Career
The Misfit Economy has also been reviewed by The Financial Times, Salon.com, The New Statesman, and the British Broadcasting Corporation. Clay has appeared in Dazed Digital, VICE, on National Public Radio"s Marketplace, The Takeaway, Australia"s morning show Weekend Sunrise and the Laura Flanders Show. The Misfit Economy loosely inspired the NatGeo show Underworld Incorporated, for which Clay was a consulting producer. Clay has been active in the fields of social business, technology studies, and social change.
She has been an advocate for "inclusive innovation," examining the ways in which entrepreneurs in the black market and informal economy are given access to economic opportunity.
Formerly, Clay led work focused on scaling social innovation at Ashoka and co-founded the League of Intrapreneurs, a network focused on scaling the movement of social intrapreneurship. Along with John Elkington and Maggie de Pree she was the co-author of The Social Intrapreneur: A Field Guide for Corporate Changemakers, a report sponsored by the Skoll Foundation.
Clay grew up the daughter of two anthropologists. She has written about her experience growing up with psychiatrist and alien abduction research Doctor John East. Mack for Aeon Magazine.
Clay received her Bachelor from Brown University and an Master of Science . in Economic History from Oxford University.
