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Keynote Speakers
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Michael Dupee, VP Corporate Social Responsibility, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Michael leads Green Mountain's overall corporate social responsibility efforts, including providing strategic direction and reporting publicly on the company's social responsibility initiatives and programs; managing the company's allocation of 5% pre-tax earnings into socially responsible projects; and generating increased understanding of and recognition for the company's socially responsible initiatives, both internally and externally. Michael serves on the board of the Association of Corporate Contributions Professionals, a nonprofit advocacy and continuing education organization that helps corporations identify and adopt best practices. The organization also provides training for contributions professionals and the Vermont Council on Rural Development, a nonprofit dedicated to helping Vermonters and Vermont communities develop their capacity to create a prosperous and sustainable future through coordination, collaboration and the effective use of public and private resources. Michael was a 2005 Fellow and has volunteered as a coach in the Sustainability Institute’s Donella Meadows Leadership Fellows Program, a program designed to accelerate the shift to global sustainability by increasing the effectiveness of well-positioned sustainability leaders with a curriculum focused on instruction, practice and collaboration using systems thinking tools, reflective conversation and visioning. Prior to joining Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Michael was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs & Co. in New York, NY, making and managing opportunistic investments in distressed financial assets from 2000 to 2004. Michael earned his Juris Doctor, cum laude, and Master in Business Administration degrees at Georgetown University and his B.A. in history, magna cum laude from Boston College. |
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Morgan Binswanger, EVP of Government Relations and External Affairs, LIVESTRONG Morgan Binswanger joined LIVESTRONG as Chief of Staff in June 2008. He is a member of the executive management team and provides leadership, direction and vision facilitating LIVESTRONG's short-term and long-term strategic planning. His responsibilities include managing the LIVESTRONG's vision and purpose, creating mileposts and symbols to rally support behind the vision and making the vision sharable by everyone. He also defines, develops and implements a leadership development program for the management team and serves as a bridge on business and politically related activities relative to LIVESTRONG's growth and position within the world of philanthropy. He works closely with the LIVESTRONG Board and its committees. Before joining LIVESTRONG, Morgan served as Interim COO for Habitat for Humanity Greater Los Angeles and as Director of Habitat's Jimmy Carter Work Project. Prior to that, he was the COO for the Entertainment Industry Foundation and Co-Director of the Creative Artists Agency Foundation for seven years. He has served as a consultant for Rock the Vote, the Broad Foundation and America's Promise. He served at the United States Department of Education as Chief of Staff in Elementary and Secondary Education. Morgan taught history and coached for four years at Deerfield Academy in western Massachusetts. He has a B.A. in history from Bowdoin College and studied language at Kansai Gaidai University in Hirakata, Japan. He serves on the Board of The League, a national afterschool initiative. |
Technology in Social Impact
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Leslie Flagg: Economic Growth/Private Sector Officer, USAID Leslie has extensive experience in dreaming, designing and delivering projects that increase incomes and generate jobs in emerging markets. Focus on sectors valued over US$1B, impacting over 1 million people and results that keep giving and giving and giving…..well after project end. Leslie has led a variety of teams in NGOs (TechnoServe), donor organizations (USAID) and international consulting firms (Chemonics) and has experience working in Ghana, Nigeria, Afghanistan and interest in BRIC and N11 countries. For example, Leslie’s team won the Olam/USAID Nigeria/MARKETS Winner 2008 World Business and Development Awards (WBDA) for increasing incomes over 200% for over 10,000 Nigerian rice farmers. WBDA acknowledge the contribution of the private sector to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) through their core business. The true spirit of the awards lies in the pursuit of productive and innovative business-driven solutions to sustainable development. Leslie Flagg holds an MBA from Northwestern University, a MS in chemical engineering from University of California and a BS in chemical engineering from University of Michigan |
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Paul Niehaus: Founder, GiveDirectly Paul Niehaus is a co-founder and director of GiveDirectly, the only non-profit devoted exclusively to transferring money directly to the poor. He is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at UC San Diego, a Junior Affiliate at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), an Affiliate of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), and an Affiliate at the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA). His research deals with welfare and corruption in developing countries and with learning processes. |
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Mike Kubzansky: Global Head, Monitor Inclusive Markets, Monitor Group Mike Kubzansky is a Partner in Monitor Group’s Economic Security and Competitiveness unit. Monitor is a global management consultancy, and Mike leads the Monitor Inclusive Markets practice worldwide. In this role he co-founded Monitor’s work on “market-based solutions” to development challenges and poverty in emerging markets, covering commercially viable business models in education, health, agriculture, water, energy, financial services – including the investment and funding required to grow and improve their reach and impact. His teams have conducted primary field research with over 1000 inclusive enterprises in more than 15 countries. Under his leadership, the Monitor team publishes frequently. Reports cover inclusive businesses in India, Africa, Latin America, and other regions, and he has also published on base of the pyramid (BoP) markets in Harvard Business Review. His clients include multinational firms, investors, leading donor agencies like USAID and IFC, and leading foundations like Gates Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation. Prior to rejoining Monitor in 2007 Mike spent over six years at the World Bank and IFC in Washington, DC. He has lived in Africa on three different occasions, and lives with his wife and two children in Washington, DC. |
A Multi-Sector Approach: Fighting Hunger through Collaboration
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Alan Shannon: Public Affairs Director, USDA Food & Nutrition Midwest Region Alan Shannon is the Public Affairs Director for USDA Food & Nutrition Service's Midwest Region. Alan works with the public, partners, local & national governments and media on FNS' fifteen nutrition programs which represent over $6.7 billion in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin. These programs range from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program) to school meals. Alan also facilitates GoodGreens.org, a Midwest collaboration that seeks to establish a local, sustainable food system. Prior to serving in Public Affairs, Alan worked in SNAP in a variety of roles, including as the lead for program improvement and the facilitator for the Midwest's program improvement effort which led to cost avoidance of around $100 million. He has written about food, restaurants, and travel for a variety of publications. He resides in Chicago and eats approximately twice the recommended amount of everything. |
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Maura Daly: Chief Communication and Development Officer, Feeding America Maura Daly is Chief Communication and Development Officer for Feeding America, the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief charity. Daly leads communication, programs and institutional giving (corporate and foundation giving, cause marketing) for the organization. Prior to her current role, Daly served as Feeding America’s Senior Vice President of Corporate Partnerships, where she oversaw strategy, relationship management and stewardship for Feeding America’s corporate partners, ensuring the vitality of the organization’s largest revenue streams. She was critical to the organization’s efforts to ensure the passage of a robust Farm Bill in 2008, which included key support of numerous federal feeding programs for low-income Americans. Additionally, she provided the vision for expanding Feeding America’s community of advocates to more than 80,000 people, directed strategies to increase the number of children served by 25 percent, and led Hunger in America 2010, the most comprehensive study of domestic hunger ever conducted. |
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Kori Reed: Vice President of Cause & Foundation, ConAgra Foods Kori Reed is vice president, Cause and Foundation, at ConAgra Foods, one of North America's leading food companies, with brands in 97 percent of America's household, including Healthy Choice, Hunt's, Orville Redenbacher's and more. In this role she is responsible for integrating the company’s cause of fighting child hunger across the company, from philanthropy and employee engagement to product donations and cause-related marketing activities. Reed joined the company’s Corporate Responsibility team in April 2006 as Executive Director of the ConAgra Foods Foundation. Under her leadership, the ConAgra Foods Foundation embarked on a strategic planning process that today guides the company’s philanthropic giving strategy, which is focused on two core areas, child hunger and nutrition education. Prior to her role in philanthropy, she spent 15 year in Corporate Communication, earning progressive responsibilities at two other Fortune 500 companies. Kori is chairman of the board for the Association of Corporate Contribution Professionals and it on the advisory council for the Food Bank for the Heartland. |
Design for Social Change Workshop
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George Aye, Design Director and Co-Founder, Greater Good Studio George Aye co-founded Greater Good Studio in 2011 as a way to increase the impact of his user-centered design practice. George began his design career at IDEO Chicago, leading projects in consumer electronics, healthcare and consumer packaged goods. He holds 9 patents and many of his designs have been commercialized by clients. After 7 years at IDEO, George became the lead designer at the Chicago Transit Authority, where he explored the intersection of design and public policy by envisioning the design of a new bus system for Chicago. George spent a year as Creative Director at IA Collaborative, building a new industrial design team, before transitioning to academia as a full-time, tenure track professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. George currently teaches within the Architecture, Interior Architecture and Designed Objects program, where his work focuses on human-centered design for social impact. George remains wildly optimistic that we can solve the most entrenched problems of our time, together for the greater good. George received his B.Eng. in Engineering Design Visualisation from Bournemouth University, UK. |
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Sara Cantor Aye, Research Director and Co-Founder, Greater Good Studio Sara Cantor Aye co-founded Greater Good Studio in 2011 to apply her design research and innovation practice to the social sector. Formerly Research Director at IA Collaborative and a founding member of the Retail Planning team at RTC, Sara works as an advocate for the user across every step of the design process. Sara teaches as adjunct faculty at Kellogg School of Management, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Institute of Design at IIT and Lake Forest College. She is a board member of EPIC, a team-anchored coach at Design for America, and a mentor at Northwestern's Engineering Design and Innovation program. Sara believes that empathy is what makes us uniquely human, and that by making research tangible, visual and memorable, we can generate the empathy needed to design truly human-centered change. Sara received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University, and her M.Des in Design Planning from the Institute of Design at IIT. |
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