Meet the Team

Advisors

Andrew M. Wolk: Director -Wolk is a faculty member at Boston University's Graduate School of Management where he teaches a course he developed entitled Social Entrepreneurship. Wolk will lead the strategic direction of the organization including securing partnerships, fundraising, and development of programs. Wolk currently works at Neighborhood Business Builders, a division of Jewish Vocational Services working with inner city, small businesses as a business and loan analyst. Before receiving his MBA in nonprofit management and entrepreneurship from Boston University, Wolk started, built and sold his own small business. He is a founding member of the board of Social Venture Partners-Boston and The National Gathering for Social Entrepreneurs where he currently serves as program chair of the organizations upcoming 4th annual conference. Wolk has spoken on social entrepreneurship and social venture development at Harvard University, United Leaders program, and The Vermont for Business Responsibility, National Gathering for Social Entrepreneurs, and More then Money conferences.

Dr. Daniel J. Monti: Director of Research - Dr. Monti, an Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston University, will lead the efforts of ICE's research. Dr. Monti has written six books and is the recipient of a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. His most recent book, The American City: A Social and Cultural History, spans 300 years of American history and touches on cities in all 50 states. It is a detailed description of the civic culture not just of cities, but of the entire nation and the role business plays in a city's development. His 1985 book on school desegregation, A Semblance of Justice, received the Critics Choice Award of the American Educational Studies Association. Dr. Monti's 1990 book, Race, Redevelopment, and the New Company Town, was the first study of public-private partnerships and their role in rebuilding inner city neighborhoods, including those with major universities. In his next book, Civic Capitalism, he will explore the role of business as America's first and foremost civic association.