Alan Khazei – Founder and CEO, Be the Change, Inc.

Alan Khazei – Founder and CEO, Be the Change, Inc.

Alan Khazei is the founder and CEO of Be the Change, Inc. Alan previously served as the Co-Founder & CEO of City Year, a youth service corps that helped to inspire the development of AmeriCorps. Founded in 1988 with 50 young people in Boston, City Year now operates in 17 U.S. cities and in Johannesburg, South Africa with an annual budget of $50 million and 1,400 young adults serving 100,000 children annually. Alan serves on the Boards of Citizen Schools, City Year, New Profit and Share our Strength. In 2006 US News and World Report selected Alan as one of America's 25 Best Leaders. An honors graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Alan currently lives in Brookline with his wife and daughter.