Erin Mazursky

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.

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