This is a blog post written by Vanessa Danziger, a student at Brown University   First, I was thrilled to attend the SERI summit. It was an inspiration simply to be in a room with so many like-minded, forward-thinking people. I was surprised by the size of the conference and the quality of the speakers. As someone who is excited about social improvement and working for the betterment of people, it is easy to feel…

This roundtable filled up rather quickly, with some attendees standing in the back for the duration of the session.  Andy Cutler from Cutler & Co. moderated the panel and made sure that introductions were kept short and that we got to the roundtable portion with plenty of time to have attendees ask questions.

The first of the two roundtables I attended was called “Using Social Ventures for Skills Training & Job Creation”.  While this could be seen as a very relevant and poignant topic, the floor was opened to the rest of the room early on in the session to ask questions, which I always find to be way more valuable of an experience for attendees.  The panel for this roundtable had a nice range of non-profit leaders…