Social Entrepreneurship/Public Service:

In the 1980s, Nadine cofounded and helped run Los Comadres, a small nonprofit grassroots group providing public health education for women and children living in border shantytowns in Nogales, Mexico. As founder of the Washington, DC-based Center for Creative Change, Nadine has launched a broad range of projects such as The Wide River Project, The Moment Institute Middle East Fellows (mimef.org), The Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism Initiative, The Big Question Project, and others, as well as numerous journalism, newsletter and multi-media projects. In addition to the projects above, Nadine’s work on behalf of Washington, DC, public school students led to her appointment as co-chair of the advocacy group Parents United for DC Public Schools. In the 1990s she was cofounder and co-chair of Friends of Marie Reed Pool, a community organization in the Adams-Morgan area of Washington, DC, dedicated to saving, improving, and increasing community involvement with Marie Reed Community Learning Center’s swimming pool.