Shawn Landres is the Co-Founder and CEO of Jumpstart. Under his and Co-Founder Joshua Avedon’s leadership, Jumpstart has changed the global conversation about Jewish innovation and social entrepreneurship. Shawn’s interest in social entrepreneurship dates back to his 1993 service as a White House Intern for Vice President Gore’s Reinventing Government initiative. In 2009, Shawn was named one of the Forward 50, where he was described as “an essential thinker in explaining the new Jewish spirituality and culture.”
Shawn earned his footnote in history in 1991-92 when he suggested what became Bill Clinton’s campaign theme song, Fleetwood Mac’s “Don’t Stop (Thinking About Tomorrow).” A member of the first national cohort (2007) of the Selah Leadership Program, an inuaugural Ariane de Rothschild Fellow (2009) and an international Nahum Goldmann Fellow (2010), Shawn serves on the Board of Directors of Keshet (having previously chaired the advisory board of Jewish Mosaic: The National Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity), the Sh'ma Advisory Committee and numerous national and local advisory boards for Jewish and interreligious initiatives. Shawn and his wife, Zuzana Riemer Landres, live in Southern California with their two young daughters.
