2018 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship

Speakers

• Lesley Silverthorn Marincola

  Speaker

  CEO, Angaza

  Lesley Marincola is the Founder and CEO of Angaza. Angaza's Pay-As-You-Go technology platform enables businesses in emerging markets to extend flexible solar payment plans to the billion individuals without access to grid electricity. A product designer (B.S.) and mechanical engineer (M.S.) from…

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• Jennifer Pahlka

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  Founder, Code for America

  Jennifer Pahlka works on making government work for people in the digital age. She is the founder and former executive director of Code for America and served as U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2013–2014, where she founded…

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• Harish Hande

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  CEO, Selco Foundation

  Harish Hande, Founder SELCO Harish Hande is a renewable energy entrepreneur with over 25 years of grassroots experience in understanding, developing and deploying sustainable energy solutions for underserved communities. He was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2011. Today…

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• Barbara Pierce Bush

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  CEO and Co-Founder, Global Health Corps

  Barbara Bush is CEO and co-founder of Global Health Corps (GHC), which mobilizes a global community of young leaders to build the movement for health equity. GHC was founded in 2009 by six twentysomethings who were challenged by Peter Piot at the aids2031 Young Leaders Summit to engage…

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• Aloe Blacc

  Performer

  Musician, Invidividual

  A Southern California native born to Panamanian parents, Blacc was raised on boundary-pushing hip-hop acts like Public Enemy, The Pharcyde, and De La Soul, and developed a fierce admiration for such soul musicians as Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye and folk-rock singer/songwriters like Joni Mitchell…

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• Sally Osberg

  Moderator

  Vice Chair and Senior Advisor, Skoll Foundation

  As the first President and CEO of the Skoll Foundation, Sally Osberg partnered with Jeff Skoll to build it into the leading philanthropy in the field of social entrepreneurship. During her tenure, the Foundation supported more than 100 entrepreneurial organizations driving equilibrium change on many of…

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• Jess Ladd

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  CEO, Callisto

  Jess Ladd has dedicated her career to advancing sexual health and wellbeing through a public health lens and through using technology tools. She created her own major in Public Policy and Human Sexuality at Pomona College and has a Masters in Public Health in Epidemiology and Health…

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• Anushka Ratnayake

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  CEO & Founder, myAgro

  Anushka is recognized as a Global Leader in designing digital financial tools for smallholder farmers & designing for greater gender inclusion. She’s a serial entrepreneur who has had leadership roles in some of the most awarded and recognized social enterprises in the last two decades – Kiva.org…

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