Solis Leaders Chosen as Echoing Green Fellows

From the press release: The global social venture fund Echoing Green has named cross-cultural advocates Liza Chambers and Lucas Welch among the world’s “Best Emerging Social Entrepreneurs” for their plan to build and promote intercultural understanding between young adults in the United States and the Muslim world.  As winners of the prestigious 2004 Echoing Green Fellowship, Chambers and Welch will receive $90,000 in seed funding and technical assistance over two years to launch Solis, an organization that uses innovative online video-conferencing technology to enable and encourage communication between young people at universities in the US and predominantly Muslim countries in the Middle East."  Welch, recently in residence at the Berkman Center, and Chambers are both Berkman affiliates.