Kriss Deiglmeier, moderator, is the executive director of the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Jami Bodonyi is an evaluation project manager at the University of Washington School of Social Work, Northwest Institute for Children and Families. She is managing a six-year evaluation of the Sound Families Initiative, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to provide service-enriched transitional housing to homeless families. Bodonyi also oversees a multiyear evaluation of a HOPE VI public housing revitalization effort in Tacoma, Wash. She previously worked as the research analyst for Families for Kids, a foster care system change initiative with a focus on legally free children. She has also collaborated with University of Washington faculty on a child neglect fatality study, and has conducted various evaluation projects for public and private child welfare agencies. Bodonyi holds a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from Cornell University (1990) and a master's in social work from the University of Washington.

Esther Kim is portfolio manager of REDF, a nonprofit that provides financial investments and forms alliances with a portfolio of businesses in order to employ people who would otherwise remain living in long-term poverty. She oversees the formal relationship between REDF and its portfolio of social enterprises, including policies, communications, and performance monitoring. In addition, she provides strategic business assistance and mentoring across the portfolio. Prior to joining REDF, Kim spent four years with McKinsey & Company, an international management consulting firm. She has also worked in economic consulting with PHB Hagler Bailly, government program evaluation with Abt Associates, and renewable energy development in Nepal, and she was a Farber Intern in 2000. She currently serves on the advisory board of the East Bay Small Business Development Center. Kim holds a BS and MS in environmental engineering and an MS in technology policy, all from MIT.

Sandy Lowe is director of community services with Family Services, an organization that provides critical assistance to families. She oversees the organization's domestic violence intervention services, homeless children's services (including specialized homeless childcare), and family stabilization services for homeless families and those at risk of homelessness. Lowe has been instrumental in implementing the "housing first" program model for ending family homelessness. She currently serves on the United Way of King County's Impact Council on Older Adults. She holds a master's degree in human development from the School of Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago.

J.B. Schramm is the founder and CEO of College Summit, an organization that works in partnership with schools, school districts, and colleges to develop a sustainable model for raising college enrollment rates community-wide. He founded College Summit in 1993 while directing a teen center in the basement of a low-income housing project in Washington, D.C. Schramm is the recipient of an honorary doctorate of public service from Regis University, the Gleitsman Citizen Activist Award, and the Harvard Divinity School First Decade Award. He is a graduate of Denver Public Schools, Yale University, and Harvard Divinity School.

Resources

• Northwest Institute for Children and Families
• REDF
• Family Services
• College Summit