Kelly Ramirez

Kelly Ramirez is the Co-founder and CEO of Social Enterprise Greenhouse (SEG), one of the nations leading support organizations for an inclusive network of impact entrepreneurs and businesses which are making our communities stronger and more resilient.

Kelly has extensive experience in social impact and international development have built a social enterprise initiative at the William Davidson Institute at the UM Ross School of Business and working for the US Dept of State Foreign Service. Kelly actively shares her social enterprise knowledge with future change makers through her role as an adjunct professor.

Kelly teaches Kelly also teaches courses on Social Enterprise at Providence College and Salve Regina University. Previously, she directed the Social Enterprise Initiative at the William Davidson Institute (WDI) and was an adjunct lecturer in Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. She has consulting and project management experience with organizations including Aid to Artisans, the Ford Foundation, the European Commission, USAID, the State Department, and Roche. Kelly also worked as a political analyst for the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Service, an election monitor for the OSCE, and served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Slovakia. Kelly received MA Degrees in Public Policy and Urban Planning and a BA in political science from the University of Michigan, completed a leadership certificate program at the Ross School of Business, and received a scholarship to attend the Harvard Business School’s Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management. She was named a Woman to Watch by the Providence Business News, is a 2014 BALLE Fellow, and was recently appointed to the Rhode Island Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors.

Education

• MA University of Michigan (1996 — 1998)
• BA University of Michigan (1988 — 1992)
• Certificate Harvard University (2011 — 2011)
• Executive Education University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business (2006 — 2009)

Companies

• Adjunct Professor in Social Entrepreneurship Salve Regina University (2014)
• Social Enterprise Lecturer, Summer Leadership Institute Brown University (2013)
• Adjunct Faculty - Social Entrepreneurship Providence College (2013)
• CEO Social Enterprise Greenhouse (2009)
• Founder Buy with Heart (2010 — 2014)
• Adjunct Lecturer University of Michigan Ross School of Business (2006 — 2009)
• Research Manager William Davidson Institute (2002 — 2008)
• Foreign Service US Department of State (1999 — 2003)

Skills

The most important

• Strategic Communications
• Economic Development
• International Development

Other

Non-profits, Sustainability, Policy Analysis, Program Evaluation, Social Networking, Social Media, Event Planning, Public Policy, White Papers, Program Management, Strategic Planning, Program Development, Grants, Environmental Awareness, Entrepreneurship, Community Outreach, Grant Writing, Project Management, Politics, Public Speaking, Community Development, Research, Fundraising, Nonprofits, Social Enterprise, Social Entrepreneurship