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Echoing Green is proud to announce the 2011 class of Echoing Green Fellows. From hunger to poverty, to education inequities and global warming, these twenty-two visionaries plan to prove that these problems are no match for their game-changing ideas, ingenuity, and imagination.

The 2011 Echoing Green Fellows are launching a total of fifteen new nonprofit, for-profit and hybrid organizations to solve seemingly intractable social problems. One notable trend seen over the past two years is that many of the 2011 Echoing Green Fellows have made income-generating activities a key element of their business models, and at least seven in this year’s class are launching for-profit enterprises. In addition, a number of the Fellows are creating non-traditional education tactics to narrow the achievement gap across the globe. These include facilitating mutually beneficial learning between struggling high school students and younger children through an unconventional literacy model; breaking the cycle of poverty through “near-peer” mentoring; making African children’s literature more relatable to African youth; and challenging and supporting “missing” minority students through rigorous advanced studies in the most underserved communities in the United States.

Like the 500 Echoing Green Fellows who came before them, and those who will be inspired to follow, these innovators will aim to deliver deep impact for those most in need. Join me in congratulating them!

2011 Echoing Green Fellows:
Majid El Jarroudi and Faty Tanriverdi, Adive
Ameca Reali and Adrienne Wheeler, Cooperative Advocacy for the People
Yusuf Randera-Rees, Awethu Project
Reid Saaris, Equal Opportunity Schools
Brenden Millstein and Raphael Rosen, Carbon Lighthouse
Deborah Ahenkorah, The Golden Baobab Prize
Javier Lozano, Clínicas del Azúcar (CDA)
Bonnie Olivia and Shivani Siroya, InVenture
Amy Bach, Measures for Justice
David Auerbach and Ani Valla, Sanergy
Mohamed Ali Niang and Salif Niang, Malo Traders
Michael Carter, Strive for College
Joel Jackson, Mobius Motors
Peter Luckow and Rajesh Panjabi, Tiyatien Health
Mark Hecker, Reach Incorporated

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