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From December 3 to 5, ANDE South Asia Convening is bringing together the region’s leading voices in entrepreneur support to accelerate economic growth and strengthen the ecosystem for small and growing businesses (SGBs). By fostering collaboration and innovative strategies, this initiative is a catalyst for building a resilient, thriving SGB community across South Asia.

Join us for our virtual learning series, ClimateCAP MBA Academy: Understanding the Business of Climate. Through this series we will talk with experts on topics across the climate x business continuum to prepare the business leaders of tomorrow—today’s MBA students— to anticipate and manage climate risks and opportunities in their careers.

Our speaker is Jasmine Crowe-Houston, Founder & CEO of Goodr, who will be in conversation with Erin Worsham, Executive Director of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business.

One of the more surprising contributors to climate change is food waste. The U.S. EPA estimates that each year, U.S. food loss and waste equates to roughly 170 million metric tons of embodied CO2 emissions—equal to the annual CO2 emissions of 42 coal-fired power plants. At the same time, approximately 49 million people—that’s one in six people in the U.S.—still face food insecurity. When Jasmine Crowe-Houston set out to solve the hunger crisis in America, she didn’t realize she was a climate tech entrepreneur—but today, her company, Goodr, has raised $8 million and diverted 30 Million pounds of food from landfills—while serving more than 37 million meals to hungry people.

Come hear the conversation about Jasmine’s entrepreneurship journey and the lessons she’s learned along the way about what it takes to be a successful changemaker.

About Jasmine Crowe-Houston
Jasmine Crowe-Houston is an award-winning social entrepreneur, children’s book author, and determined leader dedicated to making the world a better place. In 2017, after years of feeding people experiencing homelessness from her own kitchen, Jasmine launched Goodr, a sustainable waste management and hunger solutions company that leverages technology to reduce food waste and combat hunger. She has been featured on CNBC, in Oprah Magazine, Forbes, Fast Co., and the New York Times, and has been named by Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the top 100 influential female founders and Insider’s 100 People Transforming Business.

Under Jasmine’s leadership, Goodr has provided over 34 million meals and counting to those in need and redirected more than 25 millions of pounds of materials from landfills. The company was named by Fortune Magazine as a World Changing Company. She currently sits on the boards of the Metro Atlanta Chamber and Drawdown Georgia.

An active community member and advocate, Jasmine is also a devoted wife and mother of two daughters, Journey and Justice. She loves to travel, read, and serve her community, continually striving to create positive change both locally and globally.

About Erin Worsham
Erin is the Executive Director of the award-winning CASE at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. CASE is a leader in the field of social innovation, serving as a hub for research, teaching and practitioner engagement. In her role at CASE, Erin leads the development and execution of center strategy, establishes relationships with key constituents, oversees operations and programs and contributes to thought leadership on social entrepreneurship. Her work has been published in the Academy of Management, Learning & Education; Huffington Post; NextBillion, DevEx, Social Impact Exchange, and she most recently served as the lead author of CASE’s Scaling Pathways series, in partnership with the Skoll Foundation, USAID’s Global Development Lab and MercyCorps.

Prior to Fuqua, 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.

About ClimateCAP
The ClimateCAP Initiative is working to prepare tomorrow’s business leaders—today’s MBA students—to understand and respond to the climate challenge by mainstreaming the climate conversation in business school. As a global partnership of 45+ business schools, founded and led by the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, ClimateCAP works to bring together MBA students, educators, and corporate leaders to build community and talk about the business implications of climate change. ClimateCAP’s signature programs include an annual in-person MBA Summit drawing 400+ students each year, an online MBA Academy learning series for students who want to get up to speed quickly, a highly selective 12-month MBA Fellowship for aspiring climate changemakers, and a curated selection of teaching and learning resources for students and educators. Find out more at: https://climatecap.org/.

Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ET