Revealed: Judges to the 5th Ogunte Women's Social Leadership Awards

Jan. 21, 2011 - PRLog -- Confirmed judges to date:

Natalia Oberti Noguera - The Pipeline Fund

Natalia is Founder and CEO of Pipeline Fund, a social venture fund that invests in women-led for-profit social ventures and trains women to become angel investors through education, mentoring, and practice. She is also the creator of #womaninnovator, a media campaign to increase the visibility of women changemakers and mainstream their stories.
Natalia Launched New York Women Social Entrepreneurs, a network she started with six women in 2008 and quickly grew to over 1,200 members. Based in NYC, NYWSE counts both social entrepreneurs and social intrapreneurs as members: women who want to start their own social ventures and women who want to learn how to integrate sustainability [environmentally and socially conscious ethos] at work.

Christina Jordan - Evolutionize It

Christina is an american social innovator with 25+ years of experience in international development, including more than a decade designing and facilitating online collaboration strategies from East Africa. In 2001 she became the first Ashoka fellow in the east African region.
Christina currently lives in Brussels, Belgium, where she has founded Evolutionize It, a social enterprise dedicated to facilitating collaboration in the social change sector worldwide. She also sits on the board of the Hub Brussels.

Victoria Anderson - UnLtd

Based in London, Victoria is Director of Programmes and Operations at UnLtd; Non-Profit Panel Member at Knowledge Peers, a directors' network with a difference, that cuts out the armchair experts and enable people who run complex organisations to learn from each other's experience.
Victoria is also an advisory board member at Philanthropy UK, and a Board Director at Venture Partnership Foundation. She has an extended experience in fundraising and global development issues.

Tommy Hutchinson - I-genius

Founder and CEO of I-genius, a world community of social entrepreneurs, and the I-Genius academy, which supports a new generation of global social innovators.

Charlotte Cooper - Women's eNews

Journalist, specialised in mashing feminism, social and ethical politics, Charlotte is also the Director of Marketing at Women's eNews, Covering Women's Issues, Changing Women's Lives.
Charlotte was the co-founder and Designer of SubText Magazine, a UK based Feminist magazine.

Nick Temple - School for Social Entrepreneurs

Nick is responsible for the School for Social Entrepreneurs's policy work, evaluation, research, external communications. Previously, he was the Network Director in charge of sustaining and expanding the SSE franchise around the UK.
Nick was also Director of the Global Ideas Bank, an online democratic think-tank devoted to social innovation: creativity for social benefit. He also helped co-ordinate the Natural Death Centre, the UK's only independent organisation giving funeral advice and information direct to the public.

Ruth Churchill Dower - Winner Women's Social Leadership Awards 2009 - Category Social Business.

Ruth is Director of Isaacs UK - a cultural learning company and a social enterprise with an international remit to build strategic knowledge networks across cultural and educational sectors. Isaacs UK provides specialist support in areas of early years, arts in education, learning networks, professional development, social media business models, networked leadership, evaluation and impact assessments, and knowledge management systems, and is committed to supporting cultural democracy.

More info about the awards and how to apply here:
http://www.ogunte.com/innovation/programmes-and-services/...

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