Diverse Leaders
He Is Me Institute
Entrepreneur: Robert Hendricks
Nonprofit | Founded: 2018 | Visit the Site
He is Me Institute (HIMI) empowers Black men to obtain and retain careers in STEAM education. HIMI teaching fellows are Black men in college who teach at summer programs for middle school boys of color.
Healing Schools Project
Entrepreneur: Wenimo Okoya
Nonprofit | Founded: 2021 | Visit the Site
The Healing Schools Project works to prevent teacher attrition by addressing and preventing teacher stress and burnout. They engage with teachers and educational leaders simultaneously to change school systems and cultures to foster lasting healing and communities of care. The Healing Schools Project’s work is research-based and seeks to employ a framework of peer support rooted in Black and Indigenous healing. Participants build a community rooted in shared experiences with teachers of color from other schools using mindfulness practices, restorative conversations, and collective envisioning of culture changes within schools.
Innovation for Equity
Entrepreneur: Angela Romans
Nonprofit | Founded: 2018 | Visit the Site
Innovation For Equity (IFE) is a network of Black changemakers across the education ecosystem – leaders in PK-12, postsecondary, research, technology, and business – committed to disrupting the status quo and transforming the life outcomes of Black learners of all ages. By connecting and cultivating Black leaders in education to build collective power and scale innovative solutions, IFE reimagines a future where Black learners thrive across the nation.
Institute for Student Achievement
Entrepreneur: Ebony Green
Nonprofit | Founded: 2021 | Visit the Site
For nearly 30 years, the Institute for Student Achievement (ISA) has partnered with schools and districts to transform schools so that students who are traditionally underserved and underperforming graduate prepared for success in college and careers.
Women of Color Education Collaborative (WOCEC)
ISA is launching WOCEC as a response to the effects that both the events of the last year that brought racial equity to the forefront and the pandemic have had on education and educational leaders. The goal of WOCEC is to create a network of thriving women of color superintendents by supporting leaders with a program designed to enhance their leadership skills and capacity while also focusing on healing and building strong bonds between participants. This is a unique opportunity to care for yourself while leaning into your strengths as a leader. We will focus on building upon existing strengths and capabilities to increase your ability to be strategic about the work to advance equity.International Teachers Project
Entrepreneur: Victor Capellan
Nonprofit | Founded: 2022
The International Teacher Project (ITP) will partner with and place Latin American teachers in American classrooms through the J-1 Visa program. The ITP will prepare and support Spanish-speaking international teachers to succeed in American classrooms for 3 to 5 years through a rigorous selection process, a robust training program, and a network of professional services.
Jacksonville Public Education Fund
Entrepreneur: Rachael Tutwiler Fortune
Nonprofit | Founded: 2021 | Visit the Site
The Jacksonville Public Education Fund (JPEF) is an independent think and do tank that works to close the opportunity gap for low-income students and students of color in Duval County. JPEF is leading a comprehensive approach to addressing the teacher diversity gap. They are employing a collective impact strategy that aims to engage and coordinate efforts across various local education partners to recruit, prepare and retain male educators of color in Duval County Public Schools. Through their “1,000 by 2025 Initiative”, JPEF aims to close the teacher diversity gap by recruiting 1,000 male educators of color by 2025.
KConnect: Future Educators of Color Network
Entrepreneur: Salvador Lopez and Maegan Frierson
Nonprofit | Founded: 2022 | Visit the Site
KConnect is a network of public and private organizations working to advance a collective movement aimed at ensuring all children in Kent County have an equitable path to economic prosperity through quality education, family, and community support. KConnect’s Future Educators of Color Network will create equitable pathways for children to access quality education and community support by developing a new coalition addressing the deep need for diverse teachers within Kent County, MI.
Kingmakers of Oakland
Entrepreneur: Chris Chatmon
Nonprofit | Founded: 2018 | Visit the Site
Kingmakers of Oakland works to improve key outcomes for Black students by using the evidence-based practices developed in Oakland’s successful African American Male Achievement model to support educators, school districts, and other institutions across the country in building their internal capacity to support Black male students.
Latinos for Education
Entrepreneur: Amanda Fernandez
Nonprofit | Founded: 2016 | Visit the Site
Latinos for Education (L4E) is dedicated to developing, placing and connecting essential Latino leadership in the education sector. Latinos for Education (L4E) develops Latino education leaders, forges a nationwide network of Latinos in education to accelerate their collective voice, and establishes an advocacy agenda representing the unique assets of Latinos.
Latinx Education Collaborative
Entrepreneur: Edgar J. Palacios
Nonprofit | Founded: 2018 | Visit the Site
The Latinx Education Collaborative works to increase and retain the number of quality Latinx education professionals in K-12.
LatinxED
Entrepreneur: Elaine Utin and Ricky Hurtado
Nonprofit | Founded: 2018 | Visit the Site
LatinxEd is an education non-profit committed to investing in Latinx leadership and creating learning environments that expand educational equity and opportunity in North Carolina. Our works calls on our community to reimagine and redesign what equitable, inclusive learning environments and experiences could look like that truly recognize, honor, and serve the diverse needs of the Latinx immigrant community in North Carolina.
Lead Co/laborative
Entrepreneur: Lorraine Lago and Maria Christian
Nonprofit | Founded: 2019 | Visit the Site
Lead Co/laborative incubates Puerto Rico’s next-generation of diverse educational champions with one central aim in mind — to prepare students for a lifetime of learning and opportunity. The Lead Co/laborative team looks to achieve this mission by equipping educational leaders with the tools needed to transform educational experiences and improve student outcomes.
Leadership for Liberation
Entrepreneur: Daneen Keaton
Nonprofit | Visit the Site
Leadership for Liberation supports principals, particularly principals of color, in creating anti-racist school cultures that disrupt of racial oppression from the individual- to the systems-level.
Liber Institute
Entrepreneur: Jonathan Santos Silva
Nonprofit | Founded: 2019 | Visit the Site
The mission of the Liber Institute is to embolden and equip students, families, and educators to transform schools and the communities that surround them. The Institute organizes its work in three interwoven strands: a culturally responsive teaching fellowship for teachers, transformational leadership coaching for school leaders, and a liberatory design lab focused on unearthing and incubating local approaches to building more equitable schools and institutions.
Man Up Teacher Fellowship
Entrepreneur: Patrick Washington
Nonprofit | Founded: 2018 | Visit the Site
Man Up Teacher Fellowship is a non-profit organization with the mission to give students in high poverty, urban and rural communities, particularly male students of color, access to high quality male teachers of color and to advance policies that promote equity in K – 12 schools. Man Up will provide fellows with opportunities to obtain licensure, earn a Master’s of Education, and become certified in Educational Leadership by creating a state approved teacher education preparation program that will provide tailored teacher education and targeted wraparound supports to Black male educators.
Men of Color in Educational Leadership (MCEL)
Entrepreneur: Harrison Peters
Nonprofit | Founded: 2022 | Visit the Site
Men of Color in Education Leadership (MCEL), an organization of leaders from across the educational spectrum, is hyper-focused on eliminating achievement and opportunity gaps for all students. Based on research and lived experiences, MCEL strongly supports highly effective leaders of color who are uniquely positioned to disrupt current ecosystems, lead equity throughout education, and serve as critical levers to student success.
MindshiftED
Entrepreneur: Joe Cantu and Maribel Gardea
Nonprofit | Founded: 2019
Our vision is for San Antonio to have the best schools in the world. Our mission is to give the community the tools and knowledge they need to demand a high-quality education. We do that by training parents how to use their voice and collective power to band together and demand change in the public education system. We hope that, through our work, educated and skilled parents will be able to demand an excellent education and pass this on to their children. By doing this, we plan to stop the cycle of unknowing and complacency, so parents demand an education system that serves their children excellently and equitably.
MindWorks Collaborative
Entrepreneur: Martrice Gandy
Nonprofit | Founded: 2017 | Visit the Site
MindWorks Collaborative attracts, connects, develops, and sustains a pipeline of Black and Latino teachers and related service providers to dramatically improve educational options and outcomes for students with disabilities.
Mosaic Changemakers
Entrepreneur: Renata Soto
Nonprofit | Founded: 2017 | Visit the Site
The Mosaic Fellowship, our flagship project, is a year-long program that brings together changemakers of color in the American South to strengthen our individual and collective power to lead transformative change.
Mosaic Fellowship
Entrepreneur: Renata Soto
Nonprofit | Founded: 2017 | Visit the Site
The Mosaic Fellowship is a transformational strategy to develop and connect education leaders of color to enact change and elevate their voices to ensure equity and excellence in education in Tennessee.