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Rich
Halvorson

Social Entrepreneur

Los Angeles, California

Rich is a versatile leader with diverse strategy experience in media, politics and business. During 2007 alone, Rich founded or collaborated in efforts creating real impact in Haiti, Ethiopia and the Philippines – three of the world’s most distraught nations. Leveraging his diverse experience from Croatia to Colombia, Boise to Barcelona, and Harvard to Haiti, Rich has a passion for fostering change through effective commerce and innovative philanthropy. With strategic insight spanning business, media, politics and non-profit, Rich creates and leads initiatives that drive greater value for socially-conscious brands, ideas and products in the global marketplace. Rich founded an international movement called Global Fast.In recent years, Rich has appeared on MTV, CNN and NBC Networks, SIRIUS Radio and other national broadcasts, as well as The Houston Chronicle, The Miami Herald, International Herald Tribune, The Daily Herald and Los Angeles Times. In 2007, he was honored as one of Los Angeles’ Top “Model Citizens” by Who’s Next What’s Next Magazine. Rich graduated with honors in Philosophy and Government from Harvard University, where he also served as an Editor for The Harvard Crimson, and was selected as one of Harvard’s “15 Most Interesting Seniors.”


Rich Halvorson's Schools

  		•  Harvard University , Class of 2003
    Bachelors in Philosophy and Spanish and Government

    While at Harvard, Rich was published in the Tufts Journal on International Affairs, American Enterprise, Harvard Political Review, and became an editor and global affairs columnist for The Harvard Crimson. He coached a youth soccer team, rowed on the freshman crew team, and ran the Boston Marathon.

Rich Halvorson's Companies

  		•  Global Fast 2007 - 2012 - Los Angeles, California
    founder / director
    sparked a global movement of fasting and charity to tackle global poverty, human trafficking, and the clean water crisis.
  		• Help Worldwide 2007 - 2008 - Los Angeles, California
    Strategy Dude
    Taking a role to help shape and grow this nascent brand in a way that hopes to create a sustainable, profitable business model as well as a huge amount of local and global change.
  		• The Miami Herald 2004 - 2004 - Miami, Florida
    Foreign Desk and Editorial Writer
    Correspondent during armed conflict and uprising in Haiti (Port au Prince, Gonaives, Cap Haitien). Covered philanthropic angle of international crisis. Wrote opinion columns on global affairs - including Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Venezuela, North Korea, Zimbabwe, US politics, and others.
  		• Edge13 Media 2004 - 2008 - Los Angeles, California
    CEO & Creative Director
    Founder of creative media company responsible for branding, strategy and consulting for a wide range of business, media, political and philanthropic clients. Clients range from startups to funded ventures to $100 million and even multi-billion dollar enterprises and foundations. In addition to this core revenue stream, Edge13 Media holds life rights and ownership to various scripts, stories and high-value media properties.

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