educational institution in Austin, Texas,
teaching Interaction Design and Social Entrepreneurship.
Suzi Sosa is passionate about social entrepreneurship and social capitalism and dreams of a world in which the speed, scale, and creativity of the private sector is married with the compassion, transparency, and stakeholder models of the non-profit world. She is the Founder and President of the MPOWER Foundation, a non-profit operating foundation dedicated to the empowerment of the underserved, and in that role oversees RISE – A Relationship and Information Series for Entrepreneurs – which produces one of the largest not- for-profit entrepreneurship events in the world. (https://www.riseaustin.org/)
Suzi is also the Senior Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship at the RGK Center (http://www.rgkcenter.org/socialentrepreneurship) in the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin where she teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in Social Entrepreneurship and oversees the Dell Social Innovation Competition, a $50,000 student business plan competition.
In her past lives, Suzi served in the U.S. Department of Commerce and as a special advisor to the Prime Ministers of Lebanon and Bermuda. She has a Masters in Public Administration in International Development from the John. F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, a B.A. in Plan II from the University of Texas at Austin, and three (marvelous) years in the M.Arch program at the UT School of Architecture. She loves talking about: social entrepreneurship, social innovation, design thinking, impact investing, economic development, movies, vegan diets, and motherhood.
Recent Work, Articles, and Presentations
At Clinton Global Initiative, Social Entrepreneurs Weigh Tradeoffs
Suzi Sosa writes about the sixth annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative. Learn more»
Too Many or Too Few Choices? The Dilemma of Expanding Financial Access to Underserved Markets
Though concern over the potential harm of poorly understood financial products may lead us toward over-regulation, one benefit of these ongoing conversations is the attention it is drawing to the long-ignored problem of financial exclusion. Learn more»
When a Mobile Can Also Mean a Bank
Suzi Soza presents examples from the financial sector of companies exploiting new technology to create access for the poorest. Learn more»
