Marc Carr grew up in Jennings, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis not far from Ferguson. His passion for social justice and entrepreneurship has led him to work on civil rights campaigns in the Deep South and organize community forums in the U.S. and West Africa. Currently, Marc is the Program Director for Impact Hub…
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“Innovation is making the impossible, possible, the unsolvable, solvable. And of course, nowhere is this more true than in the area of international development, where technology and new thinking are enabling us to reinvent how we go about fulfilling our mission.” These remarks, delivered by U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator, Mark Green, kicked…
Read more Recap of USAID’s Inaugural Global Innovation Week Kickoff
When I moved to D.C. in the summer of 2014, two things were true: I was broke and had no friends. This changed in the Fall (minus the broke thing), when I attended a creative facilitation workshop as an AmeriCorps VISTA. Here is where I first met Autumn Breon Williams. My interaction with Autumn would…
Read more I’m Autumn Breon Williams, Reimagineer, and this is ‘How I Rise’
