About us

The views and opinions set forth herein are the personal views or opinions of the authors; they do not necessarily reflect views or opinions of the law firms or organizations with which they are associated.

Professor Sarah Soule

Sarah A. Soule is the Morgridge Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business. Her major areas of interest are organizational theory, social movements, and political sociology. She has written two recent books, the first with Cambridge University Press, entitled Contention and Corporate Social Responsibility, and the second with Norton, called A Primer on Social Movements. 



R. Todd Johnson

Founder and Chief Executive Officer at iPar, an impact investing software platform. Retired Partner at Jones Day. Todd’s social entrepreneurship and impact investing leadership dates back to 2000, long before mainstream use of the terms. He counseled, advised and represented hundreds of organizations, entrepreneurs, venture and private equity funds, family offices, foundations, public charities and related organizations seeking to address some of the world’s most challenging problems (including extreme poverty, human trafficking, infant mortality, and technology innovation for education, philanthropy, health, energy, energy storage and global development), in some of the world’s hardest places.


Expert RevIew Panel
Rick Alexander
Head of Legal Policy at B Lab

Jim Bildner
CEO of Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School

Stuart Coulson
Consulting Associate Professor at Stanford d.school and Lecturer in Management at Stanford Graduate School of Business

Kriss Deiglemeier
CEO of Tides

Jim Fruchterman
Founder and CEO of Benetech and MacArthur Fellow

Doug Galen
Founder & Chief Executive Officer at RippleWorks and Lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business

Laura Hattendorf
Head of Investments at Mulago Foundation and Lecturer in Management at Stanford Graduate School of Business

Catherine E. Livingston
Partner, Jones Day

Jay A Mitchell
Professor at Stanford Law School and Director of Stanford’s Organizations and Transactions Clinic

James Patell
The Herbert Hoover Professor of Public and Private Management, Emeritus, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Kyle Westaway
Founding Partner at Westaway Law and Lecturer at Harvard Law School

Robert A. Wexler
Principal, Alder & Colvin
Student Review Panel

Eduardo Medina
Intern, Center for Social Innovation

Jenna Nicholas
MBA 2017, CEO Impact Experience

Ronnie Washington
MBA 2016, CEO Onward