Diverse Leaders
CommunityBuild Ventures
Entrepreneur: Natasha & Ayodele Harrison
For-profit | Founded: 2011 | Visit the Site
CommunityBuild Ventures is a pro-Black, solution-focused organization committed to eliminating racial disparities by developing powerful, impactful, and racial equity-driven leaders and organizations. They are launching a new initiative, The Black Male Teacher Innovation (BMTI) Center, a culturally and racially affirming community focused on supporting and retaining Black male teachers in education. The BMTI Center utilizes practices that center healing and self-care, social emotional learning (SEL) competencies for adults, and equity-centered teaching, learning, and leadership.
Disruptive Partners, Intl
Entrepreneur: Anashay Wright
Nonprofit | Founded: 2020 | Visit the Site
What happens when Pahara & EDLOC meet historically ignored leaders of color? You get Disruptive Partners. Disruptive Partners (DP) is a Black-owned leadership development firm, committed to developing an exponential number of high-impact leaders at the local level. We identify leaders of color that bring a wide range of diverse talents, skills, and lived experiences critical to influencing real change within the Black community. As your premier executive talent pipeline for racially diverse communities, we create sustainable impact by activating, learning from, and leveraging the untapped power in our communities. We are your Pahara & EDLOC for “The Hood, Which Is My Hood!”
Diversity Talks
Entrepreneur: Kiara Butler
For-profit | Founded: 2017 | Visit the Site
Diversity Talks shifts mindsets by partnering with organizations to create unique learning environments where the most marginalized voices are at the forefront. Our mission is to increase cultural competency by fostering a healing space for those in power and those most marginalized to challenge the societal standards upholding white supremacy. We envision an anti-racist society of shared responsibility, with everyone collectively working to create systemic change.
EdFuel
Entrepreneur: Kelly Gleischman
Nonprofit | Founded: 2013 | Visit the Site
EdFuel seeks to attract, develop, and retain the next generation of education reform leaders, with an intentional focus on “beyond the classroom” roles.
Education Leaders of Color (EdLoC)
Entrepreneur: Layla Avila
Nonprofit | Founded: 2015 | Visit the Site
Education Leaders of Color (EdLoC) is a membership organization dedicated to elevating the leadership, voices and influence of people of color in education, and to leading more inclusive efforts to improve education.
Education Pioneers: Visiting Fellowship
Entrepreneur: Scott Morgan
Nonprofit | Founded: 2003 | Visit the Site
Education Pioneers (EP) recruits, develops, and connects professionals from diverse backgrounds to solve problems from outside the classroom so students and teachers succeed inside the classroom. The Visiting Fellowship identifies, supports, and retains diverse rising leaders who are already working in education full-time.
Education Reform Now
Entrepreneur: Shavar Jeffries
Nonprofit | Founded: 2007 | Visit the Site
Education Reform Now (ERN) builds networks of progressive champions, allies, and supporters across the political & policymaking arenas to expand what works and change what is broken in the public education system. The Leaders of Color Initiative seeks to alleviate the barriers to entry for elected leaders of color. ERN supports participants through the candidate lifecycle–from candidate identification to training to support when in office.
Educators for Excellence: 2023 Voices From the Classroom
Entrepreneur: Evan Stone and Sydney Morris
Nonprofit | Founded: 2019 | Visit the Site
Founded by public school teachers, Educators for Excellence is a growing movement of more than 30,000 educators, united around a common set of values and principles for improving student learning and elevating the teaching profession. We work together to identify issues that impact our schools, create solutions to these challenges, and advocate for policies and programs that give all students access to a quality education. The 2023 Voices from the Classroom survey is a comprehensive national survey of public school teachers and is designed by teachers to capture crucial insight on the views of public school teachers on a wide variety of issues impacting students and the teaching profession.
Embracing Equity
Entrepreneur: Daisy Han
Nonprofit | Founded: 2018 | Visit the Site
Embracing Equity offers workshops, learning spaces online and in-person, resources, ABAR curriculum, and tools to support current and future educators in doing anti-racist and anti-biased worth with students and colleagues.
Envision Education: Teacher Residency Program
Entrepreneur: Gia Truong
Nonprofit | Founded: 2019 | Visit the Site
The Teacher Residency Program (TRP), a partnership between Envision, Lighthouse Community Public Schools, and the Alder Graduate School of Education, recruits, trains, certifies and supports high-quality, diverse teachers, with a focus on diversity, equity and inclusion.
Equity Institute: EduLead Fellowship
Entrepreneur: Karla Vigil
Nonprofit | Founded: 2019 | Visit the Site
The Equity Institute is an education based nonprofit helping to ensure young people have access to educational experiences that allow them to build the knowledge and skills they need to thrive in the world. Through its premier educator retention and talent development program, the EduLead Fellowship, the organization leverages a diverse community of educators to promote diversity and equity in their school communities and beyond.
ExpandED Schools: Pathways Fellowship
Entrepreneur: Saskia Traill
Nonprofit | Founded: 2016 | Visit the Site
ExpandED Schools mission is to close the learning gap by increasing students’ access to enriched education experiences. The Pathways Fellowship recruits men of color into the teaching force, cultivates their skills as educators via intensive professional development and offers a paid teaching practicum in an after-school learning setting with 1:1 mentoring from an experienced teacher.
Families in Action
Entrepreneur: Rob Capellan and Milagros Rivera
Nonprofit | Founded: 2021
Families In Action will work to strengthen the role families play in education via a program that places families in the middle of reimagining and rebuilding schools, particularly in underserved communities. We will leverage the lessons learned during this pandemic, the lived experiences of our families, and the richness of a peer network that can inspire and empower families to act.
Fletcher Education Solutions
Entrepreneur: Tina L. Fletcher
For-profit | Founded: 2020 | Visit the Site
Fletcher Education Solutions is a Black woman-owned education consulting company that aims to address the challenges that historically underserved pre-service teachers and current teachers face in passing teacher licensure exams. Through their Test Prep Institute (TPI), Fletcher Education Solutions provides research-based and data-driven interventions, customized study plans, resource guides, and one-on-one coaching through virtual or in-person platforms. Participants are also provided foundational knowledge and context surrounding teacher certification exams through webinars that illuminate critical strategies, such as time and stress management and methods to prepare for exams.
ForwardEd
Entrepreneur: Mirla Urzua
For-profit | Founded: 2021
ForwardEd creatively expands and diversifies the teacher candidate pipeline for Los Angeles schools by assisting emergency credentialed teachers and the school-based teams that support them to ensure teachers reach the next credentialing level needed to become fully certified.
Freedom Fellows Institute
Entrepreneur: Roblin Webb
Nonprofit | Visit the Site
The Freedom Fellows Institute identifies, develops, and supports talented leaders of color to found high-quality charter schools. With one full year of leadership development, the Institute supports strong entrepreneurial educators through months 0-12 of their founding journey.
Future Leaders Incubator: Educator Project Fellowship
Entrepreneur: Jill Glassbrook
Nonprofit | Founded: 2018 | Visit the Site
Future Leaders Incubator increases equity and inclusion in urban public schools by incubating transformative practices and expanding the definition of success one school at a time. The Educator Project Fellowship is an in-house incubation model that prepares and supports the next generation of visionary educators from underrepresented backgrounds to begin a long-time career and leadership trajectory in PK-12 education in urban schools.
Georgia Educators for Equity and Justice
Entrepreneur: Aireane Montgomery
Nonprofit | Founded: 2021 | Visit the Site
Georgia Educators for Equity and Justice Incorporated is a professional organization which champions the liberation and belonging of Black educators, students, and educational stakeholders. We endeavor to extend resources and guidance in a variety of areas including, but not limited to: advocacy, charitable purposes, civic engagement and responsibility, professional development, as well as recruitment and retention.
Get LaunchED Consulting
Entrepreneur: Erica Jordan-Thomas
Nonprofit | Founded: 2020 | Visit the Site
Get LaunchED Consulting™ provides educators with a track record of results with the business education and community support necessary to launch their own education consulting business for impact, thus positioning them to build power with education organizations and solve the greatest challenges in delivering equitable outcomes for students and families.
