Things I built or lead
Now
I.GURU
Co-Founder and CEO
Leveling the playing field for opportunity, revitalizing the humanities, bringing back reading. I.GURU
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I.GURU is built on a simple conviction: expertise lives beyond institutions, and serious learners deserve a serious way to prove it. No schools required — a way to show what you know, in public, on the merits.
Previously
Avenues Mastery Academy
Creator and Director
Built cell phones and 3D printers in the best place in the world for making and innovation.
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A quest-based intensive program that brought together high school students from the USA, Brazil, and China in Shenzhen, China to build smartphones and 3D printers under the guidance of expert mentors. Later expanded to biodiversity research in Costa Rica.
Global Impact Diploma
Founding Steering Team Member
Twenty-six schools. One diploma for students who want to change the world.
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A collaborative, decentralized partnership between 26 schools to create a high school pathway that prepares students to make the world a wildly better place.
Avenues J-Term
Program Lead
Four thousand students, thirty countries, three weeks to understand and solve global-scale problems.
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J-Terms were two 3-week miniterms for all 4,000 students across 30 countries to simultaneously develop skill sets for global-scale problems as well as provide study abroad and service learning opportunities.
Avenues Global Passport
Creator and Director
A world language curriculum and product offering forty languages.
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A world language program that employed a task-based learning and teaching approach to offer 40 languages, from Spanish to Mandarin and from Hungarian to Norwegian.
Institute for Advanced Mathematics
Product Director
Learning to think like a mathematician by tracing the origins of mathematics
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The Avenues Institute for Advanced Mathematics redefined advanced mathematics not as advanced computation, but as understanding the first principles of math. It traced the history of math from Babylon to present-day. I was responsible for go-to-market and profitability, establishing a partnership with Oxford's Mathematical Institute.
Long Gap
Creator and Director
A partnership with Long Now to foster long-term thinking in youth.
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The Long Gap was a partnership with the Long Now Foundation to take recent high school graduates on a series of quests around the world that would develop long-term thinking. The experience was inspired by the hero's journey archetype. Due to COVID it did not launch.