David Haskell envisions a light in every hard place in our generation. His resolve to strengthen local visionaries inside hard places started as a graduate student stunned by a car bomb in Beirut. Since then, David has launched multiple social entrepreneurship ventures across the Middle East, East Africa, and Southeast Asia.
David’s best teachers have been the mentally challenged, genocide survivors, garbage sorters, HIV/AIDS widows, and street children. He has shared their wisdom at the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, the Rising Global Peace Forum, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, Social Enterprise Alliance, Social Venture Partners, Stanford Innovation Peace Lab; and at the American University of Beirut, Adelphi, UC Berkeley, Coventry, Duke, Harvard, Notre Dame, Oxford, Princeton, Stanford, Tufts, and Wheaton.
David earned his MPA in Leadership, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at Harvard Kennedy School, his MA in TESL and Teaching Certificate at UCLA, and his Teaching Diploma at the American University of Beirut. A Pforzheimer Nonprofit Fellow at Harvard and Fulbright Scholar at University of Jordan, David received an Outstanding Teaching Award at UCLA.
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