Leslie Crutchfield is an author, speaker, and advisor to leading nonprofits and philanthropies. She serves as a Changeleader of Ashoka and is co-author of Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits (Wiley, 2008). Ashoka is the world’s oldest and largest organization supporting social entrepreneurs, including the “global greats” of social entrepreneurship such as Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank. For the past decade, Leslie has advised a range of foundations, and she currently serves as philanthropic advisor to the Goldhirsh Foundation. In the 1990s, she co-founded and ran Who Cares: The Tool Kit for Social Change, a national magazine for young activists (circulation 50,000). Leslie is a frequent public speaker and university lecturer, and has been featured as one of America’s top leaders under 40 by Newsweek. She volunteered with Crossroads Africa in the Gambia, and serves on the boards of the SEED Foundation, Kiva, and Little Kids Rock. Leslie holds an MBA and an AB from Harvard University, and resides in the Washington, D.C. area with her family.