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2022 Yass Prize Virtual Accelerator Industry Experts

All 2022 Yass Prize Applicants are invited to an exclusive three-week virtual accelerator which will help them coalesce to learn from one another as well as entrepreneurs, technology leaders and investors. We are thrilled to introduce our 2022 Yass Prize experts.

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Dre Bennin

Managing Partner, ReThink Education 

2022_BlueRibbonJudge_Rob-Blevins

Rob Blevins

Executive Director, Discovery Center of Springfield

2022Accelerator_Linda-Brown

Linda Brown

Former CEO, Building Excellent Schools

2022Accelerator_Joy-Chen

Joy Chen

Entrepreneur In Residence, GSV Ventures

2022_Accelerator_Renee-Delos-Santos

Renee Delos Santos

Marcom Lead, The Times Group

2022Accelerator_Colleen-Dippel

Colleen Dippel

CEO, Families Empowered 

2022_BlueRibbonJudge_Sharif

Sharif El-Mekki

CEO, The Center for Black Educator Development

2022Accelerator_Isabelle-Hau

Isabelle Hau

Executive Director, Stanford Transforming Learning Accelerator 

2022Accelerator_Michael-Horn

Michael Horn

Chair, The Clayton Christensen Institute

2022Accelerator_Kelly-King

Kelly King

CEO, StartEd

2022Accelerator_Dana-Lambert

Dana Lambert

CEO, GlobalEd Solutions

2022Accelerator_Randall-Lane

Randall Lane

Chief Content Officer & Editor, Forbes

2022Accelerator_Shari-Lawrence

Shari Lawrence

Partner, Transcend Education

2022Accelerator_Phyllis-Lockett

Phyllis Lockett

CEO, LEAP Innovations

2022Accelerator_Roger-Love

Roger Love

All-Star Voice Coach, Voiceplace

2022Accelerator_Michael-Moe

Michael Moe

Founder and CEO, GSV

2022Accelerator_Archie-Moss-Jr

Dr. Archie Moss, Jr.

School Design Partner, Transcend Education

2022Accelerator_Okie-Nwakanma

Okie Nwakanma

Partner, Transcend Education 

2022Accelerator_Stefin-Pasternak

Stefin Pasternak

Co-Founder, Living School 

2022Accelerator_Ceci-Schickel

Ceci Schickel

Senior Director of Organizing and Advocacy, Mastery Charter Schools

2022Accelerator_Carl-Schramm

Carl Schramm

Professor, Syracuse University

2022Accelerator_Mandela

Mandela Schumacher-Hodge

CEO, All Raise

2022Accelerator_Tony-Simmons

Tony Simmons 

Executive Director, High School for Recording Arts

2022Accelerator_Brian-Smith

Brian Smith

Principal, Catalyst Academy Charter School

2022Accelerator_Sue-Walsh

Sue Walsh

Former Chief Academic Officer, Building Excellent Schools

2022Accelerator_Lakisha-Young

Lakisha Young

Founder & CEO, Oakland REACH 

Believe in your mission… Ground yourself… Never give up…

Sal Khan
Founder,
Khan Academy

The Yass Prize has significantly impacted the trajectory of our organization.

When we originally applied, we simply provided supplemental support services to homeschooling families. Now, we are growing into an education network that provides community, coaching, and curriculum nationwide.

Brenaea Fairchild
Executive Director,
Melanin Village

Being a part of this experience has amplified the access we can give to our students in a way that nothing has, and the access is just critical.

The Yass Prize is almost like Burning Man for education reform.

Cris Gulacy-Worrel
Vice President,
Oakmont Education, 2022 Yass Prize Finalist

We used the Yass Prize to launch a program called Skypod catalyst, which is essentially an accelerator to help other people start microschools.

We believe very much that microschools should be bottoms up, they come from the community. They're founded by educators who know their community really well. And they want to design a learning environment for the kids in that community.

Amar Kumar
Founder and CEO,
KaiPod Learning, 2022 Yass Prize Seminfinalist

Yass brought us together, creating opportunities to create an educational universe within which we can look at education differently…

we have to find academic experiences that represent neuro-divergent learners, kids who want to learn about gaming, who want to do stuff online, who dropped out of school.

Dr. Steve Perry
Head of Schools,
Capital Preparatory Schools

Education is one of the most fundamental pillars for democratizing opportunities for success that we have in our society.

It’s thanks to organizations like the Yass Prize that our children are going to have a better tomorrow.

Francis X. Suarez
Mayor,
City of Miami

Everyone knows that without great education, our nation suffers.

Great education is a vital link for students to become successful citizens.

Janine Yass
Founder,
The Yass Prize

I’m dreaming bigger, bolder, and more bodacious [because of the Yass Prize].

It has helped me raise the ceiling on what’s possible.

Keith Brooks
Founder/CEO,
National Fellowship for Black and Latino Male Educators (NFBLME)

Our newest endeavor – that was part of our Yass Prize initiative – we're bringing career and technical education into the school

I'm in the process of going through the construction of a 20,000 square foot $11.5 million dollar building dedicated to career and technical education for the students in the Philadelphia region.

Brian Patrick King
President,
Father Judge High School, 2022 Yass Prize Semifinalist

One of the missions of the Yass Prize and the Yass Prize movement is really surfacing best practices in innovation—

in innovators who are doing this type of transformational work, so that others can learn from it and replicate it, so that you can actually grow yourselves.

Jeff Imrich
Co-Founder,
Rock by Rock

Being a part of the [Yass] family confirmed that what I'm doing is right,

going against the common core and focusing on what we know is important for kids really works, and having a network of people now that also agree was super huge.

Kenisha Skaggs
Founder,
SOAR Academy

I'm a Yass Prize finalist from last year.

And through that, we were able to open up our second campus in the city of Wichita.

Wade Moore
Founder & Dean,
Urban Preparatory Academy

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