Interview with a social entrepreneur: Melissa Doherty (By Jenny Carroll for EDUC 6103-96)
Interview with a Social Entrepreneur: Melissa Doherty General Information Job Title: Options and Opportunities (O2) Coordinator School: Sackville High School Years Teaching: 24 Years in current position: 10 Click here I decided to start my interview with Melissa by asking her if the program she facilitates with her students meets the criteria for"new entrepreneurship" given by Rae (2010) and summarizedby O'Brien (2015). Her responses, shown in this checklist, confirmed that I should consider her a social entrepreneur. Melissa Doherty is a high school teacher who has been the coordinator for the O2 program at Sackville High for many years. I am familiar with the O2 program at many local high schools but Melissa's implementation of it goes well above and beyond the program description outlined by Nova Scotia Education and Early Childhood Development. EECD states that students in the O2 program will provide students with "a broad ...