Team
Our core team is deliberately lean, and our network deliberately broad.
Together, we’re dreamers and do-ers, learners and teachers — envisioning and building a better world.
CORE TEAM
Abby Falik
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer
Chalon Bridges
Co-Founder, Chief Experience Officer
Raphael Arar
Chief Design Officer
COACHES
alexx temeña
Coach
Bowie Rowan
Coach
Jake Galloway
Coach
Linnea (PeeBee) van den Toorn
Coach
Sahar Thomson
Coach
FACULTY
Andrew Youn
Co-Founder, One Acre Fund
Angel Pérez
CEO, The National Association for College Admission Counseling
Aria Florant
Co-Founder & CEO, Liberation Ventures
Ashanti Branch
Founder & Director, The Ever Forward Club
Casper ter Kuile
Co-Founder, Sacred Design Lab and Nearness
Chip Conley
Founder & CEO, Modern Elder Academy
David Bornstein
Co-founder & CEO, Solutions Journalism Network
Eddie Ndopu
Champion for Disability Justice
Jean Oelwang
President, Virgin Unite
Jenny Odell
Author
Jeremy Heimans
Chairman, Purpose
Joel Segre
Builder, Strategist & Storyteller
Kaya Henderson
Executive Vice President & Executive Director, Center for Rising Generations at the Aspen Institute
Lisa Witter
Co-Founder, Apolitical & CEO, Apolitical Foundation
Mia Birdsong
Founder & Executive Director, Next River
Premal Shah
Co-founder, Kiva.org & Renewables.org
Raj Panjabi
Former White House Senior Director, Co-Founder of Last Mile Health
Sanjay Purohit
CEO & Chief Curator, Centre For Exponential Change
Stephanie Harrison
Founder, The New Happy
Wendy Kopp
CEO & Co-Founder, Teach For All
ADVISORS
Cecilia Ann Conrad
CEO, Lever for Change
Chris Kasabach
Executive Director, Watson
Dr. Musimbi Kanyoro
Chair, United World Colleges (UWC)
Jeff Bradach
Co-Founder, The Bridgespan Group
John Wood
Founder & CEO, U-Go; Founder Emeritus, Room to Read
Laura L. Carstensen
Professor & Founding Director, Stanford Center on Longevity
Matthew Rascoff
Vice Provost for Digital Education, Stanford University
Olivia Leland
Founder & CEO, Co-Impact
Shirley M. Collado
President & CEO, College Track
Donor Partners
With special thanks to our founding supporters:
Anonymous
Enlight Foundation
Maggie Kaplan
Pam Scott and Tim Koogle
LearnerStudio
George C. Lee II
Sara Gaviser Leslie and Josh Leslie
Karen and Tom Mulvaney
Missy and Karr Narula
Jane and Tim Sullivan
Debra Wetherby Fund
Qasar Younis