Becky Margiotta

Becky Margiotta is the cofounder of the Billions Institute and host of the podcast Unleashing Social Change. She has trained thousands of people the world over on how to design and lead large-scale social change. Margiotta directed the 100,000 Homes Campaign for Community Solutions, which mobilized 186 cities to permanently house more than one hundred thousand people who had previously been living on their streets. Her work has been profiled on 60 Minutes, NPR, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, and the Harvard Business Review. A graduate of West Point, she also served for nine years as an officer in the US Army, both in Special Operations and Special Mission Units. She earned a master’s degree in organizational change management from The New School University and has received a White House Champion of Change award, the Schwab Foundation’s Social Entrepreneur of the Year award, and the National Conference on Citizenship’s HOOAH award. She lives in Claremont, California, with her wife and their two kids.