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Meet the Faculty

Meet the faculty and practitioner affiliates that will help you hone your social and entrepreneurial ideas, provide access to opportunities in the field, guide and mentor you, and help you gain the skills to take you where you want to go.

Program Director

Research interests

  • Alternatives to traditional capitalism
  • Corporate social responsibility
  • Effective activism and intrapreneurship
  • Leading innovation

Core Faculty

Research interests

  • Social enterprise
  • Nonprofit management
  • Professional competencies for social entrepreneurs

Research interests

  • Strategy
  • Innovation

Research interests

  • Environmental activism
  • Financing social change
  • Movement leadership

Research interests

  • Cross-cultural leadership
  • Ethics
  • Professional competences for social entrepreneurs

Affiliated Faculty

Sarah Knight Assistant Professor SIS - School of International Service

Practitioner Affiliates

Social Enterprise is best learned from people who are actually doing it. In that spirit, we have assembled a group of practicing social entrepreneurs who help guide the program and serve as resources for our students. Their advice about real-world practicalities is essential to keep our degree anchored in actual practice, rather than ideas about actual practice. They serve as guest speakers in our classes, sources of feedback on student ventures, coaches and mentors to our students, and internship providers. Our Practitioner Affiliates join us from the following organizations: