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
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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
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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