Past Work
I’ve worked on social impact projects all over the world.
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Malawi, Africa
After college, I served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Malawi, East Africa. You can learn more about this experience in my first published story.
Wall Street
& the Arctic
When I came home from the Peace Corps, the world’s largest bank hired and trained me to serve as a stockbroker focused on Socially Responsible Investing (now known as Impact Investing). When I learned that Climate Change was responsible for the drought-induced famine I’d witnessed in Malawi, I traveled to the Arctic to produce a documentary short about youth activists addressing this critical issue.
Bangladesh
Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus hired me to support the expansion of Grameen Shakti. Based in Bangladesh, Grameen Shakti uses micro-loans to enable village girls and women to be solar energy entrepreneurs. I convened a global community of experts to create an expansion business plan for this innovative program.
San Francisco
/Bay Area
I launched Ashoka’s Youth Venture to support young people in creating community benefitting projects in the SF/Bay Area and beyond. Many of the projects focused on environmental and food justice. One group of young changemakers, based in the food desert of West Oakland, became produce entrepreneurs delivering fruits and vegetables by bicycle to the liquor stores in their community. Another group built vegetable gardens on urban rooftops in East Oakland and sold their goods at local farmer’s markets.
United States
I co-founded #YesWeCode, with the support of the rockstar Prince, to increase racial diversity in the tech sector. We collaborated with grassroots community groups, philanthropists, celebrities and tech leaders to: launch #YesWeCode in New Orleans at the Essence Music Festival, run hackathons in cities all over the country, and create a training-to-job pipeline for youth of color to build careers in tech.
Global
Determined to give dignity and value to working caregivers, I created TendLab and published my first book, Tending: Parenthood and the Future of Work. Through TendLab, we helped dozens of companies build cultures of care, launched a campaign to ask employers to track employee caregiver data, and started the FamTech Founders Collaborative.
