“Interview with David Batstone”

Dave is the President of Not For Sale. A professor of Ethics at the University of San Francisco, he is also founder and president of Right Reality, an international social venture firm. Batstone has authored seven books, the two most recent being Not For Sale (HarperOne) and Saving the Corporate Soul (Jossey-Bass). He was a member of the founding team of Business 2.0 magazine and served six years as executive editor of Sojourners magazine and founder of the SojoMail e-zine. He has contributed articles to the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, Wired, and SPIN. He is the recipient of two national journalist awards and was named National Endowment for the Humanities Chair at the University of San Francisco for his work in technology and ethics. During the 1980s, Batstone founded a non-governmental agency dedicated to economic development. In Not For Sale, David oversees the strategic and financial opportunities, growth, and direction of NFSC. He often represents Not For Sale during the Stop Paying for Slavery Tour and co-teaches the entrepreneur course content in NFS Academy.