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Dina Buchbinder is a social entrepreneur passionate about reimagining education. When she was 24 years old, in 2007, she founded Education for Sharing (E4S), an innovative, action-oriented organization that helps shape better global citizens using the power of play. When she was growing up, Dina didn’t like to sit still and didn’t understand why she was going to school. She perceived her classes as boring and useless. That was the moment when she started to wonder how education could be improved and become a meaningful experience for all. She found her calling and her passion early on for empowering students, teachers and parents to find their purpose in the world through play.
E4S uses rigorously evaluated social and emotional learning techniques to teach civic values, fair play, empathy, teamwork, gender and racial equity and the importance of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Third-party quantitative and qualitative assessments show the organization’s impact.
Since E4S’s inception and until before the pandemic, 1.3 million children, their caregivers and teachers, have benefited from E4S’s programs. E4S operates in eight countries across the world and continues to expand. Since COVID-19 appeared, Dina and her team turned their efforts digital and have reached additional 3.7 million people.
Dina has been recognized as an Ashoka Fellow, a member of the Atlantic Dialogues Emerging Leaders, an Edmund Hillary Fellow, a Schusterman Fellow, a Vital Voices Lead Fellow and a WEF Global Shaper. She is also a Hubert Humphrey Fellow in Urban Planning at MIT and holds an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School.
Dina received the 2018 Emerging Global Leader Award from Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
Dina currently is Chair of the Board of the United Nations Youth Association Mexico, and serves on the Mission 4.7 Education Task Force, founded by UN SDSN, in partnership with the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens, UNESCO, and the CSD at Columbia University.
