Welcome to the Loeb Center Social Impact page.

Social impact work creates measurable, values-driven outcomes that address socioeconomic challenges and promote equal opportunity and equity.Here, you’ll find a wealth of resources to help you explore or pursue a career in social impact and public service. Engaging in this field fulfills the human impulse to serve both society and oneself—a cornerstone of a strong, democratic republic.

About 10% of the American workforce is employed in the nonprofit sector, largely in small organizations with fewer than 100 employees and budgets under $100,000. Federal, state, and local governments—including subcontractors—employ another 7% of the pre-COVID workforce of 150 million.

We invite you to join this small but influential community of changemakers.

AI’s Impact on the Gen-Z Labor Market

AI is disproportionately automating the entry-level jobs Gen Z depends on — like administrative support, customer service, and junior analytics — eroding the early-career pathways through which young workers traditionally build skills and advance. Without targeted policy intervention, firms will capture AI’s productivity …

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AI is having ‘a significant and disproportionate’ effect on young workers’ job prospects, study finds

AI is quietly shrinking entry-level hiring — not by eliminating existing jobs, but by preventing new ones from being created, with young workers in AI-exposed roles seeing a 13% employment drop between 2022 and 2026. Because entry-level roles are how junior …

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Global Youth Employment Trends: AI, Automation and the Vanishing Entry-Level

AI and automation are steadily eliminating entry-level jobs not through layoffs, but by reducing new hiring — with employment for young workers in AI-exposed roles falling 13% between 2022 and 2026. This creates a serious long-term risk: since junior roles are …

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Alumni

Arthur Ago

Alumni-in-Residence
  • Director of Strategic Litigation and Advocacy Southern Poverty Law Center
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Rich André

Alumni-in-Residence
  • Senior Policy Advisor for State and Local Initiatives American Immigration Council
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Julie Babayan

Alumni-in-Residence
  • Head of Policy Development Adobe Inc.
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Jenna Collins

Alumni-in-Residence
  • Director of Supervision and Professional Development; Attornry Community Legal Services
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Jesse Corradi

Alumni-in-Residence
  • Managing Director of Africa U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)
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Jennifer Estrada

Alumni-in-Residence
  • Community Program Manager Amnesty International USA
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Jay Gilliam

Alumni-in-Residence
  • Director of the Global Program Human Rights Campaign (HRC)
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Jeremy Koo

Alumni-in-Residence
  • Associate on the Distributed Energy Resources and Electrification team Cadmus Group
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Scott MacMillan

Alumni-in-Residence
  • Director of Learning and Innovation BRAC USA

Charles Myers

Alumni-in-Residence
  • Founder and Chairman Signum Global Advisors
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Chelsea Tejada

Alumni-in-Residence
  • Staff Attorney American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
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