As a Social Impact Consultant at Prosper Strategies, Walker develops and implements high-level strategies that help nonprofits reach peak influence. He helps organizations achieve their goals through marketing and communications planning, brand strategy and identity development, impact measurement, fundraising and more. He’s also dedicated to improving the efficiency of nonprofits through finding and implementing innovative technology solutions.
Walker is an award-winning journalist turned savvy problem-solver. Rather than simply writing about the change he wished to see in the world, he decided to facilitate the change through collaborating directly with nonprofit advocates and social impact pioneers. Beyond his work at Prosper Strategies, he is chief executive officer and founder of Covalent, a nonprofit leveraging a network of talented students and experienced business professionals to provide digital marketing support to small businesses. He’s also an advisor at GreenHouse::Innovation, an organization that employs the systematic disruption of social norms to effect change.
Walker attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where he received a B.S. in journalism and a minor in political science.