About me
Aaron is Project Lead at The Well being Project, a network of organizations across the globe who, for the last 8 years, have been at the heart of moving wellbeing in social change from taboo to entering the mainstream.
Aaron has been involved in social change work for most of his professional life. He worked with the Guggenheim on an urban labs project, co-founded a pilot social enterprise to address housing issues in Mumbai slums, and explored neighbourhood life through a project in Paris. Aaron was co-founder of CanadaHelps and Vartana. CanadaHelps engages over 4 million Canadians and raises over $400 million a year for social sector organizations. It also works with over 30,000 charities on capacity issues. Vartana was focused on addressing financing needs in the social sector. Vartana played a key role in the early development of the field of social finance in Canada, and with early policy development that led to significant financing for social enterprise.
Aaron is an Ashoka Fellow and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. Aaron completed a degree with a minor in Economics from Queen's University, studied at Oxford University as a Skoll Scholar, and completed an executive education program at Harvard.