Catalyzing Change in Public Schools

This event is sponsored by ASHOKA, a global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs—men and women with system changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems. Since 1981, they have elected over 2,000 leading social entrepreneurs as Ashoka Fellows, providing them with living stipends, professional support, and access to a global network of peers in more than 60 countries. By advancing social entrepreneurship on college campuses worldwide, Ashoka's University Program works to leverage the unique strengths and resources found in universities to effect high-impact social change.

Ashoka is currently working with several universities in the DC area to develop new models for higher education: ones that bridge the gap between the academia and the world at large, and foster collaborative cross-sector partnerships.

This event will feature author Dave Eggers who wants to collect a thousand stories of people engaging in the nation's public schools. As a TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) Prize winner, he's working with TED to make it happen. As big believers in the power of individuals to create change, Ashoka is teaming up with the folks at TED to mobilize people with the capacity (either potential or realized) to make a profound difference in today's public school system.

This evening, Ashoka's University Program will bring together some of the area's leading social entrepreneurs; students, faculty, and staff members from each of our area Changemaker Campuses; and high school youth directly affected by today's lagging public education system.

Hardly a typical cocktail hour, the evening is intended from the outset to drive action: an opportunity for attendees to hear from others committed to improving public education, and to catalyze innovative partnerships that leverage participants' strengths and those of the institutions they represent.

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