Saul Garlick

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Location: 

Washington, DC

Region Expertise: 

Africa, American foreign policy

Status: 

Professional

Expertise Area: 

Global Development, Youth Leadership

Email: 

Saul@StudentMovementUSA.org

Affiliation (Occupation/Company/University etc.): 

Student Movement for Real Change

Country of Citizenship: 

United States

Date of Birth: 

1983

Garlick is the executive director of Student Movement for Real Change (SMRC), an organization he founded that empowers young leaders to identify and develop sustainable solutions to health and education in partnership with developing communities. SMRC provides college students the opportunity to live and work in a developing community, identify local leaders and initiate projects through long term partnerships. SMRC currently manages water and sanitation projects in Kenya, extensive health and education projects in South Africa and an entrepreneurship program in Sierra Leone. Garlick also serves as Ambassador to the United States for The Buffelshoek Trust, an organization building schools in rural South Africa. He is a fellow and advisory board member at the Next America Project of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and he is a contributor to the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs’ online magazine Policy Innovations. Prior to becoming executive director of SMRC, Garlick worked on Capitol Hill for Diana DeGette (D-CO) and as acting desk officer for Angola in the Bureau of African Affairs at the Department of State. During college, Garlick, founded The Hopkins Donkey, a campus-wide democratic newspaper originally published by the JHU College Democrats. He also served as the organizations Publicity Director. Garlick also has served as Managing Editor of the SAIS Review of International Affairs, a publication of The Johns Hopkins University Press. Garlick has received numerous leadership awards including the SAIS' William C. Foster Award, Seeking Common Ground's Circles of Change Award and 'The Fire Within' Social Entrepreneurship Award presented by Mayor John Hickenlooper. His work has been featured on CSPAN, in The Rocky Mountain News and numerous other media outlets globally. A 2005 Truman Scholar, Garlick received his BA with honors in 2006 from Johns Hopkins University and his MA in American foreign policy and International Economics at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University.

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