Erin Mazursky
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Erin Mazursky is a movement entrepreneur and currently works for Purpose, a social enterprise that incubates and launches global social and consumer movements. Prior to this, Erin served as the Youth Advisor at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), where she helped author the first global policy on youth development and made youth a central part of the Agency’s broader development efforts.

Erin’s passion and background is in advocacy and conflict prevention with youth empowerment as a common thread throughout her career. As a social entrepreneur, Erin has worked to build the capacity of youth leadership and social movements around the world. She worked with the Alliance for Youth Movements to support and elevate the work of youth activists around the world, including Turkey, Venezuela, Colombia and Moldova. She worked in Albania to help build a grassroots organizing strategy for a youth-driven political party.

Erin began her career as a youth advocate herself as the Co-Founder and Executive Director of STAND, a leading organization in the anti-genocide advocacy movement that became one of the largest student organizations in the country, with over 800 high school and college chapters nationwide, and continued her anti-genocide work as the Coalition Manager and Board Member of the Save Darfur Coalition. Erin served on the 2008 Presidential Inaugural Committee after having worked on President Obama’s general election campaign in Florida. Erin is a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, a 2010 Fellow at the New Leaders Council, an Aspen Ideas Festival Fellow, and serves as the youngest Security Fellow at the Truman National Security Project.

Though she is based in Brooklyn, NY, Erin considers herself a global citizen with part of her heart always in Washington, DC.

Blog Entries by Erin Mazursky

Today's Elections in Albania and the Role of Youth

(4) Comments | Posted June 30, 2009 | 4:15 PM

During my first week in Albania, Sajmir, a dedicated volunteer said to me, "I have the energy of a 14-year-old, the tenacity of a twenty-five-year old, and I think like an 80-year-old." His words struck me because I understood his sentiment all too well. It is a sentiment shared by...

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In the Case of the Beijing Olympic Games, China Falls Short of Even the Bronze Medal

(5) Comments | Posted November 28, 2007 | 9:44 AM

The timing of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games is crucial for China because of significant political issues at play, issues that the spirit of the Games mask, and ones that the international community cannot ignore. China is an unsportsmanlike player--from its poor labor standards to its economic and often...

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Has History Not Taught Us Anything?

(3) Comments | Posted November 13, 2007 | 1:51 PM

As the majority of Americans now believe, the war in Iraq started under false pretenses and continues for largely the wrong reasons. But, this does not mean ending the war means a simple fix. We now have the culpability to repair the society that would otherwise be left in shambles....

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