Evan Goldsmith

Evan Goldsmith is currently the Head of Business Development at IndiVillage, an impact sourcing social enterprise that delivers expert data annotation, natural language processing, and content optimization solutions that drive machine learning, AI, and data strategies for leading technology and e-commerce companies. Evan develops strategic partnerships and solutions that drive business value and support CSR goals.   For over 10 years, IndiVillage has brought life-changing opportunities to rural India through the creation of stable, fulfilling employment and 100% reinvestment of profits in the community. IndiVillage is a member of the Global Impact Sourcing Coalition and is a certified B Corporation.    Previously, Evan was Client Strategy Director at NativeEnergy, a Burlington, VT based company that provides a range of innovative investment solutions that help companies increase business value while meeting their sustainability goals. Evan's role was to initiate new business relationships for NativeEnergy that deliver integrated sustainable business investments to existing and new clients. These investment increase client’s business value while benefiting the environment and communities around the globe.   Prior to that, Evan was President of Hope For Women, a company whose mission is to develop a sustainable market for products made exclusively by women around the world, so that they can educate their children and take control of their lives and futures. This effort formed out of working with women's groups in the Himalayan foothills of northern India to create sustainable employment opportunities for disadvantaged women. Evan completed his a Master's degree in Environmental Policy at Brown University, where he focused on land conservation and growth management issues. During his graduate work in 2001, Evan founded the Washington County Land Trust Coalition (WCLTC), a group consisting of 6 land trusts and their working partners. This project was the first attempt in Washington County to bring municipal land trusts, private land trusts, state and municipal government officials, and funding organizations to the table to figure out the means to create an effective regional plan. Evan then worked for 4 years at Smart Growth Vermont, where he worked with diverse members of the housing development community (realtors, lending agencies, developers, architects, landscape architects) to create smart growth housing developments contiguous to or within village centers that will strengthen downtowns while preserving the surrounding working landscape. Evan was also a high school Biology and Environmental Science teacher for three years in Washington, DC, and he also spent two years working on a women-in-development focused watershed management project in the Garhwal region of the Indian Himalaya in Uttaranchal.