Meet Vicky
Founder & CEO of American Service Project, an organization dedicated to reimagining national service to address the greatest challenges of our time.
“At pivotal moments in American history, our country has responded by bringing young people together in national service to address the country’s greatest challenges and most ambitious projects. Today we are on the cusp of an economic transformation driven by AI, while the traditional pathways into adulthood are breaking down for this generation. National service can meet this moment, giving young Americans the skills, relationships, and sense of purpose to launch their adult lives.”
-Vicky Hausman, Founder of American Service Project
About
Vicky Hausman
An entrepreneur with a deep family tradition of service and a record of building high-impact ventures, Vicky began her career as a Peace Corps Volunteer in a health clinic. Inspired by what she saw on the ground, she joined Dalberg Advisors, the world's largest social impact strategy firm, where she rose to Partner and Managing Director, leading the firm's Americas region and Global Health Practice. She began her career as a management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.
Prior to starting American Service Project, Vicky co-founded and led Forward Majority, a $120 million democracy-focused venture that worked to win state legislative majorities to counter gerrymandering and defend free and fair elections. That work taught her how political power actually gets won — but also revealed just how deep our country’s civic divides have become. She's bringing that same instinct to something explicitly cross-partisan: building the political muscle to bring a new blueprint for national service to life — one that dramatically expands opportunities for young Americans to serve their country, and renews the value proposition for this service.
As a mom of school-aged kids, none of this is abstract for her. It's about the country her children will come of age in, and whether their generation finds real pathways to purpose, connection, and opportunity.
Vicky holds a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University and a Master in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. She was a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and served on the Board of Directors of Global Health Corps and Amref Health Africa.
Media
A frequent speaker and moderator on national service, political innovation, and social entrepreneurship, Vicky's perspectives and work have been featured in The Washington Examiner, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, TIME, The Washington Post, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Stanford Social Innovation Review, CNN, MSNOW, and POLITICO. She has appeared on podcasts including The Great Battlefield, The New Abnormal, and FOMO Sapiens.
AMERICAN SERVICE PROJECT
Young Americans are coming of age amid a set of generational challenges: polarization and the collapse of civic trust, deepening social isolation for a generation raised on phones and social media, and AI disruption that is upending traditional pathways into careers and adulthood. American Service Project was born for this moment: to scale national service for the 21st century and make it a core response to this moment – one that meets the greatest needs facing our country and the next generation.