USC Center: Philanthropy + Global Health

The USC Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy Conversations on Philanthropy series:

Philanthropy and Global Health

Featuring:

Barbara Bush
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
Global Health Corps

Cara Esposito
Executive Director
Leonetti/O'Connell Family Foundation

Esther Wachtell
Founding Member, Board of Advisors
The Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy

James M. Ferris
Director
The Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy

Barbara Bush is CEO and co-founder of Global Health Corps. Before joining GHC, Barbara worked in Educational Programming at the Smithsonian Institution’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, where she supported design thinking programs for high school students and faculty across the US. She has worked for Red Cross Children’s Hospital in Capetown, South Africa and interned for UNICEF in Botswana. She has traveled with the UN World Food Programme, focusing on the importance of nutrition. Barbara is a member of UNICEF’s Next Generation Steering Committee, and is on the Board of Directors of Covenant House International, PSI, Friends of the Global Fight for AIDS, TB, and Malaria, and the UN’s Social Entrepreneurship Council. She is a Draper Richards Foundation Social Entrepreneur, a World Economic Forum Young Global Shaper, and a fellow of the Echoing Green Foundation. Barbara was named one of Glamour Magazine’s Women of the Year in 2011 and one of Newsweek’s Women of Impact in 2013. Barbara Bush graduated from Yale University with a degree in Humanities in 2004.

The Center recently introduced the Conversations on Philanthropy series as a means to bring together different decision makers from philanthropy – foundation leaders, individual donors, and family foundation trustees – along with experts in a field to discuss a specific issue of keen interest to the philanthropic community. These Los Angeles based discussions are aimed at bringing together different segments of philanthropy in an attempt to bridge fragmentation within the sector and leverage the power of the sector’s pluralism.