SSIR Staff
Eric Nee is managing editor of Stanford Social Innovation Review, and co-host of the Social Innovation Conversations podcast channel. He also serves as a judge for the Social Venture Network’s Innovation Awards. Eric has close to 30 years of experience in the publishing industry. Before joining Stanford University, he was a senior writer for Fortune. While there, Eric helped Time Inc. launch eCompany Now (where he was executive editor), which later merged with Business 2.0. Before joining Fortune, Eric launched Forbes’s Silicon Valley bureau, where he was bureau manager. He also served as editor-in-chief of Upside magazine for close to five years. Eric has won numerous awards, including being named one of the most influential technology journalists by Technology Marketing in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001. Eric earned a B.A. in American Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and a M.S.J. from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. He lives in Palo Alto, Calif., with his wife Tekla, a senior editor at IEEE Spectrum magazine, and their three children.
Regina Starr Ridley is publishing director of the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Prior to joining Stanford, Regina had a 22-year career in for-profit media. As a group president at CMP Media, during the height of the technology boom, she ran a $150 million media division and was profiled as one of the publishing industry’s most promising future CEOs in FOLIO:’s “The Next CEOs, 15 Executives to Bet On.” Regina has an M.A. in International Management from the Thunderbird Graduate School of Business and a B.A. in political science from the University of Connecticut. Regina’s passions outside of work include travel and involvement in her community, global and local. She currently serves as president and board chair for Friends of Timboni Feeder School, a nonprofit she helped found in 2006 to bring water to a small school in eastern Kenya. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two sons (when they are not at college) and is active with local schools and a number of small nonprofits, including Rocket Dog Rescue.
Tamara Straus is senior editor of the Stanford Social Innovation Review. She has two decades of experience as an editor and writer of books, magazines, online publications, and newspapers in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. Previously, she served as news features editor at the San Francisco Chronicle; editor in chief of Zoetrope: All-Story, Francis Ford Coppola’s literary magazine; senior writer and editor at AlterNet.org, the online news site of the Independent Media Institute; associate editor at Farrar, Straus & Giroux book publishers; and research associate at the Ford Foundation. Tamara has written for The Nation, The New Republic, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Salon.com, among others, and is author of The Literary Almanac: The Best of the Printed Word, 1900 to Present. She holds a B.A. in Russian studies/international affairs and an M.A. in English and Comparative Literature, both from Columbia University. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children.
Jenifer Morgan is digital editor of Stanford Social Innovation Review. Jenifer has 15 years of experience in the publishing industry, and has developed both print and online publications. Before coming to Stanford, she was a writer and web consultant for the Redford Center, a social change nonprofit founded by Robert Redford. Previously, she was editorial director of Ideal Bite, an online media company that catered to eco-minded consumers. She was also founding editor of Shojo Beat magazine and managing editor of MacAddict magazine (now MacLife). Jenifer was a WorldTeach volunteer in Poland through Harvard University’s Center for International Development and earned a Private Pilot License from the Sierra Academy of Aeronautics. She has a B.A. in English from the University of California at Santa Barbara, with studies abroad at the University of Leeds, UK.
Carrie Pogorelc is customer care and online marketing assistant for the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Before joining SSIR, she was a volunteer services assistant at The Tech Museum in San Jose, where she coordinated more than 400 volunteers to help operate the museum daily and launched the successful Summer Volunteer Program in 2008. Carrie earned a B.S. in Marketing, cum laude, from Santa Clara University, where she was an NCAA Division 1 student-athlete and a volunteer English teacher for Spanish-speaking campus workers. Carrie is an active volunteer for SCU: She is a three-year veteran of the New Student Calling program and a volunteer for Alumni for Others, and is active in other alumni events.
Other Contributors to the Stanford Social Innovation Review
Johanna Mair is an academic editor of Stanford Social Innovation Review, a professor of Strategic Management at IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain, and the Hewlett Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. Johanna has also held a visiting position at the Harvard Business School and has received numerous awards for her research and publications. In 2007, she was recognized as a Faculty Pioneer by the Aspen Institute and received the Ashoka Award for Social Entrepreneurship Education. Alongside her academic responsibilities, she advises governments on innovation; chairs the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Social Innovation; collaborates with several multinational companies and international institutions, such as the World Bank; and is on the boards of globally operating foundations, public private partnerships, and social venture funds.
Chip Heath is an academic editor of Stanford Social Innovation Review and a professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has conducted workshops on strategy, mission, and communication with more than 280 nonprofit groups. Chip’s research focuses on why certain ideas prosper in the social marketplace of ideas, and on how individuals and organizations can make better decisions. He is the co-author (along with his brother, Dan) of two books. Their most recent book, Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, debuted at #1 on the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. Their first book, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, was a New York Times and Business Week bestseller, and was an Amazon Top 10 Business Book for 2007 for both editors and readers. It was translated into 27 languages including Thai, Arabic, and Lithuanian.
Contributing Editors
Suzie Boss
Jessica Ruvinsky
Copy Editors
Lawrence Sanfilippo
Kathleen Much
Interns
Savannah Greene
Stephanie Gutierrez
Sydney Tomlin
Art Direction and Design, Print Edition
Website Design and Development
