Founder
Social entrepreneur Jennifer Staple-Clark founded Unite for Sight in 2000 as a sophomore at Yale University. The organization has received weekly coverage on CNN in 2007 and 2008, and has been featured in The New York Times, Yale Daily News, among other outlets. Staple-Clark has garnered multiple accolades including the coveted BRICK Award and the American Institute of Public Service's 2009 Jefferson Awards for Public Service, the Nobel Prize equivalent in public service. In addition, she frequently gives presentations and keynote addresses. Her most recent audiences include Harvard School of Public Health, Yale Law School, Yale College, Yale School of Public Health, Stanford, Duke, MIT, New York University School of Medicine, Miller School of Medicine of UMiami, Northwestern University School of Medicine's American Medical Student Association Conference, and American Academy of Ophthalmology's Women in Ophthalmology Leadership Institute. She has also been featured in the book Our Time is Now: Young People Changing the World, as well as in many other publications. She is the author of journal articles and book chapters about social entrepreneurship, practices in global health, and community eye health.
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