Women as Social Innovators

Julie Bowes currently works for a small DC-based non-profit, Machik, focused on grassroots capacity-building on the Tibetan plateau. She is also coordinating intergenerational skills exchanges, study circles and volunteering to build understanding between generations and to engage and empower older and isolated community members. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

Laura White is a Political Economy and Teacher Certification student at Tulane University. As the Academic Liaison for the Ashoka U-Tulane University partnership, Laura has worked hard to create peer-to-peer social innovation learning opportunities at Tulane and in New Orleans. These include a pilot fellows program to bring peer-to-peer social innovation education to Tulane classes, developing social innovation curriculum for an entry-level teacher certification class, and a research project to create social innovation curricula for a New Orleans elementary school. Laura is also the Co-Founder of Citizen Circles, which helps small groups of people design learning opportunities to develop their capacity for making positive social change.

Laura and Julie believe that women face enormous challenges in the world of social innovation, but that we also possess traits that can make us incredible assets as innovators. This course is being organized through Citizen Circles School of Social Innovation.