Mr. Steven C. Rosenthal

Executive Director
Cross Cultural Solutions, USA

www.crossculturalsolutions.org

Steve founded Cross-Cultural Solutions in 1995, which places over 4,000 volunteers each year in international volunteer programs. It connects volunteers with sustainable community initiatives, bringing people together to work side-by-side while sharing perspectives and fostering understanding. He has worked with at-risk youth in the United States and been a consultant for numerous international volunteering organizations in the U.S. and abroad.

He is on the Executive Committee of the International Volunteer Programs Association and is the Chairman of the Building Bridges Coalition, a project of the Brookings Institution. This coalition seeks to expand international volunteer service, improve the quality of the service, and ensure positive impacts in communities throughout the world.
He has dedicated much of his time to communities throughout the world and is the Development Chief for the traditional area of Ziavi, Ghana, West Africa. He is the only non-African ever to have been given this honor.
Steve attended George Washington University and the University of Colorado.