“It’s a crime in a rich nation for people to receive starvation wages.” - MLK. The Camelback Good Jobs Initiative aims to empower local economies and create generational wealth; read about our first 5 local founders in New Orleans.
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If we could accept all 42, we would. We hope you enjoy getting to know these passionate, talented leaders as much as we have.
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Myron Long, radical school founder in Washington, D.C., shares unique curricula of liberatory design thinking, community-based project learning, and rigorous academics. | Over the next few weeks, we’re featuring Fellows and their founder journey, their Camelback application advice, and their Fellowship experience.
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Mexican immigrants are our greatest untapped resource, and why I’m committed to changing it all. || Martha Hernandez quit her job with no money to found madeBOS, a career-pathing tool to empower employees and employers alike. She shares her struggles and her wins as a Latina founder, and how the Camelback experience took her and madeBOS to the next level.
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Damola Ogundipe, innovative tech founder with a great team bringing AI to legislation tracking, based in the Midwest. | Over the next few weeks, we’re featuring Fellows and their founder journey, their Camelback application advice, and their Fellowship experience.
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Auset Ali, creative and performing artist, healer, and school founder, based in Colorado. | Over the next few weeks, we’re featuring Fellows and their founder journey, their Camelback application advice, and their Fellowship experience.
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2018 Camelback Fellow Byron Arthur shares reflections of his Fellowship experience, what he has learned, and what inspires him the most about other Fellows in his cohort.
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Vanessa Luna is a 2018 Camelback Fellow and founder of ImmSchools, a nonprofit dedicated to improving schools and education communities for immigrant families. Growing up undocumented herself, she shares actionable ways to make a difference during this troubling time.
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Why We Must Be Ruthless for Black Genius || In a long-form reflection on the relationship between race and education in this country, 2016 Camelback Fellow William Jackson discusses the increase in DEI work and the need for a collaborative Black community.
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We've spent the last 6 months recruiting and selecting our 2018 portfolio, and we couldn't be more thrilled to introduce the thirteen 2018 Camelback Fellows. Innovative tech, arts and creative learning, four schools, first-generation leaders, and a lot of incredible women. Meet the crew.
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We truly believe in the potential of these ventures and appreciate the passion of the founders. We hope you enjoy getting to know them as much as we have.To all candidates; thank you for sharing your vision with us, and thank you for all that you do for your communities. Finalists; we'll talk soon.
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Four Camelback edtech founders share their best and worst decisions in the early days of their venture, sharing advice and anecdotes about how they built their team and product.
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"I wish the opportunity to build and create was available to everyone. How different would our national community be, and our world be, if everyone had their chance to contribute their genius to the greater world?"
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Three Camelback Fellows share how the Fellowship shaped both them as a person, including overcoming imposter syndrome, and their organization. They also share their best advice (and encouragement) for underrepresented school founders.
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There's no guidebook to starting a school. Fellows think back to the early days, reflecting on early decisions that have turned out well, and others that, in retrospect, were a mistake. They also share what new leaders should look for in a co-founder.
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Our three-part series features interviews with three incredible school founders. In part one, they share their journey, starting with their own childhood experiences that stuck with them to the moment they realized they were ready to start their own school.
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"In 2017, I did 1:1s with over 400 people in Miami. Parents, teachers, community members -- everyone is on the same page: we all agree the system here is broken." Yannell Selman reflects on her identity as a Latinx entrepreneur, teacher, and community organizer and her path to the Camelback Fellowship.
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Jonathan Johnson began his journey to founding a school when one of his students died tragically in a drug deal. He resolved to create an innovative school that provides pathways to financial freedom. The school opened its doors in August to its first class of 9th-graders, mostly of color. After their first semester, Jonathan shares Rooted's early successes, the most inspiring moment of his career so far, and advice for aspiring school founders.
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In college, Tony Weaver, Jr. filled up notebooks with scripts, but no one on campus would make his films that dealt with race and identity. Today, he's teaching a multimedia literacy curriculum across the country -- so how did he get from A to B? Check out this interview to find out.
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Tyler Brewster was the Dean of Discipline for a school in her childhood neighborhood. After 10 years in education, she thought she knew what her role was in education. One day, she met with a student who had already received a few suspensions. The conversation they had changed her life forever.
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