As president and CEO of CARE USA, the global humanitarian organization that created the CARE Package 75 years ago to send food and supplies to World War II survivors, it’s basically Michelle Nunn’s job to care. But even if she had some other professional title, it still would be a defining characteristic of the lifelong public servant.
“I would say that volunteering is where I found meaning and purpose, even as a teenager,” says Nunn, whose career has included co-founding a volunteer organization, serving multiple times as a nonprofit CEO, and even running for Senate in Georgia in 2014. Through it all, using her entrepreneurial talents to benefit others has been the running theme.