Co-Founders
Pamela Cantor, M.D.
Co-Founder and CEO
A child and adolescent psychiatrist specializing in trauma, author and thought leader on the science of learning and development and unlocking human potential. In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, she founded Turnaround for Children, now the Center for Whole-Child Education at Arizona State University. Dr. Cantor crystallizes key scientific concepts about human potential and learning. She is a Senior Scholar at the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development (IARYD) at Tufts University. Read her complete bio.
Jim Shelton
Co-Founder
President and Chief Investment and Impact Officer at Blue Meridian Partners, a philanthropic vehicle to identify and scale solutions to the problems trapping youth and their families in poverty. Jim is the co-founder of Amandla Enterprises, an impact investment and advisory firm, and former Deputy Secretary of Education and founding Executive Director of My Brother's Keeper under President Barack Obama. Read his complete bio.