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Saul Garlick is the founder and executive director of ThinkImpact. Garlick served as managing editor of the SAIS Review, as founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Hopkins Donkey and has worked on Capitol Hill for Rep. DeGette (D-CO) and as acting desk officer for Angola in the Bureau of African Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. Garlick serves on the Advisory Board for the Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship at the University of the Pacific and as ambassador to the United States for The Buffelshoek Trust, a South African NGO. He has been on the National Board of Directors of the College Democrats of America Alumni Association, and the Advisory Board of the Next America Project at CSIS.

Garlick’s writing appears regularly on The Huffington Post, Social Edge, and Policy Innovations of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. Garlick is a Harry S. Truman Scholar and was a delegate to the Academy of Achievement. He has won the William C. Foster Award, the Circles of Change Award, and the Fire Within Social Entrepreneurship Award. He received his BA with honors in 2006 from Johns Hopkins University and his MA in American foreign policy and International Economics at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University in 2007.