Board

Talia Milgrom-Elcott

CHAIR

Talia Milgrom-Elcott is the founder and executive director of Beyond100K (originally 100Kin10), a nonprofit focused on preparing and retaining 150,000 excellent STEM teachers for American classrooms by 2032 with equity, representation, and belonging. In that work, she mobilizes hundreds of leading organizations that have committed to working together toward the Beyond100K moonshot with the end goal of ending the STEM teacher shortage.

She is also the founder and executive director of The Starfish Institute, a nonprofit consulting firm that partners with field leaders to tackle their most intractable problems by building and activating the networks they need to succeed. Her innovative work has been featured in Forbes, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Harvard Business Review, and other publications.

Jules Coleman

Jules Coleman has won numerous prizes and awards for his work.  He is well-known for his work in Jurisprudence as the creator of what has come to be called Inclusive Legal Positivism and for his work on Corrective or Reparative Justice for which he was honored by the Attorneys General of both Peru and Colombia with lifetime achievement awards in recognition of his contributions to Legal Theory and Social Justice. 

He taught in the Philosophy Departments at UC, Berkeley, UC, Santa Barbara, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, the University of Arizona, Yale University and NYU. He taught in the Law School at Boalt Hall, the University of Arizona and at Yale Law School, where he was the Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld Professor of Jurisprudence for nearly 30 years. He also taught in the Clive Davis Program in Recorded Music while at NYU, where he also served as Senior Vice Provost for Academic Planning and helped with developing NYU-Abu Dhabi, where he also oversaw a Salon on behalf of the Crown Prince for the future leadership of the Emirates. 

He is currently engaged in a variety of projects that broadly speaking are designed to expand the scope of development of Human Capital worldwide. 

Mark Grovic

Mark Grovic is a seasoned investor and education innovation leader with a 30-year history of building and funding mission-driven ventures.

He is a founding partner at New Markets Venture Partners, where he has led investments in breakthrough education and workforce technologies, and previously served as a professor of entrepreneurship and ethics at the University of Maryland.

Mark brings deep expertise in scaling impact-driven organizations, building strategic partnerships, and mentoring entrepreneurs at the intersection of learning, equity, and technology.

Deborah Smolover

Deborah Smolover is a nationally recognized social innovation and public policy leader with over 30 years of experience in law, advocacy, philanthropy, and nonprofit leadership. As Executive Director of America Forward, she has helped leverage more than $2 billion in public funding for social innovation and championed breakthrough federal legislation advancing measurable outcomes for children, workers, and families.

Previously, Deborah was a Managing Partner at the venture philanthropy firm New Profit, and she served as Associate Deputy Attorney General and Counsel to former Attorney General Eric Holder at the U.S. Department of Justice. She is an honors graduate of Harvard Law School and Harvard College and serves on multiple nonprofit boards focused on education and civic engagement.