Beverly Schwartz

Author | Former Vice President of Global Marketing, Ashoka

By discipline, she is an “entrepreneurial” behavioral scientist and has made her career in the field of social change marketing. With the exception of a few non-social sector jobs in advertising and communications, she has devoted her career to working on some of the world’s most challenging social issues as diverse as drugs, children’s health, gender equity, girl’s education in developing countries, environmental reform, HIV/AID, and smoking prevention, including managing the non-advertising portion of the Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign for the Executive Office of the White House in the late 90s, and the “America Responds to AIDS” campaign for the US Centers for Disease Control in the mid-80s. In her early career, she helped write and pass the first statewide non-smoking in public places law in the US in the mid-1970s. From 2018- 2021, she was an elected Commissioner in Washington DC. 

Beverly is a dynamic speaker and workshop facilitator. She is currently on the US Board of Directors for APOPO, a Belgian based organization that trains African pouched rats to sniff out landmines and tuberculosis bacilli and a board member of Ashoka Israel.  She was formerly a Board of Trustee member of the National Hospice Foundation. She is the author of “Rippling: How Social Entrepreneurs Spread Innovation Throughout the World.”