Founder and CEORefugePoint
Sasha Chanoff is founder & CEO of RefugePoint, an organization that partners with refugees to access life-changing solutions & transforms how the world supports them. Co-author of From Crisis to Calling: Finding Your Moral Center in the Toughest Decisions, a book about moral decision points that shape our lives. Recipient of the Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award, the Harvard Center for Public Leadership Gleitsman Award, the Charles Bronfman Prize, a Goodwill Ambassador for the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity, and in 2015 President Obama named him a White House Champion of Change. He has received social entrepreneur fellowships from the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, Ashoka, & Echoing Green. He is an Advisor and former board member of Network of Engaged International Donors Global. He has a M.A. in Humanitarian Assistance from the Tufts Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy & the Friedman School of Nutrition, Science & Policy, & a BA from Wesleyan University.