12,000+ Teach For America alumni
94%* of alumni are supporting Teach For America's mission through their career, volunteer
activity or graduate study
67%* of alumni are working or studying full-time in the field of education
Read our 2007 Alumni Social Impact Report
*Self reported as of April 2007. Represents 57% of our alumni base.
Today, there are 12,000 Teach For America alumni. They are working within education and from every sector to effect fundamental change. Read our 2007 Alumni Social Impact Report.
Learn more about how alumni are working to expand opportunities for students in low-income areas:
Thousands of Teach For America alumni are still teaching. Among many distinctions, they have been recognized as national, state and district teachers of the year, Disney Teachers of the Year, and Milken teachers of the year.
More than 250 Teach For America alumni are principals of schools serving low-income communities.
Alumni have founded and lead critical education reform organizations such as KIPP, which is building a network of high-performing schools serving urban and rural areas, and The New Teacher Project, which is effecting systemic change in the way new teachers are brought into the profession.
Alumni work in district leadership roles to influence curriculum and practice from the inside.
Teach For America alumni are serving on school boards and advising senators and governors on education policy.
Alumni are starting initiatives designed to improve conditions in low-income communities.
Alec Ross, Baltimore Corps '94, co-founded One Economy Corporation, a national non-profit that is providing access to technology for more people in low-income communities so that they can enter the the economic mainstream. The organization collaborates with technology companies such as Cisco, eBay, Google, Intel, Yahoo, Verizon, Microsoft, and Time Warner to bring the skills, tools, and infrastructure needed to make technology accessible in low-income communities by having broadband service built directly into the housing developments.
Alumni are using the law to defend the rights of and expand opportunities for children from low-income communities and their families.
Alanna Goldman, Los Angeles Corps '91, is an attorney with 14 years experience working on children’s rights issues. Along with her husband, Alanna runs AdoptHelp Law Center, the nation’s top domestic adoption agency. Her belief that a loving and supportive home shapes the lives of children, and that adoption is a means to deliver the promise of a loving family to children has been the inspiration for her work.
Alumni in medicine are working to level the playing field for the students they taught by improving health care in low-income communities.
Steve North, Eastern North Carolina Corps '93, is a family physician and fellow in adolescent medicine at the University of Rochester, where he directs School Based Programs for the Department of Family Medicine. Steve coordinates several collaborations with area public schools that bring pediatric and family medicine residents into classroom settings. In addition, Steve developed and directs the Rochester Summer Health Externship Program that provides academically talented high school students with the opportunity to participate in clinical rotations.
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