Saul Garlick is the founder and executive director of ThinkImpact, an international non-profit organization that connects American students to rural villages in Africa to alleviate poverty through leadership and entrepreneurship. Garlick served as managing editor of the SAIS Review, as founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Hopkins Donkey and has worked on Capitol Hill for Rep. DeGette (D-CO) and as acting desk officer for Angola in the Bureau of African Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.

Garlick sits on the Advisory Board for the Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship at the University of the Pacific, the National Board of Directors of the College Democrats of America Alumni Association, and the Advisory Board of the Next America Project at CSIS. He also serves as ambassador to the United States for The Buffelshoek Trust, an organization committed to the construction of much-needed schools in rural South Africa.

Garlick is a regular speaker on college campuses nationwide, a contributor to Carnegie Council's Policy Innovations, and has received numerous awards including the Harry S. Truman Scholarship, the William C. Foster Award, the Circles of Change Award, and the Fire Within Social Entrepreneurship Award. He received his BA with honors in 2006 from Johns Hopkins University and his MA in American foreign policy and International Economics at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University in 2007.

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