Jeremy Druker

Jeremy Druker is a co-founder and executive director of Transitions (TOL), one of Central and Eastern Europe's leading journalism training organizations, and editor in chief of TOL's online news magazine. TOL has been at the forefront of spreading solutions journalism -- rigorous reporting on responses to social problems --- in the CEE region, through workshops and story stipends. He is also founder/CEO of Press Start, the first global crowdfunding platform to support solely journalists in countries where the press cannot report freely. He is a professor at New York University's Prague campus, teaching a course on social media and its impact on society. Jeremy is a former chairman of the board of the Fulbright Commission in the Czech Republic and a member of the supervisory board of the Czech Journalism Prizes, the "Czech Pulitzers."  Jeremy has been an Ashoka Fellow since 2010, part of an international network of social entrepreneurs. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and a master’s in international affairs from Columbia University. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Jeremy now lives with his family in Prague, which he has called home for 25 years.