Christopher Spezzano
Christopher Spezzano
Christopher Spezzano is a humanitarian with a heart for global aid work, an entrepreneur committed to creating sustainable business ecosystems, and a seasoned leader who has collaborated with multiple charities and organizations promoting overall planetary wellbeing. Having graduated with a political science and sociology degree from Columbia University in the City of New York, Spezzano initiated his international humanitarian services as a nineteen-year-old in a Liberian refugee settlement before teaching in rural villages in developing countries, supporting biological research and conservation efforts in the Amazon Rainforest, teaching in Rikers Island prison, among other organizations. Throughout his aid work, he became aware of the extremely unequal accountability of the world's aid organizations. Hence he established The Empathy Incubator, a charitable foundation that utilizes technology to provide a solution to this concern, alongside building regenerative business ecosystems towards returning humanity to a lifestyle in harmony with the Earth. Spezzano is the current President of Empathy Incubator and was once President of LocalFood.Company, Form & Matter Foundation, and Form & Matter, all geared to ecologically beneficial and people-centered programs.