Team
We are passionate idealists who see a new future for education.

We couldn’t do this work without our amazing Modern Classroom educators and teacher leaders pushing the movement forward.
Board of Directors
Ned Mandel, Vice Chair
Former Owner and President, AKJ Educational Services
Roger Sherman
Founder, Waneta Strategies, LLC, and Of Counsel at Jenner & Block
Till Bechtolsheimer
Co-Founder and CEO, Arosa Capital Management
Carmen Coleman
Chief of Transformational Leading and Learning, Ohio Valley Education Cooperative
Mitch Benson
Former Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Product Officer at Instructure; Chief Learning Technology Officer at Pearson
Brian Pick
Director of Education Grantmaking at Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies
Tanganyika Millard
Management Support Director of High Schools, Prince William County Public Schools
Kareem Farah
Chief Executive Officer and
Co-Founder, Modern Classrooms Project
Dan Friedman
Founder, Thinkful
Tom Fry
Venture Advisor,
TGF Advisory Services
Tracey Strauss, Chair
Acting CEO at Stealth, and Senior Advisor at A-Street
Dawn Lepore
Former CEO and Chairman
of the Board, Drugstore.com