The publication of Clay Water Brick by Jessica Jackley will coincide with the ten-year anniversary of Kiva, a non-profit organization co founded by Jackley. In this narrative Jackley shares her personal story of co-creating this tool for social change and the evolution of this nonprofit that started in a modest off-campus Stanford apartment and went on to become a global movement. With candor and warmth, she highlights the business, and more importantly, life lessons she learned first-hand from the entrepreneurs themselves, many of them in the world’s poorest countries.
Jessica Jackley is an award-winning social entrepreneur focused on financial inclusion, the sharing economy, and social justice. She is best known as a co-founder of Kiva, the world’s first and largest P2P microlending website. She also co-founded ProFounder, a pioneering crowdfunding platform for U.S. entrepreneurs, and Kin & Co., a consultancy helping organizations support women and working families. Jackley holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a certificate in Global Leadership and Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a BA from Bucknell University. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and three sons.