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Jordan S. Kassalow, Co-Founder & President, Scojo Vision, LLC and Co-Founder and Chairman, Scojo Foundation. In 1999, Jordan co-founded Scojo Vision LLC, a leading designer and distributor of high-end reading glasses and accessories in the United States, Europe, Canada and Japan. A year later, he and his partner designated 5% of the company's profits to fund the Scojo Foundation, a social enterprise that trains entrepreneurs in developing countries to give basic eye exams and sell low-cost reading glasses in their communities. Jordan is also a practicing optometrist and senior partner at Drs. Farkas, Kassalow, Resnick, PC. Prior to founding Scojo, he created the Global Health Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he served for five years as an adjunct senior fellow, and was the Director of River blindness Programs at Helen Keller International. Jordan is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute and a Draper Richards Fellow. Dr. Kassalow is on the board of Lighthouse International, on the medical advisory board of Helen Keller International, and is a lifetime member at the Council on Foreign Relations. He earned a BA from the University of Vermont, and graduated Beta Sigma Kappa from the New England College of Optometry. In 1990-91 he spent an academic year on a research fellowship in preventive ophthalmology at John Hopkins School of Medicine and concurrently received his Masters of Public Health (MPH) at John Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. He and his wife, Erica, and their three children live in New York City.

This initiative brings academics, practitioners, and others to the University of Michigan to discuss various aspects of social enterprise.  For more information about this or future speaker series events, please contact Jelena Sljivic at Sljivic@umich.edu.

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