Michelle Nunn

Teaches at World Affairs Council of Greater Houston

Michelle Nunn is President and CEO of CARE USA, a leading humanitarian organization that fights global poverty and provides lifesaving assistance in emergencies. Nunn, who took the helm of CARE in July 2015, has devoted her 25-year career to civic and public service as a social entrepreneur, a nonprofit CEO and a candidate for U.S. Senate. She co-founded the volunteer-mobilization organization Hands On Atlanta, growing its volunteer engagement model from a single entity to a national network of more than 50 affiliates. Nunn helped initiate and oversaw that group's merger with Points of Light, founded by President George H. W. Bush to promote volunteerism.  

Nunn served as Points of Light CEO from 2007 to 2013. Nunn also served on President George W. Bush's Council on Service and Civic Participation and as a co-convener of the ServiceNation Coalition. She has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the Fast Company Social Capitalist Award and honorary degrees from Oglethorpe University and Wesleyan College.