[Mitai-announce] Unite for Sight - Weds, 9/30 730pm

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Jennifer Staple-Clark
*Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Unite For Sight

*"Global Health and Social Entrepreneurship"

Wednesday, September 30
7:30pm, 66-110<http://whereis.mit.edu/?mapterms=66-110&zoom=17&lat=42.36088263358617&lng=-71.0889995098114&open=-1>

Jennifer Staple-Clark founded Unite For Sight in her dorm room while a
sophomore at Yale University in fall 2000.A visionary leader and social
entrepreneur, Jennifer Staple-Clark was featured in Nicholas D. Kristof's
"The Age of Ambition" article in The New York Times on January 27, 2008. She
was also featured weekly on CNN International in 2007 and 2008.

Under Jennifer's leadership and with her focus on entrepreneurial
innovation, Unite For Sight has developed a highly successful volunteer
training program, and developed international programs that provide
sight-restoring eye care to more than 200,000 people annually in Africa,
Asia, and Latin America.

Jennifer is the recipient of the American Institute of Public Service's 2009
National Jefferson Award For Public Service, which is regarded as the "Nobel
Prize" for public service. In 2007, Jennifer was awarded a BRICK Award,
which honors and funds change-makers age 25 and under who identify problems
and do something to change the world. CNN dubbed the BRICK Awards "the
Oscars of youth service awards."

She is the author of several journal articles and book chapters about social
entrepreneurship, best practices in global health, and community eye health.

More info:http://www.uniteforsight.org/

Facebook event page:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?invites&eid=140007171842

Sponsored by: MIT Amnesty International (http://web.mit.edu/amnesty), GSC
Funding Board, Graduate Student Life Grants