Aalto Social Impact is a 100% volunteer run association with no funding. We are a committed and passionate team with diverse cultural origins as well as educational and work experience. Meet our Executive Board Members for 2011 and our active volunteers.
Board Members 2011
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Name: Maiju Airosmaa Nationality: Finnish Affiliation: University of Helsinki and at Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences Status: Student Responsibilities: Elected President 2011 Why I am involved in ASI: I’m interested in growing Aalto Social Impact to be an even more attractive, active and helpful platform for social change where students, researchers, NGOs and people from public and private sectors could share their knowledge and work together for a more human and sustainable world. |
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Name: Anna Korolyuk Nationality: Ukrainian Affiliation: Aalto University, School of Science and Technology Status: PhD Student Responsibility: Elected Vice President 2011 Why I’m involved in ASI: We are humans. |
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Name: Chao An Nationality: Chinese Affiliation: Aalto University School of Arts and Design, Department of Media Status: MA student Responsibility: Logo/Website & event organization team Why I’m involved in ASI: to be connected and helpful |
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Name: Maria Nordlund Nationality: Finnish Affiliation: Aalto School of Technology Status: Bachelor of Architecture and assisting architect Responsibilities: Member of the board 2011 Why I am involved in ASI: I am interested in how things work, specially NGOs and the world. |
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Name: Vilen Looga Nationality: Estonian Affiliation: Aalto University School of Science and Technology Status: Doctoral Student Responsibilities: strategy, website team Why I am involved in ASI:I believe that anyone, no matter what their skills, knowledge or area of expertize are, can do something to make the world a better place. |
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Name: Aku-Ville Lehtimäki Nationality: Finnish Affiliation: Aalto School of Economics, Uni. Helsinki Status: Graduate student Responsibilities: Treasurer, member of the board 2011 Why I am involved in ASI: Making my dreams come true (general self-development)  |
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Name: Eeva Houtbeckers Nationality: Finnish Affiliation: Aalto University School of Economics; Corporate Environmental and Social Responsibility Research Group Status: Doctoral student, Project researcher Responsibilities: Member of the board 2011 Why I am involved in ASI: ASI is getting increasingly involved with social entrepreneurship, which is also my research interest. Additionally, my studies focus on societal impacts of organisations. Thus, I am excited to be included in ASI to facilitate discussions related to these phenomena. |
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Name: Maria Agustina Flores Nationality: Argentinian Status: B.Sc. in Economics Responsibilities:Marketing and promotion Why I am involved in ASI: I believe a better world is possible but it is a process of forming ideas of another societies and promote action. The world is made by people and can be change by people. I want to be part of that change. |
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Name: Silja Sarttila Nationality: Finnish Affiliation: Aalto School of Economics Status: Graduate student Responsibility: Strategy and Fundraising Why I’m involved in ASI: For me, being involved in ASI is all about action. I want to do my part for the community. |
Advisory members 2011
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Name: Anne Badan Nationality: Swiss Affiliation: Philanthropy, Socio-Economic Programme Designer Status: Founder and Chairperson 2011 Responsibilities: strategy and branding, partnership, Aalto Social Impact Educational Project Co-coordinator 2010-2011, lecturing and tutoring Why I am involved in ASI: I believe acquiring a social conscious is never taught young enough. University education is a good place to ingrain important societal values, in addition to the ones we have been raised with. I hope ASI can help increase people’s awareness and bring them to be actors of social change instead of only spectators.I hope ASI can become a platform for changemakers to reach their goals, be heard and be seen. |
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Name: Samu Mielonen Nationality: Finnish Affiliation: Aalto University lecturer & independent researcher Responsibilities: Aalto Social Impact Educational Project Co-coordinator 2010-2011. Working on and documenting the educational projects and challenges of ASI within Aalto University. Teaching on ASI related courses. Helping with ASI network activities. Why I believe in ASI: I believe by working on real-world problems that aim for actual concrete impact people can be transformed into self-empowered world changers that will help us solve the many challenges we globally face. |
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Name: Asta Raami Nationality: Finnish Affiliation: Aalto University, Researcher, lecturer & designer Responsibilities: at the moment supportive tasks (inspiring, spreading the idea, developing ASI educational side) Why I believe in ASI: Everyone of us is needed to make the world more human and a more sustainable place. We need to combine our talents and efforts to tackle wicked societal problems, which are at the moment urgent to solve but often do not have any ownership. Also, new forms of knowledge and understanding found from areas of my current research, can be advantaged while solving these challenging tasks. |
