Anthony Jewett
Anthony Jewett is Principal of SoCap New Media Organizing, LLC - a crowd-funding and digital media strategy firm which aims to help emerging education enterprises build fiscal sustainability through small donor and membership networks. Anthony's passion is his role as Chairman of the Board of the National Center for Global Engagement (NC4GE) which he founded in 2005 to provide global leadership opportunities for outstanding African American, Latino, and Native American youth through study abroad and service learning. His work has been featured in media outlets including National Public Radio and TIME Magazine.

From 2003-2005, Anthony was a bilingual elementary school teacher in New York City with Teach for America. A 2006 Echoing Green Fellow in social entrepreneurship, he has studied and worked abroad in South America, West Africa, China, and the Middle East. Anthony earned a B.A. in International Studies from Morehouse College in 2003 and is currently a second year doctoral candidate in education leadership at Harvard University. Originally from South Florida, Anthony is the oldest of 4 children (three sisters) and currently resides in Cambridge, MA.

Gara LaMarche
Gara LaMarche is a Senior Fellow at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service. From 2007 to 2011, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Atlantic Philanthropies, an international foundation focused on aging, children and youth, health, and human rights. During his tenure at Atlantic, the foundation made the largest grant ever made by a foundation for an advocacy campaign – over $25 million – to press for comprehensive health care reform in the U.S., embraced a social justice framework for grantmaking, and worked closely with new governments around the world.  Before joining Atlantic, Gara served as Vice President and Director of U.S. Programs for the Open Society Institute (OSI), as Associate Director of Human Rights Watch, and in a variety of positions with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He is the author of numerous articles on human rights and social justice issues, which have appeared in publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Financial Times, and The Nation, among many others, and is the editor of Speech and Equality: Do We Really Have to Choose? (New York University Press, 1996).

Gara serves on the boards of StoryCorps, ProPublica, the Roosevelt Institute, the Open Society Policy Center, and the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, and is a member of the Poverty Advisory Committee for the JPB Foundation.  He has received numerous awards, including the John Dewey Award for Distinguished Public Service from Bard College, the Hubert H. Humphrey Civil and Human Rights Award from the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, and the President’s Award from the National Council of La Raza.  

Peter Murray
Peter Murray is director of the Organizing Innovation Project, an effort to catalyze the development of large-scale citizen organizations. From 2004-2011, Peter was co-founder and president of the Center for Progressive Leadership (CPL), a national training institute dedicated to developing the next generation of progressive political and policy leaders. Since 2004, the CPL has trained over 6,000 promising progressive organizers, staff, and future candidates through six regional training centers.  

Prior to joining CPL, Peter was the founder and president of the Empowerment Group, Philadelphia’s largest minority and bi-lingual entrepreneurship training organization. He was also co-founder and executive vice president of the I Do Foundation, a national social justice foundation, and chief executive officer of Image Contractors, a community-based construction company in Philadelphia. For his leadership in the nonprofit sector, Peter received the Eli Segal Entrepreneurship Award in 2002, the Eugene Lang Community Service Award in 1999, and was selected for Fast Company Magazine’s 2002 “Fast 50,” which honors 50 leaders from around the world who are reshaping their sectors. 

Sonal Shah
Sonal Shah has spent her career as an entrepreneur and innovator in government, business and the non-profit sectors.  She is the former Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the  first White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation focused on investing in and scaling innovative models in the social sector to solve some of the nation’s toughest challenges.  She also served on President Obama's Transition Board overseeing the Technology, Innovation, Government Reform working group.  Before joining the White House, Sonal led Google’s global development initiatives for its philanthropy, Google.org.  Prior to Google, Sonal was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs, Inc. where she developed and managed the firm’s environmental strategy. 

Sonal also has significant non-profit experience.  She ­­­co-founded a non-profit, Indicorps, which offers fellowships for Indian-Americans to work on development projects in India.  She helped set up the Center for Global Development where she managed the daily operations and developed the policy and advocacy programs for the Center.  She also worked at the Center for American Progress focusing on trade, outsourcing and post conflict issues.  From 1995-2002, Sonal was an economist at the Department of Treasury, where she directed the office for African Nations, worked on the Asian Financial Crisis and post conflict development in Bosnia and Kosovo.  Sonal received her MA in Economics from Duke University and BA in Economics from the University of Chicago.  She is an Aspen Crown Fellow and a Next Generation Fellow.