Dare to Matter: Your Path to Making a Difference

Jordan Kassalow is a partner at a thriving optometry practice in New York City and the Founder of Vision Spring, an award-winning social business that has distributed more than 6 million pairs of eyeglasses to underserved people who live in the developing world and need nothing more than a simple pair of eyeglasses to see.

Vision Spring has earned international recognition from the World Bank, the Aspen Institute, the World Economic Forum, Duke University and many others Jordan is also the co-Founder of the EYElliance, a multi-sector coalition that drives the global strategy to increase access to eyeglasses.

Jordan was also the Founder of the Global Health Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations where he is a life member. For more information on Vision Spring and EYElliance, please visit visionspring.org or EYElliance.org. Jennifer Krause is a rabbi and the author of The Answer: Making Sense of Life, One Question at a Time.

Her writing and commentary have been featured in publications such as Newsweek, The New York Times, and O, the Oprah Magazine. Dubbed “one of NYC’s Hippest Rabbis,” Jennifer served as the High Holidays rabbi at Manhattan’s 92Y, the first woman to hold that post in 92Y’s 145-year history. Jennifer is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations Religion and Foreign Policy Initiative.