“What prevents us from asking for help when we are at our most vulnerable?” wonders healthcare entrepreneur and activist Alexandra Drane. Deeply motivated to explore this question – at the heart of which she believes lies an emotional tangle of hope, despair, honor, and shame – Drane has founded a series of innovative platforms to humanize and help make normal the complicated personal and cultural challenges of giving and getting care.
About the Speaker
Alexandra Drane is the Co-Founder of ARCHANGELS, Eliza Corporation, Engage with Grace, and three other companies. A serial entrepreneur, she also works part time as a cashier at Walmart. She sits on the Board of Advisors of TEDMED and Harvard Executive Sleep Council. She is a Governor-appointed member of the Executive Committee for the Board of Directors for Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, a member of the Board of Directors of the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC), and part of the Health Executive