Samuel M. Gebru is a social entrepreneur, community organizer, educator, advocate, and strategist with more than two decades of political and nonprofit experience in the United States and East Africa. He is a Professor of the Practice of Political Science at Tufts University and is Senior Advisor for Community and Stakeholder Engagement at the Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI). Gebru is also an affiliate faculty member of the Tufts University Prison Initiative of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life (TUPIT) and was previously a Senior Fellow at the Tufts Center for State Policy Analysis (cSPA). Outside of Tufts, he is the Chief Executive Officer of Black Lion Strategies, a social impact and public affairs, consulting firm.