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Meet the Leader
Lakisha Young is Founder & CEO of The Oakland REACH. She developed a formula that guides REACH’s work: Ask families questions. Listen to their aspirations. Build the solutions. Liberate our communities. This formula led to the Virtual Family Hub, a one-stop shop supporting families during the pandemic, and The Liberator Model, which trains parents/caregivers to become tutors in low-performing Oakland schools. Now, she is launching the REACH Parent District, a tech-enabled model that certifies the best high-impact virtual tutoring providers and bridges them directly to lower-income families.
About the Organization
There’s a literacy and math crisis in our country. The Oakland REACH builds bold and innovative direct-service solutions, like our Liberator Model and the REACH Parent District, so our families can lift literacy and math outcomes for their children and those in their community. Our multi-generational educational solutions build agency. We’re on a mission to liberate our communities so families can create a life of their own vs. having one chosen for them.
Meet All the Awardees
Each leader is transforming education across the United States. They're building new learning models, developing talent pipelines for the classroom and beyond, and creating pathways to economic power for Black students and communities.
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