Tag: CASE Scholar

Bruce Junhaeng Lee Even with years of intensive English education in Korea, I was very surprised to find myself unable to speak English fluently when I first traveled to the United States in 2010. I decided to come back and spent a year at the University of California, Davis as an exchange student in 2013. […]

Utkarsha Bhardwaj Since childhood, I have been most passionate about exploring and solving the multi-faceted problems encountered by millions in a developing country like India. This is because I have always been around inspiring people who work together to address societal problems and, in the process, contribute to each other’s success. These interactions and experiences […]

Patrick Pierson-Prah I co-founded two related companies with the mission to more meaningfully improve the lives of others and to provide people with increased economic empowerment. The first company, Procap Investments, which is an investment management firm, focuses on raising and managing funds to invest in agriculture in Africa. The second company, Oyster Agribusiness, helps […]

Meghan Spell I began my career as a healthcare attorney in a large defense firm in Louisiana. I left a comfortable, but unfulfilling, career in the corporate legal world to work in nonprofit, safety net healthcare systems, where I partnered with patients every day to help them become engaged, activated and valued consumers of healthcare […]

Ineza Mutimura I am an education intrapreneur who is passionate about eliminating unemployment in Africa. Having lived in four African countries and traveled the continent extensively, I have always considered myself a Pan-African at heart. Thus far, my career has been dedicated to providing opportunities to young Africans that enable them to tap into their […]

Nathan Hixson Within a 20-minute drive of the small town in Tennessee where I grew up, I could be in either an exclusive neighborhood of golf-course-adjacent mansions or in a rural area nearly absent of paved roads, good public schools and access to dental care. At an early age, I saw the difference that wealth, […]

We are proud to have four inspiring new CASE scholars join us at Fuqua this year. Selected through an application process, the CASE Social Sector Scholarship is awarded to Daytime MBA students who are committed to applying business skills in pursuit of social impact. Meet Our 2020 CASE Scholars Anurag Dusanapudi As Co-founder and Director […]

Josefina Van Thienen I was born and raised in a Latin American country with approximately 30% of people living in poverty. This has given me a passion for improving people’s lives and driving change for a better future. This passion pushed me to get involved with TECHO, an Argentinean NGO, which proved to be a […]

Paul McCready I have spent the last 9 years in the United States Army, most recently serving as US Army Special Operations Civil Affairs Officer specializing in the Asia Pacific. In this role, I was responsible for supporting communities at risk of radicalization in their efforts to overcome poverty and achieve social stability. I hope […]

 Anurag Dusanapudi I am the co-founder and Director of Operations for Impact Micro Ventures (IMV), a for-profit social venture that uses data and mobile technology to facilitate financing to unbanked microenterprises in India’s unorganized sector. I founded IMV because I am passionate about poverty eradication, with a focus on bottom of the pyramid entrepreneurship, which enables […]