CEO, Founder, Crisis Text Line
Nancy Lublin is currently the Founder & CEO of Crisis Text Line, which is one of the first “big data for good” orgs. She was CEO of DoSomething.org for 12 years, taking it from bankruptcy to the largest organization for teens and social change in the world.
Her first venture was Dress for Success, which helps women transition from welfare to work in almost 150 cities in 22 countries.
Nancy was named one of Fortune’s “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders” alongside the Pope and Dalai Lama. Nancy is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.
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