Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar (MS&E 472)
Wendy Kopp
January 12, 2011
4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Wendy Kopp is the CEO and Founder of Teach for America, the national teaching corps.
Teach For America
Shortly after graduation from Princeton, Kopp founded Teach For America.
In 1988, Wendy Kopp proposed the creation of Teach For America in her undergraduate thesis at Princeton University. She was convinced that many in her generation were searching for a way to assume a significant responsibility that would make a real difference in the world and that top college students would choose teaching over more lucrative opportunities if a prominent teacher corps existed.
She is the Chief Executive Officer of Teach For All, an organization that seeks to apply the methods of Teach For America to countries around the world.
