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Courtney Klein is the Chief Executive Officer for New Global Citizens. (http://www.newglobalcitizens.org) Courtney is an Arizona native and a graduate of Arizona State University’s Barrett Honors College where she received her degree in Nonprofit Leadership & Management. Since the age of 18, Courtney has owned her own for-profit company, Turn Around Cleaning, that provides cleaning services to a nonprofit organization, Save the Family, to prepare their transitional housing units between the occupancies of homeless families. Courtney was the Founder and Executive Director of Youth Re:Action Corps, a nonprofit organization she launched in her senior year at Arizona State University on a $1,000 seed grant with a mission to educate, empower, and invest in young people to change the world. In 2008, upon the merger between Youth Re:Action Corps and Youth Philanthropy Worldwide, Courtney assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer for New Global Citizens. In 2009, Courtney was named “One of 12 Women Who Move the Valley” by Arizona Foothills Magazine. In 2008, Courtney received the first Athena Award for young professionals, and was honored by bizAZ as one of “35 Entrepreneurs under 35”. In 2007 she was named one of “20 Woman to Change Arizona by 2020” by Arizona Woman Magazine and the Arizona Republic. In 2006, Courtney was profiled in the Arizona Republic as one of Arizona's most intriguing Chief Executives, highlighted as one of the six to watch. Additionally, she was honored by the Phoenix Business Journal's Power Book as a "Power Generation Up-and-Coming Leader." In 2005, Courtney was honored as a Hon Kachina Honoree and in 2002 was named Woman of the Year by the Diocese of Phoenix.