Brandon Blache-Cohen is the President & CEO of AllPeopleBeHappy (formerly Amizade). Blache-Cohen has over 20 years of experience in the nonprofit, service-learning, and international development sectors and has collaborated on over 200 community development projects, impacting hundreds of thousands of people all over the world. He has also organized over 1,000 global service-learning programs, overseeing life-changing global experiences for over 14,000 students, and spearheading sector-changing innovations like The Global Switchboard and the concept of Fair Trade Learning. In addition to his work with AllPeopleBeHappy and Amizade, Blache-Cohen has spoken at over 50 conferences all over the world, sat on a planning committee for the Pittsburgh Holocaust Center, and was the President of the Pennsylvania Council on International Education (PACIE). He was named one of “Pittsburgh’s 40 under 40” in 2012, a “Rising Education Leader” in 2017, and recieved Amizade’s “Founder’s Award” in 2024. Blache-Cohen has worked, studied, or traveled in around 95 countries.