Michele Jolin
Senior Advisor for Social Innovation, The White House

Michele Jolin is a senior advisor for social innovation for the Domestic Policy Council at The White House. Before joining the White House, Ms. Jolin was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress (CAP), where she led the Center's presidential transition effort and co-edited the book Change for America: A Progressive Blueprint for the 44th President. While at CAP, she also developed proposals for ways that the federal government can create a better policy climate for social entrepreneurship, including a proposal to create a White House Office of Social Innovation. Ms. Jolin also was a senior vice president at Ashoka, launching and managing several global initiatives to build the global network of Ashoka Fellows. In addition, Ms. Jolin served for four years as chief of staff for former President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers. She also worked as a legislative counsel for Senator Boxer on the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee.