Suzanne McKechnie Klahr founded BUILD in 1999 with a public service fellowship from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Under Suzanne's leadership, BUILD has grown to serve more than three hundred students from eight partner public high schools. BUILD currently operates two San Francisco Bay Area sites and has plans for developing a national expansion. BUILD maintains an incredible track record with 100 percent of its seniors having applied to and gone onto college. For her accomplishments with BUILD, Suzanne has received numerous awards and been asked to speak nationally on such topics as social entrepreneurship, venture philanthropy, new models of providing legal services to the poor, and poverty alleviation strategies. In 2006 she was inducted as a lifetime member of Ashoka, a global fellowship of leading social entrepreneurs. In 2007, she was honored by CBS's Jefferson Award on television, on radio, and in print. And in 2008, Suzanne was elected to the San Mateo County Women's Hall of Fame. Suzanne serves as a trustee of the Skadden Fellowship Foundation and as a board member of the Bay Area Community Equity Fund and the Glow Scholarship Foundation. She is currently a faculty adjunct at Stanford Law School teaching "Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship." She earned a dual degree from Brown University and a JD from Stanford Law School.