Teresa Chahine

Teresa Chahine is a Senior Lecturer in Social Entrepreneurship at the Yale School of Management, and Faculty Director of the Social Innovation Program in the Center for Peace and the Global Good at Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs. Her research focuses on social and environmental drivers of health, and social enterprise in the context of public health. 

Professor Chahine is the author of “Social Entrepreneurship: Building Impact Step by Step,” a reference textbook for aspiring changemakers. Her passion lies in increasing access to knowledge and opportunity for anyone who wants to create social change. At SOM, she created the podcast Impact & Innovation, to share the conversations happening in the classroom beyond the walls of Yale. Through Yale Online in partnership with Coursera, she launched an online course called Creating Change Through Social Entrepreneurship, now available on YouTube at no cost to all learners worldwide. The course is composed of a series of short videos sharing the content of her book and SOM course, which guide learners through a ten stage framework to get started in tackling a social and environmental challenge of their choice. 

Before joining the faculty at Yale, Teresa launched the first venture philanthropy organization in her home country of Lebanon, providing tailored financing and critical management support to social enterprises serving marginalized populations through education and job creation for youth and women. At Yale, she formed a collaboration with Havenly, a local social enterprise with the mission of building community power for refugee and migrant women. Her latest book project shares the stories of entrepreneurial women and how they pursue meaning, overcome structural barriers, and disrupt the systems that shape our everyday lives.