Yordanos Eyoel

Why you should listen

Yordanos Eyoel is the founder and CEO of Keseb — a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization supporting, connecting and amplifying the efforts of pro-democracy organizations around the world to counter authoritarian regimes and advance resilient democracies. For launching Keseb, she was recognized with the Extraordinary Leader Transforming a Field award by Unorthodox Philanthropy.

In 2017, Eyoel cofounded and served as international spokesperson of the Sister March network, which mobilized more than four million people for the global Women’s March that year. Her work and writing has been featured in Fast Company, Stanford Social Innovation Review and We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship to Solve Our Most Urgent Problems, published by Harvard Business Review Press. A Civil Society Fellow of the Anti-Defamation League and the Aspen Institute, she was also once a visiting fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University.