About Seth Green
Seth Green is the director of the Job Opportunity Investment Network (JOIN), a $3 million, public-private partnership that seeks to build career pathways for low-skilled workers in Greater Philadelphia. JOIN collaborates with businesses to identify fast-growing, mid-skilled positions, then invests in programs that train low-skilled workers to fill these positions. Through such efforts, JOIN ensures that workers have sustainable jobs; businesses, a talent pipeline. Seth oversees JOIN’s strategy, fundraising, program investments, and city-wide advocacy efforts. He reports to JOIN’s board, which includes leaders from the philanthropic community, the economic development community, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Prior to leading JOIN, Seth was a consultant at McKinsey and Company, where he worked with financial institutions to develop shareholder value creation strategies, launch new product offerings, and implement strategic partnerships. Seth received McKinsey’s “Community Fellowship,” allowing him to support non-profit clients in developing earned revenue strategies, creating social investment funds, and building urban renewal plans. He enjoyed bringing the best of the private sector to his non-profit clients, as well as incorporating innovative ideas from the non-profit sector into his work with financial clients.
Seth is the founder and board chair of Americans for Informed Democracy (AID), a non-partisan organization that empowers young people to tackle today’s most pressing social challenges, from poverty and climate change to terrorism and international conflict. During his time as President of AID from 2002 to 2007, he built a network of over 23,000 members and created partnerships with leading foundations, think tanks, and businesses. For his leadership of AID, he was named one of 50 “visionaries who are changing your world” by Utne Reader. He also received the Search for Common Ground Award for International Understanding.
Prior to leading AID, Seth worked at the American Prospect, the Brookings Institution, Taxpayers for Common Sense, and Lazard.
Seth serves as a board member for Thinking Beyond Borders, as well as for the Project on Middle East Democracy. He is also a principal of the Truman National Security Project and an advisor to CSIS’ Next America initiative. He has previously served as a discussion facilitator at the Clinton Global Initiative and a participant in the 2006 White House Summit on Malaria.
He has spoken on international affairs and youth activism at the U.S. House, U.S. Senate, World Bank, and U.N. He has also been a guest on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, the Montel Williams Show, CNN, and MSNBC. His op-eds have appeared in the Christian Science Monitor and Miami Herald, and his work has been featured in hundreds of publications, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Marie Claire.
A Marshall scholar, Seth graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University, earned master’s degrees from the London School of Economics and Oxford, and completed a JD at Yale Law School, where he was named an Olin fellow.
Posts by Seth Green:
- Obama’s “trickle-down… look-the-other way” economics, 18 Oct 2009
- The recklessness of John McCain, 25 Sep 2008
- The McCain Campaign’s “Celeb” Ad, 30 Jul 2008
- McClellan let our country down, 28 May 2008
- Why is McCain Giving Voice to Hamas?, 14 May 2008
- Nonsense on Oil Security, 01 May 2008
- The Sad Irony of the Boycott Debate, 18 Apr 2008
- Bailing Out a Big Gamble, 18 Mar 2008
- Securing Our Economy, 01 Feb 2008
- Money Matters and American Security, 22 Jan 2008