Congratulations to SBL Scholar Scott Fairbanks (BA '13), who has accepted a position as an A*Year Associate at Ashoka in Washington, D.C.

 

SBL Fellow Stephanie Schwartz (MBA '14) published two articles with BSR, the first on empowering women through technology, and the second on sustainable storytelling.

 

Congratulations to SBL Fellow Tracy Dennis (MBA '12) who has accepted a position at GOOD as a strategist for the social impact strategy consulting team of GOOD known as Good/Corps.

 

SBL Fellow Veronica Chen (MBA '13) is following her passion for education while working at AT&T by volunteering as an Event Coordinator and mentor for AT&T's Aspire Academy, a $250 million campaign to help more students graduate from high school ready for college and careers.

 

Congratulations to SBL Scholar John Ingram (BA, '15) ran this year's annual fundraiser, Pass the Can, at the recent USC homecoming football game. He raised over $27,000 to support Troy Camp, USC's oldest student-run philanthropy. Troy Camp provides a week of summer camp as well as year-long mentorship and academic programming to underserved children in the LA community.

 

SBL Fellow Asa Firestone (MBA '12) is involved in launching Adventure Service Corps, a summer program partnering with City Year to integrate in-school academic mentorship with after-school adventure programming. 

 

SBL Senior Fellow Fran Seegull recently sat on an impact investing panel at Schwab Impact and will speak at the upcoming Barron's Top Women Advisors Summit in December.

 

SBL Senior Fellow Michelle Yates was featured on Triple Pundit and recently worked on putting out Adobe's first Corporate Responsibility Report.

 

SBL Senior Fellow, Laura Rubbo, has been appointed to the Board of Overseers for the University of Connecticut's Human Rights Institute.

 

SBL Senior Fellow Meredith Blake & her team at ProSocial are honored to work with The Progeria Research Foundation, HBO, and the team behind the riveting documentary Life According to Sam. ProSocial's latest project is Years of Living Dangerously, the largest climate change communications initiative and campaign since An Inconvenient Truth, which will launch on Showtime in April, 2014.

 

SBL Senior Fellow Paul Polizzotto and the EcoMedia team are in the middle of a busy holiday season and have already given away over $700,000 this month across eleven projects in multiple cities, working with clients such as GM, Bank of America, US Bank, UnitedHealthcare, and YP.com.  

 

Note: SBL Fellow Stephen Lin (MBA'13) is running a technology forum for the State Department in Kazakstan with a focus on social enterprise. He is currently looking for well-known speakers that could also train local teams of young people at the forum in June, 2014.  Email Stephen with questions or suggestions.