Alex Budak is a social entrepreneur and travel writer, and is currently the co-founder of StartSomeGood.com, a platform for empowering social innovators. He recently completed a Masters in Public Policy at Geogretown University, focusing on the intersection of technology and social entrepreneurship. His econometrics-based thesis, "Facebook, Twitter and Barack Obama: New Media and the 2008 Presidential election," is the first such paper to quantify how new media informed the national elections in 2008. He's visited 25 countries and lived for longer periods in Germany and India, and his travel writing has been featured in numerous publications including Lonely Planet and Huffington Post. He received a B.A. from UCLA and didn't miss a single home basketball game while a student.