Claire Diaz-Ortiz

Education

Diaz-Ortiz earned a Bachelor and Master of Arts from Stanford University. Her graduating class produced a number of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, including Joe Lonsdale, Chris Cox, Clara Shih of Hearsay Social, and Jared Cohen.

She holds an Master of Business Administration from Oxford University, where she was a 2008 Skoll Foundation Scholar at Oxford"s Said Business School, the home of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. The Skoll Foundation Scholarship honors five social entrepreneurs per year with a fully funded Master of Business Administration at Oxford University.

Career

Diaz-Ortiz has been called "The Woman Who Got the Pope on Twitter" and "Twitter"s Pontiff Recruitment Chief" for her efforts with the Vatican, and can be seen standing by his side when he sent his first tweet. She has also worked extensively with other world leaders. She co-founded, a non-profit organization in Kenya she started after living in a Kenyan orphanage.

Diaz-Ortiz has a teenage foster son she met while living in an orphanage in Kenya.

He is the co-author on the memoir,: An American Tourist, A Kenyan Boy, a Journey of Redemption.

Achievements

• Diaz-Ortiz has been named "One of the 100 Most Creative People in Business" by Fast Company, and is #4 on the Mashable list, "15 Fascinating Twitter Employees." She writes for LinkedIn as a LinkedIn Influencer, one of a group of several hundred global leaders.