Full Time Team:

Jane Abbottsmith graduated from Princeton University this spring with a degree in Religion and a certificate in Values and Public Life. Her academic focus has been ethics, social justice, and duties toward neighbors in a globalized world. An internship with Ashoka's Global Venture and Fellowship team launched Jane into the field of social entrepreneurship, where she found the focus on innovative thinking and systemic solutions to injustice both compelling and energizing. Since then, Jane has volunteered at the Skoll World Forum and studied Social Entrepreneurship as a visiting student at the University of Oxford's Said School for Business. Next year she will be returning to England as a Gates-Cambridge Scholar to study Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Cambridge. She can be reached at jane.abottsmith@aspeninstitute.org.

Peter Brooks is an MBA/MPP joint degree candidate at Harvard's Business School and Kennedy School of Government, where he is a Zuckerman Fellow and a Pat Tillman Military Scholar. Prior to graduate school, Peter served for four years as an infantry officer in the US Marine Corps. Peter deployed twice to Al Anbar Province, Iraq, where he led hundreds of missions across western Iraq, from the ungoverned Syrian border region to the urban hub of Fallujah. Peter later served as a battalion assistant operations officer and a rifle company commander of over 200 Marines and Sailors. Following his time in the Marines, Peter lived in India for a year as a Fulbright Scholar researching water resource policy in Rajasthan. Peter currently serves as a consultant to the New York City Small Business Services Veterans Employment Initiative. Peter graduated from Harvard College where he was a member of the heavyweight rowing team and the commander of the MIT Navy ROTC. He can be reached at peter.brooks@aspeninstitute.org.

Jonny Dorsey is an MBA candidate at Stanford University and an MPA candidate at Harvard University, where he is a Zuckerman Fellow. During college Jonny co-founded and served as Executive Director of FACE AIDS, a student campaign to fight AIDS. After college Jonny co-founded and served as Executive Director of Global Health Corps, a fellowship program that places emerging leaders from around the world with high-impact organizations building health systems. Jonny was named an Echoing Green Fellow and a Draper Richards Social Entrepreneur for his work at Global Health Corps, and recently received the Next Generation Award from the Millennium Challenge Corporation. He is a graduate of Stanford University, where he won the Deans’ Award for Academic Achievement and served as President of the student body. Jonny is a Trustee of Partners In Health, Chair of the Board of FACE AIDS, a Social Citizen Ambassador for the Case Foundation, and a Board Member at the Riekes Center, a youth mentoring program in his home community in California. He can be reached at jonny.dorsey@aspeninstitute.org.

Fagan Harris is an MPhil candidate reading for Comparative Social Policy at the University of Oxford, where he is a Rhodes Scholar. Fagan Harris is also a Fellow at Emerson Collective, an organization working to advance domestic and international reform efforts, where he supports the White House Council for Community Solutions. Fagan previously worked for College Track, a nonprofit organization working to close the achievement gap and create college-going cultures for students historically and currently underrepresented in higher education. At College Track, Fagan administered a national scholarship program and supported a variety of after-school programs. After College Track, Fagan studied Human Rights in Criminal Justice at the University of Limerick as a George Mitchell Scholar. Fagan is a graduate of Stanford University. He can be reached at fagan.harris@aspeninstitute.org.

Elizabeth Woodson is currently studying at Stanford University, deciding between an International Relations major and a degree in Management Science and Engineering. Elizabeth is an intern at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, and an actor in the Stanford Theatre Activist Mobilization Project. Elizabeth's area of expertise is using Theatre of the Oppressed techniques with communities ranging from homeless in New Haven, Connecticut, to orphans in India, and prisoners in Brazil. She can be reached at elizabeth.woodson@aspeninstitute.org.

Part Time Team:

James Dyett is currently pursuing an MBA/MPP at Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School where he was a Zuckerman Fellow. Prior to graduate school, James served as President of Global Environment & Technology Foundation (GETF), a non-profit specializing in building and implementing public-private partnerships to address safe water, clean energy, and sustainability challenges. While at GETF, James supported the concept development and implementation of RAIN - The Coca-Cola Company’s $30 million commitment to provide over 2 million Africans with safe drinking water - and facilitated the formation of the Safe Water for Africa partnership, which supported the expansion into Africa of WaterHealth International, an innovative social enterprise serving millions with safe, reliable, and affordable water. Additionally, James assisted in the start-up of Imagine H2O, a non-profit focused on supporting entrepreneurship in the water sector.

Mark Jia is a Master of Philosophy in Politics candidate at Oxford University, where he is studying as a Rhodes Scholar. While an undergraduate at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, he served on the national leadership team of Students for Barack Obama, leading the implementation of youth vote initiatives across 49 states and 500 chapters. After college, he taught American constitutional law and political theory at China's premier foreign policy institute on a Princeton-in-Asia fellowship. He is based for the summer at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he is assisting Elizabeth Economy with research on Chinese foreign policy. After Oxford, Mark will enroll at Harvard Law School.