ASHOKA RECOGNIZES JILL HABIG AS A LEADING SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR
ARLINGTON, VIRGINA (April 19, 2021) - Ashoka recently announced its newest elections to the Ashoka Fellowship in the United States. These extraordinary changemakers bring actionable, breakthrough ideas for the common good. They deeply understand the problems they're tackling and create ways for everyone to contribute to the solution.
Public Rights Project Founder & President Jill Habig is among the latest group of four to receive this global recognition from Ashoka, the world’s largest network of social entrepreneurs and the field pioneer, active in over 90 countries.
Ashoka in the U.S. receives more than 500 Fellow nominations per year and elects only 10 - 15 annually into the Ashoka Fellowship. All newly elected members participate in a rigorous selection process where, at every stage, it must be determined that they possess a pattern-changing new idea and the entrepreneurial drive to see their new approach taken up on a large, transformational scale.
Jill Habig and the Public Rights Project are being recognized for their success in empowering state, local, and tribal governments to fight for civil rights and economic and environmental justice for underserved communities by providing governments with the talent and resources they need to proactively enforce their residents’ legal rights.
“At a time of tremendous strain and uncertainty for most American people and institutions, Jill helps us all imagine a new way forward,” says Simon Stumpf, who leads Ashoka’s search and selection of new Ashoka Fellows in the United States.
It is in recognition of these major contributions for the good of all that Jill is elected to the Ashoka Fellowship. Individuals who are elected to the Ashoka Fellowship receive strategic, programmatic, and financial support. In addition, they join a lifetime peer network of over 4,000 social entrepreneurs at all impact stages—people like Jill who are developing systems-changing innovations across every area of need.
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About the Public Rights Project:
Public Rights Project is a national non-profit, based in Oakland, that builds state and local governments’ capacity to enforce their residents’ rights. Their mission is to close the gap between the promise of our laws and the lived reality of our most vulnerable communities. They work to achieve this mission by training attorney fellows to catalyze the proactive work of government law offices; providing strategic support in legal strategy, research, partnerships and data analytics to help offices develop high-impact legal cases; and designing and spreading community outreach and organizing approaches that empower community residents and advocates to be active partners in an enforcement agenda rooted in equity.
About Ashoka:
Ashoka is the global association of the world's leading social entrepreneurs - men and women with system changing solutions for the world's most urgent social problems. Since 1981, Ashoka has elected over 4,000 leading social entrepreneurs as Ashoka Fellows, providing them with living stipends, professional support, and access to a global network of peers in more than 90 countries. Working with these social entrepreneurs, Ashoka builds communities of innovators who work collectively to transform society and design new ways for the citizen sector to become more productive, entrepreneurial and globally integrated. For more information, please visit www.ashoka.org.
For more information:
Web: https://www.publicrightsproject.org/
Twitter: @public_rights
Medium: @publicrightsproject
Instagram: @publicrightsproject
Media Contact:
Public Rights Project: Madison Jacobs, 602-642-6471, madison@publicrightsproject.org
Ashoka: Simon Stumpf, 920-365-1066, sstumpf@ashoka.org
