This guy here, Alan khazei is the man running for Ted Kennedy's former seat in congress. Alan is a well known leader. Alan Khazei is the Founder and CEO of Be the Change, Inc., a Boston, MA-based non-profit dedicated to strengthening American democracy by uniting citizens, social entrepreneurs, the service world and leaders from every sector of American society behind a bold agenda for change. Be the Change taps the wisdom, experience, and networks of practitioners, policy and thought leaders to craft post-partisan policy solutions to our greatest challenges, and builds powerful national coalitions to strengthen social movements in a few key issue areas. (www.californiawomen.org)
Prior to founding Be the Change, Inc., Khazei was co-founder and CEO of City Year, a youth service corps that helped inspire the development of AmeriCorps, America’s national service program. Founded in 1988 with 50 young people in service in Boston, City Year is now a global organization operating in 20 cities in America and in Johannesburg, South Africa, with an annual budget of more than $60 million. City Year annually enlists more than 1,500 young adults from all backgrounds for a rewarding year of full-time community service, civic engagement and leadership development. (www.californiawomen.org)
He has received honorary doctorates from Northeastern University, Suffolk University and Mount Ida College.
Khazei currently serves on the Board of Directors of City Year, New Profit, Inc., and Share Our Strength, and on the Advisory Boards of the Partnership for Public Service and the Center for Public Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He served as a fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics in the fall of 2006.
Khazei is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and currently lives in Brookline, MA with his wife, daughter, and son. (www.Californiawomen.org)
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