Elisa Basnight MC/MPA 2007 is helping lead the Red Cross through change
Bringing a Change Toolkit to the American Red Cross LEADING ORGANIZATIONS through change is what Elisa Basnight MC/MPA 2007 does best. “My toolkit is really a change toolkit,” she says. Last year Basnight joined the American Red Cross as a senior vice president for the organization’s blood supply chain. “And who would have thought that there would have been this much change within the first year?” she says. Basnight grew up in Wisconsin, with a father who was a U.S. Navy Reserve officer and small business owner and a mother who was a nurse. Early on, they instilled in her three core...