The Social Entrepreneurship Skill-Shop at Johns Hopkins CTY helps students understand not just how to build an organization, but how systems, stakeholders, and policies shape the world around them.
I redesigned the program to merge business literacy with civic reasoning. Students now move through a structured venture pipeline—problem analysis, stakeholder mapping, feasibility modeling—while also examining how their ideas intersect with ethics, community needs, and institutional constraints.
Drawing on the Harvard Case Method, the course teaches students to evaluate competing claims, weigh evidence, and defend decisions transparently. It is also informed by my previous work with CTY to refine the Student Code of Conduct, integrating principles of fairness, due process, and policy clarity.
This course is now being explored as the foundation for a larger, pre-college certificate that may eventually connect to the JHU Carey Business School.
This work advances my belief that education should prepare students not only to innovate—but to participate.