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December 1, 2009MacArthur Fellow And Project HEALTH Founder Rebecca Onie and Harvard's Judith Kidd to Discuss Social Entrepreneurship at Babson |
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From Ascribe Newsfeed: Rebecca Onie, founder of Project HEALTH, and recipient of a MacArthur Genius Award, and Judith Kidd, the first funder of City Year and recent Associate Dean of Harvard College for Student Life and Activities, will discuss social entrepreneurship on December 2, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Olin Hall Auditorium at Babson College. It is open to the public. Babson entrepreneurship lecturer John Whitman (http://www3.babson.edu/Academics/faculty/jwhitman.cfm) is hosting the class presentation. This one of Babson's first public functions as an Ashoka Changemaker Campus (http://www.ashoka.org/press/5782), one that champions the most important new social change ideas and supports the entrepreneurs behind them by helping them get started, grow, succeed, and collaborate. The program gives students and faculty alike the skills and mindset they need to tackle systemic problems and effect positive social change regardless of their discipline. "The event exemplifies how Babson's initiatives in Social Entrepreneurship education reach beyond campus to include the broader community," said Whitman. Onie is an Ashoka Fellow (http://www.ashoka.org/roniepercent20), and Kidd, who is a student of Whitman's at Harvard, is a former mentor to Onie. Rebecca Onie, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Project HEALTH In 1996, during her sophomore year at Harvard College, Rebecca Onie founded Project HEALTH with Dr. Barry Zuckerman, Chair of Pediatrics at Boston Medical Center. As Executive Director of Project HEALTH, Rebecca oversaw the organization's growth to Providence and New York City. After attending Harvard Law School, where she served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review and research assistant for Professors Laurence Tribe and Lani Guinier, Rebecca clerked for the Honorable Diane P. Wood of the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She was also an associate at Miner, Barnhill & Galland P.C., a boutique law firm in Chicago, where she represented civil rights plaintiffs, health centers, affordable housing developers, and nonprofits. During this time, Rebecca served as founding co-chair of Project HEALTH's Board of Directors. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsFvwCIEgxc.
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