FETC 2018

Talia Milgrom-Elcott
Co-Founder and Executive Director, 100Kin10
100Kin10


Talia is widely recognized for her visionary and innovative approach to tackling large, systemic challenges. At 100Kin10, she’s creating a new model for networked, nimble, and iterative collaboration that’s relentlessly focused on identifying—and solving—some of our most intractable social challenges. Under her leadership, more than 250 leading organizations from across sectors are coming together in an unprecedented movement to train and retain 100,000 excellent STEM teachers by 2021. Her work was called out as “the most important effort” in STEM teacher preparation by The New York Times in 2013; was celebrated on-stage by President Clinton as his favorite commitment to come out of CGI America and was applauded by President Obama in a personalized video address to the 100Kin10 network in 2014; and, in 2015, she was called a “leading STEM communicator” by the White House. Talia graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College and Harvard Law School.

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