About Robert Benedict

This is how Robert is a Changemaker:
Robert arrived at Ashoka June 2007 and is currently Ashoka’s Changemakers Metrics and Measurement Manager working on understanding Changemakers success, competition analysis, and technology integration. Robert’s work seeks to understand the impacts of the collaborative competitions and translate them into actionable information for social entrepreneurs, affiliates, and partners. His work at Changemakers has included Facebook application development, competition trend analysis, and data administration. Before coming to Ashoka Robert worked in corporate design, data management, and the citizen sector. His work has included a range of activities from advanced computer aided design to working directly with at-risk youth. Drawing on a renaissance background enables him to see unique approaches to challenging questions and provide innovative solutions. He believes that the great jumps in social innovation come from surprising places. Robert is currently completing his Masters Degree in Organizational Management at the School for International Training. Born in Florida, he now lives in Falls Church Virginia where he enjoys cycling, refinishing furniture, and spending time with his wife Catherine.

The place for which Robert feels a fondness or connection:
On cold Vermont nights, when the temperature dives well below freezing, the Conecticut river is frozen, and the snow is falling, my wife and I would sit and dream about our lives to come and the things we might do. Here we hoped for things being realized now, and thing still yet to come.