We partnered with the Raising Entrepreneurs Podcast to create a four-part series where we interviewed young changemakers and inspiring entrepreneurs.
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Our founder of Changemaker Communities, Vipin Thekk, joins Dave and Steve of The Critical Thinking Initiative Podcasts to discuss the work he does in helping reshape schools and communities so that they prepare students for an unknown future. The discussion includes ways that critical thinking, empathy, and discourse will be vital to our students, as well as how to create change where needed.
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Mentor Dida, senior intrapreneur at Ashoka, shares thoughts on how to help young people find the power inside of themselves to create change for themselves and for others.
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In 1989, college senior Wendy Kopp was trying to figure out how to improve American public schools. For her senior thesis, she proposed creating a national teaching corps that would recruit recent college grads to teach in underserved schools. One year later, she launched the nonprofit, Teach for America. Today, TFA has 50,000 alumni, a budget of nearly $300 million, and continues to place thousands of teachers across the country.
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