About Greg Schnippel

This is how Greg is a Changemaker:
Greg joined Ashoka in August 2006 as Associate Director in the Integrated Technology Initiative. He brings to Ashoka over ten years of experience designing and developing web sites, with an emphasis on using web technologies to build communities and enable social change. Prior to joining Ashoka, Greg worked with Peoplink.org to develop a sustainable e-commerce system for fair-trade cooperatives in the developing world. He led a team of open-source developers and held training workshops on e-commerce technology in Bangladesh and Nepal. He later worked as a Senior Web Developer and Project Manager at Forum One Communications before taking time off for graduate school. He graduated from Johns Hopkins SAIS with a Masters in International Affairs and wrote his thesis on the sources of military innovation. In his spare time, he volunteers as a technical advisor and trainer to several non-profit organizations and open source projects. Greg currently works on a couple of personal web projects to expand understanding and discussion of arms control and international security issues.