- Claire Diaz Ortiz
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Claire Diaz Ortiz [1] (née Williams, born 1982) is an American blogger, author and speaker [2] who leads social innovation at Twitter.[3][4]
She wrote Twitter for Good: Change the World One Tweet at a Time [5], with a foreword from Twitter co-founder Biz Stone.[6][7]She holds an MBA and other degrees from Stanford University and Oxford University.[8]
She was a 2008 Skoll Foundation Scholar at Oxford University's Said Business School[9], the home of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship.[10] The Skoll Foundation Scholarship honors five social entrepreneurs per year with a fully funded MBA at Oxford University.[11]
She co-founded Hope Runs,[12] a non-profit organization in Kenya [13] she started after living in a Kenyan orphanage.[14]
References
- ^ Businessweek (March 16, 2009). "As Jobs Dry Up, MBAs Seek Alternative Paths" [1]
- ^ [Tech Crunch (September 22, 2011). "Istanbul, Here I Come." [2]
- ^ Buffer (July 5, 2011). "Who Works For Twitter"
- ^ Washington Post (September 6, 2011). "Harnessing Twitter to Change the World"
- ^ Publishers Weekly (May 25, 2011). "Give 'em the Business: Business Books 2011" [3]
- ^ Washington Post (October 25, 2011). "Where New Media and Religion Meet" [4]
- ^ Christianity Today (October 7, 2011). "Twitter Reaches Out To Christian Leaders" [5]
- ^ Independent (October 7, 2010). "Students seek a responsible angle to their studies" [6]
- ^ The Financial (March 19, 2011). "Said Business School: Using Mobile Technology to Mobilise Social Change"
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- ^ Social Edge (). "The Skoll Scholarship for the Oxford MBA"
- ^ Huffington Post (April 18, 2009). "Hope Runs: Helping Orphans Find Their Footing" [7]
- ^ Runners World (June 19, 2007). "Project Hope: Two Americans are Using Running to Help Kenyan Orphans Find Their Footing" [8]
- ^ Ode Magazine . "Intelligent Optimists"
External links
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- Living people
- American bloggers
- Alumni of the University of Oxford
- Stanford University alumni
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