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From our offices here at @santaclarauniversity , the team at Miller Center is singing, "Yeah, yeah, yeah!" for our GSBI® alumna @wawira , Founder of @food4education ! Congratulations on winning the @glblctzn Prize for Youth Leadership presented by @Cisco. The prize was presented by recording artist @Usher and Cisco CEO @ChuckRobbins in Johannesburg at Sunday’s Mandela 100 Global Citizen Festival. #repost 📷: @chuckrobbins . . #feedingthefuture #SDG2 #socent #GSBIalumni #scuproud
🔜 #Kenya is a growing hotspot for impact investing, particularly in the pay-as-you-go #cleanenergy sector. ☀️ Join @worldresources this Thursday, Dec. 6 for a webinar connecting fund managers with Kenyan entrepreneurs: bit.ly/KenyaCleanEnergy 🇰🇪 💡 ⚡ 🔌 . . . #impinv #SDG7 #socent
Its officially the month of the holidays! If you are still shopping for office colleagues, party hosts, or any coffee lover in your life, @vegacoffeehq’s Roast Sampler is the perfect gift ☕ 🎁 . Our #GSBI alum Vega Coffee reinvents the traditional coffee supply chain by cutting out the middleman, empowering women farmers to earn four times more than through typically export channels💪. Each Roast Sampler contains four 6oz bags of coffee, each representing a different level of roast and a range of high-quality microlots from Nicaragua and Colombia. Use the code MillerCenter for 20% off any item purchased on the website! Or visit the link in our bio to see our complete Holiday Gift Guide of Miller Center alumni products & services (with friends & family discounts)! #consciousshopping #jointhemovement #impinv #socent #giftsforgood #vegacoffee #homebarista #directtradecoffee #singleorigincoffee #specialtycoffee #happyhanukkah #holidaygifts #giftguide #GSBI #SCUproud
Ever had to chance to hang out on the hammocks in Miller Center's Innovation Space? These comfy hammocks from @yellowleafhammocks help us de-stress and get our brain juices flowing during the workday.⚡ Get the Montauk hammock for yourself or a friend with a 20% savings using the code MILLERCENTER until Dec 17, 2018. Yellow Leaf Hammocks is dedicated to breaking the cycle of extreme poverty through sustainable job creation in Thailand.🇹🇭 💙 Visit the link in our bio to see our complete Holiday Gift Guide of Miller Center alumni products & services. 🎄 🎁 🎅🏽 #gifts4good #impinv #socent #fairtrade #dogoodrelax #hammock #artisan #thailand #montauk #SCUproud #consciousshopping #businessforgood #jointhemovement #GSBI

CASSANDRA STAFF

Chief Operations Officer

Cassandra Staff (formerly Cassandra Thomassin) was raised in a home in East San Jose and on a boat in Baja California and the Pacific Northwest. An appreciation for diversity and global communities was planted at an early age between her travels to visit family in Malaysia, living in Mexico, and attending some of the most culturally diverse schools in the country. Cassandra has been with the Miller Center since 2010, when she first learned about social entrepreneurship through Santa Clara University's MBA program. There, she was able to combine her business training with her passion for doing good and supporting the under privileged and under resourced around the world. Through her work with Miller Center, she has had the honor of working with over 100 social entrepreneurs directly through GSBI programs. She hopes it will be at least 1,000 before her 10-year anniversary. Between work hours, Cassandra plays volleyball, cooks vegetarian food for friends and family, goes to live shows, and spends time with her dogs, chickens, and wonderful family.