Saul Garlick

Saul Garlick is the founder and executive director of the Student Movement for Real Change (SMRC), an international non-profit organization that is investing a generation in global development. SMRC empowers young people to improve health and education in neglected regions of the world through its Global Development Program which provides college students the opportunity to live and work in a developing community, identify local youth leaders and initiate projects through long term youth-to-youth partnerships for development. SMRC currently manages a water and sanitation project in Kenya, extensive health and education projects in South Africa and an entrepreneurship program in Sierra Leone. SMRC also facilitates the Joining Hands Pen Pal Project (JHPP) a unique letter-writing exchange between several thousand elementary and middle school students around the world.

Garlick also serves as Ambassador to the United States for The Buffelshoek Trust, an organization building schools in rural South Africa. Garlick was Managing Editor of the SAIS Review, founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Hopkins Donkey, the Democratic campus newspaper, and has worked on Capitol Hill for Diana DeGette (D-CO) and as acting desk officer for Angola in the Bureau of African Affairs at the Department of State. He is a contributor to Carnegie Council’s online magazine Policy Innovations.

Garlick has received numerous leadership awards including the SAIS' William C. Foster Award, Seeking Common Ground's Circles of Change Award and 'The Fire Within' Social Entrepreneurship Award presented by Mayor John Hickenlooper of Denver, CO. His work has featured in CSPAN, The Rocky Mountain News and numerous outher media outlets globally. Garlick's Masters thesis was on US-South African relations post-apartheid.

A 2005 Truman Scholar, Garlick received his BA with honors in 2006 from Johns Hopkins University and his MA in American foreign policy and International Economics at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University.

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