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Vanessa Kirsch is the President and Founder of New Profit Inc. Vanessa has 14 years experience in developing innovative solutions to social problems and is widely recognized as a leading social entrepreneur. Her experience, combined with a trip around the world in 1995 when she met with other social entrepreneurs, citizen leaders, philanthropists and political officials, led her to start NPI. Prior to launching NPI, Vanessa founded and led two nonprofit organizations, Public Allies and the Women's Information Network. Public Allies, a national service program based in Washington DC, grew to six cities under Vanessa's leadership and was named by the Bush Administration as one of eight model national service programs in America and by the Clinton Administration as an official Americorps national service model. The Woman's Information Network (WIN), an organization that provides support, training and political access to young women, grew to a membership of 2000. Prior to launching these entrepreneurial organizations, Vanessa worked with Peter Hart of Peter D. Hart Research Associates, a polling firm, and played a key role in several projects including a study on young people's civic attitudes. This study, combined with her experience as a convention manager and field coordinator for the Dukakis presidential campaign, led her to start Public Allies. Vanessa has received numerous public service awards and has been recognized by both Newsweek and U.S. News and World Report as a leader of her generation; by Harpers Bazaar as one of 30 young women to be leaders in the 21st century; by Fast Company as "Who’s Fast 2000;" and by the Boston Business Journal’s "40 Under 40" as one of the most promising leaders in Boston. Currently, Vanessa serves on the Tufts Advisory Board to the University College of Citizenship and Public Service, and on the Boards of Jumpstart, New Leaders for New Schools, and Demos. Additionally, she was one of 30 national leaders selected to participate in the Saguaro Seminar, a three-year program led by Robert Putnam of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Vanessa is a graduate of Tufts University where she served as a
TCU Senator and student member on the Board of Trustees and currently
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