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Who Gets to Dream? What My Parents, a Library, and Two Sons Taught Me About Opportunity in America

In this powerful reflection, Dreama Gentry, Founder & CEO of Partners for Rural Impact and By All Means Senior Fellow at The ...
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The American Dream, Higher Education, and the Work of Economic Mobility

Elson Nash, an education and social impact leader, Senior Fellow at Blue Meridian Partners, and By All Means Senior Fellow at ...
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The American Dream Begins with Flourishing Children

Sondra Samuels, President & CEO of Northside Achievement Zone and By All Means Senior Fellow at The EdRedesign Lab at Harvard ...
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The American Dream Is the Freedom to Leave — and the Responsibility to Return

Rey Saldaña, President and CEO of Communities In Schools and By All Means Senior Fellow at The EdRedesign Lab at Harvard, ...
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Vaccines, Equity, and Public Trust: A Front‑Line View from Seattle to CDC ACIP

Helen Chu, MD, MPH is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She is an infectious disease physician and ...
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Accounting Ethics, Professional Identity, and the Public Interest

While accounting remains one of the most trusted and respected of all professions, the industry has been roiled by several high-profile ethics scandals of late. In 2019, the Securities Exchange ...
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The New Innovator's Dilemma: Fostering Young Talent in the Age of AI

Sometimes the feedback you get earliest in your career sticks with you the most. I still remember the first meeting I led as a newly minted college graduate working in venture philanthropy. I arrived ...
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From First Jobs to Collective Leadership: Shaping Lasting Impact and Equity

Wendy Kopp is CEO and Co-founder of Teach For All (TFA). Kopp conceived of and proposed the idea of Teach For America in her undergraduate thesis at Princeton University in 1989. She founded and led ...
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Adversity as a Building Block to Achieving Your Authentic Vision

Shirin Behzadi has lived a remarkable life. As an immigrant to the U.S. at a young age, Shirin went from working at a gas station to serving as CEO of one of the nation’s leading corporations that she ...
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Planting Seeds of Change: The Role of Traditional Agriculture in Africa’s Climate Fight

In the words of the Tuareg people, who have called the Sahara Desert home for generations, there is a saying: ad wər təsəmmətərǎγ agugel əd məṭṭawǎn — 'Do not advise an orphan on the matter of tears.' ...