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CAROLYN LAUB
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CAROLYN LAUB
TITLE
Senior Vice President
ORGANIZATION
Wonder: Strategies for Good
BIOGRAPHY
Carolyn Laub is a nonprofit strategy consultant, social entrepreneur, and narrative strategist. As a senior vice president at Wonder: Strategies for Good, she co-leads narrative communities of practice and audience research with a focus on issues related to education equity and health justice. Carolyn has worked as a communications strategist with Wonder for 10 years and her clients include the Gates Foundation, Emerging Bilingual Collaborative, Community Catalyst, Young Invincibles, City Colleges of Chicago, PBL Works, and Nellie Mae Education Foundation.
Carolyn also serves as a senior advisor with Public Equity Group and Envision Change. In 2015, she co-founded Springboard Partners, which incubates early stage start-up companies and social change campaigns. Carolyn currently serves on the board of Majority Action, which launched at Springboard.
Carolyn has deep content expertise in LGBTQ equality, racial equity, education justice, youth organizing, leadership, and civic engagement. Previously, Carolyn founded and led a youth leadership social justice non-profit, the Genders & Sexualities Alliance Network, which organizes LGBTQ youth to advocate for safety, equity, and restorative justice in schools. Over 16 years she grew 40 GSA clubs in California to 940, trained youth advocates who helped pass 12 pieces of legislation covering student non-discrimination, LGBTQ inclusive curriculum, and transgender student rights. Carolyn took her statewide model to scale nationally, accelerating a movement of 4,000+ GSA clubs today. Carolyn launched GSA Network in 1998 with support from Echoing Green and Ashoka. Carolyn graduated from Stanford University in 1995 with a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology, with a focus on the social construction of race, gender, and sexuality in contemporary American culture. She lives in San Francisco, CA with her wife and two children, and serves as a trustee for Children's Day School.