CANCELLED - DC Alumni Meetup: Celebrating 10 Years of Social Impact

**We have been closely following the evolving situation with coronavirus (COVID-19). In accordance with University guidance around events and travel, we are cancelling the Celebrating 10 Years of Social Impact event this Thursday, March 12. We look forward to another opportunity to bring a discussion like this to DC in the future.**

From its founding in 2012, the Rustandy Center for Social Sector Innovation at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business has evolved, but its mission has remained the same: to develop people and practices with the potential to solve the world’s biggest problems.

On Thursday, March 12, the Rustandy Center and Booth Women Connect invite you to hear first-hand about the growth of two sectors at the forefront of innovation in social impact: social entrepreneurship and impact investing.

The event will include a conversation with three people with deep experience in these areas: Andrea Sreshta, ’14, cofounder of LuminAID, 2012 winner of the SNVC; Priya Parrish, ’09, impact investor in residence at the Rustandy Center and managing partner at Impact Engine; and Allyson Redpath, '92, director of entrepreneurship and small business at Maryland Department of Commerce and founder of Citrine Angels. Sreshta, Parrish, and Redpath will have a conversation about the challenges that social entrepreneurs and impact investors face, how their sectors diverge and coalesce, and how these spaces offer unique opportunities to create lasting social impact.

This year, the John Edwardson, '72, Social New Venture Challenge (SNVC) is celebrating 10 years of social impact, having helped jump-start more than 100 startups with social missions that went on to raise more than $21.3 million. The SNVC is the social impact track of the Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge (NVC), the University of Chicago’s nationally ranked accelerator program.

Light dinner and drinks will be served.

Speakers:

Andrea Sreshta, '16, Cofounder, LuminAID (2012 Social New Venture Challenge winner)

Priya Parrish, ’09, Impact Investor in Residence at the Rustandy Center for Social Sector Innovation, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Strategy at Chicago Booth, and Managing Partner at Impact Engine

Allyson Redpath, '92, director of entrepreneurship and small business at Maryland Department of Commerce and founder of Citrine Angels

Will Colegrove, senior associate director of the Edwardson Social Entrepreneurship Program at the Rustandy Center (Moderator)