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Wendy Kopp

Founder of Teach For America; chief executive of Teach For All

United States · b. 1967

American educator who proposed a national teaching corps in her Princeton undergraduate thesis and founded Teach For America in 1990. She later founded Teach For All, a network of independent organisations running comparable programmes in dozens of countries.

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Question What advice would you give your twenty-year-old self, and what should they ignore?

And the most fulfilled, centered, grounded, happy people I know are people who made the choice to be part of an effort to actually make the world a better place. ... I would say, to me, the path of least regrets is to at least make a short-term commitment to say, “Let me work to make a real difference in the world.” The worst that could happen is you decide to move into something else later, but you’ll always take with you what you’ve given and what you’ve gained through that experience.

Recorded Academy of Achievement recorded interview, American Academy of Achievement, 17 September 2013 source ↗

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