Publisher's Synopsis
The Solve and MIT Communities
Through its award-winning open innovation platform, Solve launches Global Challenges around Learning, Health, Economic Prosperity, and Sustainability. This platform now has more than 138,000 users; nearly 180,000 newsletter subscribers with an average 31% open rate; 34,000+ social media followers, and over 6.5 million website views to date.
MIT itself has over a million Twitter followers, 1.2 million Facebook "friends," and 775,000 LinkedIn connections, with numerous large-audience newsletters such as MITx/Open Learning with over 3.4 million subscribers with an average 13% open rate, and MIT Daily and Weekly, with a combined 65,000 subscribers and an average 32% open rate.
Solve also has over 120 Member organizations and partners with large, relevant audiences: General Motors, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Vodafone, Johnson and Johnson, Save the Children, and more.
Solve advisors, Challenge co-chairs, and past speakers at its flagship events include Justin Trudeau, Queen Rania, Yo-Yo Ma, Laurene Powell Jobs, Eric Schmidt, Ursula Burns, and Indra Nooyi, among many others.
Solve also supports over 130 Solver teams, many of which have very large, influential audiences, and these will be featured in the book. For example: Ruangurru Digital Bootcamps has over fifteen million users in Indonesia; Ada Health has over eight million users globally; and Kinedu over 1 million in the US and Mexico.
Solve has been featured in numerous media forums including the Boston Globe, Inc Magazine, Fast Company, Huffington Post, MIT Technology Review, TechCrunch, Forbes, AP, ABC, CNBC, NPR, Axios, Politico, and more.
Solve has also recently signed a shopping agreement with Ark Media which will be pitching distributors to produce a non-fiction reality TV series based on the Solver teams. Ark is a leading production house that specializes in non-fiction series and documentaries. Ark films have been honored with multiple Emmys and Writers Guild Awards, the DuPont-Columbia and Peabody Awards, as well as an Academy Award nomination, among many others.
Author Outreach
In addition to her role at MIT Solve, Alex Amouyel sits on the Steering Committees or Advisory Boards of the Impact Investing Working Group for the Nexus Youth Summit, (5000+ next generation high net worth individuals and social entrepreneurs from seventy countries, representing over $700 billion in combined family net worth), U.N. Women Global Innovation Coalition for Change, the Resolution Project, and MIT-Enel.
She speaks frequently on social impact issues, including innovative finance, open innovation, and global challenges related to women, refugees, and climate change at prominent global conferences, including the World Economic Forum in NYC (500+ attendees), Concordia Annual Summit (3,000+), SOCAP (Social Capital Markets) (3,000 +), U.S. Chamber of Commerce Corporate Citizenship Conference Forum Solve Together (600+); U.N. Women Global Innovation, Technology, Entrepreneurship Industry Impact Network of Executive Women Forum, and Opportunity Collaboration (400- 500+) among many others.
At MIT Solve events, she typically addresses 500-1000+ people live and 10,000+ online.
Media and Social Media
Alex Amouyel has authored numerous op eds, and her work has been featured in a variety of publications, including: Boston Globe, Forbes, Inc., HuffPost, Entrepreneur, Technology Review, Vice, Outside Magazine, and Stanford Social Innovation Review, as well as on CGTN (China Global Television Network) and National Public Radio.
In addition, she's been featured as a model for women's fashion brands who are seeking leading professional women-see this The-M-Dash article.
