>Subject: Call for Applications - Young Leaders Summit 
>
>I am the Global Youth Leadership Fellow at 
Americans 
>for Informed Democracy, a non-partisan organization that promotes global 
>awareness among the next generation of leaders. Our organization is 
>hosting a major summit on April 21 on "Becoming a Global Health 
>Entrepreneur" at >Stony B rook University on 
>Long Island. The summit seeks to inspire young leaders to see the 
>reduction of global diseases such as AIDS and malaria as the special 
>mission of our generation. The keynote speaker of the conference is 
>Joelle Tanguy, the Managing Director of the Global Business Coalition on 
>HIV/AIDS. Thanks to generous foundation support, the summit is free for 
>selected participants, including registration and food (although travel to 
>the conference is at participant's expense.
>
>We would be most grateful if you could share our call for applications 
>below with your students at Hunter College. In addition, we again wanted 
>to see if you knew of one or more outstanding young leaders who you would 
>like to nominate for this important program. While the summit is generally 
>selecting students by competitive application, we would be glad to accept 
>several outstanding young leaders without a formal application based on 
>your nomination. If you know of young leaders who you think would be 
>qualified, please send me the name and e-mail of the young leader(s) who 
>you would like to nominate. We'll then send them a special invite to the 
>summit.
>
>With best wishes,
>
>Courtney Matson
Americans for Informed Democracy
203 773 1202
>
>
>
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>Young Leaders Summit:
>Becoming a Global Health Entrepreneur
>
>Call for Applications
>
>Students at Hunter College are invited to apply for the Young Leaders 
>Summit: Becoming a Global Health Entrepreneur taking place on April 21st 
>at Stony Brook University in New York. The summit will feature workshops 
>led by social entrepreneurs who have been at the forefront of the global 
>fight against AIDS and malaria. The workshops will focus both on 
>innovative opportunities to do field work in global health and 
>entrepreneurial approaches to building community-based campaigns to 
>support the global fight against AIDS and malaria. The summit's keynote 
>speaker is <h.htm>Joelle Tanguy, the Managing Director of the Global 
>Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS.<?xml:namespace prefix = u2 /> The summit 
>seeks to inspire young leaders to see the reduction of global diseases 
>such as AIDS and malaria as the special mission of our generation.
>
>
>The summit is timed to coincide with the launch of 
Buzz Cuts, a new student challenge that strives to harness the power of
media and student creativity to save lives and protect children from
malaria. 
>The summit also is timed to take place on the same week as 
American Idol's engage the U.S. public on global p overty and health issues
and to >coincide with Americans for Informed Democracy's Idol" to Active
initiative.
>
>Thanks to the generous support of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Open 
>Society Institute, Ford Foundation and Hewlett Foundation, the summit is 
>free for selected participants, including tuition and food. Travel to the 
>conference is at the participant's expense, but 
Americans for Informed Democracy will do its best to set up car pools for 
>participants coming from the Northeast and mid-Atlantic region.
>
>TO LEARN MORE AND APPLY TO THE CONFERENCE, VISIT
>
www.aidemocracy.org/HEALTHENTREPRENEUR.CFM>WWW.AIDEMOCRACY.ORG
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