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Bay Area social entrepreneurs join the Haas Center this winter

SEERS fellows for 2015

By Sarina Beges

This winter the Haas Center for Public Service is welcoming four Social Entrepreneurs in Residence at Stanford (SEERS) Fellows who are working to advance the social good in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Working with homeless teenagers, at risk youth, and vulnerable families, these social entrepreneurs are innovating public service delivery and advocacy efforts to make a difference in thousands of people's lives.

As part of the Program on Social Entrepreneurship – a partnership with the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law and the Haas Center - these four SEERS Fellows are co-teaching a service learning course at Stanford where students have the opportunity to work on projects with the SEERS Fellows to launch fundraising campaigns, develop strategic plans, and design new programs. Students gain practical experience working for non-profit organizations and the SEERS Fellows build their organizational capacity.

A snapshot of the 2015 SEERS cohort can be found below:

  • Katie Albright is the executive director of the San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center, a community-based organization that works to support healthy families and promote children’s well being in the Bay Area.
  • Kennedy Jawoko is a career journalist working to harness the power of new technology to create an online portal for East African journalists reporting on agriculture and food security journalism in the region.
  • Lateefah Simon is an activist for at-risk youth and young women in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is currently the director of the California Future’s Program at the Rosenberg Foundation and previously served as the executive director of the Center for Young Women’s Development in San Francisco.
  • Rob Gitin is the co-founder and executive director of At The Crossroads, a San Francisco-based organization working with underserved homeless youth and young adults to help them build healthy and fulfilling lives. 

For more information on the Program on Social Entrepreneurship, please visit: http://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/docs/program-social-entrepreneurship.

 

Sarina Beges is Associate Director at the Center on Democracy, Development, and The Rule of Law (CDDRL).