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Bringing America’s Most Unconnected Communities Online | Evan Marwell
December 09, 2021
The inspiration for founding EducationSuperHighway came when Evan Marwell was put on the spot by U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra at a White House meeting in 2012. When participants were asked to name the technology project they thought was most important for the country, Marwell, a telecom and software entrepreneur, answered that it would be expanding broadband access for classrooms, as 90% of them lacked high-speed internet access.
Marwell founded EducationSuperHighway to close that digital divide. Working in all 50 states, Marwell helped connect nearly 47 million students in 99.7% of the country’s K-12 classrooms to high-speed broadband. Now the organization's next goal is to bring America’s most unconnected communities online.
In addition to leading EducationSuperHighway, Marwell is a co-founder of Ignite! Reading, a Zoom-based, K-3 reading-fundamentals tutoring program. He serves on the boards of Direct Relief, and Recidiviz, a nonprofit building data tools to streamline the criminal-justice system. Marwell is also the board chair at myAgro, an organization empowering smallholder farmers to reduce poverty and increase food security.
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