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Abby Falik

2017 Speaker

ABBY FALIK is the founder and CEO of Global Citizen Year and an award-winning social entrepreneur. A recognized expert on social innovation and the changing landscape of education, Falik has been featured in Forbes, NPR, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. In 2016, Fast Company named her one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business, and for her achievements as a social entrepreneur, she has been recognized as an Ashoka Fellow and a Draper Richards Kaplan Entrepreneur. She currently serves on the advisory boards of World Learning, Teach for All, and the Harvard Business School. She earned a BA in international relations and an MA in international comparative education from Stanford University and her MBA from Harvard Business School. @abbyfalik @globalcitizenyr