Josh Nesbit

Josh Nesbit serves as the Chief Technology Officer for GirlTREK, a life-saving sisterhood of more than a million Black women walking towards healing and liberation. His work is at the intersection of technology, new economics, and community organizing. He also serves as a Senior Advisor to the Community Health Acceleration Partnership, Technologist-in-Residence at Emerson Collective, and a strategic technology advisor for Hope Credit Union, the largest Black-owned credit union in the U.S.

Nesbit was previously Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) at Emerson Collective, where he explored the role of technology in community organizing. As an EIR, he became a founding member of Widespread Care, a nonprofit building a platform for mutual support in collaboration with doulas and other birth workers.

Nesbit co-founded the technology nonprofit Medic and served as its CEO for 11 years before transitioning to the organization’s board. While leading Medic, he worked alongside community health workers and a global team to improve health in the hardest-to-reach communities. Today, Medic's open-source software helps 45,000 community health workers as they care for more than 20 million people in Africa and Asia.

Nesbit is an Ashoka Fellow, PopTech Social Innovation Fellow, Echoing Green Fellow, and Rainer Arnhold Fellow. He served on the Board of Directors for Developing Radio Partners and IntraHealth International. Selected by Devex as one of 40 Under 40 Leaders in International Development, he also received the Truman Award for Innovation from the Society for International Development and was named by Forbes as one of the world’s 30 top social entrepreneurs. In 2014, Medic received a Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. In 2016, he accepted a Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award.

Nesbit studied global health and bioethics at Stanford University, where his qualitative research focused on pediatric HIV/AIDS in Malawi.