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Brian Elliot is a social entrepreneur and speaker on technology, innovation, and social impact. Elliot co-founded Camp Kesem, and he is the founder of Friendfactor, an LGBT rights nonprofit that helps straight supporters become visible, vocal, and active allies in their communities. Friendfactor created a widely used online advocacy tool that was deployed in the historic campaign for marriage equality in New York in 2011.〔http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/on-gay-rights-moving-real-life-friends-to-action/?scp=1&sq=friendfactor&st=cse〕 == Background == Elliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He received his first grant at the age of 13 to start a program called the Achievement Forest.〔http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SL&p_theme=sl&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB04EA6339DFCB5&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM〕 He later gained national recognition for starting a program in high school called DeafLink, which connected hearing high school students with deaf middle schoolers.〔http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1980&dat=19990328&id=tKEiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=laoFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4389,8441740〕 Elliot received his B.A. in public policy at Stanford University, where he continued helping build and lead social ventures. He was the student co-founder of Camp Kesem, a free college student run summer camp for children whose parents have or had cancer.〔http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/15632/hillel-students-to-open-camp-for-kids-of-cancer-patients/〕 He became a founding board member of Camp Kesem National, which replicated the Camp Kesem model at over 40 colleges and universities across the United States.〔http://campkesem.org/find-a-camp〕 Elliot began his career in management consulting and then received his M.B.A and M.P.A from Harvard University where he was both a Zuckerman Fellow〔http://www.centerforpublicleadership.org/ZuckermanFellowship/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=541&Itemid=254〕 and a George Fellow. In 2009, he started Friendfactor, an LGBT rights nonprofit that helps straight supporters become visible, vocal, and active allies in their communities. Friendfactor created and launched an innovative online advocacy tool that engaged thousands of New Yorkers to contact their state representatives in support of their gay friends’ equal rights.〔 Chelsea Clinton launched the online tool at an event in New York City.〔http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/05/chelsea_clinton_i_want_my_kids.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brian Elliot」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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