Frances Lanzone is the founder of a boutique consulting firm called Chief Social Architects. Prior to launching her own firm, Frances served as the first director of social enterprise at POLITICO and spent five years at the White House, working in the Office of Global Engagement at the National Security Council where she supported a series of cultural diplomacy, entrepreneurship, and study abroad initiatives that President Barack Obama placed as a foreign policy priority. At the White House, Frances was integral in the development of the 100,000 Strong in the Americas public-private-partnership and $10+ million dollar innovation fund to stimulate new higher education partnerships between the United States and the rest of the Western Hemisphere.