Seth Green

Founder and Board Chair

 Seth Green is the executive director of Youth Organizations Umbrella (Y.O.U.), an organization based in Evanston, Ill., that provides services and leadership to meet the emerging needs of young people and their families. Y.O.U. offers year-round programs–from after-school enrichment and mentorship to counseling and crisis intervention–to ensure that all young people acquire the skills, self-confidence and opportunity to realize their potential.

Before joining Y.O.U., Seth led the Job Opportunity Investment Network (JOIN), a $5 million public-private partnership that builds pathways out of poverty for vulnerable adults and their families. At JOIN, Seth developed a network of innovative job training partnerships that helped over 400 adults gain new skills and higher wages each year. Prior to directing JOIN, Seth was a consultant at McKinsey and Company, where he worked with private sector clients to develop shareholder value creation strategies, launch new product offerings and implement strategic partnerships. A recipient of McKinsey’s Community Fellowship, he spent one year of his time at the firm supporting non-profit clients such as the Gates Foundation and United Way.

Seth is the founder and board chair of Americans for Informed Democracy (AID), a non-partisan organization that empowers youth to tackle pressing social challenges from poverty to climate change. During his time leading AID, he built a network of over 23,000 youth members and created partnerships with leading foundations, think tanks, and businesses. Seth was also a founding board member of Thinking Beyond Borders, a global service learning program for recent high school graduates.

Seth has presented on his work at the U.S. House, U.S. Senate, World Bank, and U.N., and he served as a plenary speaker at the 2011 White House conference on Connecting Communities for the Common Good. He has also been a guest on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, the Montel Williams Show, CNN, Fox, and MSNBC, and his work has been featured in hundreds of publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, and Marie Claire. Seth received the Search for Common Ground Award for International Understanding, and Utne Reader named him one of 50 “Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World.”

A Marshall scholar, Seth graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University, earned master’s degrees from the London School of Economics and Oxford, and completed a JD at Yale Law School, where he was named an Olin Fellow by the Center for Law, Economics, and Public Policy.