kikani [email protected]

University of Illinois

Rachel Lamb [email protected]

Northwestern University

Loyola University

Vanderbilt University

Maimuna Majumder [email protected]

Elizabeth Miller [email protected]

Marybeth Medrano [email protected] Benedictine University

Adam Miller [email protected]

University of Washington

Wabash College

Nada Beshir [email protected] University of Chicago

Janae Cummings [email protected] Adelphi University

Caitlin Bold [email protected] University of North Carolina

Emily Litchfield [email protected]

Wheaton College

Anne Mwendar [email protected]

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Nicole Negrete [email protected]


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Daniel Omondi [email protected]

Terrance Scotton [email protected]

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Richard Pichardo Abreu [email protected] University of Chicago

Janesh Rahlan [email protected] University of Illinois-Chicago

Christopher Rovin [email protected]

Aric Reviere [email protected]

Shraddha Shah [email protected] Dartmouth University

Samuel Smith IV [email protected]

Stephanie Ullrich [email protected]

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Jessica Van Fleteren [email protected]

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Adam Walker [email protected]

Jacob Wallace [email protected] University of Iowa

Angela Wells [email protected] Loyola University

Danielle Oberdier [email protected] Northwestern University

Tarik Patterson [email protected]

Deborah Omondi [email protected] Wheaton College

Nat Vikitsreth [email protected]

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Giovani Santos [email protected] Brazil

Jacqueline Owyong [email protected] Singapore

Maria Uriarte [email protected]

Khalida Brohi [email protected]

Patrick Henry Asinero [email protected] Phillipines

Renato Dornelas [email protected]

Saurav Patyal [email protected]

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Caroline [email protected]

American Delegates Co-Chairs

Adrienne [email protected]

Tyler Dillon [email protected]

Community Development Co-Chairs

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Spencer Jackman [email protected]

Jayshree [email protected]

Meena [email protected]


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Annie Nash [email protected]

Mark [email protected]

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Maryam Adamu [email protected]

Jane Merrill [email protected]

Ahsin [email protected]

Franny McGill [email protected]

Karin [email protected]

Michael Harvey [email protected]

International Delegates Co-Chairs

John Rim [email protected]

Kirk [email protected]

Amrita Mattoo [email protected]

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Joan DeGennaro [email protected]

Jaclyn Mauch [email protected]

Allison [email protected]

Rose [email protected]

Rebecca [email protected]

Alexa Herzog [email protected]

Heba [email protected]

Melissa [email protected]

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Lena [email protected]

Nikhil [email protected]

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Najim [email protected]


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Alumni Michelle KiBrian LasmanMadeleine MayHannah RosebraughElise Steinberger Victoria Tannenbaum

ContentDiana BalitaanMichelle KimMaddie KrigerAnna KristJennifer LinkerAri SillmanChristie ThompsonHannah Teitelbaum

OpenShutterAmina MunirPaku ParkAlyssa PeterselCamille Provencal- DayleNaomi RosenDanya SherbiniParis West

International DelegatesJocelyn CooperAlexis GableNico GrossoNick Kazvini-GoreYan Jie NgHyunjun KimJocelyn PadgenChristina SchaererKenny Yeo

LogisticsEllyn Pena Stone ShenRebekah Williams

FinanceSarah Sanders

Media & MarketingNishant NayarJonah Newman Yasha Saxena

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LIFE AFTER THE SUMMITThe Global Engagement Summit is amazing, but it’s only the first step! Now that you’re a GES alum, you’re a permanent member of the global change community! Our Alumni Team will offer you the opportunity to connect with past, present and future members of GES through a range of exciting opportunities that will take place throughout the year.

Share your insight and experience with other members of the GES community. Working on an exciting project and blogging about it? Let us know, and we’ll help you spread that informa-tion among people with a wide range of social change interests and experience levels!

Connect with the GES alumni community by staying in touch with the contacts you have made here and continuing the conversation. Read the Alumni newsletter to be informed about the GES community as a whole.

Celebrate the mission of GES by participating in the annual GES day next winter. Send us your pictures and videos of everything you do to celebrate

Shape future Summits by recruiting future delegates from people you know, work with, and respect. Each year we ask for recommendations from alumni for new applicants, and we take your input seriously! No one knows better than you what it takes to be a GES delegate. We also take facilitator recommendations!

Receive GES Outcomes opportunities open to alumni throughout the year.

Stay updated on GES happenings through our newsletter, which will be sent out every few months by the Alumni Team. Also, if you have ideas for events in your area or are interested in giving your input on what you’re looking for in the GES community, please contact the Alumni Team at [email protected].


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