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Pop!Tech Social Innovation Fellowship Program 2008
FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM FACULTY
The faculty for Pop!Tech’s Social Innovation Fellowship Program will contribute to a unique, cutting-edge, 4-day training program designed to accelerate positive impact. This high-powered group includes relevant thought leaders in fields that are absolutely critical to success, but rarely “taught”—such as branding, design, venture capital, media relations, and finance. | | John Balen
John is a General Partner at Canaan Partners, and focuses on investments in digital media, mobility, and next-generation enterprise technologies that are disrupting the balance of traditional markets. Before joining Canaan Partners, John held a variety of operational and financial roles, where he learned both how to build companies from the ground up and how to fund them. John currently serves on the boards of early-stage firms such as Blurb, Casabi, Dexterra, EZRez, ID Analytics, and SOASTA.
| | | Ken Banks (Teaching Fellow)
Ken is the founder of kiwanja.net, an organization pioneering new applications of mobile technology to effect positive social and environmental change in the developing world. kiwanja.net helps local, national and international non-profits put mobiles to work through innovative offerings like FrontlineSMS – free software enabling coordinated, many-to-many, two-way text messaging. Ken’s solutions have been used to improve communications in many critical situations, including human rights and election monitoring, as well as disaster relief coordination.
| | | Josh Baran
Josh is Senior Vice-President for Fenton Communications. He has 25 years of experience in the public relations / strategic communications field, working with nonprofit organizations, entertainment, media, and technology companies. He’s lent expertise to a wide variety of clients and organizations, including Microsoft, Oracle, Time Warner, Sony Pictures, Bertlesmann, the Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Amnesty International, Natural Resources Defense Council and the Special Olympics.
| | | Gideon D’Arcangelo
Gideon is the Director of Creative Strategy at ESI Design in New York. His recent design projects include the Action Center to End World Hunger for Mercy Corps, opening in October 2008. For the Action Center he spearheaded a global citizen journalism effort to bring in frontline humanitarian stories from the field. Gideon currently produces the Listening In series on "Weekend America" and is a contributing producer for PRI's Studio 360. He teaches in the graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Previously he worked with ethnomusicologist and folklorist Alan Lomax on the Global Jukebox, and is currently on the board of Lomax's foundation, the Association for Cultural Equity.
| | | Loni Davis
Loni is a Senior Collaboration Consultant with Dreamfish, Inc., a social innovation organization focused on providing change makers with collaborative support systems to facilitate change. As a practitioner and consultant in Organizational Development for the past 20 years, Loni has worked for a variety of profit and nonprofit, national and international organizations in the healthcare, education, and technology sectors. Her work has centered on the development of strategies to strengthen collaboration and learning in organizations, structures, and leadership, to help bring about changes that will sustain our world.
| | | Robert Fabricant
Robert is the Executive Creative Director of frog design in New York, where he leads multidisciplinary design teams for clients such as BBC, Comcast, GE, MTV, Nextel, and Nissan. He has developed user experiences for numerous digital platforms, including handheld devices, in-car information systems, medical devices, retail environments, networked applications, and desktop software. Robert serves on the faculty of NYU’s Tisch School, and is a central partner in Pop!Tech’s Project Masiluleke.
| | | Cheryl Heller
Cheryl is a leading strategist, writer, and creative director, partnering with companies to transition their brands from the traditional values and tactics of the past to behavior and communications that will engender the trust, loyalty, and support required to flourish in the future. She is CEO of Heller Communication Design in New York City and Norfolk, CT. She has worked in design, advertising, marketing, and branding, and synthesizes the principles of each discipline in order to simplify communication and make it more powerful and motivating. Cheryl has developed brands and launched products for Fortune 100 and start-up companies – as well as leading nonprofits – in fields including fashion and beauty, automotive, entertainment, retail, technology, food and beverage, health care, manufacturing, and finance.
| | | Peter Kaminski
Peter joined Dreamfish in 2008, and specializes in collaborative information and communication technologies. He has created software and networks to help people join and grow the Internet itself, with projects and companies such as PDIAL, NETCOM, NanoSpace, and Yipes Communications. He was co-founder of Socialtext in 2003. He is driven to help people connect, with a focus on entrepreneurial drive for sustainability; psychology and sociology of people helping people connect together; understanding of the complex adaptive nature of living systems at many levels; and new and more humane ways of understanding exchanges and accounting of value.
| | | James L. Koch
Jim is founding director of the Center for Science, Technology, and Society, director of the Global Social Benefit Incubator, and professor of management at Santa Clara University. He served as Dean of the Business School and Interim Dean of Engineering, was founding director of Organization Planning and Development at PG&E, and serves on the editorial board for Health Care Management Review. His research and consulting focus is on socio-technical systems and high performance organizations. His current work examines the emergence of social entrepreneurship as a transformational force in business and economic development, technology and business model innovations that serve the unmet needs of humanity, and the adaptation of Silicon Valley models for scaling innovation to serve the base of the pyramid.
| | | Clara Miller
Clara is President and CEO of the Nonprofit Finance Fund, a national leader in helping nonprofits strengthen their financial health and improve their capacity to serve their communities. Clara is currently a board member of GuideStar, GEO, Working Today, Inc. (the Free-Lancers Union) and Community Wealth Ventures, a subsidiary of Share Our Strength. She is Treasurer of the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation Board. She is also a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Community Development Advisory Council, and the Independent Sector’s Building Value Together Committee. Clara has written and spoken extensively on nonprofit capitalization, and has received numerous awards for her contributions in the nonprofit sector.
| | | Ory Okolloh (Teaching Fellow)
Ory is a lawyer, activist, and blogger (www.kenyanpundit.com). She is also the co-founder and Executive Director of Ushahidi, a free, open source, Web / mobile-based platform capable of crowd-sourcing, sharing and mapping crisis information in near real time. Ushahidi applications are designed to facilitate more effective humanitarian crisis response – helping to save lives and speed up recovery efforts. The project was born as a way to track the atrocities and human rights violations that erupted after this year’s Kenyan presidential election.
| | | Paul Polak
Paul is founder of Colorado-based non-profit International Development enterprises (IDE), and is dedicated to developing practical solutions that attack poverty at its roots. For the past 25 years, Paul has worked with thousands of farmers in countries around the world—including Bangladesh, India, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Nepal, Vietnam, Zambia and Zimbabwe–to help design and produce low–cost, income–generating products that have already moved 17 million people out of poverty. In 2004, Paul received Ernst & Young’s “Entrepreneur of the Year” award in the social responsibility category. And Paul was named one of the Scientific American “top 50” for his leadership in agriculture policy in 2003.
| | | Gustav Praekelt
Gustav is a digital entrepreneur, an obsessive technologist and the managing director of Praekelt Consulting. After completing his B.Sc. in Computer Science and Philosophy, he co-founded one of the first digital interactive studios in Africa and was its technical director for 10 years. He believes that mobile phones will transform Africa, and as a result founded the Praekelt Foundation in 2006, a technology incubator that develops open source mobile technology solutions to improve the health and well being of people living in poverty. Gustav is also a key partner in Pop!Tech’s Project Masiluleke.
| | | Sanjit "Bunker" Roy
Bunker is one of the world’s most accomplished social innovators, working to improve the lives of thousands of India’s rural poor. The organization he founded in 1972, Social Work and Research Centre, came to be known as the “Barefoot College” because its clients are poor, rural, often semiliterate villagers. The organization has trained hundreds of technicians—women, dropouts and unemployable youths—in remote villages in 13 Indian states over the past 30 years through a self-help model that respects local knowledge and capability and promotes local organizations to make community decisions. Bunker has received numerous awards recognizing his work in social innovation, including the St. Andrew’s Prize, Britain’s largest prize for environment; the Swiss Schwab Foundation Award; the Aga Khan Award for Architecture; the German Nuclear Free Future Award; and a Skoll Foundation award.
| | | David Sasaki
David is Director of Rising Voices, a global citizen media outreach initiative of Global Voices Online. He manages a portfolio of small-scale projects around the developing world that use citizen media to effect social change. He has led new media training workshops throughout Latin America, Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Sasaki transitioned into online journalism after working as a freelance web developer and English instructor in Monterrey, Mexico. He now splits his time and residence between North and Latin America and writes frequently at Rising Voices, PBS Idea Lab, and on his personal weblog.
| | | Jason Severs
Jason, a Principal Designer, has been working at frog design for over three years years. As a leader in frog’s Design Research practice he has worked across many digital, industrial design, and strategy projects with such clients as American Express, Colgate, ETS, GE, Neutrogena, and Vonage. Just prior to joining frog he collaborated with Bruce Mau as a member of the Institute without Boundaries on the project Massive Change: The Future of Global Design which explores how design is a transformative force in the world today. Previously, he was a research fellow at Columbia University’s Center for New Media Teaching and Learning working to understand the impact of new media on course curriculum.
| | | Kevin Starr
Kevin runs the Mulago Foundation and is the founder and director of the Rainer Arnhold Fellows Program. Mulago works like a social impact venture fund to seed and grow the most promising solutions in health, development and conservation in the Third World. The Rainer Arnhold Fellows Program is an outgrowth of the Foundation's work and recruits some of the best social entrepreneurs working in the developing world to maximize their impact through a systematic process of design and evolution.
| | | Vincent Stehle
Vince is Program Director for Nonprofit Sector Support at the Surdna Foundation, a family foundation based in New York City with more than $990 million in assets. Vince is also Chair of the Board of Directors of the New York Regional Association of Grantmakers (NYRAG) and serves on the Board of Directors of VolunteerMatch, YouthNOISE, and Grantmakers in Film and Electronic Media. In addition, he is a member of the advisory board for the Center for Effective Philanthropy. Before joining Surdna, Vince worked for ten years as a reporter for the Chronicle of Philanthropy, where he covered fundraising and management issues for the nonprofit sector; he has also written extensively for other publications.
| | | Teri Whitcraft
As National Producer of ABC News' Law & Justice Unit, Teri develops and produces stories and special projects for all the shows, including PrimeTime, 20/20, Good Morning America, Nightline, and World News. While her day-to-day job focuses primarily on producing high-profile legal cases and national news stories, she is very interested in helping shine a light on people who are changing the world.
| | | Luke Williams
Luke Williams is Creative Director for frog design and heads the Industrial Design practice for the New York and Austin studios. Prior to that, he worked in frog’s Silicon Valley and San Francisco studios as a creative lead for projects spanning a wide variety of enterprises. He lectures regularly at universities such as Columbia Business School, California College of the Arts, Parsons School of Design, and NYU Stern School of Business. Williams’ opinions on innovation and design have been sought after in interviews with National Public Radio, Business 2.0 Magazine, ID Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, and The Wall Street Journal.
| | | Lisa Witter
Lisa is Chief Operating Officer of Fenton Communications, the largest public interest communications company in the United States. Some of her clients have included Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai, Conrad Hilton Humanitarian prize winner Women for Women International, MoveOn.org, Stoneyfield Yogurt and the Harvard School of Public Health. She is communications trainer, political and social commentator and blogger with her work appearing on NPR, CBS, Fox News, MSNBC, CNN.com, Newsday, the Seattle Times and the Huffington Post.
| | | Andrew Zolli
Andrew is Executive Director and Curator of Pop!Tech and a Fellow of the National Geographic Society. Andrew is a well-known expert in global foresight and innovation, studying the complex trends at the intersection of technology, sustainability, and global society that are shaping our future. His firm, Z + Partners, helps global companies and institutions see, understand and respond to complex change.
| | | Ethan Zuckerman
Ethan is a Fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society since 2003. His work focuses on the impact of technology on the developing world. His current projects include a study of global media attention, research on the use of weblogs and other social software in the developing world, and work on a clearinghouse for software for international development. Ethan is a co-founder of Geekcorps and a co-founder of Global Voices.
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