David Lubell is an accomplished social entrepreneur based in metro Atlanta, Georgia. He is the founder and executive director of Welcoming America. David began his career as an advocacy and organizing director of Latino Memphis. He later founded and became executive director of the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC). While at TIRRC, David helped found Welcoming Tennessee, the model for what is now Welcoming America, the organization he has led since 2009. Welcoming America inspires people to build a different kind of community—one that embraces immigrants and fosters opportunity for all. In 2014, the UN Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and BMW Group named Welcoming America as one of the top five recipients worldwide of the Intercultural Innovation Award, honoring its work in promoting intercultural understanding. The White House also honored Welcoming America and 10 of its leaders as White House Welcoming America Champions of Change for their innovations in the area of immigrant integration. Recently the World Economic Forum named Lubell a 2015 Young Global Leader, one of 186 honorees from 63 countries and all sectors of society, including private, public, and civil society. Lubell received a master’s in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was a Reynolds Social Entrepreneurship fellow. He also has a bachelor's in history from Wesleyan University and received a certificate in nonprofit management from Georgetown University. Lubell is a recipient of the Ashoka Social Entrepreneurship and Draper Richards Kaplan Social Entrepreneurship fellowships.