When: Monday, April 12, 2010, 7:30 pm (doors open at 6:30 pm).

Where: First Congregational Church (1126 SW Park, Portland).

Tickets: To purchase tickets ($20.00), go to www.illahee.org/lectures/tickets2010, or call 503-222-2719.

Illahee Lecture Series, in association with the Mercy Corps Action Center, presents Jessica Jackley in a talk entitled Power, Change and Money.

Jackley is co-founder of Kiva.org, the world’s first peer-to-peer online microlending website. Kiva enables internet users to lend as little as $25 to specific developing world entrepreneurs, providing affordable capital to help them start or expand a small business. Kiva has been one of the fastest-growing social benefit websites in history, connecting hundreds of thousands of people through lending across more than 150 countries. By 2012, Kiva expects to have loaned over $1 billion to the world's working poor.

Jackley, a finalist for TIME's 100 Most Influential People in 2009, discovered the power of microfinance while working in East Africa with a microenterprise non-profit. She has worked for public, nonprofit, and private organizations including the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, Amazon, and others. In 2009, she began work on ProFounder, which provides new ways for small businesses in the U.S. to access start-up funding through community involvement. She also teaches Global Entrepreneurship at the Marshall School of Business at University of Southern California. She holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA in Philosophy and Political Science.