Chris Hughes

I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight. ”

My theory of change is that there are already millions of people working day in and day out on the ground to deliver on promises on global change. We need to strengthen those institutions and help those people in the field. ”

I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change. ”

It takes time for people to get to know a cause or an organization. ”

I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to a newer model where people give money but also their time and their skills, whatever they have, to the causes that are personally meaningful to them well before the crisis moment presents itself. ”

The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time. ”

Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time. ”

When I was 17, I went to India for six weeks and had what, at the time, was a very challenging trip. You walk down the street and you see lepers and beggars, and there were several of us, a group of Americans. I remember we were just trying to park one night somewhere and people were just sleeping in the parking lot. ”

My real big Internet claim to fame is the fact that I was first to jailbreak the iPhone. ”

I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology. ”