This is a unique event, planned to coincide with Senior Week, which  brings together students, professionals, members of the local community, and other interested individuals to think about the role of organizations in creating social impact.  Participants will be able to learn from distinguished practitioners and scholars working on the issue of social impact, as well as from students and community members who are working to make the world a better place, including participants in Wheaton’s Social Entrepreneurship Launch Program.

Our opening session will include Mike Brady, an inspiring speaker who is the President of Sheltersuit USA and the former CEO of the noted Greyston Bakery in Yonkers, NY.  We will also feature several panels on different aspects of social entrepreneurship and social impact, including an alumni panel with three graduates who are creating significant impact in their respective fields.  Finally, we will we awarding for the first time the Social Impact Award for alumni to Indira Henard ’03, Executive Director of the DC Rape Crisis Center.

The links below include a mini-schedule for each day so that you can get an idea of the different conference events, feel free to join any that you might find interesting:

Social Impact Conference, Day 1 registration

Social Impact Conference, Day 2 registration

Please join us for an info-session to introduce a new semester-long study away program, Transnational Activism:  A Study of Contestations Concerning Bodies, Borders and Identities. This is a faculty-led program offered by Professors Hyun Kim and Montserrat Pérez-Toribio and will be held in Miami, Florida. All are encouraged to attend the info-session to learn about this new study away opportunity for Fall 2019.

The following is an excerpt from the program description. The full description can be found on the Global Education website.

Though tourism and the media largely equate Miami with “the liveliness of the Caribbean and Latin America within the United States,” our program will connect with transnational and trans-cultural communities and institutions.  Working closely with public libraries, museums, community performance places, immigrant centers, and youth activist organizations, students will participate in and contribute to intercultural interventions and creative works. Through seminar-format classes and field-based practicum projects, students will learn about and experience Miami as a vibrant node of world cultural hybridity. Visual, literary, interpretative, historical, and experiential-based learning will emphasize intercultural awareness.

This program is sponsored by Wheaton College with support from the Mellon Foundation.