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Compass Fellow Launches Mobile Speech Therapy App, Speech4Good
Balbus Speech: Helping People Who Stutter Find Their Voice Growing up, my stutter seemed to define me. When teachers asked me to read a sentence aloud in front of the class, I would open my mouth and out poured choppy sound repetitions, gasps for air, and mispronounced words. Other times, I would simply babble out,...
The Compass Fellowship Unveils Its Values Document
Since we founded Compass just a few years ago, we’ve always been keenly aware that there was something special binding the members of the Compass Community together. And yet, we’ve always had great difficulty articulating exactly what that special something was. To really understand it, you still just have to experience what it’s like to be...
Fellows Devote Summer to Social Venture
Although Compass Fellows James Li and Yeo Zuo Yi founded REaction Strategy Group in January 2010, the team’s boldest move came recently, when the duo decided to devote the summer of 2011 to working full time on their venture in Los Angeles, California. While many college students will spend their summers toiling away in unpaid...
“A Deliberate Pause” to Become the Primary Text of The Compass Fellowship
Compass proudly announced today that it has chosen Larry Robertson’s award-winning book, A Deliberate Pause: Entrepreneurship and its Moment in Human Progress, as its central text for the organization’s campus-based social entrepreneurship programs on college campuses nationwide. The decision comes as Compass continues to expand its reach to 12 campuses in the fall of 2011...
Zeeba Investment Group Goes Global
The following news is from Sina Chehrazi, 2013 Compass Fellow from Georgetown and Founder of Zeeba Investment Group: This year we launched the Zeeba Investment Group, a student-run equity fund structured to invest in the Qatar Stock Exchange. Unlike the archetype hedge fund, Zeeba prioritizes student impact alongside investment profits. The business made significant progress...
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