Building Social Ventures: 12 Steps Towards Creating Sustainable Change -- talk by Teresa Chahine

Date: 

Wednesday, March 8, 2017, 5:30pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, 5 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138

Poster of Chahine LectureAn Open Invitation to Attend a Presentation on Social Entrepreneurship

The Alumnae/Alumni Network for Harvard Women, the Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality,  Harvard College Women’s Center, the Harvard Alumni for Global Women’s Environment, and the Harvard Alumni Association invite you to a talk by

Dr. Teresa Chahine,
Program Leader in Social Entrepreneurship,
the Center for Health and the Global Environment,
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

 

Dr. Chahine’s topic is “Building Social Ventures: 12 Steps Towards Creating Sustainable Change.”

Her recent book is Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship (2016).

The talk, free of charge, is open to all alumnae/alumni, students, faculty, staff, and administrators, as well as the interested public, on Wednesday, March 8, 5:30 p.m., Fong Auditorium in Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard.  As a pertinent date, March 8 is International Women’s Day.

Dr. Chahine states that her “two passions are sustainable development and social entrepreneurship,” conducted under corporate, nonprofit, or government auspices.

Her research has focused on several community-based matters: education models, environmental risk assessment, and reproductive health, among other issues.

Dr. Chahine has been working in Beirut, Lebanon, where she helped launch a venture philanthropy organization supporting social entrepreneurs serving marginalized communities (www.alfanar.org).