About
If you’re looking for my bio in a more traditional form, you can find it at the bottom of this page. For the rest of you, I’ve summed up my bio in ten bullet points.
Ten Things You Should Know About Me Me Me
1. What I obsess about day-to-day is youth-led change. If you do too, we should talk. 
2. I work for two organizations that support young changemakers: Ashoka’s Youth Venture and Global Youth Fund.
3. I founded Global Youth Fund along with Amy Eldon Turteltaub. Our programs have emphasized group leadership and bottom-up democratic change. We’re now producing the most amazing toolkit!
4. I co-produced PBS GlobalTribe.
5. I used to produce and report for CNN back in the good ol’ days (93-99). No, I don’t know Anderson Cooper.
6. I produced Millennium Voyage, a 10-part series for CNN that followed students going around the world on Semester at Sea.
7. I studied English Literature and Rhetoric at University of California at Berkeley and journalism at Columbia University.
8. I grew up in Malawi, Madonna’s favorite African country (apparently).
9. I was born in Taiwan but I’m a proud Canadian now.
10. I’m “in the zone” when I’m giving presentations and workshops.
Bio:
A change catalyst, Charles Tsai is dedicated to helping young people imagine and realize a better future for themselves and their communities. He mentors young changemakers through his work with Ashoka, the world’s largest incubator of youth-led ventures, as well as his own charity, Global Youth Fund. He’s also the creator of The Creative Activist Toolkit, an interactive visual guide to social change written for and by young leaders.
How did this passion for social change come about? Perhaps it’s from living a life constantly on the move. Born in Taiwan, Charles spent his early years moving from Thailand to Malawi to different cities in the United States and then to Canada, where he now lives.
He studied English Literature and Rhetoric at University of California at Berkeley and got his Master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.
Charles then worked as a reporter and producer for CNN at its global headquarters. He specialized in educational features and produced the 10-part series, Millennium Voyage, which followed American students on their educational travels around the world.
He then left CNN to produce PBS GlobalTribe, a groundbreaking show that profiled changemakers around the world. It opened his eyes to just how much the world today needs everyone everywhere doing what they can to make our world a better place.
That challenge continues to be at the heart of his work.
