Alan Khazei is an American social entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Be the Change, Inc., a Boston, Massachusetts based organization dedicated to building national coalitions of non-profits and citizens to enact legislation on issues such as poverty and education. Previously, Khazei served as CEO of City Year, an AmeriCorps national service program engaging 17- to 24-year-olds in a year of service in one of 19 U.S. cities and in Johannesburg, South Africa. Khazei co-founded City Year with Michael Brown, his friend and roommate at Harvard College and Harvard Law School. On September 24, 2009, he announced his candidacy in the Massachusetts special election to fill the Class 1 seat in the United States Senate made vacant by the death of Senator Ted Kennedy. He was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for US Senate in the special election primary, which took place on Tuesday, December 8, 2009. Khazei finished third in a field of four candidates.

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