Team
Meet the people behind the movement
Co-Founders
From the halls of Eastern High School in Washington, DC to classrooms around the world, our co-founders launched a movement of educators in implementing a self-paced, mastery-based instructional model that leverages technology to foster human connection, authentic learning, and social-emotional growth.
Kareem Farah, CEO
Robert Barnett, Chief Innovation Officer
Modern Classrooms Project equips educators to build classrooms where students have access to high-quality grade-level content and appropriate support to build deep content mastery. We lead a movement of educators in implementing a self-paced, mastery-based instructional model that leverages technology to foster human connection, authentic learning, and social-emotional growth.
Modern Classrooms Project Leaders
Aubrey White, President & Chief Growth Officer
Aida Conroy, Chief Success Officer
Megan McGregor-Olivares, Vice President of Program Design and Operations
Jessie Lake, Vice President of Product
Emily Dia, Vice President of Educator Support
Sean Kim, Vice President of Finance and Administration
Matt Hickson, Head of Instructional Leadership & Strategy
Work With Modern Classrooms Project
We strive to be an outstanding place for all of our staff to work by offering competitive pay and benefits, aligning our staff around a shared vision, and doing work that meaningfully supports educators around the world.
We invite you to learn more about our open roles.
Meet the Board
Our Board of Directors is a diverse team of leaders whose experience and wisdom guide our work.
Tracey Strauss,
Chair
Founder, Leipers Fork Advisory and Senior Advisor, A-Street
Carmen Coleman
Leadership Consultant, University of Kentucky Center for Next Generation Leadership
Dawn Lepore
Former CEO and Chairman
of the Board, Drugstore.com
Ned Mandel,
Vice Chair & Treasurer
Former Owner and President, AKJ Educational Services
Kareem Farah
Chief Executive Officer and
Co-Founder, Modern Classrooms Project
Tanganyika Millard
Associate Superintendent of High Schools in Prince William County Schools
Till Bechtolsheimer
Co-Founder and CEO, Arosa Capital Management
Lane Faison
Former Managing Partner, Copeley Capital Management
Daniel Friedman
Partner, Boulton and Watt
Brian Pick
Director of Education Grantmaking at Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies
Mitch Benson
Former Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Product Officer at Instructure; Chief Learning Technology Officer at Pearson
President, Branching Minds
Tom Fry
Founder, TGF Advisory Services
Roger Sherman,
Board Secretary
Partner at Quadra Partners, LLC and Of Counsel at Jenner & Block
Emma Brunskill
Tenured Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Stanford University