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<\/h5>\n<\/h5>\nB.A. in economics; M.P.P., Harvard Kennedy School<\/p>\n
President, GO Foundation<\/p>\n
Although I was born in N.Y.C., I spent most of my childhood living in Florida never seeing snow. Freshman year I remember the night of the first snowfall and grabbing my friend and neighbor in Jarvis, Mark Viklund, getting a tray from the cafeteria, running out to the quad, and sledding down the hill next to the Chapel. I also cherish the memory of beating my friends Chris Doyle, John Molner, and Lou Shipley at the board game of Risk during the final week of senior year.<\/p>\n
The GO Foundation is a nonprofit organization with a mission to provide students with access to a quality education through high-dosage tutoring. At the GO Foundation, we recruit, train, and support a corps of caring adults who are placed in partner schools, where they intensively tutor students as a part of the federal AmeriCorps program. A select group of these tutors are chosen to enter GO\u2019s residency program and get trained to use their time tutoring as an apprenticeship to become effective classroom teachers.<\/p>\n
In seventh grade, after bombing a placement test, I was put in the remedial math class at my middle school. At the end of that academic year, convinced that I was capable of doing more challenging work, my mom and dad successfully pestered the middle school\u2019s administrators to let me into the eighth-grade algebra class. They hired a private tutor\u2014I still remember his name, Mr. Cooper\u2014during the summer between seventh and eighth grade to help fill in the gaps in my math knowledge. I ended up acing that eighth-grade algebra class, opening up advanced classes for me in high school, which in turn led me to Trinity and then to Harvard. That seemingly small intervention provided by Mr. Cooper changed my life. It\u2019s why the GO Foundation has a vision of America where every child has access to a tutor to realize their full human potential.<\/p>\n
Hands down the biggest challenge right now is recruiting the tutors we need to meet the demand we are seeing from schools. The job market, particularly for entry-level positions, is the tightest it\u2019s been in our lifetime, making it hard to find people to serve as tutors. If you are reading this and you know of a recent college grad (maybe your own kids?) looking for something worthwhile to do for a year before they start their career or head to grad school, have them apply at GOFellows.org. We are looking for 300-plus tutors to go to urban schools throughout the Northeast for a one-year fellowship beginning in summer 2024.<\/p>\n
Professor Andrew Gold taught a class on urban economics that I really enjoyed. He was the one who told me about Harvard\u2019s public policy program at the Kennedy School. I likely would have gone to law school without his guidance and encouragement. Diane Zannoni brought a lot of joy to her macroeconomics classroom, which isn\u2019t easy for a discipline often called \u201cthe dismal science.\u201d Alden Gordon\u2019s art history course gave me an understanding of the basics of contemporary art and instilled in me a lifelong love of painting\u2014I\u2019m currently the chair of the board of the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts in Old Lyme, Connecticut. I also loved Howard DeLong\u2019s logic course and Edmond Cherbonnier\u2019s class called \u201cReason and Emotion,\u201d which he taught in the evenings at the Religion Department building, with a fire going in the fireplace. Roger Shoemaker\u2019s theater course, Dick Scheuch\u2019s \u201cEcon 101,\u201d and Gerald Gunderson\u2019s class in entrepreneurship . . . I had so many professors at Trinity who influenced me and helped make me who I am today.<\/p>\n
I took Clyde McKee\u2019s freshman seminar, \u201cPolitics and Oral Communication.\u201d In addition to introducing me to lifelong friends like Jane Melvin, the course TA, and Lee Coffin and Paul Newman, my classmates, it was a blast for me from the start. We used Roberts Rules of Order<\/em> to run the class, and I\u2019ve put my knowledge of them to good use on the many boards I\u2019ve since served on. My sophomore year, I became the TA for the course and had Professor McKee add the book Advise and Consent<\/em> to the reading list. One of the plot points for the book dealt with a character\u2019s hidden sexual orientation. Looking back on it, that represented a moment in my own coming out as a gay man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DEGREES B.A. in economics; M.P.P., Harvard Kennedy School JOB TITLE President, GO Foundation FAVORITE TRINITY MEMORY Although I was born in N.Y.C., I spent most of my childhood living in Florida never seeing snow. Freshman year I remember the night of the first snowfall and grabbing my friend and neighbor in Jarvis, Mark Viklund, getting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"parent":1697,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2461","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n