Aha! Moments: When I Changed Course
Thursday, April 6, 2017
Session Description
In a world where it feels like everyone is digging in their heels and retreating into their own camps, changing one’s mind or course can take real courage and resolve. We’ll hear from social entrepreneurs and other leaders about their “aha! moments”: the experiences or enlightenments that caused them to rethink everything they thought they knew.
Time & Location
Time:
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM, Thursday, April 6, 2017
BST
Location:
Lecture Theatre 4
Speakers
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Speaker
With a strong passion for social justice and health equity, Ruth has spent most of her early career so far working on issues surrounding sexual and reproductive health. Utilizing her skills in Strategy Development, Social Marketing, Media, Advocacy and Public Relations, she is an experienced Communications professional with a demonstrated history of working in Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO) and served as a 2015-2016 Global Health Corps Fellow. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) focused in Media Studies and Political Science with a Public Relations specialty from the University of Namibia. She is currently a Social Marketing Regional Coordinator for a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded project called USAID District Coverage Health (USAID DISCOVER-H) under the Palladium Group in Zambia. Prior to joining the Palladium Group, she worked as a Communication Specialist for Society for Family Health Zambia. Through her work, she builds relationships that advance and benefit the principles of justice as fairness and her personal motto of ‘healing the world through communications’.
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CEO and Co-founder, Shining Hope for Communities
Kennedy is one of Africa’s best-known community organizers and social entrepreneurs. He grew up in Kenya's Kibera slum, the largest slum in Africa, where he experienced the devastating realities of life in extreme poverty first hand. At age ten he became a street child. Still, he dreamed about changing his community. In 2004, he had a job in a factory earning $1 for ten hours of work. He saved 20 cents and used this to buy a soccer ball and start Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO). Driven by the entrepreneurial spirit of the people of Kibera, SHOFCO became the largest grassroots organization in the slum. Today, SHOFCO impacts over 300,000 slum dwellers across 10 urban slums in Kenya, and is the largest employer in Kibera. In 2018, SHOFCO became the youngest-ever organization to receive the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, the world's largest humanitarian prize awarded to nonprofits that have made extraordinary contributions to alleviate human suffering. Although he was entirely informally educated, Kennedy received a full scholarship to Wesleyan University, becoming one of Kibera’s first to receive an education from an American liberal arts institution. He graduated in 2012 as the Commencement Speaker and with honors in Sociology. He later served on the Wesleyan Board of Trustees. He was awarded the 2010 Echoing Green Fellowship, which is given to the world’s best emerging social entrepreneurs. He was named to FORBES "30 under 30 list" for top Social Entrepreneurs in 2014. He is a New York Times best-selling author of Find Me Unafraid: Love, Hope, and Loss in an African Slum, co-written with his wife and partner, Jessica Posner Odede. He has published opinion articles on urban poverty in The New York Times, CNN, The Guardian, Project Syndicate. He previously served on the United Nations International Commission on Financing of Global Education Opportunities. He is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a UBS Global Visionary.
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Founder & President, Asset Campaign
JULIA ORMOND, FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT of Alliance to Stop Slavery and End Trafficking(ASSET). Julia was the first to serve as UNODC's U.N. Goodwill Ambassador to Combat Trafficking & Slavery and the driving force behind the passage of the CA Transparency in Supply Chains Act. She is Founding Chair of FilmAid International. She was Executive Producer of Calling the Ghosts: A Story of Rope, War and Women which won an Emmy, a Cable Ace, a Robert F Kennedy Journalism Award and after a screening at the Council of Foreign Relations spurred legislation that enabled the arrest of Milosevich. Julia also participated in Call and Response. a documentary on the state of enslavement today and one of the first documentaries promoting cell phone technology to accept immediate donations to the cause. She is an Associate Producer to Libby Spear’s Playground, which focuses on the environment that enables child trafficking within the U.S. As an advocate, Julia has traveled the world assessing solutions and challenges and she has appeared as an expert witness before the US. Congress and the United Nations. For this advocacy work. she received the World Economic Forum’s Crystal Award” and Women for Women International’s “Peace Award.
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Founder and CEO, Cracked It
Josh is Founder and CEO of Cracked It, an award-winning social enterprise that trains and employs young offenders to service the 29% of smartphones with a smashed screen. Cracked It was named one of “London’s best iPhone fixers” by the Evening Standard.
Alongside campaigners including Paddy Ashdown and Martha Lane Fox, Josh is a Convenor of More United, a new movement advancing progressive and tolerant politics in Britain.
Josh was featured in The Observer’s ‘Rising Stars of 2017’ and named a ‘global changemaker’ by social innovation foundation Ashoka. He serves as a trustee of the African Health Policy Network.
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CEO and Co-Founder, PastureMap
Christine Su is the CEO and co-founder of PastureMap, a grazing management platform that empowers farmers and ranchers to be more profitable while building healthy grasslands. Grasslands comprise 1/3 of our global land mass, and building healthy grasslands to keep carbon in the soil is a critical lever to address climate change. PastureMap is also building the information backbone of a better meat supply chain. Since launching in 2016, PastureMap has built a user community of 5000+ producers in 26 countries. Christine has worked on farms and ranches in four continents, including California, New Zealand, Japan. Christine has 3 degrees from Stanford, including an MS in Land Use and Agriculture and an MBA. Prior to founding PastureMap, she worked at McKinsey and at KKR Capstone, where she was an operations executive. She led teams building operational performance improvement software for companies from $500 million to $2 billion in revenue size.
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Chuck Slaughter is the founder of TravelSmith and Living Goods, is a managing Director of The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, and a Senior Advisor to TPG’s Rise Fund, a $5 billion impact investing platform. Chuck earned a BA and Masters in Public and Private Management from Yale. In 1991 he founded TravelSmith, a leading travel gear company, and grew it to over $100 million in catalog and online sales. As an advisor to several private equity funds, he has participated in the acquisition of over $2 billion in consumer businesses. As its pro-bono president Chuck lead the turnaround of a network of clinics serving the poor in Kenya. This inspired him to create Living Goods, which supports government community health workers who provide health care on call delivered to the doorsteps of over 8 million people. Living Goods Smart Health app automates diagnoses, enables managers to optimize the performance of thousands of health workers in in remote villages, and provides real-time, auditable data to health ministries and funders. A RCT shows this approach is reducing child mortality by over 25%, for less than $3 per capita. LG’s is helping partners replicate the model in Uganda, Kenya Burkina Faso, and Ethiopia. Chuck serves on the boards of Yale’s School of Management, Tidepool, Digital Square, Aspen Management Partners, PATH’s Digital Advisory Board, and was previously the Vice Chair of the Initiative for Global Development (Co-founded by Bill Gates Sr). He received a Skoll Award, an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, a Draper Richards Fellowship, and is a World Economic Forum Social Entrepreneur of the Year.
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Global Director of Inclusive Finance, Citigroup, Inc.
Bob Annibale
Global Director,
Citi Community Development and Inclusive Finance
Bob leads Citi’s partnerships with global, national and local organizations to support inclusive finance and community development through economic empowerment. He also leads Citi’s commercial relationships with microfinance financial institutions, corporations, investors and municipalities, working across Citi’s businesses and geographies to expand access to financial services in underserved communities.
Since joining Citi in 1982, Mr. Annibale has held a number of senior regional and global treasury, risk and corporate positions in Athens, Bahrain, Nairobi, London and New York.
Bob serves on the U.S. FDIC Advisory Committee on Economic Inclusion and the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs Advisory Council on Financial Education and Inclusion. He serves as a Founding Member of SAGE’s Housing Advisory Council supporting the senior LGBT community, and serves on the board of the Citi Foundation, Accion International and the Bedford Stuyvestant Restoration Corporation.
In 2014, Bob was honored by the Obama Administration as a White House Champion of Change for his work leading Citi’s programs promoting immigrant integration and citizenship in the United States. His leadership contributed to Citi’s recognition by Euromoney as the inaugural “Best Bank for Financial Inclusion” and “Latin America’s Best Bank for Sustainable Finance”. Bob was individually recognized by Euromoney as a “Global Impact Banking Champion”. In 2018, he was again named by the Financial Times as one of the OUTStanding Top 100 LGBT Business Leaders for the fifth consecutive year.
Bob, a U.S. and U.K. national, holds a B.A. in History and Political Science from Vassar College, New York, and an M.A. in African Studies (History) from the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies.
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Moderator
COO & Head of Portfolio, Mulago Foundation
Kristin leads Mulago's grant and investment portfolio and oversees operations. She joined Mulago in 2013 to grow and support an exemplary portfolio of social investments – grants, debt and equity – in high-impact organizations with a scalable solution to meet the basic needs of the poor.
Her background spans the private, public and nonprofit sectors, including stints in investment banking, the US Peace Corps, the US National Park Service, and organizations focused on early childhood development and immigrant job placement. Kristin has brought these varied experiences to philanthropy since 2008.
Prior to Mulago, she was a Principal at the Skoll Foundation, where she worked with social entrepreneurs, and Program Finance Officer at the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation, where she focused on environmental conservation.
