The CSIL Launch is an all-day event focused on catalyzing millennial engagement in social entrepreneurship and impact investing. The day begins at 10am with a buffet brunch and pop-up market place featuring local social entrepreneurs, food vendors, and artisans. Special guest and social design professional Patrick Keane will also be featured to offer pop-up market shoppers an interactive and inspiring community mapping session in collaboration with millennial panelists including David Hopkins and Daniel Epstein. View the full event schedule via: http://bit.ly/1wRA3q0
Spread the word: This event is open and free to the MIIS community. RSVP is required via: go.miis.edu/csillaunch
About Patrick Keane
Born in Kenya, Patrick grew up living in Zimbabwe, Indonesia, Thailand, Uganda, the US, Ireland and Nepal. He has seen, firsthand, the prospects for the future of community leadership in emerging economies. Patrick is a firm believer that social enterprise can drive local communities to collaboratively design and implement strategies for sustained development. As a StartingBloc Fellow, he is an active member of the social entrepreneurship community. Patrick co-founded ThinkImpact, an education travel company offering university students, faculty, and young professionals full immersion programs in rural Africa and South America. He also served as a strategic consultant to Moneythink, a non-profit working to restore the economic health of disadvantaged youth in the United States through financial education. In 2014, he completed the Wendt Partners Digital Business Fellowship, an intensive introduction to digital business focused on social media strategy, buyer personas in marketing, customer relationship management and social selling. Patrick is currently completing his M.A. in Social Design at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore Maryland.
THE CENTER FOR SOCIAL DESIGN at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)
The Center for Social Design utilizes a human-centered and collaborative process to understand and define social problems, identify opportunities and generate ideas, and make tools that support positive change. Our goal is to shift relationships between people and people, and people and institutions.
The Center is dedicated to demonstrating and promoting the value of design in addressing complex social problems, and to inspiring and preparing the next generation of creative changemakers.
