Please join us tomorrow Wednesday at 7pm in the Rockefeller Center (Room 209) as we welcome guest speaker Gretchen Wallace founder of Global Grassroots. Gretchen got her BA in foreign
affairs from the University of Virginia, where she attended as a Jefferson Scholar.
From 1996-1999 she worked in international
project finance for PMD International, Inc. a boutique investment banking firm specializing in infrastructure development in poor countries. She returned for her MBA (2001) at the Tuck School at Dartmouth College, where she helped to found Tuck's Allwin Initiative
for Corporate Citizenship.
In
2004, Gretchen established and now leads Global Grassroots. Gretchen is a producer of the Emmy-nominated documentary film, The
Devil Came
on Horseback,
about her brother's tenure as a military observer in Darfur, Sudan, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007. She is also co-author of her brother's memoirs, titled The
Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur, published
by PublicAffairs in 2007. That same year, Gretchen was honored by World Business Magazine and Shell as one of the top International 35 Women Under 35. In 2010 she was honored as a CNN Hero in Haiti for her work providing support for survivors of the earthquake,
and was also recently nominated for a national CNN Hero Award.
When: 7-8pm, Wednesday September 26th
Where: Rocky 209
Why: Hear Gretchen talk about her experiences from industry and non-profit and the lessons she has learned.