Law & Social Entrepreneurship Association The Law & Social Entrepreneurship Association (LSEA) is a student organization at NYU

School of Law that strives to accomplish the following: Expose law students to the growing field of social entrepreneurship Inspire ideas for innovating the legal sector Work with lawyers and law students to identify how they can use their legal skills to impact, broaden and innovate the social entrepreneurship field Create a support network of law students invested in pattern-breaking, sustainable and scalable ideas for change LSEA engages in numerous activities to support its mission. These include student practice projects to provide hands on experience in the supervised counseling of nonprofits and microenterprises, speaker and career events, alternative breaks to cities with growing social innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems, partnerships with various entrepreneurship organizations at NYU, field trips to local social entrepreneurship focused organizations, and longer range efforts to create a network of alums and social entrepreneurship lawyers and to promote social enterprise in NYU Laws curriculum. LSEA Alternative Break Program To date, LSEA has conducted two alternative break trips. Our inaugural trip was to Nairobi, Kenya in March 2012, and last winter students went to Colombo, Sri Lanka. During these trips students met with entrepreneurs and organizations working in a variety of sectors, including education, corporate social responsibility, economic development, sanitation, and impact investing. In Nairobi, students met, for example, with David Auerbach, Co-Founder of Sanergy, who talked about the way that property rights impact the organizations efforts to built hygienic sanitation facilities in informal settlements. Students left these trips with direct insight and knowledge gleaned from practitioners in the field, a better understanding of the social entrepreneurship environment in each respective country, and a greater appreciation of the international nature of the social entrepreneurship field. This year LSEA will travel to Accra, Ghana for its winter trip, taking place January 5-12, 2014. The LSEA team has scheduled or is in the process of scheduling meetings with the following organizations: Innovations for Poverty Action Slice Biz USAID officials Innovate Ghana One Acre Fund iSpace Growth Mosaic Google Ghana AccraHub Acumen Fund As we seek to continue to build out our itinerary for this trip we would greatly appreciate it if we could schedule a meeting with your organization and/or if you could help us identify potential organizations with whom we could meet and facilitate introductions. For more information or to discuss scheduling a potential meeting, please contact Cesar Francia at caf323@nyu.edu.