Schwarz leaves USDA for Boston
June 15, 2015 |02:17 PM
Cullen Schwarz, the press secretary to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, left USDA on Friday to go into business in Boston.
Schwarz, a Michigan native who was the press secretary to Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., in her personal office when she chaired the Senate Agriculture Committee, will be a partner in DoneGood, a start-up app and website that helps consumers find businesses and products that share values important to them such as being environmentally conscious, supporting workers or being locally sourced, Schwarz said in an email.
Participating businesses also donate a small percentage of each DoneGood user’s sale to charity “so you can support businesses doing good in the world and causes you believe in, just by shopping at places you feel good about,” he added.
DoneGood is being launched from the Harvard Innovation Lab Venture Innovation Program, which provides office space and faculty advice to Harvard students “whose ventures have progressed to a more advanced stage,” according to the university website.
Other founding DoneGood team members are recent Harvard Kennedy School graduates, Massachusetts Institute of Technology students, and political and advocacy campaign experts. DoneGood is raising money for the venture.
