Beverly Schwartz

It has been translated into 4 additional languages - Spanish (Ediciones Urano), Chinese (China Citic Press), Japanese and Korean (Eijipress).

Beverly Schwartz was born in New York City and has spent time living in Minneapolis, San Francisco, Atlanta, and Washington D.C. She attended Queens College, City University of New York and the University of Minnesota, earning a Master of Science degree .

[2] She also worked at the United States Center for Disease Control from 1987 to 1992, where she helped develop and manage the "American Response to AIDS" campaign and other educational and awareness programs .

She assisted in the development of the organization's social and strategic marketing plans and also served as the Project Director for the non-advertising portion of the 5 year and 50 million dollar Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign under the guidance of the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

[7][8] Schwartz is an author, publishing multiple works, including her award-winning book Rippling: How Social Entrepreneurs Spread Innovation Throughout the World.