Aaron is a first-year Mas­ter in Pub­lic Pol­icy can­di­date at the Kennedy School. He is par­tic­u­larly inter­ested in non­profit man­age­ment, as well as hybrid mod­els between busi­ness and social objec­tives, includ­ing shared value, social enter­prise, and busi­ness devel­op­ment in the devel­op­ing world. Prior to HKS, Aaron spent the past five years work­ing in the Domini­can Repub­lic, first as a Peace Corps vol­un­teer and later as the Pro­grams Coor­di­na­tor for Fun­dación Trop­i­calia, a pri­vate non­profit which designs and car­ries out the shared value strat­egy for a large tourism invest­ment in the D.R. Aaron was also an AmeriCorps*NCCC vol­un­teer shortly after earn­ing his under­grad­u­ate degree in finance at the Uni­ver­sity of Missouri.