University Team Contacts

Marina Kim has been with Ashoka for over two years and leads Ashoka's Global Academy University Programs. Ashoka’s University Programs include university partnerships around the world, knowledge resources to increase the quantity and quality of social entrepreneurship courses and research, and community-building for faculty, practitioners and students through the University Network for Social Entrepreneurship (www.universitynetwork.org). Her current role at Ashoka focuses on developing strategic partnerships and relationships with professors/universities globally as well as designing and marketing programs for universities that leverage Ashoka's institutional knowledge of social change and entrepreneurship.

Marina was very active in growing Stanford's Social Entrepreneurship program, focusing on increasing collaboration across student groups and institutional support structures, at various points leading FUSION (the Future Social Innovators' Network), the Social Entrepreneurs' Challenge and also bringing Youth Venture to Stanford. As a student, Marina interned at Ashoka and was involved in Ashoka’s first institutional efforts to formalize outreach to universities. Previously, Marina has done work with the Nonprofit Enterprise Self-Sustainability Team (NESsT) and the Flora Family Foundation. She graduated with a BA in International Relations from Stanford University.

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Lennon Flowers joined Ashoka in January 2008, after graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill in May 2007 with a degree in International Studies and Political Science. After a summer spent backpacking in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, she and a group of friends started Students Working in the Environment for Active Transformation (SWEAT), built on the idea that mountain-climbing could serve as both a source of empowerment and a tool for engaging students in environmental issues. In the group’s first year, they traveled to East Africa, where they climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and partnered with the Nobel-prize winning Green Belt Movement on a tree-planting project in the Kenyan highlands. She later helped found the UNC-Duke-Bennett Millennium Village Project, the first student-led campaign to raise $1.5 million to sponsor a Millennium Village in Kenya. She engaged in a range of corporate and public outreach efforts, and helped create a student-led course on development ethics. Lennon began working with Ashoka’s University Programs in May, after several months spent working on the Global Venture team.

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Erin Krampetz recently joined the Ashoka University Programs team to launch the Ashoka Changemaker Campus program.  Before coming to Ashoka, Erin worked for three years with Ashoka Fellow Vicky Colbert from Escuela Nueva, which is based in Bogotá, Colombia.  Erin created a team in San Francisco, CA focusing on international outreach, research, and marketing for the Escuela Nueva schools in over 14 countries in Latin America. Prior to her work with Escuela Nueva, Erin supported strategy development and measuring effectiveness for the community-based data collection company and Echoing Green grantee, MobileMetrix, in Brazil. For the Changemaker Campus program, Erin will draw from her experience in student leadership in social entrepreneurship at Stanford University where she led a conference at the business school and co-developed a minor in social innovation.  Erin graduated from Stanford with her BA in International Relations and Spanish and MA in International Comparative Education where she researched socially entrepreneurial solutions to challenges in rural education in Peru. 

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