Geoffrey Canada is the president of the Harlem Children Zone and has been working for decades to reform the American educational system. He is a personal hero of mine having helped over 10,000 students make their way- successfully- through highschool. His program is built on the concept that the students are followed from "cradle to career". The kids are chosen at infancy in a random lottery to be a part of the charter school to "break the cycle of generational poverty for the thousands of students and families it serves." I highly recommend watching his brief interview on the Colbert Report posted below and check out the plethora of articles I have attached; they speak to his accomplishments much more prolifically than I could hope to in this post.
Colbert Report
Time Top 100
Harlem Children's Zone
NY Times
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