Alex Peay
Ones Up Education Fellowship
Nonprofit - Philadelphia, PA
Working to break cycles of generational poverty by empowering opportunity youth to invest in themselves, their families, and communities through holistic job training and personal development programming.
Aly Murray
UPchieve
Nonprofit - Brooklyn, NY
UPchieve is the first urgent care provider in education: we connect low-income high schoolers with live tutors any time they need it.
Angelique Sina
Cafe Ama and SEEDS
Nonprofit - Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C.
We use coffee to develop youth entrepreneurship in Puerto Rico to eradicate poverty and provide a meaningful connection for coffee lovers aligned with social impact.
Anika Manzoor
Youth Activism Project
Nonprofit - Washington, D.C.
The Youth Activism Project sparks, motivates, and trains teen civic leaders for systemic change.
Asha Owens
BestFit, Inc.
For profit - Columbus, OH
BestFit uses data and storytelling to completely reimagine the college decision-making process for marginalized students and their counselors.
Beverly Leon
Local Impact Inc.
For profit - New York City, NY
Local is an education technology platform that gamifies civic participation and empowers students and educators to amplify their social impact in their communities.
Brian White
NEX^ Inc.
Nonprofit - Washington, D.C.
We empower young people through relevant education and field engagement that will prepare them to advocate for, lead, and effectively make a change in their local and global communities.
Cristina Leos
Real Talk
Nonprofit - Chapel Hill, NC
Real Talk connects teens with authentic stories and trusted resources on sensitive topics to help them know they are not alone in their experiences growing up
Elisa Hoffman
School Board School
Nonprofit - Cincinnati, OH
We empower aspiring school board members and engaged citizens with the knowledge, skills, and network to drive systemic change.
Jakita O. Thomas
Katherine Leiva
Fit Lit
Nonprofit - Miami, FL
An after school program that combines fitness and literature to reduce obesity and low academic achievement for underrepresented youth.
Katrena Perou
Inspiring Minds NYC
Nonprofit - Brooklyn, NY
Inspiring Minds NYC is a culturally responsive community school model that builds a pipeline between the youth and their community through rites of passage programs, civic engagement, internships, college tours and youth conferences.
Kimberly Gray
UVII
For profit - New York City, NY
Uvii is a mobile app and video plugin for LMS (Learning Management Systems) to post curriculum and respond with video comments from a smartphone amplifying student engagement and retention for faster more affordable learning outcomes, simply put Uvii is Snapchat meets Blackboard.
Kristen N. Briggs
Black Women's Education League
Nonprofit - New York, NY
BWEL provides curated supports and services for black women educators in K-12 education focused on cultivating and retaining leaders.
www.bweleague.org (under construction)
Lisa Maria Rhodes
ALAS
Nonprofit - New Orleans, LA
ALAS creates educational access for immigrant and court involved high school youth by training educators to do two things: advocate for students by writing mitigation letters to criminal court judges, and connect undocumented students with pro-bono or low bono legal representation.
Lisa Wang
Almost Fun
Nonprofit - New York City, NY
Almost Fun is reinventing test prep for underserved students through culturally relevant and relatable test prep delivered accessibly through an always free mobile app.
Luis Vanegas
Soy Lector
Nonprofit - Minneapolis / St. Paul, MN
Close the achievement gap for Spanish and Somali students through Bi-literacy
Marie Bigham
ACCEPT
Nonprofit - New Orleans, LA
Through community, advocacy, and activism, ACCEPT will create an equitable and antiracist college admissions process and profession.
Martrice Gandy
MindWorks Collaborative
Nonprofit - Riverdale, MD
MindWorks Collaborative co-creates spaces for diverse special educators to accelerate their impact and support one another through professional learning networks, a virtual community portal, and other programming grounded in anti-bias/anti-racist pedagogy and self-care.
Mindy Wright
The Upward Project
Nonprofit - Boston, MA
The Upward Project is a career-development program for high-achieving, first-generation college students from low-income families.
Nakeyshia Kendall
MindCatcher
Nonprofit - San Francisco, CA
MindCatcher cultivates the leadership capacity within educators to shift their practice from being educator-led to student-led by using diversity, equity and inclusion competencies.
Natalie Tung
HomeWorks Trenton
Nonprofit - Trenton, NJ
HomeWorks Trenton is a 501(c)(3) community-based, after-school boarding program that provides academic and social-emotional enrichment activities, dorm living and nutritious meals to supplement public schools, empower women, and build community leaders.
Niara Valério
Learnabi
For profit - New York City, NY
Personalized academic support via your mobile phone.
Norma Parraz
KONEKTI
For profit - Phoenix, AZ
KONEKTI the Parent/Family Engagement Tech Tool to Achieve Student Success.
Reuben Ogbonna
Marcy Lab School
Nonprofit - Brooklyn, NY
The Marcy Lab School redefines higher education by creating direct pathways to rapidly growing career fields for students who need it the most.
Rima Imad Fadlallah
Typical Dearborn
Nonprofit - Dearborn, MI
Typical Dearborn invites Arab and/or Muslim American youth to take back the mic and discuss issues of identity, politics and culture as they uniquely impact our community.
Ronald Scott
Brothers at Peace
Nonprofit - New Orleans, LA
Brothers at Peace is a nonprofit organization created to provide care, recreation, and enriching programs to male youth 10 to 17 years of age.
Ronnie Frizzell
Sacred Generations
Nonprofit - Native California
Sacred Generations is an intergenerational movement of healing dedicated to restoring Native land and people by organizing system-impacted tribal communities to end educational inequity, mass incarceration and climate injustice.
Taylor Toynes
For Oak Cliff
Nonprofit - Dallas, TX
For Oak Cliff overall goal is liberation for our community, by organizing the community and serving as a convener we're able to provide resources and connect neighbors to service providers and experiences that remove the barriers of systemic oppression.
