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Sam Vaghar

Executive Director and Co-founder, The Millennium Campus Network

Sam Vaghar is the Executive Director and Co-founder of The Millennium Campus Network, empowering student leaders across the United States to be effective partners for global development. In this capacity, Sam engages with numerous partners from Microsoft and The Jenzabar Foundation to the United Nations Foundation and HP. Under Sam's leadership, the MCN educates over 1,000 campus leaders through annual conferences, trains emerging leaders through an innovative fellowship program, and allocates Student Action Grants to support activism on campuses and overseas. In 2011, Sam was invited by the State Department as the featured speaker in a tour across Bosnia and Herzegovina. During that summer Sam met with President Barack Obama in the Roosevelt Room at the White House to share perspectives of US youth leaders. The following year, Sam was selected for the 2012 list of the "Top 99 most influential foreign policy leaders under the age of 33" by The Diplomatic Courier and Young Professionals in Foreign Policy. In 2013, Sam delivered the Commencement Speech at Lynn University in Florida, the youngest in Lynn's 50 year history. He also served as the featured speaker on a tour for the State Department across Morocco. Sam has addressed audiences at over two dozen institutions including talks at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and at the United Nations. He is a 2008 graduate of Brandeis University.

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