Disrupt Education Podcast

Naila Moloo is a 15-year-old passionate about making impact in the sustainability sector. She has worked on projects like designing more efficient transparent and flexible solar cells utilizing nanomaterials, a solar sailed fusion propelled spacecraft, and a sustainable shopping browser extension. Naila is currently trying to make an inexpensive bioplastic, building my solar cell in a lab, and dev...

Marc Berkman is the executive director of Organization for Social Media Safety, and Ed Peisner the founder of Organization for Social Media Safety. Ed's son Jordan Peisner was a victim of a social media attack, motivating these gentlemen to take action to assist others in helping to make appropriate social media choices for their families. "Every time your child logs onto social media they are at...

Gabriela Nguena Jones is the CEO and Founder of Teens Tutor Teens. She aims to help youth regain the skills and confidence to excel in the classroom. Gabriela believes that the face of the job industry is changing to be a more competitive environment requiring advanced degrees, prior experience, and connections to succeed. This is why she has garnered a passion to aid youth in obtaining a strong e...

Debbie Tannenbaum is an Elementary School Technology Specialist in Fairfax County, VA. An educator with over twenty years of experience, Debbie supports both staff and students to integrate technology tools into instruction through both co teaching sessions and weekly technology classes.   Debbie is also an avid blogger and shares her thoughts and reflections regularly on her website: www. Ta...

RiseKit provides all job seekers access to a career path, regardless of the zip code in which they live.  Listen to co-founder and CEO Matt Strauss talk about his journey to understanding the hiring gaps and how he works to help those who are unemployed or underemployed with RiseKit.    Check out RiseKit.co for more information The Disrupt Education Podcast is a proud member of The...

At age 12, she ran away from a hard-scrabble and abusive childhood. At 15, with only a sixth-grade education, she had a baby to raise. Her love for her son, Victor, inspired her to do whatever it took to get a college education and keep him safe. Over the next two decades, Rocio Perez began to guide other people to achieve their goals and dreams.   Rocio shares her incredible learning journey...

William Minton launched CanopyEd after spending the 2015-16 school year traveling around the world to visit and write about top-ranked schools across five continents. That experience inspired Will to think more creatively about how to approach the challenges facing education in the United States.  Will has shared these insights in Edutopia and at conferences around the country.  He share...

Uzair Hussain is and EdTech Entrepreneur set to help people remove blockers in the way of their success.  He founded District Zero, a wellness-first learning system in order to help students and teachers attain goals.  He shares his journey to empower learners, schedule check-ins, and achieve skills.    Learn more at DistrictZero   The Disrupt Education Podcast is a proud...

Naphtali T Bryant is the Founder of Spark-ED University, an initiative dedicated to supporting students to achieve their education goals and find success in their careers of choice.  Naphtali received a scholarship for his own studies, and his college experience opened his eyes to the many ways the current system and student experience needs improving.   The Disrupt Education Podcast is...

As a career educator, Timeri Tolnay became an edupreneur in 2008 to help start a curriculum and professional development company which she launched, grew and exited from in 2014. In 2019 she launched EdCuration to bring a match-making marketplace to the education industry to help educators more easily identify the high-quality instructional resources that they need, and to get better learning mate...

Olivia Barnes is a nature enthusiast, competitive swimmer, visual artist, and a 17-year-old lover of learning. After leaving traditional high school at the end of her freshman year, she began to shape her own learning experience, taking classes at various institutions with the goal of challenging herself and exploring her passions in more depth. Now, as a junior in high school, she is completely s...

Navin Goyal, MD, serves as CEO of LOUD Capital, driving the vision of how entrepreneurship, education, and investment can positively impact people, businesses, and society. He emphasizes his physician ethics of treating people equally and well.  He shares his learning journey and how education, investment and entrepreneurship merge in the VC world with LOUD Capital. Learn more at loud.vc The...

Don Wettrick knows the power of curious youth.  He empowers them as the President of STARTedUP Foundation.  He believes not everyone is cut out to be an entrepreneur, but everyone should think like one in this skills based economy.  He shares his educational journey, what the foundation is doing, and excellent nuggets of wisdom for the next generation of learners. Learn More at http...

The Wildlings Forest School in Queensland Australia provides outdoor, nature-based learning that focuses on the holistic development of children.  This episode features the co-founder Nicki Farrell.  She speaks about her path in education and how it lead to the school.  With locations near the Sunshine Coast and Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Nicki has created spaces for children...

Brett Taylor recognizes that a one-size fits all approach to education does not work.  He has found a passion for designing innovative entrepreneurial learning organizations that involve students in the work of the real works.  Brett was the founding Principal of the Phillip J. Patino School of Entrepreneurship in Fresno California.  He is now the Executive Director of Secondary Sch...

His love for strategy games led him to the finance world.  Justin Ling then realized how to make a difference in who has access to learning and proving their financial literacy skills. He founded EquitySim in order to scale financial learning experiences to people of all backgrounds.   Check out www. EquitySim.com to learn more. The Disrupt Education Podcast is a proud member of The EdUp...

From being a classroom teacher to Reading Curriculum Coordinator to the Online Tutoring Coach, Joanne Kaminski shares her educational journey.  She dedicates her life to teaching other people how to start an independent online tutoring business. She now personally coaches teachers and tutors and introduce them to a brand new income.   Learn more at www.onlinetutorcoach.com The Disrupt Ed...

The world is changing fast...education is lagging behind.  Michelle Blanchet and Darcy Bakkegard have creates the startup teacher playbook to get educators on offense.  Darcy and Michelle, both former teachers in different areas, share their learning journey.  They both know how to use startup ideas and methods to bring ideas to action.     Learn more at www.startupte...

Raheen Fatima is a 13 year old girl from Pakistan. She is a standup-comedian, Theater Actress, interviewer and SDGs Ambassador. Her goal is to empower People around her. Raheen has coordinated and conducted over 300 interviews, sessions, panel discussions on subjects ranging from business, economics, education and co- creation. With participants from diverse professional, social and cultural backg...

Komal Shah leverages her passion for education, business expertise, and personal conscious living practices to shift outdated educational paradigms and transform the educational system for the betterment of all children.  She shares her journey from being a teacher to being an educational consultant, thought leader and author of "Bringing Consciousness to Education"    Learn more ab...

Denis Ocampo has experience working in the New York City Public School system as an educator, where he witnessed the disparities between school systems and the lack of resources for underserved students. Denis brings his experience as an educator serving diverse communities and his passion for helping others. Learn more at OutboxEdu.com The Disrupt Education Podcast is a proud member of The EdUp E...

Kevin Anselmo is the creator of the Global Innovators Academy.  He is on a mission to teach youth to network and communicate with professionals.  "Interview an Innovator" is the first program experience in the Global Innovators Academy. As part of this online experience, students based on their own interests, interview innovators. The students then write articles published online, thus i...

With 10+ years of experience developing informal and formal educational programs, Dr. Rachel Schechter is at her prime to help your teams incorporate learning sciences and leverage data-driven technology to accelerate student growth (and sales). Her approach is grounded in theory and evidence -- with her Ph. D. in Child Development from Tufts University and M.Ed. in Arts Education from Harvard Uni...

Anthony Parello graduated school early and became a real estate agent after he missed the college registration deadline.  He shares his educational journey and what it is like to become a real estate agent. Connect with Anthony at https://linktr.ee/sunnygtaman Career Night Zoom 4/8/21 -   https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcqceGvrDwsGNaQOJk9_csthzNFZePJV56C The Disrupt Education...

Arielle Nobile is an American film director and producer known primarily for her documentary work. She has won multiple awards for her film Belonging In The USA: The Story of Michael D. McCarty . These include Best Documentary from Borderscene Film Festival, Award of Merit from the Impact Doc Awards, Excellence award from Docs Without Borders Film Festival, and Honorable Mention from the San Franc...