Mark Hanis

Mark Hanis is a serial social entrepreneur. He is a Research Fellow with Stanford University's Handa Center for Human Rights and International Justice and is co-founding Progressive Shopper, a technology company to harness conscious consumption.
Previously, Mark has helped found several social impact organizations: the Beeck Center for Social Impact & Innovation at Georgetown University to engage global leaders to drive social change at scale; the Organ Alliance (now Organize) to address the unnecessary deaths due to a shortage of transplantable organs; and United to End Genocide (formerly Genocide Intervention Network and Save Darfur Coalition), an organization created with the mission to empower citizens and communities with the tools to prevent and stop genocide.
Mark served as a White House Fellow working in the Office of Vice President Biden as the National Security Affairs Special Advisor for South America, Africa, and Human Rights .
Hanis graduated from Swarthmore College with a degree in Political Science and a minor in Public Policy. He is the grandchild of four Holocaust survivors and was raised in Quito, Ecuador.
From February - August 2003, Hanis worked for the Office of the Prosecutor at the Special Court for Sierra Leone. He was a 2006 Draper Richards Kaplan fellow, a 2006 Echoing Green fellow, a 2008 Ashoka fellow, and a 2009 Prime Mover fellow. Mark was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
Articles
*: Washington Post, December 19, 2018
*A Kinder Truman Doctrine: Foreign Affairs, November/December 2017
*Drones for Human Rights: New York Times, January 29, 2012
*: The Christian Science Monitor, November 30, 2011
*: The Hill, April 4, 2011
*Marking liberation from Auschwitz: POLITICO, January 27, 2011
*Let's Work to Put 'Never Again' on Par With 'Never Forget': Jewish Exponent, October 28, 2010
*A Pledge To Honor In Iraq: Washington Post, July 18, 2009
*Politics and the fight vs. genocide: MSNBC Morning Joe, April 29, 2009
*Darfur accountability sought: Washington Times, January 1, 2009
*[http://www.nbcnews.com/id/12578745/ns/nbc_nightly_news_with_brian_williams-making_a_difference/t/pushing-action-darfur/#.XDlje89KjOQ Pushing for action in Darfur]: NBC, May 1, 2006
*Anatomy of a start-up antigenocide charity: The Christian Science Monitor, September 11, 2007
*Grandson of Holocaust Survivors Rallies Support for Darfur: The Chronicle of Philanthropy, 2006
*: National Geographic
*World Leaders Fail Darfur: PBS
*Moral Investing: CNBC, March 9, 2007
*Never Again: NPR, October 19, 2005
*Walking the Talk: New York Times, October 9, 2005
*Adopt-A-Peacekeeper: Boston Globe, March 5, 2005
*'Click Here to Save Darfur': BusinessWeek online, February 14, 2008
*In the Face of Genocide: Swarthmore College Bulletin, October 2009
Books
Books that profile Mark, his colleagues, and their work include:
*[https://www.amazon.com/Art-Doing-Good-Passion-Action/dp/1118264355/refla_B002IL2BPG_1_1?ieUTF8&qid1353388499&sr1-1 The Art of Doing Good: Where Passion Meets Action] by Charles Bronfman, Jeffrey Solomon and John Sedgwick
*Work on Purpose by Lara Galinsky and Kelly Nuxoll
*Dream of a Nation by Tyson Miller and Paul Hawken
*Wired for War by P.W. Singer
*[https://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Indignation-Jewish-Call-Justice/dp/1580234143/refsr_1_2?sbooks&ieUTF8&qid1300461088&sr=1-2 Righteous Indignation: A Jewish Call for Justice] by Margie Klein, Or N. Rose and Jo Ellen Green Kaiser
*Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond by John Prendergast and Don Cheadle
*[https://www.amazon.com/Fighting-Darfur-Public-Struggle-Genocide/dp/0230100228/refsr_1_1?sbooks&ieUTF8&qid1300461161&sr=1-1 Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide] by Rebecca Hamilton and Mia Farrow

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