By Anthony Muljadi, HBS MBA Class of 2012
Prior to business school, I had always...
Rebecca Onie
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Health Leads
In 1996, during her sophomore year at Harvard College, Rebecca Onie co-founded Health Leads (formerly Project HEALTH) with Dr. Barry Zuckerman, Chair of Pediatrics at Boston Medical Center. Rebecca served as Executive Director of Health Leads for three years, overseeing the organization’s growth to Providence and New York City. After attending Harvard Law School, Rebecca clerked for the Honorable Diane P. Wood of the U.S. District Court of Appeals.
She returned to Health Leads as Chief Executive Officer in February 2006, and was honored to receive a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, for “individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction.” Most recently, O! Magazine named her to its 2010 Power List of twenty women who are “changing the world for the better.”
Rebecca is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a U.S. Ashoka Fellow. She received the John F. Kennedy New Frontier Award in 2009, honoring Americans under the age of 40 whose commitment to service is changing their communities and the country; the Jane Rainie Opel ’50 Young Alumna Award in 2008, for outstanding contributions to the advancement of women; and the Do Something Brick Award for Community Leadership.