Alison Lingane

Overview

Alison Lingane is the co founder of Project Equity which builds economic resiliency in low income communities by increasing worker ownership. Alison focused her early career on community based youth empowerment designing and leading micro enterprise programs for urban youth and has focused since then on leveraging the power of business to create scaled social change. Alison has held leadership roles in education based social ventures designed to have human impact at scale including Benetech (where she built and launched their first product) GreatSchools (the 6th largest parenting website) and InsideTrack (a scaled services company that drives college completion through 11 student coaching). Alison is a serial social entrepreneur having co founded the world's largest triple bottom line business plan competition while in business school (Global Social Venture Competition) as well as a highly successful PreK 8 dual immersion school. She brings her experiences of scaled human impact and business development together with her founding partner Hilary Abell to tackle the core economic issues of our times. Alison has her B.A. from Harvard University and her MBA from the Haas School of Business.