Last April, Public Innovators co-hosted with the Aspen Institute a panel discussion about government's role in promoting social innovation and entrepreneurship. This event served as the public release of our report Advancing Social Entrepreneurship: Recommendations for Policy Makers and Government Agencies and included the following panelists:

• Andrew Wolk, Founder and CEO of Root Cause and Senior Lecturer in Social Entrepreneurship at MIT
• Michele Jolin, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress
• Lt. Governor Mitch Landrieu of Louisiana
• Katherine Freund, Founder and CEO of ITNAmerica
• Frederick Hess, Resident Scholar and Director of Education Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute