Abby Falik

Abby Falik

Abby Falik (she/her) is an entrepreneur, movement builder, and visionary who believes when we learn on purpose, we lead that way too. Abby’s work, as founder and CEO of Global Citizen Year, has been profiled by New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, and PBS. While in residence, Abby worked on Learning on Purpose, part-travelog, part-treatise, that provides a framework for a new type of education which advocates for a “purpose year” after high school as an accessible and transformative rite of passage for young people worldwide.