Jonathan Greenblatt is CEO and national director of the Anti-Defamation League. He was previously director of the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation under President Obama. An entrepreneur with experience in private, public, and nonprofit sectors, Greenblatt co-founded Ethos Water, which was acquired by Starbucks; he subsequently became Starbucks’ vice president of global consumer products. Prior to this, Greenblatt founded All for Good, was CEO of GOOD Worldwide, and was a senior executive at realtor.com. In 2022, he released his first book, It Could Happen Here: Why America Is Tipping from Hate to the Unthinkable—And How We Can Stop It.
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