{"id":36534,"date":"2017-10-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glg.tempsite.space\/news\/glg-celebrates-2017-social-impact-fellows-in-austin\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T08:39:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T12:39:28","slug":"glg-celebrates-2017-social-impact-fellows-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/de\/news\/glg-celebrates-2017-social-impact-fellows-in-austin\/","title":{"rendered":"GLG Celebrates 2017 Social Impact Fellows in Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, October 17, 2017, GLG kicked off its annual Social Impact Convening with a tour of\u00a0TreeHouse<\/a>, a sustainable home improvement store in Austin, TX, led by company CEO and Founder\u00a0Jason Ballard<\/a>\u00a0(a 2015 GLG Social Impact Fellow). The event brought together Fellows from GLG\u2019s\u00a02016 Social Impact class<\/a>\u00a0as well as our six recently announced\u00a02017 Fellows<\/a>. Following the tour, attendees participated in a Q&A hosted by Ballard, GLG Social Impact Director Jen Field, former CEO and President of FedEx Kinko\u2019s and TreeHouse Board Member Gary Kusin, and GLG CEO Alexander Saint-Amand.<\/p>\n

That evening, employees from GLG Austin joined the Fellows at Trinity Hall for a reception to celebrate the new class and hear from a few of last year\u2019s Fellows. \u201cWhat\u2019s unique about our Social Impact program is that it takes our core competencies\u2014what we do every day for our clients\u2014and puts them to use solving urgent social problems,\u201d Alexander remarked. Learn more about our Social Impact program\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Photo: 2016 and 2017 GLG Social Impact Fellows; (L-R) Jukay Hsu, Minhaj Chowdhury, Mehdi Jamei, Krista Donaldson, Jake Wood, Misan Rewane, Josh MacAlister, Matilda Ho, Steph Speirs, Kiah Williams, Anushka Ratnayake, and Barbara Bush<\/p>\n

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Photo: (L-R) Jen Field, Gary Kusin, Alexander Saint-Amand, and Jason Ballard<\/p>\n

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Photo: (L-R) Gary Kusin, Alexander Saint-Amand, and Jason Ballard<\/p>\n

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Photo: (L-R) Kiah Williams, Misan Rewane, and Josh MacAlister<\/p>\n

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Photo: (L-R) Minhaj Chowdhury, Steph Speirs, Jen Field, Gary Kusin, Alexander Saint-Amand, Jason Ballard, and Mehdi Jamei<\/p>\n

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Photo: 2017 GLG Social Impact Fellows (Jukay Hsu not pictured); (L-R) Kiah Williams, Matilda Ho, Anushka Ratnayake, Steph Speirs, Josh MacAlister<\/p>\n

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Photo: Jen Field and Alexander Saint-Amand take the stage at the 2017 GLG Social Impact Fellows Celebration<\/p>\n

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Photo: Jen Field<\/p>\n

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Photo: GLG Social Impact Fellowship Manager Rachel Wald<\/p>\n

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Photo: GLG Senior Associate Ashley Pikula and Co-Founder and CEO of WAVE Misan Rewane<\/p>\n

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Photo: (L-R) Global Health Corps Co-Founder and CEO Barbara Bush, Jen Field, and D-Rev CEO Krista Donaldson<\/p>\n

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Photo: GLG Business Development Manager Carl Rainer and Team Rubicon Co-Founder and CEO Jake Wood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, October 17, 2017, GLG kicked off its annual Social Impact Convening with a tour of\u00a0TreeHouse, a sustainable home improvement store in Austin, TX, led by company CEO and Founder\u00a0Jason Ballard\u00a0(a 2015 GLG Social Impact Fellow). The event brought together Fellows from GLG\u2019s\u00a02016 Social Impact class\u00a0as well as our six recently announced\u00a02017 Fellows. Following […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":36536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[582,579],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glg-updates","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}