アショカU
アショカUは、「誰もがチェンジメーカー」というアショカのビジョンに基づき、何百万人もの学生を教育面でサポートするために、制度改革に向けて活動しています。大学と連携して制度改革の障壁を打ち破り、ソーシャルイノベーションの浸透を図っています。
Jessica’s focus is on increasing Ashoka U’s breadth of impact. She leads Ashoka U’s thought leadership and digital strategy, refining Ashoka U’s messages to reach new audiences. Based in Ottawa, and as a past member of the Ashoka Canada team, Jess also brings a global lens to Ashoka U’s work. Through partnerships with higher education networks, she is building an increasingly global, and more representative campus network. An accomplished social entrepreneur, Jess has been working on spreading ideas in the social impact education space for more than 15 years. Her early experience was as a co-founder of an award-winning environmental organization that scaled across Canada, and the UK. She went on to launch an online school for changemakers, and develop a city-wide collaborative to support social enterprises. Jessica was awarded a Skoll Scholarship for her work and holds an MBA from Saîd Business School at Oxford University.
Danica comes from a family of entrepreneurs with Scottish ancestry in the unceded Coast Salish Territory of Victoria, BC. At Ashoka Canada, she leads the search and selection of visionary social change leaders into the global community of Ashoka Fellows. In addition, she co-leads the development and management of partners who are committed to working alongside this community on our country’s most pressing issues. Prior to joining Ashoka Canada, Danica worked on environmental and social change initiatives across Canada as well as internationally with The McConnell Foundation, Evergreen, the Institute for Ecological Economics and BALTA. She holds a MSc from McGill University and is the co-founder of StreetSuds transitional employment enterprise on the traditional and unceded territory of the Kanien’keha:ka (Mohawk) in Montreal, where she currently resides.