I’m excited to share that Teach For All is incubating a new organization, called for now “Rising Generation,” to foster the collective action necessary to create an environment that inspires and enables the leaders in the next generation of university graduates to make early career choices that put them on a trajectory to tackle the world’s greatest challenges.
We’ve been engaging global stakeholders in understanding why more of the most promising leaders aren’t making values-based early career choices that put them in close proximity with the world’s injustices.
As we’ve unpacked the complex roots of this global issue—which will require action from many stakeholders in K-12 education, higher education, media, philanthropy, the nonprofit sector, and students themselves to shift mindsets and incentives and generate new opportunities–we’ve realized that moving the needle against it will require sustained energy and initiatives led at national levels.
Therefore, Rising Generation will both foster global learning and community around the issues, and contribute to experimentation and action in the U.S. I’m excited to have this chance to get involved in my own country, where the moment feels particularly ripe, and to learn together with current and future efforts in other countries.
We just received a big boost in this effort—the Seedlings Foundation has committed financial support for our first three years! I’m so grateful for their belief in the importance of this effort and their trust in our ability to take it on.
I think this issue is one of society’s most critical and yet under-recognized challenges, and I am excited to leverage Teach For All’s experience, perspective, and networks and to collaborate with many others to take it on. While our network continues to tackle the challenges involved in recruiting the next generation to our work, we believe Rising Generation can benefit from many efforts to tackle major societal issues by creating an environment more conducive to our collective success.
We are launching a search for Rising Generation’s Executive Director (https://bit.ly/42tCcLJ) –a U.S.-based, entrepreneurial leader who brings passion and insight about the importance of this issue, significant experience in recruiting the next generation into early careers that tackle injustice, networks at the university level in the U.S., and a deep commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Please reach out with your interest to [email protected] or share the J.D. with someone you think might be the right person for this role!
Please see this article for more background on why we’re launching Rising Generation.
