• Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Come meet three social entrepreneurs who combine good business sense with the desire to create positive social change. Hear their personal stories and gain practical advice about how to get started on your vision for change.

PANELISTS

Nancy Phillips has been the General Manager of WomanCraft, Inc. since 1998. Before coming to the organization, Nancy worked for 10 years in program management and education administration with affordable housing organizations and educational institutions in Chicago, including Peoples Housing, the Property Management Resource Center and Columbia College. Nancy holds a Master of Science from Spertus College in Human Services Administration. Her experience also includes managing the kitchen at the Underground Wonder Bar, communications and development consulting and public relations writing.

Aquil Charlton has worked with youth in a variety of capacities, including teaching community mural painting, developing youth leadership and nature-based curricula, tutoring, and mentoring. He is an Alumnus of the Public Allies program and the seventh AmeriCorps Leader class, which comprised his first professional leadership experiences in the non-profit sector. Aquil is currently a co-founder of, and Executive Program Director at, The Crib Collective, a youth social entrepreneurship organization serving Chicago's North Lawndale and Little Village communities. His leadership has helped the staff at The Crib Collective strengthen their impact on these communities through a programs that develop and sustain the ideas of local young visionaries. In addition to his program development and administrative skills, Aquil is a very talented visual artist, poet, DJ, and rapper/emcee. He is passionate about supporting the innovative leadership of young people, and uses his program and curricula development and group facilitation experience, as well as his artistic skills, as assets to young people who desire to bring their world-changing ideas to fruition.