Shannon Ewing

Background

About Shannon Ewing

I seek out global game-changers and turn up the volume on their impact. Whether through tech innovations (ex: self-sovereign ID for refugees) or traditional tools (ex: building more toilets), I am an advocate of grassroots approaches to creating more good in the world. I believe it is through human flourishing that we will solve most of the world’s problems. So let’s build! I love hearing from tech startups who want to make an impact, socialpreneurs, established humanitarian-aid and international-development organizations looking to broaden their reaches…basically anyone who wants to make a difference. I will help you tailor your design to maximize impact, tap into new audiences, forge new allies, and integrate tech innovations to TURN. IT. UP. The world is ready for more community, more benefit. And if you’re working to contribute to the common good, it definitely needs more of you in it. Reach out and let’s discuss how I can help. Career Highlights- Independently managing a multi-million-dollar USAID initiative on telework in the Balkans while writing my college thesis - Being the first outsider to live in the remote village of Mahavilachchiya, Sri Lanka bolstering an entrepreneurial primary school teaching kids coding (and winning the principal an Ashoka Fellowship)- Co-leading a team that saved the lives of 5,800+ people during the cholera outbreak in post-earthquake Haiti (partly by hiring >400 nurses in 10 days…in Creole, which I do not speak °.°)- Catalyzing first-time computer use by the students and teachers of a Gabonese village (typing their names in red was decidedly the coolest possible feat)- Producing a decentralists’ conference in which Naseem Nicholas Taleb spoke to how decentralization will make society stronger and Muhammad Yunus encouraged the tech audience to continue creating against the mainstream to help the most people - Most recently, helping produce the world's largest Web3 gathering, ETHDenver