Alumni in the News - Quenching thirst while saving lives

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The Tufts Daily - Quenching thirst while saving lives

Tufts graduate Jonathan Greenblatt (LA '92), traveled to countries including Indonesia, Thailand, Pakistan, Russia, Argentina and India as an appointee to the National Economic Council (NEC) during the Clinton administration.

"I spent a lot of time overseas focusing on what we called 'economies in transition,' basically a euphemism for 'war-torn countries,'" Greenblatt said. "I was exposed to poverty like I had never seen before."

Now, Greenblatt is combating that poverty in a way that's equally innovative and effective. In 2002, he and business partner Peter Thum founded EthosWater, a socially responsible company that donates half of its after-tax profits to carefully vetted water projects in countries including India and Ethiopia.
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While at Tufts, Greenblatt ... serv(ed) as an active member of the Leonard Carmichael Society and by teaching an ExCollege class on '80s films.

He was also involved in other on-campus activities (he was a DJ for WMFO and a Sig Ep brother), in addition to working off-campus to make ends meet: "At night, I waited tables at a little restaurant in Harvard Square, the Greenhouse," he said.

Greenblatt also worked in the Commerce department under another Sig Ep brother, Ron Brown, Secretary of Commerce under Bill Clinton.