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Friday, October 4 • 10:15am - 11:45am
From Serving to Service: Developing Social Impact Career Opportunities for Youth

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Building on a main stage discussion from the previous day, this session will focus on developing specific strategies to both expand and maximize youth engagement in social impact careers. Targeted barriers to entry may include: social enterprise careers can’t offer competitive pay, students don’t know how to access opportunities at for-profit or nonprofit social enterprises, and students aren’t prepared for jobs in this sector.

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Moderators
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Victoria Lennox

Co-Founder and CEO, Startup Canada
Victoria Lennox is a 30-year-old Canadian social entrepreneur, commentator, program architect and policy advisor who has a track record of creating meaningful political and policy inroads to advance entrepreneurship. As the co-founder and CEO of grassroots non-profit Startup Canada... Read More →

Speakers
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Jack Graham

Founder and CEO, Year Here
Jack Graham is the Founder and CEO of London-based social enterprise startup, Year Here, a new type of 'gap year' that challenges bright young people to a year of tackling social issues in their own backyard. He previously worked at the Young Foundation, one of the UK's leading c... Read More →
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Abdullah Saleh

Co-founder and Chief Executive Director, ICChange
Abdullah Saleh is a General Surgery resident at the University of Alberta. He is the co-founder and Chief Executive Director of ICChange. Born in Iraq, he lived in France and Malaysia before moving to Canada in 2000. He obtained a B.Sc. in Biological Sciences from the University of... Read More →
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Bari Saltman

President, Harvard College Social Innovation Collaborative
Bari Saltman is a senior at Harvard College studying Sociology and Psychology. Committed to empowering undergraduates to become agents of change, Bari is the President of the Harvard College Social Innovation Collaborative (SIC), a student organization that brings together members... Read More →
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Charles Tsai

Director of Learning Networks, Ashoka Canada
Charles Tsai leads Ashoka's university strategy in Canada and is based in Vancouver. He joined Ashoka in 2008 to oversee global campaigns supporting young social entrepreneurs. A former reporter and producer for CNN, Charles ventured into the social sector in 2005 when he started... Read More →

Friday October 4, 2013 10:15am - 11:45am MDT
Hall CD TELUS Convention Centre
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