Social Capitalists

Our Expert Panels

To help evaluate finalist organizations, we recruited 29 experts from 12 fields of social entrepreneurship:

Appropriate Technology

Roy King III, Social Enterprise Group

Gideon Rosenblatt, Executive Director, ONE/Northwest

Civic Engagement

Michael Bisesi, Director, Center for Nonprofit &Y Social Enterpise Mgmt - Seattle University

Christopher T. Gates, President, National Civic League

Rob Hollister, Dean, University College of Citizenship & Public Service, Tufts University

Community Development

Kenneth Reardon, Chair, Dept of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University

Bill Edwards, Executive Director, Association for Enterprise Opportunity

Connie Chamberlin, President and CEO, Housing Opportunities Made Equal

Education: Extracurricular Reform

Megan Beckett, Rand Corporation

Dr. Olatokunbo "toks" S. Fashola, American Institute of Research

Education: Literacy

Sarah Mahurt, Associate Director of the Purdue Literacy Network Project, Pamela Kirwin Heintz, Director, Syracuse University's Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public and Community Service

Education: Systemic Reform

Carole Ames, Dean, College of Education, Michigan State U.

Paul Reville, Lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Environment

Richard Smardon, Chair, Environmental Studied Faculty, State University of New York College of Environmental Studies and Forestry

Elizabeth DeSombre, Frost Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Associate Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College

Human/Worker Rights

Catherine Fitzpatrick, Editor, (Un)Civil Societies, RFE/RL, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Makau Mutua, Professor of Law, Director, Human Rights Center, State University of New York

Microcredit

Eileen Miamidian, Enterprising Solutions Global Consulting

David Brewer, Founder, End Poverty Foundation

Charles Waterfield, MFI Solutions, LLC

Social Investment Models

Sarah Kroon Chiles, Program Director, Satter Program in Social Entrepreneurship, NYU Leonard N. Stern School of Business

Jenny Shillling Stein, Partner, Draper Richards

Strategies For the Developing World

Amber Nystrom, Director, Social Fusion

Josselyn Neukom, Population Services International

Supportive Housing

Tanya Tull, Assistant Professor/President and CEO, USC School of Social Work/Beyond Shelter, Inc.

Gary Bailey, President, National Association of Social Workers (NASW) - Simmons College, College of Social Work

Diane Randall, Director, Partnership for Strong Communities

Janice McGuire, Executive director, The Hudson Guild