Our History

In 1989, many college graduates in the United States were searching for a way to have a social impact after graduation and weren’t seeing the opportunity to do that. Teach For America, which founder Wendy Kopp proposed in her undergraduate senior thesis, filled that void and in one year magnetized 500 of the nation’s most talented and committed young leaders to address the educational inequity that persists in its country along socioeconomic and racial lines. More than fifteen years later, some 5,000 Teach For America corps members are teaching in 26 of the country’s lowest-income urban and rural communities...

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Recent Press

Chronicle of Philanthropy
Clinton Announces More Charitable Pledges at New York Meeting
September 27, 2007

Recent Press Release
Teach For America Launches Teach For All to Support Development of Its Model in Other Countries
September 27, 2007

Media Inquiries
media@teachforallnetwork.org.

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Supporters

Founding Sponsors
The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation
The Nduna Foundation
HSBC Global Education Trust

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Team

Board
Teach For All is in the early stages of forming its board. Initial members are:
Walter Isaacson  President & CEO,
    Aspen Institute (Chair)
Dame Julia Cleverdon DCVO, CBE  
   Chief Executive,
   Business in the Community
Wendy Kopp  CEO & Founder,
   Teach For America
Amy Robbins  Executive Director,
   The Nduna Foundation
Brett Wigdortz  CEO, Teach First

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Staff
Central leadership team:
Wendy Kopp  CEO
Brett Wigdortz  Deputy CEO
Puja Sondhi
   Acting Chief Operating Officer
Monique Ayotte-Hoeltzel
    VP, Country Support
Laura Wilson Phelan
   VP, Country Relations
Amy Black
   VP, Growth Strategy & Development
Brooke Wyatt  VP & CFO
Cheryl Bucci  MD, Human Assets
Tracy-Elizabeth Clay  General Counsel William Drenttel  Design Director


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