Some people don’t know who they want to be; some people stumble into social change and fall in love; some, Ilaina Rabat are just social change agents since birth, or really really early.  Ilaina Rabbat, is co-founder and executive director of the Amani Institute. Listen this episode and find out Ilaina’s early involvement in social change issues; her tenure with Ashoka in El Salvador and how she is managing help thousands of social innovators through Amani Institute. Episode 5 of the Season 2 of The Social Change Career Podcast is brought to you by The Rotary Peace Center.

 

In this episode we discuss:

• How she grew up having dinner conversations about democracy, human rights in exile
• Her return to Argentina in the 1990s
• How Ilaina entered the social impact field via the social change in primary school
• How Ilaina found her own group at 15 years old: the UN Argentine Youth Organization
• How Ilaina’s skills were acquired in her volunteer more than during college
• Have a plan, changed it all the time, but be clear about your WHY
• Ilaina explains common threads across different personalities to set you for success in your career
• How in the social sector we tend to see things in topics and not in terms of tools
• Ilaina’s transition from big bureaucracies to social enterprises
• How working on Ashoka in El Salvador helped her define herself as an entrepreneur, creativity, testing new ideas and being a self starter
• Ilaina explains what Ashoka is how the non-profit introduced the term social entrepreneur
• Ilaina tells the story of how she co-found her own organization Amani Institute
• Ilaina explains how she co-developed the Amani’s three-pillar methodology to prepare social impact work
• Why Amani Institute is located in the Global South (Kenya, Sao Paulo and Bangalore)
• Ilaina’s take on why or why not go to Grad School and when
• What gets you hired in the social sector, according to Elaine
• What’s next for Elaina?
• Ilaina’s best career advice
• Ilaina’s take on failure
• Three things needed to pursue a career of impact according to Ilaina

Links

• UN Argentine Youth Organization
• Ashoka
• Amani Institute

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