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.

It's actually mind blowing. I really see myself as an education entrepreneur, but this expanded me.

We don’t want you to rinse, wash, repeat. We want you to build and sustain.

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.

Not only because of the capital, but because of the knowledge that comes by communing with the diverse group of people as opposed to everybody that thinks the exact same way that you might think.

I don’t think I’ve been in a room as supportive as the Yass Prize Semifinalist room in Miami.

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

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.

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

The funding is not following children. We're trying to make better options for kids, for poor kids, middle class kids. Wealthy people have this choice, they opt out of their systems easily, why shouldn't all children have that choice?