Team
Meet the people behind the movement
Co-Founders
From the halls of Eastern High School in Washington, DC to classrooms around the world, our co-founders launched a movement of educators in implementing a self-paced, mastery-based instructional model that leverages technology to foster human connection, authentic learning, and social-emotional growth.
Kareem Farah, CEO
Robert Barnett, Chief Innovation Officer
Modern Classrooms Project equips educators to build classrooms where students have access to high-quality grade-level content and appropriate support to build deep content mastery. We lead a movement of educators in implementing a self-paced, mastery-based instructional model that leverages technology to foster human connection, authentic learning, and social-emotional growth.
Modern Classrooms Project Leaders
Aubrey White, President & Chief Growth Officer
Aida Conroy, Chief Success Officer
James Edmond, Jr., Ph.D., Vice President of Partnerships
Megan McGregor-Olivares, Vice President of Program Design and Operations
Jessie Lake, Vice President of Product
Emily Dia, Vice President of Educator Support
Sean Kim, Vice President of Finance and Administration
Matt Hickson, Head of Instructional Leadership & Strategy
Work With Modern Classrooms Project
We strive to be an outstanding place for all of our staff to work by offering competitive pay and benefits, aligning our staff around a shared vision, and doing work that meaningfully supports educators around the world.
We invite you to learn more about our open roles.
Meet the Board
Our Board of Directors is a diverse team of leaders whose experience and wisdom guide our work.
Tracey Strauss, Chair
Acting CEO at Stealth, and Senior Advisor at A-Street
Carmen Coleman
Chief of Transformational Leading and Learning, Ohio Valley Education Cooperative
Dawn Lepore
Former CEO and Chairman
of the Board, Drugstore.com
Ned Mandel, Vice Chair
Former Owner and President, AKJ Educational Services
Kareem Farah
Chief Executive Officer and
Co-Founder, Modern Classrooms Project
Tanganyika Millard
Management Support Director of High Schools, Prince William County Public Schools
Till Bechtolsheimer
Co-Founder and CEO, Arosa Capital Management
Dan Friedman
Founder, Thinkful
Brian Pick
Director of Education Grantmaking at Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies
Mitch Benson
Former Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Product Officer at Instructure; Chief Learning Technology Officer at Pearson
Tom Fry
Venture Advisor,
TGF Advisory Services
Roger Sherman
Founder, Waneta Strategies, LLC, and Of Counsel at Jenner & Block