Michelle Nunn

Michelle Nunn is president and CEO of CARE USA, a leading humanitarian organization that fights global poverty and provides lifesaving assistance in emergencies. Last year, CARE worked in 90 countries around the world and reached more than 72 million people. Nunn, who took the helm of CARE in July 2015, has devoted her 25-year career to civic and public service as a social entrepreneur, a nonprofit CEO and a candidate for U.S. Senate. She co-founded the volunteer-mobilization organization Hands On Atlanta, growing its volunteer engagement model from a single entity to a national network of more than 50 affiliates. Nunn helped initiate and oversaw that group’s merger with Points of Light, founded by President George H. W. Bush to promote volunteerism, and served as Points of Light CEO from 2007 to 2013. Nunn served on President George W. Bush’s Council on Service and Civic Participation. She has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the Fast Company Social Capitalist Award and honorary degrees from Oglethorpe University and Wesleyan College.