Media Kit

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Bios

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Dr. Heather Cameron is a Canadian-British social innovator, academic, and social entrepreneur whose work blends theory, policy, and grassroots action - with a focus on community wealth building in underserved communities.

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Medium (150 words)

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Dr. Heather Cameron is a Canadian-British social innovator, academic, and social entrepreneur. She is the Michael B. Kaufman Professor of Practice for Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation at WashU (St. Louis, MO, USA), where she is founding director of the Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Lab, a joint initiative of the Brown School and Olin Business School. Her work blends theory, policy, and grassroots action around community wealth building. She is the founder of multiple prize-winning social enterprises in education and sport for community development. These include Boxgirls (a program empowering girls through boxing, cited as a case study by the IOC and UN Women), and her other initiatives include Girls in the Lead (fostering equity and inclusion through sport), RespAct (youth sport and democracy education), and Klima Kids (children's climate and environmental education). She works across the globe as an advisor and evaluator of development and education projects, is an Ashoka Fellow and media commentator, speaker and podcast guest.

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Dr. Heather Cameron is a Canadian-British social innovator, academic, and social entrepreneur. She is the Michael B. Kaufman Professor of Practice for Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation at WashU (St. Louis, MO, USA), where she is founding director of the Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Lab, a joint initiative of the Brown School and Olin Business School. She is also a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Public Health. Her work blends theory, policy, and grassroots action around community wealth building. She works across the globe as an advisor and evaluator of development and education projects, including for UN Women, GIZ, and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development in Germany, and is a frequent media commentator, speaker and podcast guest.

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Cameron earned a B.A. in philosophy and history from the University of Toronto and an M.A. and Ph.D. in social and political thought from York University. From 2008 to 2016 she was an assistant professor at the Freie Universität Berlin and was awarded Honorary Associate Professor Extraordinarius at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa.

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Her social enterprises include Boxgirls (a program empowering girls through boxing, cited as a case study by the IOC and UN Women, and award the German Chancellor's Award for Excellence), and her other initiatives include Girls in the Lead (fostering equity and inclusion through sport), RespAct (youth sport and democracy education), and Klima Kids (children's climate and environmental education), delivered through Camp Group, which won the Google Impact Challenge Germany in 2016.

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Her research spans social entrepreneurship, social innovation, education, and impact investing. She has published with the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis on social finance and is principal investigator on Capital Access Prosperity, a Kauffman Foundation-funded project exploring equitable funding models for Black and Latinx entrepreneurs. She is an Ashoka Fellow.

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Topics / Focus Areas
 

• Community wealth building

• Social entrepreneurship and social innovation

• Impact investing and social finance

• Equitable access to capital

• Sport for social development

• Girls' and women's empowerment / gender equity 

• Education and youth development in marginalized communities

• Civic participation and democracy education

• Germany social and economic policy

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