Portland, Oregon (May 5, 2015) —On Tuesday, May 19, PSU’s Impact Entrepreneurs and Social
Venture Partners Portland co-‐present Changemakers Night at Revolution Hall in SE Portland. This event features three speakers who are innovating and leading social change initiatives at local, national, and global scales. These renowned changemakers will present big ideas, inspiring audience members to disrupt norms and consider creative ways to contribute to positive social change:
Jeremy Hockenstein -‐ Co-‐Founder and CEO, Digital Divide Data
Hockenstein is known for creating “impact sourcing,” a new system matching employees in emerging economies with technology-‐based careers to establish opportunity for all.
Kazi Huque -‐ CEO, Grameen Intel Social Business Ltd
Huque delivers innovative technology solutions for global social impact in agriculture, healthcare and education, leveraging a unique corporate-‐nonprofit partnership.
Jane Stevens -‐ Founder of ACES Connection & ACEStoohigh.com
Stevens built and now moderates online spaces dedicated to convening individuals to help address the effects of toxic stress and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES), and improve health outcomes. Changemakers Night will be hosted at Revolution Hall at Washington High School, 1300 SE Stark Street, Portland, from 5 -‐ 7:30 p.m. The program includes a social hour (5-‐6pm) with light snacks and drinks, followed by the main program (6-‐7:30pm) which includes presentations by speakers, a moderated panel discussion, and musical performances.
Ticket price is $50 for general admission, $15 for students. Tickets may be purchased at http://www.socialventurepartners.org/portland/news-events/changemakers/
Changemakers Night is sponsored by: Bank of America, Beneficial State Bank, Cambia Health Foundation, PSU Institute for Sustainable Solutions, Built Oregon and Prichard Communications.
About Social Venture Partners Portland
Social Venture Partners Portland engages our community in venture philanthropy—leveraging time, expertise, and resources for strategic and sustainable solutions to intractable community problems.
About Portland State University Impact Entrepreneurs
Founded in 2010 in Portland State University's School of Business Administration, Impact Entrepreneurs unleashes the promise of business for social impact. We are a network of individuals and organizations committed to fostering economic, social, and ecological prosperity through entrepreneurial action.
FULL SPEAKER BIOS:
Jeremy Hockenstein
Jeremy Hockenstein is co-‐founder and CEO of Digital Divide Data (DDD), an award-‐winning social enterprise pioneering its field. DDD provides socially responsible IT outsourcing services to clients around the world while creating jobs and better futures for disadvantaged youth in those countries. For its business success and remarkable social impact, DDD and Jeremy have been recognized with the prestigious Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship as well as awards from the World Bank Development Marketplace, the IFC Grassroots Business Initiative and the
Global Knowledge Partnership. Among other media acclaim, Jeremy and DDD were profiled in Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat as his "favorite example" of a social entrepreneur's initiative. Prior to DDD, Jeremy worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company and as an international nonprofit consultant. He graduated from Harvard with a B.A. in economics and earned an MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management.
Kazi Huque
Kazi Huque is the CEO of Grameen Intel Social Business Ltd. He has more than 14 years of experience with Intel Corporation as a Finance Controller based in the US. In 2009, he was tasked to lead the formation of the Grameen Intel company. He established the company in partnership with Nobel Laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus, with funding from Intel's venture capital division. This venture was one of the first of its kind using venture capital to focus on software solutions to address poverty related issues. The software developed by the company focuses on information technology needs in the areas of agriculture, healthcare, and education. Kazi has a bachelors in applied mathematics, computer science, and an MBA from the University of Rochester.
Jane Ellen Stevens
Jane Ellen Stevens is founder and editor of ACEsTooHigh.com news site and its accompanying social network, ACEsConnection.com. The sites focus on how states, organizations, agencies, schools, businesses and individuals are implementing concepts derived from the profound research that shows how adverse childhood experiences affect learning, adult physical and mental health, work performance, and social well-‐being. They are supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The California Endowment. Stevens specializes in health, science and technology reporting, and has been a digital journalist since 1997. Among her milestones as a digital pioneer, she did the first multimedia reporting on the New York Times web site in 1997, developed the first multimedia reporting class at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism in 2000, and led a team to create the first local social journalism health site, WellCommons.com in 2010. As a consultant, she has worked with many news organizations that are making a transition from traditional print, radio or TV to digital news.
