Kelly Ramirez – CEO
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Kelly Ramirez is the CEO of Social Enterprise Greenhouse (SEG). She teaches/has taught Social Entrepreneurship at RISD, Salve Regina, Providence College, and in the Brown University Leadership Institute Previously, she directed the Social Enterprise Initiative at the William Davidson Institute (WDI) and was an adjunct lecturer at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business.
She has consulting and project management experience with organizations including Aid to Artisans, the Ford Foundation, the European Commission, USAID, the State Department, and Roche. Kelly also worked as a political analyst for the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Service, an election monitor for the OSCE, and served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Slovakia. Kelly received MA Degrees in Public Policy and Urban Planning, completed a leadership and management program at the Ross School of Business, and a nonprofit management program at the Harvard Business School. She was named a Woman to Watch by the Providence Business News, was a BALLE Fellow, and is a mentor at Year Up.
Kelly is the proud mother of three, runs, likes to cook, garden and play the piano. She loves design and is an avid collector of mid century chairs.
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