Bios

Lara Galinsky is an author, career expert and senior vice president of Echoing Green—the perfect laboratory in which to study meaningful work. With the mission to unleash the next generation of talent to solve the world’s biggest problems, Echoing Green offers seed funding fellowships to the world’s most promising social entrepreneurs. Over the last two decades, Echoing Green has invested $30 million in funding to 500 visionaries from around the world.

Galinsky is the co-author of Work on Purpose (2011)—which provides readers with a framework for aligning their passions with their talents to achieve personal fulfillment and societal impact through their careers—and the co-author of Be Bold: Create a Career with Impact (2007). Lara sits on the boards of the Fast Forward Fund, the Lewis Institute at Babson College, and the Advisory Board of the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Wesleyan University. 

Before joining Echoing Green, Galinsky served as Do Something’s national program director, working with 20,000 educators and 4 million young people to get involved in service learning and community service projects. There, she created the BRICK Award (now called the Do Something Award) to identify and financially support these young leaders.

Galinsky received her Masters in Communications from Columbia University and her Bachelors from Wesleyan University. She is a graduate of the Institute for Not-for-Profit Management Leadership Development Program at Columbia University, the Public Policy Institute Nonprofit Executive Program at Georgetown and CORO Leadership New York.

Kelly Nuxoll is a writer living in Washington, DC. Nuxoll writes about politics, American culture, and books for the Huffington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Voice of America, among other media outlets. She consults for education and international development nonprofits. Nuxoll has a BA in African Studies from Yale and a MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Columbia University.

Five Who Have Found Their Hustle

Andrew Youn leaves a lucrative financial consulting career to put his business skills to work to solve chronic hunger in farming communities in Kenya.

Cheryl Dorsey finds the courage to leave behind a career as a doctor to identify a role that felt "right" for her—eventually leading her to serve as Echoing Green’s president.

Mark Hanis, the grandson of four Holocaust survivors, realizes that in pursuing his calling to equip individuals with the tools to prevent and stop genocide, he must also take care of himself.

An architect turned lender, it takes a tragedy for Mardie Oakes to discover her true purpose of providing affordable homes to people in the process of being de-institutionalized.

Socheata Poeuv put in long hours at a television network until revelations about her family’s history inspires her to tell her story and the stories of others whose lives were impacted by the devastating Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia.