Brandon Busteed
Brandon Busteed leads Gallup’s education work across K-12 and higher education. His career spans a wide range of important work in education, including as an educational entrepreneur, speaker, writer and university trustee. He was the founder and former CEO of Outside the Classroom (acquired by EverFi), a company that pioneered adaptive online education with the unique distinction of creating the only course proven to change behaviors. A three-year, 30-school national study funded by the federal government showed that AlcoholEdu — the organization’s flagship alcohol-abuse prevention program — effectively reduced binge drinking, drunk driving and sexual assaults. More than 4 million students have now taken the program. Busteed graduated from Duke University, where he studied public policy; he is a trustee-emeritus of Duke and also served on the Board of Visitors for the Sanford School of Public Policy. He is a nationally known speaker and author on education policy and public health. Busteed has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USAToday, NPR and The Today Show among others. Brandon's twitter handle is https://twitter.com/brandonbusteed
Jacob Harold
Harold is a social change strategist, grantmaker and author. Harold came to GuideStar from the Hewlett Foundation, where he led grantmaking for the philanthropy program. Between 2006 and 2012, he oversaw $30 million in grants that, together, aimed to build a 21st century infrastructure for smart giving. At the beginning of his career, Harold worked as a climate change campaigner for Rainforest Action Network and Greenpeace USA and as an organizing director at Citizen Works. He also worked as a consultant to nonprofits and foundations at the Bridgespan Group and as a climate change strategist for the David and Lucile Packard Foundation based at the Energy and Resources Institute in New Delhi, India.
Harold was recently named to The NonProfit Times 2014 Power and Influence Top 50 list and currently serves as a term member for the Council on Foreign Relations. He has written extensively on climate change and philanthropic strategy. His essays have been used as course materials at Stanford, Duke, Wharton, Harvard and Oxford. He earned an AB summa cum laude from Duke University and a Master of Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business with a certificate in public management. Harold has further training from Green Corps in grassroots organizing, Bain in business strategy, the Chinese Academy of Sciences in complex systems science and the School for International Training in Tibetan studies. Guidestar's twitter handle is https://twitter.com/GuideStarUSA.
