Episodes: Masonry

Browse Through Our Episodes

Episode 75: Interview with Eric Nee, managing editor of Stanford Social Innovation Review

Eric Nee is managing editor of Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR), which has been serving global leaders of social change for almost 15 years- via its quarterly magazine, online...

Read More

Episode 74: Interview Ben Powell founder of Agora Partnerships

Ben is founder of Agora Parternships an organisation that provides early stage social entrepreneurs in Latin America with the resources they need to grow-primarily through the Agora Accelerator, a...

Read More

Episode 73: Interview with Amit Saraogi and Clementine Chambon founders of Oorja Solutions

Oorja is a social enterprise that enables underserved rural communities in India to transform their crop waste crop waste into  clean energy and biochar using hybrid solar and biomass-powered microgrids. Some...

Read More

Episode 72: Interview with Chuck Slaughter, Founder and CEO of Living Goods

Chuck Slaughter is Founder and CEO of Living Goods, a social enterprise building a sustainable distribution platform for products designed to fight poverty and disease in the developing world....

Read More

Episode 71: Interview Dr. Alex Dehgan, CEO and co-founder of Conservation X Labs

Alex is the CEO and co-founder of Conservation X Labs, a startup for tech innovation for conservation and development.  Prior to founding Conservation X Labs Alex served as the...

Read More

Episode 70: Interview with Echoing Green’s President, Cheryl Dorsey, celebrating 30-year’s pioneering support for social entrepreneurs

Echoing Green is a leading global non-profit that provides seed funding and technical assistance to emerging social entrepreneurs with ideas for social change. The organisation is celebrating its 30...

Read More

Episode 69: Interview with Jordan Kassalow, founder of VisionSpring

Jordan Kassalow is founder of VisionSpring, a US social enterprise whose mission is to expand affordable access to eyewear, everywhere. To date, VisionSpring has distributed over 3.5 million eyeglasses...

Read More

Episode 68: Interview with Christian Seelos, co-author of the newly published Innovation and Scaling for Impact: How Effective Social Enterprises Do It

Christian is a scholar of social innovation –he is the Leo Tindemans Chair for Business Model Innovation at KU Leuven — a visiting scholar at the Stanford University Center...

Read More

Episode 67: Interview with Willy Oppenheim, founder of Omprakash Foundation, a US-based international non-profit

Willy Oppenheim is an educator, a researcher, and the founder of Omprakash a social enterprise working to make international volunteering more ethical and impactful. Willy founded Omprakash (www.omprakash.org) in...

Read More

Episode 66: Interview with Dr Marc Ventresca, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

Marc is on faculty at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wolfson College.  His research and teaching focus on innovation, institutions and infrastructure, with...

Read More

Episode 65: Interview with Jeffrey Hollender, co-founder of Seventh Generation and Hollender Sustainable Brands

Jeffrey Hollender is a social entrepreneur, author and activist. After a wide ranging entrepreneurial career, Jeffrey co-founded Seventh Generation and built it over 25 years into a leading natural...

Read More

Episode 64: Interview with Katy Ashe, Edith Elliott and Shahed Alam, co-founders of Noora Health

Noora Health is an innovative non-profit that provides health training to help patients transition between hospital and home -one of the most precarious and rushed times in healthcare delivery....

Read More