Yordanos Eyoel

Keseb

Keseb is building an ecosystem for cross-country learning, collaboration, and innovation to counter authoritarianism and advance inclusive and resilient democracies.

Yordanos Eyoel is an Ethiopian-American democracy entrepreneur who is the Founder and CEO of Keseb. Keseb is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization building a transnational civil society ecosystem for learning, collaboration, and innovation to advance inclusive and resilient democracies.

For launching Keseb in 2022, Yordanos was recognized with the “Extraordinary Leader Transforming a Field” award by Unorthodox Philanthropy. Previously, Yordanos was a Managing Partner at New Profit, where she was the first person in the organization’s 22-year history to grow from Portfolio Analyst to Managing Partner.

Yordanos is an Ashoka Fellow, a Civil Society Fellow of the Aspen Institute, and a former Fellow of the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Yordanos’ work and writing have been featured in TED, Fast Company, Stanford Social Innovation Review, NPR, and Harvard Business Review, among others.

Yordanos earned a B.A. in Economics and Political Science, Honors, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Florida, where she was inducted into the University’s Hall of Fame. She also holds a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School.