Alise Usher

Benetech, Business Development Officer

Alise C. Usher is a ProInspire Fellow at Benetech, an entrepreneurial social venture that combines technology innovation and business expertise for social benefit. As a Business Development Officer she is responsible for funding the Human Rights Program, an effort focused on applying scientific methods and rigorous data analysis to human rights issues. Alise brings experience from Harvard University where she coordinated a portfolio of private and federal grants, and previous experience in the investment management industry in Boston. She also works with social enterprise startups where she provides organizational development and funding strategies.

Alise holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology Research and Theory from Le Moyne College and spent a year at the Université Paris-Sorbonne. She is also a painter who has most recently trained at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.