Jerr Boschee was named interim President/CEO of Social Enterprise Alliance in January of 2010. Boschee and five others co-founded the Alliance in 1997 as The National Gathering for Social Entrepreneurs. He has been an advisor to social entrepreneurs in the United States and elsewhere for more than 30 years. To date he has been a keynoter or conducted master classes in 42 states and 15 countries, and has long been recognized as one of the founders of the social enterprise movement worldwide. Boschee has previously been a senior marketing executive for a Fortune 100 company, managing editor for a chain of regional newspapers, a Peace Corps Volunteer in India, and a guest lecturer at numerous academic institutions, including Cambridge, Carnegie Mellon, Duke, Georgetown, Harvard, Northwestern, Oxford, Stanford and others. He is the former President and CEO of The National Center for Social Entrepreneurs (1991-1999) and has been named by The NonProfit Times to its annual nonprofit sector Power & Influence Top 50 list three times. He served from 2001 to 2004 as an advisor to England's Department of Trade and Industry Social Enterprise Unit and is the author or editor of six books, including Boschee on Marketing, The Social Enterprise Sourcebook, and the award-winning Migrating from Innovation to Entrepreneurship: How Nonprofits are Moving toward Sustainability and Self-Sufficiency. He is currently Executive Director of the Dallas-based Institute for Social Entrepreneurs, which he created in 1999, and is Visiting Professor of the Practice in Social Enterprise at the H. John Heinz III College, School of Public Policy and Management, at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He is also the founding Chair of Peace Corps Encore! (now known as Encore! Service Corps International), a nonprofit launched in 2003 to send former Peace Corps Volunteers and others back into service on short-term assignments (one to 12 months) that match their professional expertise with specific social needs, and Board Chair for SAGE (Students for the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship), which supports high school social entrepreneurs in more than 20 countries.
	Lisa Nitze joins SEA as incoming President and CEO in 2010. She will take over at the Alliance after nearly five years at Ashoka, where she most recently served as Vice President of the Global Engagement Team. Before joining Ashoka, she spent more than a dozen years as a consultant to nonprofits and public-private partnerships. She created the national public-private partnership Save Ellis Island! to restore and reopen America's primary icon representing the U.S. as a nation of immigrants. Lisa also created and was Executive Director of Prosperity New Jersey, a statewide economic development initiative. As Executive Director of the World Trade Center Baltimore and World Trade Center Institute of Maryland, she developed her peer mentoring and education events and services for corporations expanding to foreign markets. Lisa serves on the Board of Directors of the American University of Cairo and the College of the Atlantic. She is a Speaker Specialist on social entrepreneurship for the U.S. State Department Office of International Information, having done speaking tours in India and Costa Rica. Lisa began her career as a broadcast journalist in upstate New York. She holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University, a B.A. from Harvard University and is a graduate of the Leadership New Jersey Program. She now lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and three sons.
	Paulina Migalska currently serves as SEA's Community and Event Coordinator and combines six years of experience in the fields of social entrepreneurship/enterprise, corporate community involvement, and cross-sector partnerships. She manages SEA's membership program, SEA's events, and SEA's Chapter Building Initiative. Paulina also serves on the board of directors of the DC Net Impact Professional Chapter as Community Outreach Chair. Prior to joining SEA, Paulina worked at the Points of Light Foundation where she helped both large and small businesses design or enhance employee volunteer programs. She began her adventure with Social Enterprise at Ashoka where she helped design Ashoka's Diaspora outreach - a fundraising strategy aimed at reaching out to ethnic and international communities in the US. Paulina holds a master's degree in Central & Eastern European Studies from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland and a bachelor's degree in International Relations from Boston University. The highlight of Paulina's university years is the publication of her master's thesis by the Polish Government and the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research. Originally from a small town in Poland's industrial heartland, Paulina moved to Boston with her family at age 14. Since moving to America, she has also lived in Sydney, Australia and Krakow, Poland. She currently resides in Silver Spring, Maryland. Outside of work, Paulina enjoys reading, dancing, yoga, pilates and attending DC's cultural events. Given her love for cheese, she also openly admits to being a "cheesoholic".