Chris Temple
Los Angeles
Chris Temple is an avid adventurer and big thinker. Crediting his parents with instilling in him a “curiosity about traveling and adventure,” he took a gap year before starting at Claremont to explore Bolivia, Peru, Argentina, and Guatemala. The experience inspired an interest in international development and gave him his first taste of the transformative power of microfinance.
After spending a year working for Grameen Trust and Grameen America in a number of countries, Chris founded an online organization called MFI Connect, to give his fellow students opportunities to get involved in microfinance. In the summer of 2011, he decided he could learn valuable skills from a business environment, and interned for the advocacy consulting firm, Global Health Strategies.
He is now applying all his experiences as the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Living on One. The company's first feature film, Living on One Dollar, follows the journey of Chris and three film makers as they try to live on just $1 a day for eight weeks in rural Guatemala to raise awareness about extreme poverty. Their teaser videos were an instant YouTube hit, being viewed over 630,000 times and propelling the crew to coverage in the Huffington Post, at TEDx Buenos Aires, and CBS This Morning. Chris and the Living on One team recently hit the road in a renovated 1978 school bus, visiting 25 major cities to rally their generation to make a difference.
He has 2 older brothers, loves being in and around water but has an irrational fear of sharks.