
Wendy Kopp is CEO and co-founder of Teach For All, a global network of more than 30 independent organizations that are enlisting their nations’ most promising future leaders in the effort to ensure educational opportunity for all.
Wendy founded Teach For America in 1989 to marshal the energy of her generation against educational inequity in the U.S. Today, 11,000 Teach For America corps members are in the midst of two-year teaching commitments in the nation’s highest-need urban and rural regions, and Teach For America has proven to be an unparalleled source of long-term leadership for educational change.
Wendy is the author of the recent book A Chance to Make History: What Works and What Doesn’t in Providing an Excellent Education for All (2011). She resides in New York City with her husband Richard Barth and their four children.