Sam Vaghar - Executive Director and Co-Founder of MCN

Sam Vaghar - Executive Director and Co-Founder of MCN

Sam Vaghar is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of MCN. MCN unites and trains the next generation of social impact leaders on university campuses. Sam secured seed funding from the United Nations to launch MCN. The network has grown to include 5,500+ alumni from 300 universities worldwide (with alumni now working at the UN, USAID, and leading their own social enterprises), an accredited curriculum, Millennium Campuses including Georgetown and Babson, and Advisors including Dr. Sakena Yacoobi and John Legend. In his role, Sam has given talks on youth leadership for the UN Sustainable Development Goals at Harvard, MIT, the White House, and United Nations and traveled on three speaking tours for the U.S. Department of State to share MCN with youth leaders in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Morocco, Macedonia and Bulgaria. He has also met with President Barack Obama in the White House and with more global leaders to share MCN's work and progress. Follow Sam @samvaghar.