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Mar 2022
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109. Teaching Children About Philanthrop...

Stephanie Uchima-Carney - Business Strategist, MBA, Health & Wellness Coach
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Jessica Jackley is an entrepreneur and investor whose work focuses on making big bets on the goodness in all of us. 

Currently, she is the founder of Alltruists, offering at-home, kid-friendly volunteer projects for families, and a cofounder and General Partner at Untapped Capital

Jessica is best known as a co-founder of Kiva, the world's first crowdfunding site allowing anyone to lend as little as $25 - at 0% interest - to entrepreneurs around the world. Since it launched in October 2005, Kiva has facilitated over $1.5B in loans. 

She holds an MBA from Stanford GSB and teaches Social Entrepreneurship at the Marshall School of Business at USC.

Jessica lives in Los Angeles with her husband, bestselling author and Emmy-nominated producer Reza Aslan, and their four young children.

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