Management Team
Advisory Council
Special Thanks To …

MANAGEMENT TEAM

Abigail Falik, Founder and CEO

Abigail’s vision for Global Citizen Year grew from over 10 years of experience in education, international development and social enterprise. Transformed by her own experiences in the developing world, Abigail has dedicated her professional life to use education to promote social justice and poverty alleviation. She spent four years at NetAid where she designed and launched a program which empowers high school students to mobilize their peers in efforts to end global poverty. Today, the program is a flagship initiative of Mercy Corps. A recognized expert in Global Citizenship Education, Abigail has worked as a strategic advisor and consultant, and has published in leading journals.

In 2008, she was awarded the Mind Trust Fellowship for education entrepreneurs who are developing transformative new strategies to tackle education’s greatest challenges. She was also named a Rainer Arnhold Fellow and a Pop!Tech Social Innovation Fellow for her work founding Global Citizen Year.

Abigail holds a B.A. and M.Ed. from Stanford University, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Harpreet Singh, Strategy and Program Design
• Experience: Apple, The Bridgespan Group, CARE, UNICEF
• Education: Duke University (B.A.), Harvard University (M.Ed.), MIT Sloan (M.B.A.)

Jesse Torrence, National Policy
• Experience: Obama Campaign for Change, Sister Cities International
• Education: Stanford University (B.A.); Harvard Kennedy School (M.P.A./I.D.)

Meredith Lobel, Social Impact
• Experience: Ashoka
• Education: Wesleyan University (B.A.); Harvard Business School (M.B.A.)

Chris Tyler, Field Operations
• Experience: Monitor, Endeavor, Learning Enterprises
• Education: Georgetown (B.A.), Harvard Business School (M.B.A.)

ADVISORY COUNCIL

SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS
Michael Brown
Co-Founder and CEO
City Year

Matthew Flannery
Co-Founder and CEO
Kiva.org

Wendy Kopp
Founder and CEO
Teach for America

Bill Shore
Founder and CEO
Share Our Strength

John Wood
Founder and CEO
Room to Read

INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION & EXCHANGE
Ed Gragert
Executive Director
I*Earn

Mike Power
National Program Director
Canada World Youth

Kevin Quigley
President
National Peace Corps Association

Steve Rosenthal
Founder and CEO
Cross-Cultural Solutions

Emily Untermeyer
Executive Director
Amigos de las Americas

Adam Weinberg
Executive Vice President and SIT Provost
World Learning

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT & POLICY

David Abernethy
Professor Emeritus, Stanford University

Nancy Barry
Founder, Enterprise Solutions to Poverty
Former President, Women’s World Banking

Tom Fox
Former Assistant Administrator
USAID

Mark Lancaster
Executive Director
Seva Foundation

David Morrison
Executive Secretary
United Nations Capital Development Fund

William Reese
CEO
International Youth Foundation

RESEARCH & CONSULTING
David Caprara
Director
Brookings Initiative on International Volunteering & Service

Stacey Childress
Senior Researcher and Lecturer
Harvard Business School

Laura Moon
Director
Social Enterprise Initiative of Harvard Business School

Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor
Harvard Business School

Rae Nelson and Karl Haigler
Co-Authors
“The Gap-Year Advantage”

HIGHER EDUCATION
Fanna Gamal
Former Global Citizen Corps Leader and Sophomore
Tufts University

Eric Mlyn
Director, Duke Center for Civic Engagement
Duke University

George Scharfenberger
Executive Director, Blum Center for Emerging Economies
UC Berkeley

Katherine Stahl
Executive Director, Career Center
American University

Nathaniel Whittmore
Director, Center for Global Engagement
Northwestern University

SPECIAL THANKS TO:

Deb Agrin, Haas School of Business

Leslie Andrews, Blueprint Research & Design

Edith Asibey, Asibey Consulting

Rye Barcott, Carolina for Kibera, Harvard Business School and Kennedy School of Government

Valerie Bockstette, FSG Social Impact Advisors

Tianna Buckwalter, Coloring Blue

Zachary Clayton, Harvard Business School

Diana Cohen, Inspiration

Sonali Duggal, Medtronic

Katy Dybwad, Where there be Dragons

Brian Elliot, Harvard Business School and Kennedy School of Government

Rebecca Epstein, The Management Center

Rebecca Falik, UCSF Medical School

Bill Falik, Visiting Professor Haas School of Business

Fiona Greig, McKinsey & Company

Allen Grossman, Harvard Business School

Mark Hanis, Genocide Intervention Network

Georges Harik, www.hslabs.org

David Harris, The Mind Trust

Patrick Hazelton, Consultant

Corrie Heneghan, The Mind Trust

Mahari Holt, Rainer Arnhold Fellows Program

Alan Khazei, Be the Change

Abby Larson, New York University

Jennifer Lee, Room to Read

Jacob Lief, Ubuntu

Dave Madan, Consultant

Jeannette Mellinger, Quest Bridge

Kristin Meyer, Media consultant extraordinaire!!!

Bryan Muir, MIT Sloan School of Management

Madeleine Niebauer, The Bridgespan Group

Matthew Pasternak, Stanford Law School

Robin Pendoley, Thinking Beyond Borders

Nicole Pombier, Freelance Writer

Richard Pole, Visiting Nurses Association of NYC

Kash Rangan, Harvard Business School

Danielle Reichner, NYU Wagner School of Public Service, formerly of City Year

Steve Reifenberg, Harvard University Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

Kathy Salmanowitz, Harvard Business School Community Partners

John Salmanowitz, DLA Piper

Joel Segre, McKinsey & Company

Kevin Starr, Mulago Foundation

Justin van Fleet, Deputy Chair, Clinton Global Initiative

Josh Weissberg, Global Interdependence Initiative, Aspen Institute

John Whitehead, Former Chairman, Goldman Sachs

Nicole Wiltrout, The Mind Trust

Harris Wofford, Former U.S. Senator and Former CEO, Corporation for National and Community Service

Dave Yorio, Georgetown Business School

Andrew Youn, One Acre Fund

Andrew Zolli, Pop!Tech