Executive Director, Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship
Erin L. Worsham is the Executive Director of the award-winning Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. CASE is a leader in the field of social innovation, teaching the next generation of impact leaders and producing practical research and tools that help organizations achieve lasting social change.
In her role at CASE, Erin leads CASE’s efforts on scaling and systems change – helping social impact leaders, students and funders understand the tactics required to scale social impact and achieve missions faster and more effectively. She is the lead on the multi-year Scaling Pathways series, in partnership with the Skoll Foundation, USAID’s Global Development Lab and MercyCorps Ventures. Her work has also been published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review; Forbes; the Academy of Management, Learning & Education; Huffington Post; NextBillion, DevEx, and more.
Prior to CASE, Erin worked in the nonprofit, public and private sectors including consulting with government and nonprofit clients at Booz Allen Hamilton, helping to develop public-private partnerships at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), working on private sector development issues at the World Bank, and working for a nonprofit think tank in Washington D.C. She earned her BA from Duke University and her MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. You can follow Erin on Twitter @ErinWorsham.
Arresting Deforestation • Clean Water • Early Childhood to Primary Education • Economic Opportunity • Education • Financial Services • Health Delivery • Human Rights • Livelihoods • Post-Secondary Education • Responsible Supply Chains • Secondary Education • Smallholder Productivity • Standards • Sustainable Markets • Women's and Girls' Education • Youth Job Skills
South America, Southeast Asia, Eastern and Southern Africa
