SBL Senior Fellow Fran Seegull was just featured in a Harvard Business School article profiling her career in impact investing using a for-profit approach to achieve social and environmental benefits.
SBL Scholars Scott Fairbanks (B.S. '13), Catherine Uong (B.S. '14), and BAEP 499 classmate Peter Routzahn have joined forces with verynice.co to continue developing Wiz!, their life-sized board game that encourages kids to be physically active, interact with peers, and be creative. Wiz! spun out of BAEP 499 as the team's final project and they will be participating at the USC Stevens Student Innovator Showcase & Fast Pitch in hopes of securing funding.
SBL Fellows, Stephanie Schwartz, Dara Pastor, Haleta Belai, and Lauren Wagman (MBAs '14), as part of the Marshall Net Impact Board, recently presented to the USC Bo
ard of Trustees at an event facilitated by the Vice Provost for Student Affairs, Ainsley Carry.
Congrats to SBL Fellow, Jennifer May (MBA '13), who got married on October 19th to John Gardiner here in Los Angeles. Jennifer also has a new title, Special Projects Manager for Designmatters at Art Center College of Design.
SBL Scholar Angeli Agrawal (B.S. '13) is now a Research Assistant with the United Talent Agency Foundation, working with SBL Senior Fellow and Foundation Director Rene Jones. As the talent and literary agency's charitable arm, they provide strategic guidance for UTA's clients and executives pursuing meaningful philanthropy.
SBL Fellow Tim Kline (MBA '14) will be part of the USC Marshall team heading to Miami next month to compete as the only remaining US team in Ericsson's Networked Society Case Competition (NEST). The team is envisioning how Information and Technology Communication can be leveraged to envision the future of cities.
SBL Senior Fellow Rose Shuman's consulting firm, BrightFront Group, is developing the complete Standard Operating Procedures for a network of Big Data Innovation Labs, founded by the UN Secretary General's Office.
SBL Senior Fellow Paul Polizzotto and the EcoMedia team are proud to support our Nation's Veterans through Bank of America's participation in the EcoAd and WellnessAd programs. The partnership is generating over $350k in funding for in-house medical clinics, an array of mental health programs, and sustainability upgrades in supportive housing centers for homeless, at-risk, and formerly homeless veterans in New York, Boston, and San Diego.
Senior Fellow, Laura Rubbo, has been named Vice Chair of the Corporate Responsibility (CR) Committee of the United States Council for International Business (USCIB). USCIB's CR committee comprises major global corporations and works together to promote the business perspective on corporate responsibility; shape the development and implementation of codes, standards and principles on corporate responsibility; and increase awareness of the positive social and environmental contributions made by business.
Prior SBL Lunch & Learn speaker, Sandra "Mama" Romero, of Mama's Hot Tamales, was featured in a recent article on the revitalization of Macarthur Park in Los Angeles.
Myrna Mandell, Ph.D., who collaborated with Community Partners CEO and SBL Senior Fellow Paul Vandeventer on the pathbreaking Networks that Work in 2008, has published Network Theory in the Public Sector: Building New Theoretical Frameworks (Routledge), another solidly grounded tool for managing organizational complexity in civic and community life.
